PEACE AIMS AND RECONSTRUCTION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1387, 20 November 1918, Page 5

PEACE AIMS AND RECONSTRUCTION.

NO TURKS IN EUROPE. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association NEW YORK, Nov. 18, The United Press's Washington correspondent states that according to Tokyo advices the Japanese Ambassadors at London and Paris have been named as the peace envoys to represent Japan at the Conference. Thomas Masaryk, the first President of the Czecho-Slovaks, who is about to depart for Europe en route for Prague, where he assumes his new duties, was entertained at a farewell dinner. Speaking of war aims and permanent peace, ho said when the latter was attained, Poland will be restored, and the Poles of Russia, Prussia and Austria will be united. The Cj;eeho-Slovak State will contain Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia and Slovakia of Northern Hungary, likewise the Roumanians and the Jugo-Slavs will be united and the Italians will be redeemed. Austria-Hungary will bo reduced to German Austria and the Magyars. There must be a reorganisation of Russia and tlio Balkans, and my conviction is there will be no Turks in Europe. WAR MATERIAL AUCTIONED

BY STRASBURG SOVIET. Australian-New Zealand Cablo Association. PARIS, Nov. 18. The Soviet at Strasburg auctioned wa,r material. Bidding was dead and slow. Rifles brought a franc apiece; machine-guns 5 francs, an aeroplane 12.5 francs. A Zeppelin was offered at 300 francs, but there were no buyers. DUTCH REVOLUTIONARIES. STATEMENT BY TROELSTRA. THESOCTALIST DEPUTY. Australian-New Z-aaland Cable Association. Received November 20, 10.15 a.m. AMSTERDAM, Nov. 18. Troclstra, in a speech in Parliament, said it was not intended to carry out a coup d'etat or use force to execute the Socialist programme. The announcement created a sensation as it was evidently duo to the military activity against the revolutionaries. WORK FOR THE MINE SWEEPERS Au«trali»n-Nei\ Zealand Cable Association. Received November 20, 10.15 a.m. LONDON, Nov. 18. It is estimated there are two hundred thousand mines still in Home waters. The existing mine-sweepers will be kept as a unit of the navy until the danger is removed. EXTENDING WAR PRECAUTIONS. Australian-New Zealand Cablo Association MELBOURNE. Nov. 9. In the Federal House of Representatives to-day the Hon. L. E. Groom gave notico of motion to extend the duration of the War Precautions Act.

DEVELOPING COPPER INDUSTRY. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. SYDNEY, Nov. 19. It is reported that an English company is being formed with a capital of £5,000,000 to develop tho copper industry in Australia. CHINA WANTS KIAO-CHAU. VANCOUVER, Oct. 31. It is stated in a message from San Francisco that Dr. Thur, Consul for the Republic of China, who is on his way to New York, declares that the return to China of Kiao-Chau, which was taken from the Germans by tho Japanese, will bo asked for when the Allies discuss general peace terms. China will submit the question in the senso of right and justice. NOBLE NURSES. LONDON, Oct. 31 The Duchess of Argyll presided at a luncheon given by representative women of England in honor of the Empire nursing services. The Matrons-in-Chief of the Canadian, Australian, and ~Sn\v Zealand services, also Viscountess Gladstone, on behalf of South Africa, and Ladies Haig and Roberts were present. Tho Queen sent a message. The Duchess of Argyll paid a tribute to the noble work of the nurses, which had earned tho whole Empire's gratitude. Some of the speakers referred to the fact that several of the Mafrons-in-Chief now honoured participated in tho South African War. STOCK WORTH £12,000 BURNED. BRISBANE, Oct. 31. Hughenden reports that a fire started on one of the Cambridge Downs

.selections and travelled to Clutha Station, where 300 cows and_ 9000 sheep were burned to death. This represents a loss of about £12,000 to the owner, who acquired the property and took delivery only a lew days before. PRIEST AT THE FRONT. HOBART, Oct. 31. Father O'Donnel, a Roman Catholic priest, who enlisted after the failure of the last conscription referendum, in which he was a vigorous "PYesite" writing from France, to a friend in rlobart, says that ho is awfully glad to be playing his little part in tho great struggle. He had been in the thick of two "big bttles. The Australians he considered to be the greatest fighters on earth, and in tho dark days of March and April they saved the whole position. The Americans were great men and good fighters. GALLIPOLI GRAVES. INTACT BUT NEGLECTED. LONDON, Nov. 1. Tho latest news regarding the graves of soldiers at Anzac, received through the Vatican, indicates that the graves are untouched, but neglected. Rush fires have swept the battlefields, which have become overgrown since the evacuation, but plans are in possession of the authorities at Australia House showing tho positions of tho graves. GRANDMOTHER OF REVOLUTION. LONDON, Nov. 1. Router's correspondent at Amsterdam says that a Petrograd message states that Mmc. Breschkocskaia, "tho grandmother of the revolution," has been shot for resistance to the reign of terror. IMPERIAL WAR CABINET. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association LONDON, Nov. 18. Tho Press Bureau states that the Maharaja of Bikanei, Colonel Sir Ganga Singh Bahadur, with Major Sir Satycndra Prassano Sinka, attends the Imperial War Cabinet preparatory to tho Peace Conference.