MOTHER COUNTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 June 1918, Page 5

MOTHER COUNTRY.

SHE IMPERIAL CONFERENCE. tBPfflP oT NEW TfflAfrtjjn TWiTKATm Baoeive^June U, 120 «jmLon&m, Jane 12. Tie agenda Safe far the Imperial Conteanoe promisee to be lengthy, inctndfcg many economic sdbjeota, bat not inrtarifng tiie question of the Pacific Islands, which the War Qaiinet diaWwi as a- war question. IdEtt Masaey t^ a jfcbe Dominion's representatives would ahara equal responsibility with thememtMn of the Oshimet for tike candost oi tin war during ftia visit. Althoqgh the Dotainicna were each perftdtted two vrieea, they would have only pas vote. The Qoveoanent officially rs- - only tile Prime winkd-am. Br JaH(b Ward, speaJting at an NhftilU wurfwww, said it was enWiimjing to hear Mr. advocate tatat&npanal aad Allied post-war comtaareial co-openfctian. Action should tawe bees taken years ago, because the Oeuinu Tftnprre penetration had vain■WJ assisted in the preparations for •tt Tfttgtand and the Dominions were detf twined not to permit a m<nr».»»« A« AHfee' mastery of the sea& was en' tftpm to control German pfeaaß; •fcatsve* hagwaed on lsauL—Presa imge. London, June 12. Oa Wrniritwrfir Guardian says that, aa nyurfa flu war, there are no ktgnaaf any Empire-wide common mind anaraiag any great question since the art Imperial Guuferenoe. It is doobtful trtstter the idea of centralisation then twpltTited 3a at present capable of any fepartaat development.—United Service, QKUtnUBEDON IS whih'. BeoetvedJuno 14, UO am. London, Jane 13. IS He Bou» of Commons, He. Bat Soar denied that the mi the CWtad States had agreed to* intwrene fc* 7fp#a. itVuua Aaaoc.

y ATimnfflg l«oefnd June 13, BJSO pan. ' Idndao, June 12. outcome of the recent agitation, 4m Premier idS be aakad to appoint a Behot Committee to consider the question of enemy aliens and naturalised BrilMira. Bmi Assoc. 6ESMAN PHISOKEBS' BRIEF LIBERTY. Becsived June 13, 8.45 pjn. Xiondon, June 12. /our German officers, accompanied by All* servants, escaped from the Strattod intenmgit camp by digging a 30ft. tosneL Hey were recaptured at Wal-ton-on-the-Nare. They had walked seventy miles, hoping to escape by boat to the Belgian coast. —Press Assoc. Z2-LQBD MAYOR rnTARfITTO Beeelvtd June 13, 8.6 pjn. London, June 12. Sir Joseph Jonas, ex-Lord Mayor of Sheffield, was charged at Bow Street Mice Court, and given bail for '£2ooo, with cmnmnn ire ting information useful to the enemy between 1913 and June, ■Of.—Pwss Aseoe.

MESSAGE FROM AUSTRALIAN WOMEN. Imbed Jam IS, 9.15 pan. London, June 12. fUM Mall Gazette interviewed Mrs. Bu&m, who said: "A message of whalehnM encouragement, toadied with the •Bgkteit note of envy, ii what I bring to English -women from their cousins twieu. The Australian girls and wo- . men yearn for the opportunity to dis- . day tha game self-sacrifice as their ngUeh gistera. Thousands would eome If they coold get passports to work in England or Prance. English women are fat nidi earnest as war workers that milUnas and dnemiul era complain they hare nothing to do."—Tress Assoc.

WCTBALIAN YM.CJL IN LONDON. Received Jane 13, 955 pjn. London, June 12. The Australian Y34.C.A. have taken over the entire Viewing* of tin Westminster Wesleyan Church and converted iato * tango, reading-rooms, and I gjm theatre in connection with the Hone fmrf Boad headquarters. Senior Ctaelfa HMm, a Victorian, haa bees HHtetii niWaw tfreetor.—ftew A*-