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RACE OF LIARS AND with the British Empire as we know it, because the British Empire rests upon a Navy unchallenged and unchallengeable. I shall not say because of this we should condemn it, but these things surely con- What is the defence cern us, greatly. policy of this Empire? No one can tell us. What is it to be in the future? No one knows.

MR. HUGHES ON GERMANY. THE LEAGUE AND THE FLEET. Mr. Walter Long presided at a luncheon given at the House of Commons on June 23th by the Empire Parliamentary Asso- ciation, in honour of Mr. W. M. Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia, and in po NEW MUSICAL TREATS.posing The Australian Delegates," said

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that their guest, had proved to be an inspiration and a stimulant to those of us it home. He had concentrated on the great Imperial work to which he had devoted the past sixteen months, and he bad given us lessons in rent Imperialism. in spicches he had delivered, from time to

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Let me turn for a moment ip the other hond of which I spoke-trude. The future of Britain, the keystone in the Imperial arch depends upon an abundant supply of raw materials, which happily are avail. able alost wholly within the Empire. The future of this country, as distinct from the Empire, depends upon its capa-

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capital than ever befory, or it must surely perish. And what is the Imperial trade policy Nobody can tell us. Side is the ulrious and glittering vision, of the League of Nations; and, on the other, the long grey shapes behind which

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that, great achievement no individual had civilisation sheltered and was saved. Wo THE

are asked which sha!!, we choose, and there But in the is hesitation and doubt.

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done more than Mr. Hughes.

Mr. Hughes, in reply, said we missed destruction only by a margin, and we had hearts of the people of this country there

is no doubt. There can be none.

ver we say, we dare not let there be any doubt. It we do, whatever befalls us shall befall us justly. And we turn and ask, what is the future in regard to trade?

How can we maintai No one knows.

won that victory which, so many of our laint beurts told us was impossible. Looking back, every thinking man realise how narrowly we escaped defekt.

The question now is, Mr. Hughes continued. what shall the future be We are bending beneath a colossal barcen of debit.

a great Navy, how can we bear the crush- ing burden of debt, how can we hold our

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Un every side there is aurest in the markets of the world, without and chaos, Probleins crowd thick

at

What is the tutur to be what spirit shall we go out into this new battle. The war is no peace for us. For there bas merely taken off

new shape.

trade, because the Navy rests upon m trade polies Our Navy rests upon

How

will this country weather the

storms, how will it solve the

We unemployment, how will it are to fight with different weapons, bat grapple with the thousand and one ques We must aght not less earnestly or despertions which must arise, without a trade ately than before And we shall never policy. If you ask Australia whether we

attack in through unless we

these prob lens in the same spirit as we approached the war. Germany, crushed on the feld of battle, is still

to-day the best equipped for the commercial, and industrial fight of every nation rathe world. Not even America is hever quipped than she.. She has

evidence given abundant already

rely upon the League of Nations we shat, but we shall keep our powder We can afford to take no risks. We dry. shall endeavour to build up the industries of Australia. We have learned our lesson in this war. Germany shall not take up her old position and hatten upon mur vitals any more.

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that she is ready to resume that sure and tralia are for Apstdustries of Aus

atently policy

by which she can achieve victory, by which she would have achieved victory had she been content to follow it.

hope She has not abandoned

she has no reason to abandon hope, that we shall wink back to what we were before the war.

la an know now where we stood. We other decade Germany would have been During the war the of the were opened, and loud, they 19. that it would never happen again. But what is

their attitude today? Only A few months ago war crased, and to-day the voice of the German is heard in the lund--not speaking directly, but through the mouths of others.

THE RONDA OF EMPIRE.

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and not,, for German I have no eternal anarrel with the Germany, and it may be that in future she will redeem ber faults. But I see no evidence yet of a change of heart. On every side I see abundant proof that she is to-day what she was yesterday: the Germans of 1919 humbled in the dust is the Germany of 1914, arrogant and strip- ped for

for conquest he has a Socialisti Government. And what is its battle cry 3 Over our bodies Protect the Kaiser. you must pass before you touch this sarred ikon as a race the Germans have nt repented. They are a race of liars, relied of cheats. Their word is not to on. They will put their names to the Treaty, hut as soon as we cease to have the power to compel them, that Treaty will be but another scrap of paper."

