THE EMPIRE'S AIM
REFERENCE TO IMPERIAL CONFERENCE URGED. •Australian and N.Z. Cable Association,,) (Received May. 20^' 8.45 a.rii.) V v 'V : LONDON, May 19, General Smuts, at Glasgow, in thanking the University for conferring the degree of Doctor of Laws, said, referring to Ireland: We would not admit it -right that anybody ■ be -an: -exception to the common obligation of common, dirties for a common Empire. It was tlie Empire's aim to solve the long, and dreary Irish problem, and it should prove as capable 'of solution as the bigger problem of i South Africa had been. "We find- 1 some talking, hysterically of a republic, and others appealing to the enemy!' or of,, having their' wrongs righted). '.aty a peacei confereituo. Ireland heed 'hptvgoVto a| peace conference to get her AV.roiigs lighted." Re advised) ner to, apjoly vta, the Empire « highest court of v , appeal,' namely, the ■Imperial Confer enceV-V- '•
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14609, 20 May 1918, Page 3
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151THE EMPIRE'S AIM Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14609, 20 May 1918, Page 3
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