MR. WILSON'S CAMPAIGN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17277, 29 September 1919, Page 7

MR. WILSON'S CAMPAIGN.

TERMINATED BY ILLNESS.

POPULAR SYMPATHY WON.

OPPONENTS ON DEFENSIVE. By Telegraph—Press Association Copyright. (Received 11 p.m.) A. and N.Z. "WASHINGTON, Sept. 27. A message from Coshocton, Ohio, states that Mr. Wilson's condition has improved. Owing to nervous exhaustion, due to the strain of the last twelve months, Mr. Wilson's physician has ordered him to abandon his tour. The President is returning direct to Washington.

Observers believe that Mr. Wilson's tour has stopped a Democratic defection and has insured against the defeat of the Versailles treaty. The opposition has been placed on the defensive. Popular sentiment is with Mr. Wilson. Irish antagonism has been ineffectual.

The New York Times correspondent states that Mr. Hiram Johnson has received a telegram from the most prominent Republicans in California asking him to withdraw his opposition to the League of Nations.

It is understood by the New York Times that the Republicans are offering a mild compromise in the shape of a reservation to article ten of the League of Nations covenant reading: "The United States will not assume obligations to preserve the territorial integrity or to interfere with the controversies of other nations, whether or not they are members of the League of Nations, and will not use military or naval forces for any purpose unless authorised to do so by Congress."

SENATE STILL DEBATING.

REPUBLICAN ATTACKS,

A. and N.Z.

NEW YORK, Sept. 26.

Mr. Cummins, a Republican, in the Senate debate said that when Mr. Wilson ended his work in Paris the United States remained without a friend in Europe. Asia, or Africa. America's brilliant service in the war ' was forgotten, and a storm of pro- | tests overtook Mr. "Wilson as he sailed homeward. Once the war was ended the United States ought to have made its exit as speedily as possible. If the United States were shackled to the League of Nations she would go blindly and blunderingly into the future. Commenting on the reported landing of American troops on the Adriatic coast, Mr. Campbell in the House of Representatives debate, alluded uo the victory of American troops over the Italians. . It was time the people knew what such operations portended. Mr. Hiram Johnson, debating the peace treaty in the Senate, pointed out that his amendment was not directed against depriving Canada ! and Australia of votes in the League I of Nations Assembly, but sought to j give the United States an equal I number.