OVERSEAS DOMINIONS' RESPONSIBILITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17323, 24 May 1918, Page 5

OVERSEAS DOMINIONS' RESPONSIBILITIES.

SHAREHOLDERS IN THE EMPIRE. ENTITLED TO REPRESENTATION. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, May 22.

(Received May 23, at 7.15 p.m.) Sir Thomas Mackenzie, addressing tho Edinburgh and Leith Chambers of Commerce and the Edinburgh Merchants' Company on the Pacific as an important sphere for British influence, deplored the past statesmanship which lost us Samoa and New- Guinea, indicating the necessity of obtaining and acting on overseas opinion on such matters. New Zealand had arranged after the war to place an embargo on German goods. Suggestions from overseas, at the Imperial Conference before the war, for effective unity metwith little response at the hands of the Imperial Government. The war ha:l shown the urgency of giving the overseas some voice and 6hare in responsibility. The dominions were shareholders in ti.e Empire, .and should have representation on the board of directors. AUXILIARY SCHOONERS FOR AUSTRALIA. SYDNEY, May 23 (Received May 23, at 9 p.m.) The Federal Government has contracted with a Sydney firm to construct six auxiliary schooners of 2300 tons each. Other contracts are pending. TOTAL HONOURS FOR AUSTRALIANS. THIRTY-TWO VICTORIA CROSSES. MELBOURNE, May 23 (Received May 23, at 9 p.m*.) The honours bestowed upon the Australian forces total 9739, including 32 Victoria Crosses.. TUBERCULOSIS AMONG SOLDIERS. LONDON, May 22. (Received May 23, at 10.5 p.m.) It was stated at the Inter-Allied" Conference on the after-care of disabled soldiers that 20,000 were invalided out of the British army during the war period, suffering from tuberculosis, and 80,000 out of the French army. AUSTRALASIAN EDITORS. INVITATION TO VISIT ENGLAND AND FRANCE. LONDON, May 23., (Received May. 23, at 11.5 p.m.) The Ministry of Information has invited a delegation of Australian and New Zealand editors to visit England and the west front. GERMAN WORKERS' WAR AIMS. SOMETHING FOR BRITISH WORKERS TO PONDER. OVER. Reuter's Telegrams. AMSTERDAM, Mav 22. (Received May 23, at ll.c p.in.) Workers' delegates representing all parts of Germany held a conference at Bremen and discussed the war aims. They telegraphed to the Kaiser and Hertling demanding the safety of frontiers, indemnities, territory for settlement, and freedom of the seas. GERMANY STILL UNCHASTENED. THE BLOOD AND IRON DOCTRINE. INCREASED EFFORT!; BY ENTENTE NECESSARY. Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association. LONDON, May 23. (Received May 24, at 0.30 a.m.) At a Mansion House luncheon celebrating Italy's entry into the war, Lord Robert Cecil said a complete change liad come over the German peoples since their superficial victories. Nothing was now heard of the Reichstag's renunciatory resolution. German professors were again preaching the blood and iron gospel. The promised democratic reforms in Prussia were forgotten. It was the Entente's duty to increase its efforts and discard political preoccupations. Lord Robert Cecil, alluding to the Austrian Esmpire, said the people subjected to Austrian rule must enjoy the freedom and independence which were their right. We must' not look to courts and cabinets for a future settlement, but to the nation and peoples. DUTCH SHIPPING., A REQUEST REFUSED. WASHINGTON, May 20. The United States Government lias refused Holland's request to release three of the requisitioned Dutch ships for carrying grain to Holland. The American Government points out that Holland must send ships from her home ports.