Show whole empire to take part in war C council 0 1 1 representatives of british dominions to sit with lloyd georges advisers WILL SHAPE FUTURE POLICY everything affecting conduct of war and negotiations for peace will be considered by colonial premiers sitting with inner war board london vast changes for king george Vs tar far flung dominions indeed for the whole world are arc bound up in the great congress of it the british empire to ko be held here representatives of the british empires leading elements have met be fore but more as a matter ol of ceremony and form this time they come coine to london to do things they will consider and decide all important policies how bow at issue having to do both with present problems and with those which are expected to come up at tile close of the 0 inflict in this pits unprecedented meeting as in the several military and economic councils of the entente allies and even in the similar gatherings of the teutonic nations and their allies experience Is being gained which will do touch much to further the world worldwide wide coop co op leni tion now the goal of 0 most constructive thinkers premier david lloyd george has promised that the representatives of the dominions shall sit with the inner british war board of five members not in tile the sense that a visitor is invited to sit beside a judge on the bench belich but as voting equals the welsh leaders farseeing far seeing eye has discerned that in this way lies for britain that only b by making the world girdling empire an organization of peers can real co opera tion and the full development of british strength be attained will sit in council here are the men who will sit in this imposing council for great britain david lloyd 0 fe 1 1 1 I 1 I 1 W w y A 39 P R william M hughes premier of australia george premier austin chamberlain secretary of state for india walter hume long secretary of state for the colonies for south africa gen jan christian smuts serving in place of premier louis botha for canada Premier Sir robert borden for new zealand premier william F farguson erguson massey blossey for australia premier william morris hughes for india two members of 0 the privy council one a hindu and one a mohammedan what the council will consider wits very clearly stated by premier lloyd george in a statement to the austra llan han universal cable service a news syndicate in which tile the leading antl and bodean newspapers are members ue he said this council will deal with all general questions affecting the war the 41 X P 4 F p aa al 1 I 4 f 6 VY aia ai 5 fain ll 11 f general jan christian smuts prim ministers or their represents will be members of the war council and we propose to arrange that all matters of first importance shall be considered at its meetings affecting the dominions the conduct of the war or the negotiations tiati ons for peace will be excluded from the scope of its authority there will of course be domestic questions which each part of the empire must settle for itself such domestic matters will be our only reservation but we pro propose pose that everything else shall be so to speak on the table entitled to a say you do not sup suppose pose that our overseas nations can raise and place in the field armies containing a preponderant portion of their best manhood and not want to have a say a real say in determining the use to which they are to be put that seems to us an impossible and undemocratic proposition up to the present we have s shouldered practically alone responsibility for the policy of the war we now wish to know that in our measures for prosecuting the war to a finish in our negotiations tor for peace and in the problems arising from the war and following its close we shall be carrying out a policy agreed to by the representatives of the entire empire sitting together in plenary council things Ti lings can never be the same lifter after the war as before it five democracies moc all parts of one empire cannot shed blied their blood and spend their 1 1 treasure with a heroism and diere disregard g ard of cost beyond all praise and in a cum cuin men inon cause without establishing it unity such a as never existed until now although the british empire now presents a united front to the such a spirit of union has nut not always marked its history war has united the empire firsts first the boer struggle and second the present titanic conflict were object lessons the two wars were object lessons for the provincial londoners Lon doners in this war more than a million fine soldiers have already left their homes comes to tight for their king in france in east africa in mesopotamia in egypt and on the gallipoli peninsula ou on the latter r spot pot they died by the ten thousand in a hop hopeless eless tatt attempt zept to take impregnable positions the caliber of the colonial leaders who will come here la Is not inferior to that of the british leaders with whom they will confer perhaps the strongest and most interesting personality onions among them Is premier hughes of australla australia when he visited england for tho the first time a year ago he be impressed englishmen deeply hughes weighs less than pounds has chronic dyspepsia and shows about ten times as much energy as an ordinary pound man in full health lie ile started life as a an n itinerant scho schoolmaster schoolman ter in A australia us car carrying crying a pack about the country and teaching frontiers mens children then he opened up a little general store neat nea tile wharves in sydney became ao ac quainter quain ted with the dock laborers one and headed beaded the trades union movement ile rose rapidly to be a labor member of the assembly of new south wales then a member of the australian commonwealth mon wealth parliament then minister of external affairs and finally in the first labor cabinet the nation had ever known some of the others othere premier massey of new zealand la Is an irishman born who went to the antipodes when six years old and was engaged in farming before turning to statesmanship general smuts was one of the best boer leaders in the war against great britain 17 years ago today he Is one of king georges most loyal and energetic subjects a wonderful tribute to the conciliatory ability of the british empire premier botha for whom he Is a substitute at the imperial council table Is also a former famous boer leader botha cannot come to bolion partly X 4 14 N al 1 sir robert borden premier of canada because he Is engrossed with a great scheme to solve the annoying race problem in south africa by laying out certain territories where the black men will be in control and barring the negroes from participation in public pubic c affairs in certain other districts ile he also does docs not desire to leave because his wife Is gravely ill |