MOTHER COUNTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 September 1918, Page 5

MOTHER COUNTRY.

ROWDY LABOR CONFERENCE. TALK OF HANGING THE KAISER. London, Sept. 19. There were several noisy scenes at the inter-Allied Labor Conference, particularly when Mrs. Snowden proposed a resolution that the Allied Governments e be requested to use wisely and syrn- :> pathetically the opportunity afforded by i the Austrian Note to make an immediate b joint statement of the Allied peace s terms. Other pacifists proposed similar resolutions.. !> Mr. Thome and other British delegates protested against individual delegates moving freak resolutions apart e from the groups to which they belonged. E> Mr. Sexton, on behalf of the dockers, a amidst uproar moved that the conference agrees to hang the Kaiser and his fi associates on lamp-posts. This was " greeted with shouts of laughter and r cheers, particularly from the foreign fi delegates. Mj\ Thome presented a resolution de--11 inanding the removal of the Holienzol- " lcras and Haps burgs. The War Aims Committee reported on * the Austrian Note, stating that Austria !) apparently desires to blame the Entente 11 for continuing the war, and aims at r strengthening the Austrian Empire's internal cohesion, but a purely negative '■ reply from the Entente would incur a heavy responsibility. He Entente should present a collective declaration of their war aims, including President Wilson's fourteen points, and secure a statement of the enemy's war aims.—Aus. N.Z. i Cable Assoc. Received Sept. 20, 7.55 p.m. London, Sept. 19. j At the Labor Conference, Mr. Henderf son stated the committeo was not unanimous on the Russian question. The ma- . fority desired to prevent Entent intervention serving the cause of reaction, whereas the Americans favored a declaration that intervention aimed at arresting German influence over the Bolsheviks, who lad suppressed the great ma--3 jority of the Russian workers, but that > Entente military successes should not be s used as a pretest for arresting the democratisation of Russia, j A discussion on the Austrian note followed. Mr. Gompers said the Americana were trilling to support the majority resolution, but did not agree with the suggestion that the Entente had been ' non-responsive to peace feelers.—Aus. J N.'Z. Cable Assoc. I FRIENDLY RIVALRY. 1 ! ALLIED COUNTRIES AGAINST GERMAN*. ' Received Sept, 20, 11.55 p.m. : ' London, Sept. 20President Wilson, replying to King ' George's congratulations upon the St Mihiel victory, says the generous rivalry now going on between the forces of the Allied countries against Germany is ■ touched with enthusiasm and heroism ■ which must certainly bring victory with ; quicker and quicker pace, and it is one 1 of the happiest circumstances of the war ' that the armies can admire each other's achievements. RECIPROCAL HOSPITALITY. London, Sept. 19. The Overseas Journalists' Circle entertained the Dominion journalists at the Connaught Rooms. Mr. Fairfax and other delegates paid a tribute to the manner in which the Dominions had been supplied with cabled and other correspondence throughout the war, despite the difficulties of the censorship,—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. EPIDEMIC ON TRANSPORT. DEATH OF A NURSE. | By Telegraph.—Press Assoei.'ition. , Wellington, Last Night. The Minister for Defence said to-day ; that he regretted to announce the death ; of Sister Tubman, one of the nurses who ■ accompanied the 40th Reinforcements. ! The cause of death was apparently the i same as that which ended the lives of j many soldiers. *