PUNISHMENT OF THE GUILTY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 137, 5 March 1919, Page 5

PUNISHMENT OF THE GUILTY

FINDINGS OF COMMITTEE OF INVESTIGATION HUNDREDS OF PERSONS BLAMEWORTHY KAISER'S STATUS AS A CRIMINAL By Telesrapli-Press Aseociation-Oopyright New York, March 3. The Paris correspondent of the New York "Evening Sun" learns from an authoritative source that the committee of thn Peace Conference which is investigating the responsibility for tho war will shortly submit a report containing hundreds of names of guilty persons. _ It will be impossible .to visit direct punishment on the Kaiser, Ludendorff, and Hindenbui'K. but military governors and others will be apprehended and tried before an international tribunal.—Aus.-N.Z. Assii.

A MERCILESS INDICTMENT. (Rec. March 5, 0.35 a.m.) New York, March 3. A Paris telegram to the New York "Times" states that Mr. Lansing (United States Secretary of State) has prepared a pamphlet mercilessly indicting Germany's former rulers. Mr. Laneing proposes that the Peace Conference should adopt the indictment.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. GERMANY'S SUMMONS~TO THE PEACE TABLE London, March 3. It is not improbable that the German delegates will bo summoned to the Peace Conference by the middle of April.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. PEACE TERMS jVILL BE EXACTING SIR JOSEPH WARD'S VIEW. (Rec. March ■), 7.45 p.m.) London, March 3. Sir Joseph Ward (New Zealand Finance Minister) is paying a brief visit to London. He will return to Paris on Sunday. In an interview he enid he believed that the peace conditions would be exacting. Everything was being done to speed up the Conference work. He did not believe there was any likelihood of Britain's sea power being limited or controlled by the League of Nations.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Aesn. ' THE BILL FOR REPARATION (Rec. March 5, 0.35 a.m.) Paris, March 3. The Separation Committee estimates that the Central Powers must pay to the Allies .£24,000,000,000, the payment being extended over a period of thirty years, and including one thousand millions immediately in gold, foreign securities, merchandise, aud ships—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. FATE OF THE SURRENDERED FLEET LIVELY CONTROVERSY IN THE FRENCH PEESS. Paris, March 3. The French newspapers unanimously persist in the demand for sharing tho German warships. They say that Britain, can afford to dispense with them since the German vessels wero so inferior to the British, but that France and ltalv.will be glad to have them. The latest suggestion is that France and Italy should exchange their inferior unit* for the better German units. The "Petit Parisien" declares that if Britain imsiste on the destruction of enemy warships France must get a special indemnity to cover the cost of bringing the Navy to tho pre-war standard. "Lo Journal" says that, Britain does not need tho ships, but Franco also has a role to play at eca, especially during the critical twenty years, when tho spirit of revenge will be strongest.—Aus.-N,Z. Cable Assn.

THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS DENUNCIATORY SPEECH IN U.S. SENATE Washington, March 3. , Senator Sherman, speaking in the Senate, denounced the League of Nations as u Pandora's box full of evils, emptying (i:i the American people the aggregated calamities of the world. President WilKoi was trying, to wield above the Republic his personal, autocratic power. President Wilson was acting either as a. .usurper or a dictator. "Upon what does this Caesar feed that he has grown so great?" President Wilson kept the people out of tho war in 1916, bo that impending war. might be conjured up to serve his interests in ISI2O. Men in hid-1 dei chambers, through the means of the Peace League, would wield powers of liib Mid death ovei Americans.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. THE BASIC PLAN OF PEACE (Eec. March i, 7.15 p.m.) Washington, March 3. Addressing a conference of State authorities dealing with after-wnr problems President Wilson said that for the fftel time in history sympathy was developing. '' It would be impossible to secure a world peace unless it was thoroughly understood that the Paris gatherings were meant to serve interests common to man in every country.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. PRESIDENT'S ADVISER AT THE PEACE TABLE. (Rec. March 5, 1.15 a.m.) New York, March 3. Mr. Gregory is retiring from the United States Attorney-Generalship and will accompany President Wilson to Paris in an advisory capacity.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE NEW. ARMISTICE TERMS ALLIED OPINION (Reel March i, 7.15 p.m.) Paris, March 3. The Supreme War Council has discussal the new armistice. There is unanimity on the military and air terms, but sqmo divergence of opinion regarding the disarmament of Germany and the disposal of her ships. If agreement cannot be arrived at on the latter point it will be reserved, though this would prevent the enforcement of the complete surrender of tho German Fleet.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. (Rec, March I, 9.30 p.m.) Paris, March 3. A communique states:—Tho Supreme War Council has discussed the report of th& military, naval, and uir experts concerning the disarmament of the enemy. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. JAPAN ANinSINGTAU CONCESSIONARY INTERESTS TO BE RETAINED, Paris, March 3. Air. Saito, secretary to Marquis Saioirji, Japanese delegate to the Peace Conference, explains that Japan intends to hand Tsingtau to China, but will retain tha same concessions in the city as are ;<iven to other nations.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. NEW MAP oTtHE BALKANS TURKEY TO MOVE OVER TO ASIA MINOR. Paris, March 3. The Greek Commission has discussed the question of Asia Minor. It is believed that the Commission will favour

the"_ dissolution of the Turkish Empire witli the creation of a new Turkish State in the centre of Asia Minor. The Commisison agreed to the principle of Greece having a mandatory strip of coastline between Avail and Cos, and including Smyrna and Ephesus.—Aue.-N.Z. ' Cable Assn. TERRITORIAL DIVISIONS IN HUNGARY THE PARTITIONING PROCESS. Paris, March 3. It is understood that the Czechoslovak Commission will'give the city of Pressburtr (on the Danube) to the Czechs, while the Hungarian districts inhabited bv the lluthenes will probably be handed to Rumania. The greater part of Toroutal and the western part of the Banat and Temesvar fire likely to belong to Serbia.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONALIST DELEGATION (Rec March 5, 0.35 a.m.) Cape Town, March 3. The Nationalist delegates will sail for Europe in the Dutch steamer New York. -Ueuter. THREE WORLD SPHERES OF INFLUENCE AN AMERICAN SUGGESTION. (Rec. March 5, 0.15 a.m.) New York, March 3. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, publicist, and president of Columbia University, advocates the division of the world into three administrative areas, the Americas forming one, Europe, Africa, and the parts oil Asia nearest thereto the 6econd, and Australasia, with the Orient, the third. The object of this division would be to obviate tho present dangers of Monroeism being overruled through the Paris covenants.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.