WAR AFTERMATH

Evening Star, Issue 19999, 17 October 1928, Page 9

WAR AFTERMATH

CAPTURED GERMAN COLONIES ALLIED DISSENSIONS COLONEL HOUSE S REVELATIONS Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, October 17. (Received October 17, at 1.35 p.m.) Illuminating passages occur in the intimate papers of Colonel House, which are being published in November. Among the entries of March, 1919, is one which records the visit of Viscount Chinda and Baron Makino, who complained that they were, having to end of trouble with Mr W. M. Hughes, who would not consent to anything satisfying Japan’s desires, and threatened, if anything was passed by the committee, that he would bring the matter up at the Plenary Conference ans raise a storm of protest in the dominions and Western United States. Colonel House reveals occasionally sharp clashes of opinion with Mr Hughes on the subject of the annexation of the German colonies. The do-' minion Premiers insisted that the colonies conquered by them should bo annexed. Mr Hughes and Mr Massey demanded the colonies south of tho Equator as necessary to tho protection of their dominions. A few days later Colonel House records how: “Robert Cecil and myself discussed the colonial question and agreed absolutely. Strangely enough, coincident therewith the President was having a firstclass row with Mr Lloyd George,' M Clemenceau, Mr Hughes, and Mr Mas sey, and’t looked as though the whole thing had gone to pot. However, the row mav do some good, and teach them all a lessou.”

■ The last reference to Mr Hughes is on April 18-19, in which Colonel House says that the fear persisted up to the last momeni that Mr Hughes would make an anti-Leaguo speech, but everything passed almost before the conference could catch its breath.— Australian Press Association.

[Colonel E. M. House was personal representative of President Wilson to the European Government in 1914-15 and 1916. He was employed in other offices dealing with foreign affairs during the war. Ht was designated by the President to represent the United States in the Supreme War Council at Versailles in December, 1917, and at tho Peace Conference in Paris.]