London, March 9.
a luncheon given in honour of the Rs, Hon. W. M. Hughes, Premier of Australis, at the House of Commons, the Rt: Hon. A. Bonar Law, Secretary of State for the Colonies, said that the Dominion have given so much to the war that things cannot remain the same after the war. We hoped to gum by this loathsome war an Empire, one in structure for all time. lb his belief the future depended the action of the Dominions bs cause the Mother Country would welcome any scheme approved by them, The Rt. Hon. W. M. Hughes, who received an ovation, said: "We are heart and soul in this war. No thing shall stand in the way of complete victory." He emphasized that we must strive at all cost t destroy German trade.
Wellington, March The Rt. Hon. P. W. Massey, Pre mier of New Zealand, says thst impossible for him or for Sir Joseph Ward to be in London by May.
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