UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 November 1918, Page 7

UNITED STATES.

PRESIDENT mSONrSSPOtfiRS. MR. HUGHES' VIEWS. New York, Nov. 11. The New York Times gives prominenco to an interview of the paper's London correspondent with Mr Hughes in which the Australian Premier takes issue on three of President Wilson's fourteen points. He ' objected to the third point limiting the right of States to adopt differential tariffs. He said this would be an interference with Australian . sovereignly',?;; which, she; could not accept. , Australia had been.lighting for the rights of-small nations, and, as a small nation, she wanted her own rights.

Mr Hughes asked why no provision had been made for indemnifying the Allies for the cost of the war. He .did not see why Australia should bo burdened with, her debt of £30,000,000 A? £300,000,000) when Germany would have exacted the heaviest indemnity if she had been victorious.

The Premier claimed that stipulations should have been made that the Pacific Islands should not he returned to the Germans. He pointed out that New Guinea was only 80 miles from the Australian coast and asked how the Ameri-cans-would like such an. excellent base for U-boats, airplanes, and warships held by the Germans so near the American shores. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. CAMP DRAFTS CANCELLED. NAVAL CONSTRUCTION CONTINUES PRESIDENT'S PROCLAMATION. Washington, Nov. l'l. The President has announced that all orders calling out drafts to camps 'iiave been cancelled. Mr Daniels has announced that naval construction will continue, despite the armistice, because the burden of policing the waters of the world will fall on the Allied navies..

President' Wilson, in a formal proclamation of the armistice, says that everything for which America fought has been accomplished. It is now our duty to assist by co-operation and friendly example, in the formation of a just democracy throughout the world. —Aus.N.Z. Cable Aasn.