PEACE PROTOCOL

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 59, 3 December 1919, Page 7

PEACE PROTOCOL

GERMAN DELAY IN SIGNING STRONGLY-WORDED COMPLAINTS By Teloeraph-Pre63 Association-OonvrlEM (Hec, December 1!, II.JIO p.m.) London, November 28. The German official comment on delay in signing tho Peace protocol is strongly worded. It declares that tho Entente Alliance has no power fo retain war prisoners pending tho German .surrender ot dredgers, docks, and cranes, without which Gorman industrial, life can .hardly exist. It complains that Germany has been asked fo buy prisoners back twice over, and sho has no security that sho will not bo compelled lo do tho samo again. The German Government will not. take a further risk on such uncertain legal foundations.—Aub.N.Z. C'ablo Assn. , AMERICA AND WPEACK TREATY PARTY POLITICS THE REAL TROUBLE. New York, November 25. Tho New York "Times" correspondent at Washington-stales I hat it is believed that Senator Hitchcock (Democrat) will nrgo President Wilson to accept Senator Lodge's reservations to the Treaty with only slight changes in (lie text, iu order to effect a quick compromise between the Republicans and Democrats. In tho Senate, Senator M'Cormick said: "It 'is astonishing that some public men in England and Prance should say that ' America is repudiating her agreements because- the Treaty has not been ratified. They must know that when tho American peoplo last year elected a Republican. Congress President Wilson was repudiated. He, therefore, had no power to bind the American people at the Pcaco Conference,"—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ■ RUMANIA'S TIME LIMIT. (Rec. December 3,. 0.15 a.m.) Paris, November 28. Tho Supreme Council requires a, reply from Rumania by December 12—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. GERMANS IN BELGIUM ' REDEMPTION OF NOTE ISSUE DURING OCCUPATION. Brussels, November 29. An agreement has been concluded between tho Belgian and German Governments. under which Germany undertakes to redeem within twenty years German notes to the value of 8,000,000,000 marks issued during tho German occupation, and which tho Belgian Government had withdrawn from circulation.—Renter.

POURPARLERS WITH HUNGARY DECISION OP PARIS PEACE COUNCIL. Paris, December 1. Tho Supremo Council has decided to open peace pourparlers with Hungary.— Av.s.-N.Z. Cable Assn.