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BRITAIN

AND HOLLAND. AN AGREEMENT REACHED.

THE HAGUE, January 6th. The Dutch Government announces the British Government has been informed that it does not object to the transport, by Dutch waterways, of provisions for the troops of occupation in Germany, and to the use of the Scheldt for demobilised troops returning home, providing that

PRESIDENT WILSON I

EUROPE.

IMPORTANT SPEECH IN ITALIAN PARLIAMENT.

New Yoxa, January 3rd. Speaking at the Italian Parliament in Rome on January 3rd, President Wilson said:--

Your Majesty, Mr. President of the of the Chamber, you are bestowing upon me an unprecedented honour which I accept because I believe that it is ex tended to me as a representative of the great people for whom I speak and I am going to take this first opportunity to Bay how entirely the heart of the Ameri

the transport is not regarded as a precan people hng been with the great people cedent, is made under the commercial tlag and does not includo munitione.

PRESIDENT WILSON

EUROPE.

IN

A VISIT TO GENUA.

GENOA, January 5th.

of Italy.

We have seemed, no doubt, indif ferent at times to look from a great dis Laner bat our hearts have never been far away. All sorts of ties have long bound the people of the United States

The Italy with the people uf

people of the United States knowing this people, have witnessed its sufferings, its sacri President and Mrs. Wilson arrived atfices, its heroic action upon the battle eight o'clock this morning, and was wel field, and we have been bound by a new tie Then back of coned at the station by the Mayor, the

of profound admiration. and Aldermen

Deputies

like Senatore,

all and through it all, running the golden thread that wove it together, was our knowledge that the people of Italy had gone into this war for the same cxulted principles of right and justice that moved our own people. And so i welcome this opportunity of conveying to you the heartfelt greeting of the people of the United States.

Officers

A large crowd enthusiastically cheered the President, en route to the Piazza Corvetto, where he laid & wreath before the statue of Mazzini

President Wilson subsequently visited the house where Columbus was born and attended a reception at the Town Hall. GERMANY'S AERIAL FRIGHT- FULNESS.

BRITISH CASUALTIES.

But we cannot stand in the shadow of

this war without knowing there are

things awaiting us which are in some senses more difficult than those we have undertaken because while it is easy bu speak for right aDG

and justics it is some- times difficult to work them out in prae tice and they

will

require a purity of mutives and disinterestedness of object which the world bas never witnessed before in the Council of Nations. It is for that reason that it seems to me that you will forgive me if I lay some of the elements of the new situation before you for a moment.

LONDON, January 10th, An official return shows that during the period of the war there were 62 airship***** raids, 51 aeroplane raida, and 12 war- ship bombardments. The casualties were ps follows

AIRSHIP RAIDS.

Killed. Injured

Civilians Service Men.................

AEROPLANE RAIDS. Civilians Service Men

195 5

3.238 121

619 235

1.G60 400

WARSHIP BOMBARDMENTS.

Civiliane Service Men

143 24

601

30

BRITISH SHIPPING OUTPUT

INTERESTING STATISTICS.

that

The distinguishing act of this war is that great empires have gone to picces and the characteristics of those Empires they held different people re- was that luctantly together under the coercion_of force and the guidance of intrigue. The

states great difficulty among guch

By those of the Balkans has been that they were accessible to unscrupulous influed by i they were always being intrigue of some sort and another and that north of them lay disturbed popu-

together not

by The Observer, in an article on ship-lations which were held building in wartime, mentions that the sympathy and friendship but by the total output in the United Kingdom, coercive force of a military power. during 1919, of both naval and mercantile the intrigue is checked and the bands are ships,

vesacle aggregating broken and what are we going to provide anew to cement, to hold, these people together! They have not been accustomed to being independent, they must not be independent.

LONDON, January 5th.

1,246 W

1,876,411 tons,

On the Clyde alune 4t warshipe of tonnage of 770,347 were structed, in- cluding the battle-cruiser ffed, the great

mystery ships. ent of all our

The floud and the Rodney would have been great surprise packets of war, ex- ceeding anything afloat in speed and gun

power.

Only the Hood, however, will be com pleted. All that existed of the Rodney will be scrapped.

FRENCH SHIPPING. BREST AN IMPORTANT PORT OF CALL

have been

LONDON, January 9th. A Havas message states: The authorities at Brest, notified by the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique that it will henceforth use Brest as its main home port.

Nine hundred passengers are now cross-

Lusk

Now

I am sure that you recognize the prin- ciple as I do that it is not our privilege to say what sort of Government they should set up, but we are friends of these people and it is our duty as their friends it that some kind of protection to ser is thrown around them; something sup plied which will hold them together. There is

is only one thing that holds nations together if you exclude force and that is friendship and good-will; the only thing that binds men together is friendship and by the same token the only thing that binds nations together is friendship.

Therefore, our

at Paris is tal organise the friendship of the world; to se to it that all the moral forces that make for right and justice and liberty are united and are given a vital organi sation to which the peoples of the world

und

gladly respond. In other

a new International than this, to set up

real atmos paychology, to have a new rea phere I am happy to say that in my dealings with the distinguished gentle non who lead your nation and those who feel that ce and England lead France atmosphere gathering, that desire to do justice, that desire to establish friend- liness, that desire to make pesos rest upon right and, with this common pur- pose, no obstacles need be formidable. The only use of an obstacle is to be over. come.

ing the Atlantic and are due to arrive will ords our task is no less colossal

Special trains will at Brest to-morrow. be in readiness at Brest to convey the from that port direct to Paria.

THE NAVAL SURRENDER. BRITISH CRUISER AT DANTZIG.

AMSTERDAM, January bla.

A telegram from Dantzig states that the British cruiser Goodwood, with a Naval Mission on board, has arrived to inspect the shipyards and submarines under con struction, and other warships.

Twc American cruisers have arrived from Swinemuende DEATH OF COUNT HERTLING GERMANY'S EX-FOREIGN

MINISTER'

COPENHAGEN, January 8th. Court Hertling died in Bavaria.

LABOUR INTERNATIONAL

CONFERENCE.

INITIATED BY M, BRANTING.

STOCKHOLM, January 6th.

men

All that any obstacles does with brave) men is not to frighten them but to chal- lenge them, so that it ought to be our pride to overcome everything that stands in the way. We know that there cannot be another balance of power. That bas heen tried and found wanting for the best of all reasons; that it does not stay which balanced inside itself and a weight does not hold together cannot constitute

makeweight in the affairs of mon. Therefore there must be something sub- stituted for the balance of power and I am happy to find everywhere in the air of these great nations the conception that

M. Branting, the Swedish Socialist, has that thing must be a thoroughly united invited the Neutral Powers is an Inter-League of Nations. What men once con nasional Labour Conference at Lausanne, to be held concurrently with the Posse Conference,

He has notified the Socialists of the Contral Powers and Runain of the Con

ference.

FRENCH AFRONAUTICS. RESIGNATION OF FRENCH OFFICIAL.

PARIE, January 9th.

A Havaa message states:- The French Under-Hecretary of Aero nautics has sent a letter to M. Clemenceau resigning his post, in consequence of the incorporation of the Air Bervice with the Ministry of War.

THE FR NCH PRESS. WAR-TIME REGULATION

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theoretical and idealistio turna! We be practical and necessary. stand at the opening of a new ago in which a new statesmanship will, I am confident, lift mankind to now levels of endeavour and achievement." Imperial News Service.

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