GERMAN PRESS ROMANCINGS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14153, 15 April 1916, Page 5

GERMAN PRESS ROMANCINGS.

London, April 12

The "Daily Express" quotes a German newspaper as describing Mr. Hughes as the leader, organiser, and diief contriver of a great Imperial plot. Mr. Hughes has been stealthily engaged in carrying the plot to fruition, while England i.s ignorantly sympathising with him in his illness and condoling with those audiences which are debarred from listening to the rolling periods of 'the Chatham of Australia.

I'he Hamburg "Fremdenblatt" says the plot is intended to replace the existing political system with a federation

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i [P»t*a Association —Utiit bight. ]

in which the Dominions, Ireland, and Scotland would be federated States.

The "Cologne Gazette," in a semiofficial article, attacks the decision to send Mr. Hughes to Paris as another manifestation of the desire of Imperial? ists for a protective tariff, and adds that it is a fresh sign that Germany' * enemies, unable to win are determined to push her to the wall economically.