GERMANY'S LOST COLONIES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17010, 18 November 1918, Page 6

GERMANY'S LOST COLONIES

RESTORATION A CRIME.

VIEWS OF MR. ROOSEVELT. Australian and N-Z- Cable Association. (Reed. 6.5 swu.) NEW YORK, Nov. 16. Mr. Theodore Roosevelt '/anted an interview to the correspondent of the Australian Press Association regarding the utotemeni made by Mr. W. M. Hughes to the Loudon correspondent of the New York Timer, in which ho took issue on three of Mr. Wilson's 14 points. Mr. Roosevelt said: " I cordially agree with what I have seen of the statement by Mr. Hughes that it wuuld be a crime against the British Empiru and against ctvilis. lion for England to give back a single German colony which tho British Imperial fos-ces conquered. They should all be kept by tho Australian, New Zealand, or South African Governments, or by the Imperial Government itself. In addition, I entirely agree thai Australia, like the United States, should bo left free to absolutely determine for itself its economic and internal social and industrial policies, including nil such questions S3 tariff, in migration and naturalisation. I hope the League of Nations will begin by being a league of the Allies, who have just overthrown the hideous despotism of the Central Powers, and that no nation that has been acting as a criminal will be sdmitted to the League until after a sufficient number of years to satisfy us."

AUSTRALIAN INTERESTS. DEMAND FOR RECOGNITION. (Seed. 5.5 p.m) MELBOURNE, Nov. 16. The HoiibS of Representatives carried on *ho voices the motion by Mr. W. A* Watt, Acting-Federal Premier, that Australia should be consulted regarding the destination of German possessions in the Pacific, which must not be returned to Germany.