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Taranaki Daily News, 25 October 1918, Page 5

MOTHER COUNTRY.

THE GERMAN COLONIES. SHOULD NOT BE RETURNED. Received Oct. 24, 7.30 p.m. London, Oct. 23. Mr. Balfour, speaking at the Australian Club luncheon, said that for the consonance and safety of the Empire, under no circumstances should the German colonies be rettfrned.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. Received Oct. 25,12.10 a.m. London, Oct. 23. Speaking at the Australian and New Zealand luncheon at the club in London, Mr. Balfour, alluding to the questions of the German colonies, said it was absolutely essential that the British Empire's eommunkations should remain safe. If the German colonies were returned, what security was there that the original possessors would not use them as a base for piratical warfare? He could see no other answer to this question but that in no circumstances was it consistent with the safety, security and unity of the Empire that the colonies be returned to Germany again. (Applause.) This was not a selfish, Imperialistic doctrine; it was one in which the interests of the world were almost as much concerned as the interests of the Empire itself. If we were to remain a united empire it was absolutely necessary that the ways whereby the component parts communicate with each other should never again be at the mercy of an un- [ scrupulous power. (Cheers.) —United Service.

"JUSTICE FIRST." KIPLING'S LATEST POEM. Received Cyt, 24, 10.15 p.nf. London, Oct. 23< Sir Rudyard Kipling has written a war poem, entitled "Justice First." I* has been published condemning Germany's crimes and enormities, and it urges that—"A people with the load we undergo, And our own hands prepare, If we have parley with the foe, The load our eons must bear. ' "Before we lose the world that bids New worlds to birth, Needs must we loosen first the sword Of Justice upon earth? "Or else all else is vain, Since life on earth began, _ m And the epent world sinks back* again, Hopeless of God and matt" WOMEN INELIGIBLE FOR PARLIAMENT. Received Oct. 24, 9.50 p.m. London, Oct. 23. In the House of Commons, by 274 votes to 25, it was decided that women are ineligible for membership of Parliament. —Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.