PEACE CONFERENCE.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16421, 15 January 1919, Page 7

PEACE CONFERENCE.

MR LLOYD GEORGE'S INTENTIONS. (By Cable.—Press Afi6ociation.—Copyright.) ) (Australian and Ji.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, January 1L A representative of the ''Evening >f News" interviewed Mr Lloyd George ie before embarking for Folkestone. He i 0 said, "I bhall do mv best to secure a l- good peace which will make a repetit- tion of such a terrible conflict impossible." >- BRITISH DELEGATES TO CONFER. (Australian and Is.Z. Cable Association.) (Received January 15th, 12.10 a.m.) ® LONDON, January 13. n Mr W. M. Hughes and Sir Joseph Cook attended this morning's British Conference at Paris. PARIS CROWDED. ® PARIS, January 11. Mr Bonar Law has arrived in a »> Handlcy-Pago machine. ® Tho hotels are full of visitors and " officials from all parts of tho world, i - PROCEDURE TO BE FOLLOWED. b (Received January 14th, 7.20 p.m.) PARIS, January 13. It has been decided to divide tho a peace deliberations into three stages. b The first relates to procedure and hours, 5 tho number and status of delegates, and j the official language to be used for tho . discussions. The second relates to a s number of urgont matters, such as the 1 Russian and Polish situations, aleo Ger- * man Bolshevism. Tho third stage will be the Conference proper, at which the . League of Nations must bo given pre- , cedence. It is reported that the French will demand at the Conference that the exKaiser and all the male members of the Imperial family shall be exiled to Algiers. > THE HOHENZOLLERNS. (Router's Tele grams.) (Received January 14th, 7.20 p.m.) PARIS, January 11. Tho statement is made that tho French General Staff is responsible for tho proposal that the male members of the German Imperial family should be banished to Algiers, on the ground that there could bo no safety while tho Hohenzollerns remained at liberty. LEAGUE OF NATIONS. i PARIS, January 12. When the Peace Conference has considered the League of Nations scheme, and.reached an agreement on the general principles, its elaboration will be entrusted to a special committee, including Lord Robert Cecil, M. Bourgitais, and Colonel House. Meanwhile the Conference will discuss territorial and economic matters. The former will bo considered in tho following order: Germany, Austria, the Balkans, and Russia. In the absence of « regular Russian delegation, the Conference will consult the numerous Russian leaders now in Paris. SPAIN~MOVING. (Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association.) 1 (Received January 14th, 7.20 p.m.) ' MADRID, January 13. ' Spain has appointed a Commission, in- ■ eluding all the leading politicians, to ; study the conditions on which Spain 1 could join the League of Nations. ( RECOGNITION DESIRED. i (Received January 14th, 7.20 p.m.) LONDON, January 13. A delegation from Trans-Caucasian Georgia has arrived in London to urge its recognition and independence as a small notion. HUNGARIAN OPINION. p NEW YORK, January 11. e The Budapest correspondent of the United Press interviewed Count Karolyi, who said that peace must be social and economic, as well as political, based on President Wilson's fourteen points, or there will be war within a few years. Hungary's only hope is that President Wilson's principles will govern the Peace oonrer- ■* i ence. Hungary's entire policy will be Wilsonian. "Budapest," he said, "is on tho verge of Bolshevism. Hungary cannot do anything until she is reorganised. The Entente, our erst- _ while enemies, must assist us. I ad- 5 vocatc the formation of a commission H headed by Americans to fix Hungary's i boundaries." • 61 JEWISH ASPIRATIONS. CAPE TOWN, January 12. An important Zionist Congress passed a resolution urging the Peace Conference to recognise the national aspirations and historic claims of the Jewish people to Palestine, and to assure its development into a Jewish ' commonwealth under the trusteeship of Great Britain on behalf of all the Powers or the League of Nations, tt The resolution asserts that the aspiia- ta tions of the Jewish people will be un- ai satisfied with less than an undivided A Palestine, coincident with its fullest al historical area. m