The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-01-23
AUSTRALIA HAS
IDEAS OF PEACE
Looks TO the Future Much o.
America Did at End
Of the Revo-
luton.
N United Pre.s.

#4NTH
Paris. Jan. 2o.-Australia. rs q FREQ
and independent nation. has its own
peace demands for consideration at the
conferences. Premier Hughes, declared
today In an interview with the United
Press.
Australia considers that 1t won It's
Independence on the battlefield and po-
ltically it stands now where the United
| States stood at the end of the revolu-
i ton. It Is In this spirit that 1t enters
| the peace conferences with it's own pro-
ram
Recognition OF the British dominions
by the peace congress marks the 'dawn
of a new era, the premier believes. 1t
Is taken to mean that the world recog-.
| nizes Australia, Canada, South Africa,
New Zealand, n India, as autono-
| nous nations, tied only by sentiment to
| the motf1erland.
Our fighting records surpass that OF
any other nation" he asserted. NOW
we want self-determination."
Australia. Hughes made plain, throws
it's cards face upward on the peace
table. His country, he said being most
democratic and a firm foe OF secret
diplomacy, frankly n openly makes
public it's aims and desires In the great
settlement.
Hughes announced Australia Will de-
mand:
I~ndemnities; the island OF New
Guinea; q league of nations with cer-
tain restrictions; military support to
Poland If tina country is threatened;
q hearing on all questions concerning
Europe or the far east.
Austria, he declared, will oppose:
Freedom Of the seas, if that means
taking Britain's supremacy from her.
Any restrictions on the right of MAX
ing whatever economic arrangements
she pleases.
Further intervention in Russia.
Australia" said Hughes, feels that
she stands politically today pretty
much where the United States stood at
the end of the revolution. She mas won
liberty on the fields of France and de-
serves recognition as an autonomous
nation.
"Austrialia lost nearly 10000 killed
and $50. 900 wounded in the war. She
spent 81. 500, 900, 900. She clothed her
own troops in uniforms of wool grown
in her own country.
Her fighting record surpasses that
of any other nation.
Nov Australia wants self determi-
nation. This means she insists on a
policy of "a white Australia We do
not want a promiscuous immigration.
We are a white nation in a sea OF
blacks. We must la the New Guinea
islands. They are full Of possibilities
for naval bases and U-boat nests II
they pass into u%nfriendly hands.
1--WE believe we ought to have an n
demnity. We helped beat Germany,
who willfully forced the war. thereby
saddling US, a country with only 5,00O.-
900 Inhabitants, with a var debt which
is a most frightful handicap to a new
people like ourselves. If America had
been so burdened in the first days Of
her independence. she would have been
Unable to make Roadway. Germany
ought to pay indemnities to the utmost
of her ability, Australia sharing in pro-
portion to the part she took in the
war.
1--WE believe in the league of nations,
but we must not impair the nations
right of free government, and though
the league would be a III instru-
ment to maintain world peace, we must
keep our powder dry.
81 don't know precisely what freedom
of the seas means, but Australia is sur
rounded by a coast line 10000 miles
lcng-as long as the distance from
Australia to Eng1and-and we are un-
able to protect this ourselves: there
fore we must depend on Britain to OPP
pose any plan taking away her navy
SUPREMACY"