UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 November 1918, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

FREEDOM OF THt oEA& 'il i?f T ACCEPTED UNANIMOUSLY. Reived Nov. 22, 11.50 p.m. New Yoik,_Nov. 21. The New York Times aays, ally, thas President Wilson's principle of freedom of the seas is not accepted Unanimously in the United States, be* cause the "principle goes "beyond the latest authoritative Amerian declaration concerning the mattes is Itiid down by the Hague Conference in 1909. It is asserted that had President Wilson's principle been endorsed doling the w#«", the Allied nations could not Save COS" quered Germany. It is further aecla,red that tl'.e application of the principle would have definitely prolonged the American civil war."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc-

INTERNMENT OF ALIENS. . •• i CONTROL OP CABLES. '' ; ; Received Nov. 23, 12.45 a.m. Washington, Nov. 21. Owin" to the spread of Bolshevik doctrines in the United States the Government has decided to continue the policy of internment of aliens. , Senator Watson, attacking President Wilson because the Government had taken over the cables, said that if President Wilson attended the peace conference the Government would he able to suppress everything desired regarding Wilsonian activities abroad. Senator Reed attacked the League of Nations as the most monstrous doctrine ever proposed by an American President, because it embroiled the United States in European troubles. . i President Wilson has ; lined the Emeryvey Agricultural Ap( i.priation Buv n t'.i a rider providing prohibition | 11 oiii July 1, 1919, uni; the America* Army has been demobilised.—Au». wul ..