PEACE TERMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 138, 6 March 1919, Page 7

PEACE TERMS

ESTIMATE OF WAR INDEMNITIES

THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS

PRESIDENT'S APPEAL TO

AMERICA

By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright London, March i. The "Morning Post's" correspondent at Paris learns tEat it is proposed to demand from Germany six hundred million sterling yearly for fifty yea' B - I m „ nY timated that this will leave 1 with 280 millions yearly for hei internal B Tho "Daily Telegraphs'' Paris correspondent warns the Allies that no Oe man. Government will sign a tiea j ■ bodying some of the conditions:now treelv advocated by the Allies. W the . <j*.® mans reject the treaty offhand the Allie difficulties will increase tenfold. »hen Marshal Foch presented the recent ar mistice terms Herr E«ntzau "fked colleagues to insist on their and tliey agreed regarding the employ menti of this weapon, but decided to ie-. serve it for the., definite. peace tans, when rejection .mil -represent German* last trump—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS OPPOSITION BY UNITED STATES SENATORS

New York, March 4. The Washington correspondent of the New York "Times" states that forty Ke.publican Senators have. signed a petition demanding that the League of w™*** considered apart from the treaty _fo peace, and opposing the present diatt or the League because it endangers th Monroe Doctrine and the power, B to Congress under the Constitution ot toe United States. The petition may be submitted to the Senate for adoption. Senator Lodge has offered a resolution to the Senate rejecting the present, draft of the League of Nations and urging that ths. Peace Conference should expedite the signing of the peace treaty. The resolution is based on the jjPtition. The Republican leaders consider the petition tantamount to a definite declaration that the incoming Senate, which will be controlled by RepuWicmis, will not ratify th'e present constitution of the League and that the Peace l?eaty must be signed before the League is organised, otherwise the Senate win not ratify either—Aus.-N.Z. Cable A s ? n \ I The New York "Heralds Washington correspondent states that five national | farmers' organisations, representins all I the organised farmers in the XJ2ll t€Kl j States, have pledged President I their support for the League of Isationb. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.