Arizona republican., 1918-11-10
AUSTRALIA PREMIER
 CRITICISES TERMS;
 PROMPTLY REBJ

LONDON, Nov. 9-Premier Hughes of Australia made bitter protest against the peace terms tonight, in ad dressing the Australian club.
 We were launched into this war without being consulted" the premier declared, and now the terms of peace have been drawn up and we have rot been asked to express our views be- forehand.'
 He particularly objected that Aus tralia should be prevented from mak- ing her own laws, which would enable her to discriminate between friends and foes in tariffs.
 T cannot say what the other domin- ions will do, but nothing is further from the thoughts of the Australian people than to extend the same treat ment to Germany in regard to tariffs and economic arrangements after the war, as to France, Belgium, Italy and America and nothing but force will compel us to do it, he continued. This clause takes from us one of the most vital of our sovereign powers, and in the name of the people cf Australia l emphatically protest against it.
 Premier Hughes protested also that there was no provision in the treaty for
  tralia from crushing war debt. nor a provision for the retention of German islands, without which the territorial integrity of Australia is forever men, aced'
 The Australian premier's speech was loudly cheered.
 LONDON, Nov. g (via MontreaD- The British press bureau has issued the following:
 The statement by Premier Hughes of Australia, that the terms of peacS have been definitely settled at the re- cent conference at Versailles, without consultation with the dominions, makes 1t necessary to put On record the actua position with regard to this question.
 From the first the British govern ment has recognized that the magnifi- cent efforts and sacrifices made by the dominions and India, in the common cause, have entitled them to an equa voice with the United Kingdom in tho settlement of the terms of peace
 Tt was with this specific object il view that the first imperial war cabi net was sum noned last year. On tha occasion every aspect of the genera peace settlement was exhaustively dis cussed by the two committees of tn, imperial war cabinet. on each of whicl the dominions and India were repre- sented as well as by the imperial wa cabinet itself.
 The Australian government. fo reasons of a domestic character, wa not represented Ut these discussions but the conclusions of the committe and of the imperial war cabinet os these matters were communicated t
 the Australian government at the time and have since then been again re
 viewed at this years session of the i'm
 perial war cabiner in d series of discus . sions in which representatives of Aus tralia participated
 , Australia Always Considered s Nothing that has been done by tn , British representatives at the recen
 meetings of the supreme war council . inconsistent with the general conclu slons arrived at in these discussiont } or has precluded or prejudiced the ef 2 tectlve attainment, in the final peac . terms. of any specific objects to whic h the attention of the imperial war cab = net was drawn by the representative y Of the dominions and India. n The British government has ever = intention of associating the goverr n ments of the dominions and India wit . ltselt at every stage in the future dis 4 cussions of terms of peace. e From the moment that it becau. e clear that such discussions were in t minent, the prime ministers of the dt C mnions and India were warned to ho = themselves in readiness to come ovt e or to send representatives with vie c to their remaining in constant and il q closest touch. in their capacity ; n members of the imperial war cabine
 With developments of the situation, al
 10 their being represented at the inte d allied conference which is to be col e Vened in the near future in order e consider, in detail, the practical appl e cation of general principles of pea l. settlements
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