NATIONAL. LIBERAL FEDERATION

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 28 September 1918, Page 7

NATIONAL. LIBERAL FEDERATION

CONFERENCE RESOLUTIONS

(Received Sept. 28, 11.40 a m.) . LONDON, Sept. 27. Ihe National Liberal Federation overwhelmingly rejected a motion in favor of sympathetic consideration of peace overtures. :.

The Federation adopted motions favoring a league of nations, and demanding abolition of conscription after the war and the establishment of Home Bule without delay. Mr Samuel, in moving a resolution urging subordination of all other purposes to effective ..prosecution of the war, denounced a tariff war after th© war. Germany, he said, must be fought til] she abandons militarism and must be punished for her crimes but we would not fight in order to establish commercial monopolies' though Germany must await her turn tor raw material.

__ The conference adopted a resolution in support of free trade, and that tn*e btate should secure the. profits of industries' whose protection is > necessary -to national security.—Aus.-N.Z Cable Assn.