PEACE MATTERS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 138, 6 March 1920, Page 7

PEACE MATTERS

WORK OF SUPREME COUNCIL

SETTLING TERMS OF TURKISH TREATY (By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright London, March 3. ,The.:Supreme : Council considered .the futuro. of Bessarabia, after which attention "was given to the Hungarian observations'on tlio'l'eace Treaty. Afterwards tho Council examined the draft resolutions-. RxanKnjf • high prices and ex* changes. . .The ...conference proper then .ended.: j>nt the . conference .of Foreign Ministers-will icontinue to sit at the Foreign .Offico to ,settle, finally 'the terms of the Turkish Treaty, which it is hoped to present in a completed form to the Turks at Paris on March 22.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Keuteiv . .

RECALCITRANT TURKS M .TORCE BRIX(.iS.;'COM■V ■ t.'PLIANCE, WITH ORDERS.,.'"... i -London, March- -1-.,-•"'The Turks'recently threatened to. prevent the Allies.moving-troops from Jsmid, fifty-five miles cast of Constantinople.,' bu-t .immediately gave ; wa.v on the arrival of the British cruisers and trpopsr;-'and-Qir-a ; warning being - giventhat force would be used unless the Al-lied-..orders .-.were-- immediately complied iv-itli. • -The French troops have leoeen--pied Maraslr.-.. The 'Nationalists in Cili:cia 'are -endeavouring- to stir up armed .-risings- against the French.—Aus,-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Renter. .

;.;TH E .SHANTUNG^QIJ ESTION JA'PAN HAS'NO'AGGRESSIVE INTENv.' ,". ....;tioxs. ; . -v: New York, Marclut llr. Shidehara, Hie new Japanese.'Ambassador to the United States, in a speech to the Japan Society, said':—"The. Shantung question can never be a source of difficulties.between the United' States and Japan. AVe have enough commonsense and clear vision to perceive the sheer madness of any attempt at..aggression or economic ' monopolisation ili China."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

UNITED STATES SENATE'S RESER- ' VATIONS. (Eec. March !i, 9.40 p.m.) l Washington, March L ■ Senator Lodge's motion altering the Slmntumr. reservation and omitting .direct references' to 'Japan and China was carried t>v 69 Vtftes to 32. Senator Lodge pointed out that the effect ot ! the reservation. ra(s. ; noLchanged. • , ' ■ • Senator Hitchcock's substitute for the ■Rhantiiri? v reservation was rejected "by 27 votes to 41. Later a modification was adopted by mutual agreement;' reached at a bi-pSi'tA' ' conference.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. . THE ADRIATIC PROBLEM PRESIDENT .WILSON'S ' KJ3PLY DISPATCHED. (Rpci 'March 6, 0:25 a.ni:).. Washington, March i l . President Wilson's reply to the AngloFrench Note regarding, the-.Adriatic was dispatched to-night.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.. .... . ~