THE PEACE CONFERENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 January 1919, Page 5

THE PEACE CONFERENCE.

MR. HUGHES' VIEWS.

TEE FATAL SPIRIT OF TOLERANCK,

GERILINY SLUST BE PENALISED.

PACIFIC ISLANDS MUST BE , RETAINED.

Keceived Jan. 11, 5.5 p.m. London, Jan. 0. sir Newton Mowe presided at the City men's luncheon to Mr. Hughes at the Hoiborn Restaurant on the eve of his departure for tb.i Peace Conference. Mr. Hughes, responding, said the Peace Conference waa the most significant event which had occurred in the history of mankind. "Peace on earth and goodwill towards men" was still the ideal whereto the Conference must attempt to reach. We owed the fact that right had triumphed to the valor of oux race. He firmly believed in a League of Nations. Although Germany had abandoned her foraer Government, som3 seemed to think she should escape paying tne penalty for her crimes, and that we saould welcome her into the League of Nations. We must demand such terms of peace as will be compatible with our sacrifice i. The terms must be just to ourselves as well as to the enemy. He preferred that Germany which had bared its breast to the enemy, rather than the on# that today grovels and whines- It was not only the Kaiser, but all Germany, that was guilty, for if the Kaiser led them, the people were quite willing to be led. They went out to conquer the world, and had they won the people of Germany would have applauded them. If Germany stood where we stand to-day, we should have had exacted from us to the uttermost farthing, and she would have torn our Empire asunder. Germany, to-day, had only put on a new garb. She possessed the same heart and had merely turned king's evidence. The fatal spirit of tolerance of this Empire was again apparent. How could a* League of Nations hop# to meet with the approval of the nations unless it. imposed penalties on this great criminal? We should inaugurate a new era, making it. a terrible crnne for anr nation to begin war. We must have the Pacific Islands We must not comeout. of the Conference short of those principles of freedom for which the Australians had shed their blood Aus.-N.Z. CaJble Assoc. "ALL RUSSIAN" GOVERNMENT. desires recognition; Received Jan. 12, 5.5 p.m. New York, Jan. 9. The New York Times' Washington correspondent states that official despatches from Paris say that the Russian peace representative lias urged the Allied Governments to recognise the All Russian Government at Omsk.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. FRENCH DELEGATES. FOCH NOT INCLUDED. Received Jan. 12, 5.5 p.m. Paris, Jan. 10. The peace delegates are MM. Clemenceau, Pichon, Klotz, Tardieu, and Cainbon Newspapers draw attention to the omission of Marshal Foch.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. WANT PROTECTION. deceived Jan. 12, 5.5 p.m. Washington, Jan. 9. Assyrian Christians and natives of Mesopotamia inmj in the United States have petitioned the State Department, requesting the Peace Conference to place Mesopotamia under the joint pc»' tection of the United States, Prance, and England.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. THE OPENING MEETING. DELEGATES LEAVE FOR PARIS. 1 Received Jan. 13, 1.30 a.m. 1 London, Jan. 10. Official: An announcement has been made that Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. Bonar Law, accompanied by the Prime Ministers of Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Fouudland, and tlie Maharajah of Bikanir, leave for Paris on the morning of January 11 for preliminary conversations.—Aa»<-N.Z. Cable Association and Renter