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How are we going to maintain this Empire in its greatness; how

Let us, not live in a paradise of fools, gather in the fruits of our victory What Germany has not repented. Scapa Flow, is our policy As I see it apart from the utterances of all her public men, prova tradition and race, apart from those lies

that she in to-day what she was yester. which have been coriented by blood and sacrifice, there are two great bonds which day. She will again endeavour to worm mpture hold this widely-scattered Empire toge her way into your citadels, to

whether she succeeds or They are ther.

your trade. And the ties of defence and not depends upen No

If you think you trade. What was the position before the

ran combat her without a policy, let me ware

and what is it to day? One instru mentality has brought us to where we are say that is impossible. Not one of your are a the British

will risk is capital in the tish Nury.

Without that the

acturera

of an old-plant or the construe Empire would

impossibl it would top of a new until he knows where no resolve itself into its constituent atoms, stands. The war, as I have often said. Tradition is strong, face is strong, the kindled in the breasts of the Domin

emory of things we have in common is

nationalism. ions a new spirit of

But we strong

but without a common scheme of

that. "for are not less lovers of Enip.re defence all these are useless Unless w

In the hour

We want to see in this place the cradle in Australia.

of can say,

of our race, 4 recognition of Empire from the Imperial standpoint, something of is the Empire! And if was breaks. Empire other than lip service, samarthing

her we know upon whom we can enll,

out

whom

has

that will show a recognition of the great-

in five or ten years time, upon whom shall Australia call! Before this war we knew very well that, if we called, the Navy mess of our heritage, expressed in terms that shall inke for its per

of a

at Britain would rush to our aid-notning the health of the chair-

in

man, Hughes said that in his associa-

tion with him he had found in Mr. Long

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after long months of tortuous inquiry into the merits of our case, not coming when it was too late battering at doors which were already shut-but quickly, as a mother to its child. And when you too, called in 1914 we came at once. We realised that if you fell we fell; and now we know that if we fall it is the beginning the end. That was the position. To day the Empire has control of its own Navy: but will that control pass from pet is it to go from uur hands into the hands of another? The League of Na-because their politics were as far apart tions we welcome; we hope and trust that the end of all war has that mankind.

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We hope the arbitrament of the We hope there sword to settle quarrels bicced by the Peace Confer ener an instrument no effective that war will be banished fruin the world. But we know that this League to prove effec- tive in the maintenance of peace it must have a force, naval and military, which shall

by its very existence and power crush all who menace it. There must be then another power which can make ever inter- ference by us impossible. What, then, of

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(Laughter.) But he could say it of Mr. Long, and be had great pleasure in doing as the poles.

GERMAN NAVAL LOSSES.

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Ship of the line Battle-cruisers'

Old armoured cruisers Modern cruisers Uld-small cruisers Gunboats

River 'gunbouts Destroyersens

Large torpedo-boats Small torpedo-boats

Mine-sweepers kalan

Auxiliary ernisers

10

2

3

39

21

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No country would more gladly wel come the coming of the League of Nations than Australia, which stands at the very outpost of white civilisation, which is at the end of the world and yet at the gate way to its most populous regions.

from the would be

gift to us more than gods if we knew that war would be no more that we could, turn our every to the peaceful de thought and chergy

heritage. velopment of our

Eighty-two submarines went down in tory has some dreadful lot

one to teach the ortit Sea and the Atlantic: thres in those who scan its pages. " changes, but mankind remains the same: the Baltic; 72 in (sic) Flanders: 16 in the It may be that war has

this Mediterranean; and in the Black

But

Fishing vessels, laggers, etc. ...122 "U"-bontsu

world; but, sir, we cannot afford to take Fourteen were blown up by their own risks. If we are attacked, on whom crows, and seven were interned in neutral shall we call! The League of Nations? poria. But will it corse, and will it in

come

The losses of men killed in the naval time? These things are vital to us Who services are given, 35:

will is to say that this latest instrument

Fleet:-946 officers, 6.299 deck officers Hague prove more efective than Tribunal Time alone can show whether and non-commissioned officers, and 12,688 this League can do all that its most ardent Marine Corps: --328 officers, 1,488, deck

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