UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 September 1919, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

FRANCES CSOUBAGE. REBUILDING HER NATIONAL LIFE, By Telegraph.—Press Asm.-Copyright. Received Sept. 7, 11.5 p.m. New York, Sept. 6. Speaking on the occasion of the Lafayette anniversary, M. Jusserand said that France was rebuilding her national life with the same courage as she fought the Huns. The peace which has been Bigned was not a peace of vengeance, but of reparation and safety. DEATH OF MILITARY CLAN. Received Sept. 7, 11.5 p.m. New York, Sept. 6. In a speech at Kansas City, President Wilson said the treaty signed at Versailles meant the end' of the military clan through (he World forever. Autocracy would perish with militarism. The intrigues which terrorised Europe had now ended. Alluding to the independence of the Philippines, President Wilson said the League would maintain the islands' security. Without the league the Philippines would be obliged to depend on the United States in order to .keep free.— Aug. N.Z. Cable Assoc.

THE KAISER'S TRIAL. Washington; Sept. 5, Mr. Lansing, addressing the American Bar Association, at Boston, warned it against flabby internationalism. Democratic nationalism wolild survive as a basis of world society. The reason the United States refused to consider the punishment of the exKaiser was because no written law or unwritten provided for the definition and punishment of crimes against humanity. —Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. President Wilson has agreed to assist negotiations with a view to a conference between the United States steel trust and the employees, in order to avoid a national strike.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. Replying to President Wilson's announcement that an International Labor Conference will he held despite Senate delays, Senator Sherman, speaking in the Senate, declared that public officials had been impeached for a less flagrant disregard of the law than the President had shown. An international conference was wholly unauthorised until the peace treaty was ratified by the Senate. Mr. Sherman added: "Have the American people quit electing presidents and begun to elect kings? No king could be more arbitrary than Mr. Wilson*"—Aus. NZ. Cable Assoc. ■'<*■ ■• * THE ACTORS' STRIKE." Received Sent. 7, 11.6 p.m. •New York, Sept. (5. The actors' strike, lasting four months, has been settled on the bash;

Received Sent. 7, 11.6 p.m. •New York, Sept. (5. The actors' strike, lasting four months, has been settled on the bash; of recognition of the Actors' Association.