IMPERIAL CONFERENCE

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 February 1917, Page 7

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE

QUESTION OF UNIVERSAL SERVICE. ( .-STATEMENi' Lx JbOXAR LAW. LOxSDON, Febriui.y 19. ; In the Heme oi Coiuiuyiio -ur, T>ohar Law biiaea tiial wi.J subject-' mr tublussiom oy Uxe .Imper.ta yyjiuerei.ee would not be decided upon until uio oversea represcuitiiaves uad arrived. 'The liovcrumeht would not iiuerJeie with anything tlie .Council desired. The .question, oi rue administration, oh Lei.uid w..sa matter ior the Imperial Parliament.

Mr. Waiter Long stated that lie was. anxiously considering the. question of compulsory local military service for Luro| ean and British subjects in the Crown colonies, 'Tn which compulsion did not exist, but he was not prepared to adopt any further charge, at , present.-

AUSTRALIAN REPRESENTATIVE. '[Australian and n.z. caulk association.] Received this day at 12.21),a.m. - MELBOURNE, This Day. Mr Hughes states that he himself, Sir William Irvine, or probably Sir John Forrest will go to the Imperial Conference. FURTHER RESTRICTION OF IMPORTS. LEGISLATION INTRODUCED. LONDON, February 19. In the House of Commons Mr. Bonar I,"w, in reply to Mr. Asquith, stated that the Government had decided upon a further and most drastic restriction of imports affecting the Allies and, the Dominions,* which would be announced ou Thursday. The delay was due to communicating with the Allies and the Dominions, The - “Daily Chronicle” says that' trade with the Dominions and the Allies will, suffer equally, consequent upon the Government’s determination to enforce a ruthless restriction of imports in order to economise shipping.