CONTROL OF NAURU.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 March 1919, Page 5

CONTROL OF NAURU.

HUGHES CLAIMS IT FOE AUSTBALgjj'

THE PROBABLE SOLUTION, j MANDATE WILL GO TO BRITAIN. ■ ;

Recoived March 25, 5£ pjn, v i Paris, March 23.

The proposal whereby the British del«« ■gation sought to settle the question at ■ Nauru Island by Britain, Australia and New Zeaiand snaring equally, was strong* ly resisted by Mr. Hughes, who issued f further memorandum asserting Aim* tralia's sole right to it as her mandaWv —Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. Received March 25, 7.55 p.m. 4 . London, March 24.

Mr. Murdoch writes that despite Mr, . Hughes' latest memorandum regarding _ Nauru, which olfers a guarantee to Brit' ish trading concerns of a fair share ia the phosphates, Britain seems likely t# insist on the mandato going to the island being attached to a Britis£ . group.

Lord Milner is discussing With Meurlfc Massey and Hughes the fair distribution of the phosphates, and ia prnwnd U guarantee a fixed scale of distribution to Australasia and Britain. Mr. is not satisfied with this, but Mr. Musey is naturally satisfied, seeing that hi* claim for the Nauru mandate is based only on the somewhat flimsy argument that the trade route f?om Nauru to Auckland is mucli the same distance as the route from Nauru to BrlitNUU.— United Service.