AT A CRITICAL STAGE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 161, 2 April 1919, Page 7

AT A CRITICAL STAGE

KNOTTY POINTS FOR PEACE

CONFERENCE

AND NO COMPROMISE POSSIBLE FRENCH APPEALS TO BRITAIN By Telegraph—Frees Association—Copyright Paris, March 30. The .Peace Conference is having a most anxious week-end, for a new war has practically started in South-Eastern Europe. The defiance of Hungary cannot be overlooked. She is openly mobilising against the Allias, with the two avowed objects of joining the Kussian Bolsheviki and of executing military enterprises to preserve Hungary intact.

Skirniu-he3 between Magyar and French outposts are reported. The French were withdrawn in order to avoid useless encounters—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

THE GRAVEST PART OF THE DELIBERATIONS THREE POINTS ON WHICH THERE CAN BE NO COMPROMISE. Paris, March 31. The "Big Four" have reached the gravest part of their deliberations upon questions upon which compromise is impossible. These are:— (1) The German frontiers. (2) Reparation; and (3) The policy to be adopted towards Bolshevism. The French papers nvo filled with every kind of appeal to Mr' Lloyd George and President Wilson to face the facts. M. Pertinaux, writing in the "Echo de Paris." insists that Britain has gained everything from tho war. German trade is ruined, her colonial empire and fleet have been seized, and the approaches to India, and Egypt are conquered. And now Britain wishes, as after everv European war, to withdraw into her seagirt isle and become herself acain. Thus is explained the policy towards which London and Washington are leaning.—"The Times."

LEAGUE OP NATIONS CAPITAL. (Eec. Apvil I, 9.5 p.m.) o Paris, Maroh 31. It is reported that the League of Nations Committee has agreed that Geneva shall be the site of the League of Nations capital—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. PAN-GERMAN DEMANDS COLONIES, ALSACEIOUIUINE, -YND POLAND. Amsterdam, March 31. The Pan-German Association, in a violent declaration,'denounced the Kepublienn regime, and demanded the return of IbV colonies. Alsace-Lorraine, 'and Poland, all of which ire thoroughly German, and are essential to Germany's tiade.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

THE ARMISTICE TERMS GERMAN FOREIGN OFFICE DECISION. Berlin, March. 31. The Foreign Office Las-decided to act in reference to the armistice only on the basis of President Wilson's Fourteen Points.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. JAPAN AND AMERICA SETTLEMENTS TN MEXICO. .San Francisco, March 3). Senator Phelan has urged that the United States should represent to Japan the undesirability of the Japanese establishing settlements in Mexico. It is i;eixirtcd that the Mexican Government; lws granted a large area to a Japaiuse Company,—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. BRITISH LABOmIeEGATES IN PARIS PLANS FOR A WORLD CONFERENCE (Rec. April 2, 0.10 a.m.) Paris, March 31. Mr. Arthur Henderson and Mr. Ram-, sav Macdonald have arrived in Paris. Thev stale that the executive of the Home International Convention has arranged to hold a meeting at Amsterdam next month. Two delegates from each nation, including enemy countries, wilt attend. A new international covenant will be submitted, and a world conference will lie held in Switzerland in August for its ratification. Mossvs. Hendcison, Mac Donald, T.ongiiet, Renaiulel. and Huysmans interviewed Lord Robert Cecil in connection with the League of Nations. They desired that the League Covenant should include something to show that the League's ultimate aim was to secure complete disarmament and, further, that minorities in Parliament should be represented on tho delegates' council, .and that nationalities within other nations should have certain rights — Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.