UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 March 1919, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT. MEANING OF PARIS CONFERENCE. ! Received March 4, 7.45 p.m. Washington, March 4. Addressing the conference of State i authorities dealing with after-war probI lems, President Wilson said that for the first time in history international sympathy was developing. It was impossible to secure a world peace unless it was thoroughly understood that the Paris gatherings were meant to serve the interests common to man in every j country.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. A PANDORA'S BOX I _ PRESIDENT WILSON ATTACKED. Washington, March 3. Senator Sherman, in the Senate, denounced the League of Nations as a Pandora's box' full of evils to be emptied upon the American people and to aggravate the calamities of the world. President Wilson was trying to rear above tho republic his personal autocratic power. The President was acting either as a usurper or as a dictator. He asked: "Upon what meat does this Caesar feed That he has grown so great?" President Wilson kept the people out of the war in 191G, so the impending war was conjured up to serve the interests of 1920 (the date of the Presidential election). Men in hidden chambers through the means of the Peace League would Wield powers of life and death over Americans.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. MONSTER PLYING BOAT. RETIREMENT OF ATTORNEYGENERAL. Received March 5, 12.50 a.m. Washington, March 3. The American flying boat, the largest ever built, is Hearing completion in the navy aircraft factory. It will be capable of carrying twenty-five people two thousand miles. Mr. Gregory is retiring from the United States Attorney-Generalship, and will accompany President Wilson to Paris in an advisory capacity.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. DELAYED RETURN OF TROOPS. THE REASON EXPLAINED. Received March 5, 12.55 a.m. Washington, Marcli 2. The delay in the return of the American troops is criticised Mr. Baker explained that the British Government withdrew its ships in order to dispatch the Australasian and Canadian troops homeward, in view of their long service. r-Aus. and N.Z/Cable Assoc. LORD JELLICOE'S MISSION. New York, March 3. The Evening Sun says editorially that Lord Jellicoe's mission is one of great importance to the future, for it will unify the British colonial navies for operation in the Pacific, thus creating a single fleet of great power. The Pacific will not become a Japanese ocean while the British naval power lasts. It is a development which does not carry a menace to America; it will really mean co-operation with us.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc PUNISHMENT OF THE BIG HUNS. New York, March 3. The Paris correspondent of the Evening Sun learns from an authoritative source that the War Responsibility Committee of the Peace Conference will shortly submit a report containing hundreds of names of the guilty, but it will be impossible to visit direct punishment on the Kaiser, Ludendorff, and Hindenburg, but military governors and others will be apprehended and tried before an international tribunaL—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.