"NON-BELLIGERENT."

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"NON-BELLIGERENT."

ATTEMPT TO ENSURE PEACE. I . [press association.] ' MELBOURNE, March 2. t The Trades Hall Council adjourned ' discussion of a motion that members < of the Council and Labour Members of the State and Federal Parliaments wait on Mr Deakin and ask the Fed- , eral Government to request the Im- i perial Government to secure an agree- i ment with and the co-operation of the Powers to recognise Australasian territories as' non-belligerent, and that matters of difference between such territories and the Powers be settled by arbitration. ■ The motion also proposes to ask Mew Zealand.and Fiji to 00-oDarate m approaching the Home Governtnonf ' " ■ \ ■