The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1919-01-23
AUSTRALIA HAS ~.
IDEAS Of PEACE
Looks to the Future Much az
America Did at End
of the Revo-
luton.
BY United Press.

Paris, Jan. 20.-Australia, as q free
and independent nation, has it's own
peace demands for consideration at the
conferences, Premier Hughes, declared
today in an interview with the United
Press.
Australia considers that 1t won its
Independence on h battlefield M DO
fftically ii stands now where the United
States stood at the end Of h revolu-
ton. 1t is in this spirit that 1t enters
the peace conferences with its own pro-
gram.
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, and India, as autono-
nous nations, tied only by sentiment to
the motherland. -
|. Oar fighting records surpasss that OF
any other nation" he asserted, NOW
we want self-determination."
Australia, Hughes made plain. throws
its cards face upward on the peace
table. His country, he said being most
democratic and a firm foe OF secret
diplomacy, frankly and openly makes
public its aims and desires in the great
settlement. "..'..
Hughes announced Australia will de-
mand:
Indemnities; the island OF New
Guinea; a league of nations with e
| tain restrictions: military support 70
Poland II that country is threatened
n 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 ina
| she stands politically today pretty
| much where the United States stood al
the end of the revolution. She has won
| liberty on the fields Of France and de
serves recognition as an
nation.
Australia lost nearly 10000 killed
| and 260, 900 wounded in the war. She
| spent 1900, 900 900. She clothed hei
| own troops in uniforms of wool grown
] in her own country.
"Her fighting record surpasses tha'
| of any other nation. >,
Now Australia wants self determi'
! nation. This means she insists on g
I policy Of a white Australia We &c
not want a promiscuous immigration
We are a white nation in a sea Of
| blacks. We must have the New Guinea
| islands. They are full Of possibilities
for naval bases and U-boat nests II
they pass into unfriendly hands.
1--WE believe we ought to have an in
demnity. We helped beat Germany
who willfully forced the war, thereby
saddling US, a country with only 5000.
900 Inhabitants, with a war debt which
Is a most frightful handicap to a new
people like ourselves. If America haC
been so burdened in the first days o.
her independence, she would have beer
] unable to make Roadway. Germany
ought to pay indemnities to h utmos'
of her ability, Australia sharing in pro
portion to the part she took in tn
war. .., 81
1--WE believe in the league of nations
but we must not impair the nation:
right of free government, and though
the league would be a valuable instru,
ment to maintain world peace, we must
keep our powder dry. ,.l
i 81 don't know precisely what freedom
of the seas means. but Australia is sur
rounded by a coast line 10000 mile:
long-as long as the distance from
Australia to England-and we are un
able to protect this ourselves; there
fore we must depend on Britain to op'
pose any plan taking away her navy
supremacy" d..