PEACE TREATY.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16728, 10 January 1920, Page 9

PEACE TREATY.

ANOTHER PARIS CONFERENCE.

(E~ Cable.- Prt«s AsoocUti.T". —CopynghV.. a- 1 N.Z (' ,• !.> Attociatioa.) iltcutcr's Teiotnanis.) ("Received Januarv Oth, 0 LONDON. January S. Mr Lloyd George. accompanied by titty officials, has departed tor Paris to attend an Inter-Allied Conference, which will really amount to a second Peace Conference, and which will ileal with the most momentous question.--. The questions for decision include tlu« ( trial of the ex-Kaiser and his aceom- j plicos. It is stated that the British Go- | vernment adheres to the declaration of Mr Lloyd George, that the ex-Kaiser; and other jnilty persons must be tried. Meanwhile Germany is agitating, against the surrenderingof war criminals, i Berlin is developing a society called ; the 'Savo Your Honour League." Government is being urged to defy tho t Allies, and to tell thein to come and j fetch tho guilty parties. If the Alliw j do come, surprises are promised. : The future of Constantinople is another bin question. It is hinted that the British may adopt the "French view,; and leave the Turks at Constantinople, j but establishing machinery for guard-; ing the Straits. j TURKISH PROBLEMS. j

(Roeeired January fltli, 11.25 p.m.) | PARIS. January 7. j Franco and England are now in ac-: eord about occupying certain parts of: the Turkish Empire, the intcrnation-1 alisation of the Dardanelles, and the! institution of a new Armenian regime: ; but the future status of Constantinople ! is unsettled. It- is unlikely that the Turkish question will bo discussed at next week's; Conferences. The French desire to hold j the matter orer nntil tho new French! Cabinet is formed. j "WAR CRIMINALS.

(Received Jannnrv lOtli, 12.45 a.m.) ; BERLIN. January 7. \ The qnestion of surrendering officers j accused of war crimes to the Allies is j the ehi"f topic throughout- Germany, j and is to embarrass the Govern-1 moot considerably. | The Conservative Press demands that I officials should disobey orders to hand! over war criminals. AMERICAN RESERVATIONS. j WASHINGTON, Januarv 8. Senator King has announced that as| a result of tho negotiations it is im-i possible to secure ratification of the I Peace Treaty without reservations. The j only alternative left is a reasonable com-1 promise. NEW YORK, January 8. The T>emoeratie National Committee j is meeting at Chicago to arrange the j preliminaries in connexion with the i presidential nominations. It denounced j the arrogance of the Republicans nnd j demanded that the Senate should cease j political manrcurring. j The meeting repudiated the sugges-i tinn that the United States had .ioined the Allies in order to leave them in the lurch when peace and reconstruction bccomc imperntivo. 1 PRESIDENT WILSON'S VIEW. jo o ' fßocoived TTnnunrv oth, 0.40 p.m.) WA'TTTNG'TON, January 8. President Wilson has informed the i Democratic Committee that he has no i objection to interpretations accompanying the Senate's ratification of the Peace Treaty, but changes cannot l>e made alterinrr the meaning of the Trcnly. 7f there is doubt about the Tieonle's wishes regarding the Treaty, it should be made an issue nt the next election.