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Show ' PREMIER HUGHES REGARDS THE NOTE AS AN ULTIMATUM LONDON, Dec. 24, 9:S5 a. m. A Router dispatch from Melbourne today quotes Premier Hughes of the "Australian com-, com-, monwealth as follows in reference to Sec-1 Sec-1 retarv of State Lansing's explanation of . President Wilson's note to the belligerents: belliger-ents: Under the guise of an addenda to the peace note deploring the war, the explanation abruptly discloses that the sit tuition is critical enough to bring the mediator to the verge of war. The peace note cannot be read apart from the thinly-veiled demand to know the allies' intentions, not for the purpose of mediation, but In America's interests. Seen in this light, the note is more of an ultimatum ulti-matum than an effort at mediation. |