NOT VANQUISHED.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 45, Issue 13753, 4 February 1919, Page 5

NOT VANQUISHED.

(Received Tuesday, SAO a.m.) LONDON, Monday. Mr W. M. Hughes still refuses to admit himself vanquished.

Interviewed by the ''Matm he said: —'"'The Council declared that a satisfactory solution had been found. It is wrong to say that there has been no solution, but reference to a body which does not exist. We demand to know the conditions of our occupation of these islands. It is against all the precepts of law that a court should refer an appellant to another tribunal which has not been established, and is of unknown composition. I refuse to accept the position."

Mr Hughes addeJ: "A comparison between the Australian and American efforts in the war show that our dead arc more numerous than the American, and that Australia recognised the great cause at the first moment, and not at the eleventh hour. ,} -

Mr Massey's attitude is tliat lio is quite confident that; the arrangement will become permanent. The clearest understanding prevails and the agreement is final. Anyhow, 33 cabled, it bears the formal approval and acceptance of all the Great Powers.