MR. WILSON'S 14 POINTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17007, 14 November 1918, Page 6

MR. WILSON'S 14 POINTS.

OBJECTIONS BY MR. HUGHES

SECURITY OF THE PACIFIC. A. and N.Z. NEW YOBK. Nov. 12. The New York Times gives prominence to an interview between its London correspondent and Mr. W. M. Hughes, in which the Australian Premier takes issue on three of Mr. Wilson's 14 points. 'Ho objected to the,third point limiting the right of the States to adopt differential tariffs, and said that this would be an interference with Australian sovereignty which she could not accept. Australia had beon fighting for the rights of small nations, and as a small nation she wanted he* own rights. Mr. Hughes asked why no provision was made for Indemnifying the Allies for the cost of the war. He did not see why i Australia should be burdened with her I 3 " u of many million pounds when Germany would have exacted the heaviest possible indemnity if she had been vio torious. The Premier claimcd that stipulations should have been made that the Pacific Islands must not be returned to the Germans. He pointed out that New Guinea was only 80 miles from the Australian coast, and asked how Americans would like such excellent basra for submarines, aeroplanes, and warships to be held by the Germans so near American shores.