PESSIMISTIC MR HUGHES

Evening Star, Issue 17037, 7 May 1919, Page 6

PESSIMISTIC MR HUGHES

"PEACE A HOLLOW;MOCKERY." Pr«s* Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Gable Association. ' "LONDON, April 25. '".l iii'M'r doubted victory after I saw you," cried General Pau to 5,000 Australian soldiers at the Anzac Day dinner tonight to the Anzacs on furlough in Paris. General Pau had a magnificent reception. The gathering was markedly home-sick, great cheers following Mr Hughes's promise to speed up the home-going. Mr Hughes said t'hat peace was still elusive, and he feared that the peace would be unsatisfactory and unenduring. It would not include the cost of the war, nor bo a worthy return for the sacrifices made. Bolshevism was spreading like a prairie fire. The Allies were retreating. Peace was a hollow mockery. Germany had become arrogant The world wanted to know what the Allies' answer would be if she refused to sign even these terms. He urged that Germany should be told she must sign within 14 days or peace would bo enforced. "We hear much about the League of Nations banishing wars," he said, " but the League's leaders, with armies massed had been unable, owing to disagreements, to enforce the terms of the armistice, and whilst the Councils of Ten and Four have been talking without acting Bolshevism has made greater sirides than in all its lurid history. " Europe is ablaze, Egypt and India are ablaze, and a, lasting peace now eludes