THE PEACE TREATIES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 301, 16 September 1919, Page 5

THE PEACE TREATIES

PRESIDENT WILSON'S TOUR POPULAR OVATION AT SEATTLE By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright New York, September IH. At Seattle. President Wilson was given a tumultuous ovalior, the most enthusiastic since he started his tour. In his speeches, the President urged the people I to help him to win the war by ' supporting ! the League of Nations. Parly lines must be forgotten. The pledges given to tho world by the United States must be fulfilled. They were pledges sealed with the blood of American soldiers.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.

SMUTS AND HERTZOG PLAIN STATEMENT ON SECESSION ISSUE. Cape Town, September 13. The conclusion of the debate on the Mandate Bill was marked by a striking passage between General Smuts (Prime Minister) aud General Hertzes. Referring to the previous declaration by the Nationalists that they would abandon the agitation for the restoration of the old republics, General Smuts challenged General Hertzog to say whether the policy of the party was to work for the secession of the Union as a whole.

General Hertzog evasively replied that the matter was one for tho Party Con-1 gress to decide. General Smuts, continuing, said the question was whether the Union had the right to S3"cde. ■ General Hertzog queried "'Yes' or 'No'?" General Smuts: "My reply, absolutely and decisive)-, is 'No.'" Referring to the question of veto, he said that in ordinary law the-.e was no such thing as the veto, but it was the duty of tho King to veto anv law under which the Union J could secede from the Empire, thcreforo secession was impossible constitutionally, aud was only possible by Tevoluhon.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

TREATS' RATIFIED. (Rec. September 16, 1.5 a.m.) Cape Town, September 13. The South African Senate has ratified ;he Treaty by 30 votes to 5.-Reuter. THE DISPUTE"!™-ROMANIA

PROSPECT OF CONCILIATORY FORMULA. (Rec. September 16, 0.5 a.m.) Paris, September U. The Rumanian Minister learns from Bucharest that M. Bratiano resigned in tho belief that Rumania's interests were endangered through, the Allies' request to Rumania to relinquish her undivided possession of the Ban.it and 6hare it with the Magyars and Serbs. It is stated that M. Bratiano's successor is better enabled to submit a conciliatory formula to tho w.feguarding Rumania a interests, as he would not be pledged, like Bratiano, regarding the future of the Banat—Router.