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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12571, 7 March 1919, Page 1

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* PORT 'MELBOURNE ’TROOPS. AUCKLAND, March 7. Most ot tho troops who broke hounds on tha wharf returned and went through tho routine, was completed quietly. MURDERED SAILORS. LONDON, March 5. Replying to a deputation from tho mercantile marine regarding reparation to tho relatives of sailors murdered during war lime, tho number of whom tho spokesman estimated at 20,000, the Promt h- announced that tho British dologa: .vs at tho Peace Conference had boon instructed to submit as a first demand a request for full compensation for losses at sea, including compensation to tiro relatives of tiro dead. Germany must pay this first, before a mcro indemnity for war expenses. Tho Premier concluded by urging lhat the claims should immediately bo submitted to tho Foreign Office. •t i NEW YORK. Match 6. President Wilson, in a speech at New York, said: Tho presence of Mr Taft shows that the League of Nations is not a partisan issue, and no party dare long oppose it. "Wo are the ‘ trustees of tho assets of the countries 'we have liberated,. and wo must ’ not shirk our responsibilities. Vision is necessary for reforms, which will not come from statesmen but from the people. I am amazed at the comprehensive ignorance of the opponents of tho scheme. No nation, least of all America, has a right to set up selfish interests against the interests of mankind,- ‘Many 1 newborn! .nations will, fall into black despair if America fails them. Tho critics oi tho scheme were impelled by a doctrine of careful selfishness. When the treaty of peace is concluded tho League covenant will bo so intertwined that the treaty will be inseparable. Tho League is a combination of all natons against wrongdoers. i Mr Taft, in the course of his speech, insisted that the League of Natons was an essential preliminary to tho final declaration of peace, because tho now states, with conflicting interests, required tho League no the establishing authority. Tho League was also necessary to prevent Bolshevism. America’s doctrine was not so much ■ against alliances as against having favourites among tho nations. If America failed to participate in tho reconstruction of Europe she would bo a slacker among nations. NAPIER RACES. c W $ NAPIER TRIAL HACK HANDICAP, f .Six furlongs. |

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