MR HUGHES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16513, 25 August 1921, Page 5

MR HUGHES.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Press Association. LONDON, August 24. The “ Morning Post ” in an editorial says: “It is because Mr Hughes is a true friend of Britain that fie has so many detractors here. Tho sneers, censure and incorrigible hostility qf the Radical Press would have been spared him, would indeed have been changed to effusive compliment, if only he had our embittered enemy, steeped in sedition, even crime. British Radicalism’s sour perversity could not bo better illustrated than by contrasting its regard for Mr Hughes with that it shows for such men as Gandhi and de Vaflera. If Mr Hughes had nos come to cement the Empire, but in order to snap tho last link between Britain and the dominions, bow the Radical Press and party wonld have slobbered over him/’ Mr Hughes crossed the Channel yesterday to Boulogne and was welcomed by the French authorities. He visited Amiens and inspected memorials to Australian soldiers. He will tour the I battlefields to-day and to-morrow, arriving in Paris to-morrow night. He will confer with the French Government on Friday.