AUSTRALIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 December 1917, Page 5

AUSTRALIA.

THE CONSCRIPTION ISSUE,. GREAT POPULAR DEMONSTRATION. Sydney, Deo, 1. 1 Our Day" wound up with a grat popular /demonstration .in connection with a returned soldiers' process k»n in favor of a "Yes" vote on tlio .il.uni. ,« . ~

AMAZING LIE- REFUTED.

NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENTS I'llijDGm .

, Sydney, Dec.. 2. Mr. Hughes, speaking at Taniwortbf stated that he had cabled Mr. M&ssey, asking jf there was any truth in the statement, published in an Ipswich paper, •that the New .Zealand .pledges that sufficient labor .would be exempted to carry on the neoesaaty industries of, the country, had bsepi broken, and. that farmers' sons hadbeaji torn l from their beds at dead of nigh't. Mr. Massey had replied that every .pledge made was being loyally kept. The state- ■ mont regarding farmers' sons was a. vile, ••, infamous lie. The systom in New Zea.- ' land was working smoothly. ■

DRAFTING OF ALUED SUBJECTS , APPROVED. I Received Dec. 2, 5.5 p,m. Sydney, Deo; 8. . Mr. Hughes approves of the principle of tlio proposed reciprocal treaties be- . tween America and the Allies, whereby Mich country may draft for. military service all Allied subjects within its-bound-aries. In the evejit of tho proposals be* inft carried, the Commonwealth will cer- ' tainly co-operate with the Allies therein. i '