THE PEACE TREATY

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 16, 14 October 1919, Page 5

THE PEACE TREATY

RATIFIED BY FRANCE A MEMORABLE SPEECH Br ToJcsraDh—Pre?a A?sooie.tion—Copyright t'Rec. October 13, 5.5 p.m.) Paris, October 13. The French Senate unanimously ratified the Treaty. M. Cleinenceau (Prime Minister) made a. memorable speech which was evidently inspired by his coming retirement. Ilp said that in turn the nobility and the bonrseoKo had formed the ruling c'.ask in Prance. • As these thought everything was permitted to them, eo tho masses believed to-day that tiley could overthrow society because they iiosscssed the, means to do bo, but no class could arrest the economic life of the country without gravely damaging itself. All Frenchmen must be ready to sacrifice liait of their private sentiments. He concludc-d: "To be really effective the Treaty requires a clause reading, 'Pr.me undertakes to have many children.' Without that condition all restrictions of Germany's armaments were vain." M. Clemeneeau received im ovation.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. CLEMENCEAU FEARS GERMAN ECONOMIC DOMINATION. (Rec. October 13, 7.15 p.m.) Paris, October 12. During a discussion of the Peace Treaty in the .French Senate, M. Clemenceau declared that lie feared German economic domination moro than military domination. Germany had a larger organisation as a. means of action. The guns and fortresses granted to Germany in the East were given because it was to Germany's interest to defend herself. It was not to Prance's interest to sen a Bolshevik Germany. Prance had nothing to fear fro'm Germany.—Reutei. FRENCH WAR CENSORSHIP RAISED Paris, October 12. In view of the Senate's ratification of tho Treaty, the censorship lias been abolished. and tho "state of siege" will lie raised to-morrow.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. . THE LABOUR - CONVENTION HELD UP BY AMERICA'S TARDY RATIFICATION. (Rec. October 13, 7.15 p.m.) Washington, October IS. Through the United States Secretary of Labour President Wilson announced that the proposed international Labom I conference would merely'convene and receive tiic credentials of the delegates on October 29, unless tho Treaty were ratified giving the requisite powers by that date. Senator Hitchcock, . in a statement, said that slowness of (lie progress of the Treaty in the Senate made it improbable that final action would be taken More November 15.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. COLONEL HOUSE RETURNS. (Rec. October 13, 7.55 p.m.) New York, October 13. Colonel House, of the United States Peace Delegation, has arrived.—Aus.-/ N.Z. Cablo Assn / STATE OF WAR ENDED. - (Reo. October 13, 9.35 p.m.) Paris, October 12. It is expected' that a decree promulgating the ratification of the Peace Treaty will be gazetted on October IS, thus completing the ratification by three great Powers, and officially ending tha state of war—Reutei. RATIFICATION FORMALITIES IN JAPAN.' Tokio, October 12. . Tho Privy Council has approved the Peace Treaty, and it is now to be submitted' to tho Emperor.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.