THE PARIS CONFERENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 June 1916, Page 5

THE PARIS CONFERENCE.

(POLICY OF SOLIDARITY URGED. THE PROGRAMME. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received June 13, (Uo p.m. Paris, June 13. The programme of the Paris economic conference includes the question of freight, exchange, reduction of postal and telephone charges between the Allies, special legislation regarding lost and stolen securities, apportionment as between the Allies of the damage done by the enemy. Lord Bertie of Thame (British Ambassador at Paris), welcomed Lord Crewe, Mr. Bonar Law, and Mr. Hughes on their arrival. Le Journal des Debats, in discussing the economic conference, says that Mr. Hughes' presence attracts particular attention, because he hold that it is of primary importance to fight the German economically, by isolating him and making him submit to a long and severe commercial quarantine. Mr. Hughes, says the paper, preaches as a corollary the closer union of Britain and her colonics, recalling the famous colonial agreement which our neighbors abandoned in the middle ol the 16th century. His ideas have rather alarmed French industrial and commercial groups, particularly those having business relations with Britain. The paper concludes: "Every delegate with uncompromising opinions will be obliged to recognise, in economic matters as in many others, the policy of solidarity. One interest ought to domT nate all extreme and conclusive ideas."