The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-05-14
HUGHES ON
VESSEL WHICH met
HUN RAIDER CRAFT
Injured Transport Puts Back To
! Port and Official Takes Train
\ and Gets Niagara i've.
DELEGATES TO BRITISH,
WAR COUNCIL ARRIVE
important Matters Of War and OF
Civil Government Call Them
I A.. 49, To London aa.-,'

Oh Dritlsh transport as they had un
dertaken TO do, n prominent party from
the antipodes, including a premier, q
prime minister and a former premier
we're IN Honolulu yesterday. They left
4 Australia on transport which was
damaged by a raider and returned To
j port, II was learned from one of their
fellow passengers on the Niagara. The
damaged transport put back to poTt. Il
isSreported, and the delegates to the
British war cabinet meeting proceeded
to northern Australian port where
they caught the Niagara. Between
Australia md New Zealand the Mag
J ara Is said to have travelled under con
voy. -a ~.
! This news given by Niagara passen
] ger does not fit in with the reports of
officers of that steamship who said yes
i terday that the publication of n warn
/ ing in the Sydney papers was German
| propaganda, a plot to intimidate Aus
traliana shippers. These reports, brought
here. by the Ventura were character
lied by Niagara officers, as absolute
1 ly without foundation and originated
from pro, German Sources ~.a.r.x
] An attack upon a transport, its dam,
| age and return to port and the con
voying' of the Mia CARA put an entirely
4 different light on the situation. cd,
Party In Port ~
/ Bound for an imperial difference and
the second annual meeting Of the war
4 cabinet of. Great Britain at which
there will be representatives Of every
British colonial government and the
war directors of the home gov ernment
sir William Hughes, premier of Aus
tralfa; Sir w. F. Massey, prime minis
ter of New Zealand; Sir Joseph Ward
j former prime minister of New Zea-
land; Sir. Robert Garran, solicitor gen
4 eral of the Commonwealth of Austral
Ia, and j. Cook, minister of the navy
for the Australian Commonwealth,
were in Honolulu yesterday during the
stay of the steamer Niagara.
The imperial conference and the
meeting of the British war cabinet is
to be held in London in June, and the
party of British government men on
the Niagara are to be joined in Can
ada by Sir Robert Borden, premier OF
the DominiOn of Canada, aud Other
representatives Of the Canadian gov
eminent.
Every important phase Of the great
4 war is to be discussed by the British
war cabinet and plans formulated and
7 approved for the continuance of the
struggle. 1t is at these annual meet
ings that the British government is in
formed of the needs Of the rolonia
governments and assnrance given Of the
support of the war aims by the col
Onies.
Civil Business Also =
While the war will naturally colon
every meeting of the British govern
ment men, there are many government
al questions which are considered at
the imperial conference not directly
connected with war demands. 1t is on
this account that Sir Joseph Ward
former prime minister of New Zealand
who is not member of the war cab
met, il going to London with the
COLONIAL cabinet members. He will ut
tend sessions of the imperial confer
"nrc and. AL Use and consult with the
cabinet members, for he is@One of thu
acknowledged leaders of New Zealand
Sir Joseph Ward, it is asserted by ad
mir"rs, is making the trip to London
vt the express request, of Sir w. F
Massey, who succeeded him as prime
minister.
Sir WiIllmm Hughes, as the wa
premier of the Australian government
is, however, the most prominent
member. internationally, Of the grouI
of British government men in Honolulu
Yesterday. He has risen from small
labor leader to the premiership of u
| great commonwealth in a comparative
| " few years. as he yet has hardly
cached middle age.
Typical Worhngman
Sir William Hughes appearance and
attitude are indicative of his rise from
, humble position in aifa,i Although
not mnch more than. five feet in height
he has the muscular appearance Of (
working man. His title seems to res,
upon him as much out of order as the
mt of clothes he wore yesterdaS, TO
he looked like working man dres e.
upon Sunday" The bushy, sand,
mustnche h" wears, in defiance of thu
prevailing British custom, is, good
indication of his somewhat icOnoclastic
Jews. which makes him Q popular
'haracter with the, semi radical elep.n'
| u AhSl"llaH pollLlcbs "A, NO rfflectlOIl
Of his driving power could be-, game
from bis words yesterday. but hi
determination not to, be, interviewed
Emphasized the admitted strength of
| his personality.
Faces Embarrassment
II is no secret that Sir William
Hughes attendance at the war ca hinr
meetings this year will not be lu-kiul
in, emharraSs mrnt for him. The Ans
tralian premier went back from "A con
ference last wear after he is suppose
"a baNr assured the war leaders o.
Greet Britain that australia woul'
adopt transcription. After the premie,
got back to Australia he succeeded in
placing the subject of national IN
scription before the suffrage Of ~
commonwealth by promising that if j,
was defeated for a second time he
would never force the question again
At the referendum which follow ed
transcription was defeated but the wa,
goes on aud it grows daily more dihi
cult for Australia to furnish her MAJ
'PoWrr quota by the volunteer syst m