MOTHER COUNTRY

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17860, 5 August 1918, Page 5

MOTHER COUNTRY

LEAGUE OF NATIONS. LONDON, August 2.

Mr Balfour said that there was a unanimous desire to create machinery to spare future generations from the horrors of war. Germany to-day was using; the economic weapon against subect nations in such a manner as to sow seeds for future wars. He was prepared to vehemently preach the doctrine of a League of Nations. The German people had not yet arirved at an attitude "abhorring the miseries and brutalities of war, and were not yet genuinely looking forward to the time when the armies would bo disbanded, and the nations living in freedom and amity. A repetition of the world catastrophe would leave civilisation bankrupt. Believers in the League of Nations must warmly advocate pressing the war to a victorious conclusion. Any weakening of the Allies' aims would be n; crime against the national pride and tho principles of general peace for which they were fighting.

SOLDIER FARMERS

United Service

LONDON, August 2

Sir Douglas Haig has asked the Agents-General to supply particulars of openings for ex-soldiers at farming, stock raising and dairy production, in connection with a scheme for educating tho army in France. Tho British attache in Italy has made a similar request.

FISCAL POLICIES. LONDON, August -2.

In the House of Commons, Mr Bonar Law, replying to Mr Itunciman, said that the United Kingdom and dominions must settle their fiscal policies independently. He.had already pointed out that tho British Government had put itself in lino with the dominions by deciding to givo preference on articles now dutiable or dutiable in the future. The Imperial Conference had accepted the principle of preference in 1917, and had discussed the Empire's general economic policy many times this vcar.