ENLIGHTENMENT OF THE DOMINIONS.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14871, 20 September 1918, Page 6

ENLIGHTENMENT OF THE DOMINIONS.

THE OVERSEAS IMIESS MTSfcilON

fßsutpr's Telo^n.rns.1)

(Received Sept. IP, 7.i-"> v.ni.)

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At the Ui-^tu'lian and Niu Zt-ahjiid €lub's Imitlu'ois to the men,'..'as press (delegation.. -Mr Hughes dechurd that if to-day Aliens ar,d r;>ris v,cro hut, held, or threat, mm >1 by t'u; or.emy, it <-v:is due to tho h.-Toi-jn ;uu! dan of tho Dominion tnr.yy. 1W Ivlieved we could j whenever we were called -upon pierce | tho Hindenburg Line, He commended ; Mr BaUour's and President WilsonVj replies to Austria's peace Note. j Lord tfeaverbrook, in proposing the | toast of tho guests, sr.id he hoped to| tell them, and through them the people, of Britain's.part iir the-'war. Slm- had , contributed move nvt-u by jjen^ntage ! than any of'the Dominions. i'rifcain herself eonid not elai:r. rv^-vuthm ci what she 'was doing, and in this way perhaps the doings of tr.c TlomiraonK appeared to eelip.so thc-A? ci' tin*-Mother-land. He.hoped the' \ iwtors v.'ould be able to put the thing in the' right perspective if there wee;: any misconceptions on tho point.

Mr R. M. Hackctt, in replyhip;, referred to the generosity ,oi tho British people in giving every credit to the? Dosriinions and taking little themselves. " ?There vreTO no direct misconceptions 1 overseas about Britain's part. . The cable n<'W:> liept tlioin well informed of "the magnitude ct Britain's effort.