LATEST WAR NEWS.

North Otago Times, Volume CVI, Issue 14025, 17 January 1918, Page 6

LATEST WAR NEWS.

* LABOUR AIJD WAR AIMS. POLICY OF SELF DETERMINATION Per Cable—Press Association—Copy right z I LONDON, January ,15 i Received Januaiy 17, 12.45 n m. a The ' Trade Union Congiess and ( | Labour Tarty have sent a message to „ the Russian people, stating that bi , breaking negotiations Russia n«ks the M ■suppression of hei nenlywon ficeilom [ In this crisis the Bntish people must ( ] speak, therpfoio the) pioclannidcnhcal ~ lims with Russia, and accept "no an , nexations" foi tho Bntish Einpne. We j respect tho so\cicign independence ol , the Tuikish people in Constantinople, | rhracu aud Aimtolia, but tin 1 Bntish Go , \cinment has justifitiljK pledged itselt ( to the Arabs and Jens. We ai cept the ' Himiicidtioii ot annexation loi India and ( 'he liulepcmfcnu. Though the umoml \ of the British Government occasions 5 ■little, reproach, and the application of t self-determination would he difficult, * our purpose is to eventually raise them j to the status'of Dominions.' "•■., | FRENCH SOLDIERS' ALLOWANCES INCREASED TO THREE FRANCS; (Australian.and N.Z, Cable Association) Received January 17, at.l n-ni. • ";■'; ''/ PARIS," January 15. ■'■ A Bill has*been introduced in the; Chamber of Deputiesincreasing the daily allowance to soldiers at tho front,' from one. to three; franco. AUSTRALIA AS GERMAN STATE. AN AMAZING FLIGHT OF FANCY, (Australian and N,Z, Cable Association) (Per Press Association) Per Cable—Press Association—Copyright SYDNEY, January IG. ' The (Sydney, Morning Herald publishes an article from a German news, paper, by Professor Burvkhardt,' who was .present at the last Science Congress in Australia, which states that when the Germans come to Australia they do 4 not anticipate that there will be any difficulty with the young generation, who had proved themselves such-arrant f°"' - arils. They will be put in gangs making fortifications for the German con. querors, and locked in stockades at night.