THE PEACE PACT

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 252, 18 July 1919, Page 5

THE PEACE PACT

0 CONDEMNED IN WEIMAR ASSEMBLY THE DISMEMBERMENT OF GERMANY fly Telegraph-Press Association-OoDyrielil Berlin, July 10. In the Weimar Assembly the Financial Debate was marked by speeches in revenueful tone. Herr Mueller said that Germany wa3 ahout to enter upon a forty years' march in a desert; to tread the path of sufferinir which tho Treaty prescribed. "When the nact was signed," he said, "we dis- j memhered Germany, and millions of Gei-1 mans were torn from the Fatherland." Herr Kretzig (Socialist) protested that Hie Peaco was one of violence, threateninir to make the new Europe a powder magazine for fresh and bloody wars. He would never forgive the Fatherland being torn to nieces. / All the sueakeis for all parties spoke in similar strain.—"The Times." THE HOPE FOR REUNION. (Rec. July 17, 8.-15 p.m.) Berlin, July 10. During the debate in tho Assembly at Weimar, Herr Mueller (Foreign Minister) declared that he hastened the ratification of the Peaco Treaty in order to get the blockade lifted. He assured those living in dismembered Germany that "we do not forget them, and hope that they will not forget or disown us until, peacably and perhaps soon, they can, return to the Fatherland through the Leaguo of Nations. "-"The Times." GERMANY'SIBLIGATIONS AMERICA WILL INSIST ON THEIR FULFILMENT. London, July 16. General Pershing, at a luncheon at the Savov. said:-"We must first insist that the enemv fulfils the Treaty obligations, it must not be thought that because I America is not leaving a largo army in Lurone that America will not insist on the fulfilment of the obligations."—Afis.N.Z. Cable Assn. PRESIDENT TO CONFER WITH SENATORS. Washington, July IG. President Wilson has invited tho leading Remiblican Senators to a private conference on issues relating to the League of Nations and the Peace Treaty. -Aus.-N.Z. Cabb Assn. THE LEAGufoF NATIONS ENFORCEMENT OF DECISIONS. Paris, July IG. Af. Pichon. addressing the Peace Treaty Commission, promised to actively press tho amendments which M. Bourgeois somrht to have embodied in the League of Nations for securing effeotive military organisation, and' to enforco the Leaunio decisions.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. INDEMNITY FOR FAMILY OF MURDERED SOLDIER. Paris, July 16. The French Government has demnmled from Germany an indemnity of .£-10,000 for the family nf a French soldier recently murdered in a street in Berlin.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. EX-KAISER ANdTx-KAISERIN BOTH SAID TO BE ILL. Rec. July 17, 8.15 p.m.) Amsterdam, July 16. Tho ex-Kaiser is suffering from a chill, and the ex-Kaiserin from heart weakness.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.