THE PEACE CONFERENCE.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 May 1919, Page 2

THE PEACE CONFERENCE.

rAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION']

FIUME QUESTION SETTLED. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, May 24

Tile “Daily Telegraph’s” Paris correspondent sas the Finnic question is settled. Italy’s sovereignty is recognised in principle, but greater Serbia receives the full unfettered use of the port.

GERMAN MERCHANT SHIPS. AA r A SITING TON, May 23

There is strong objection made in America against the latest British proposal to pool all the German mercantile tonnage, with a view to making a distribution a basis of actual losses suffered in the war. Britain’s losses being the greatest.

The United State sseized six hundred thousand tons of German shipping interned in American ports; when she entered the war. The United States is anxious to retain the shipping seized. This is in order to compete with Britain. The United States lost less than half the tonnage seized in American ports.

FIUME QUESTION

LONDON, May 23. ! Tlie London “Daily Telegraph” Parts ! correspondent states: “There is grow-! ing impatience at Italy’s attitude in ‘ connection with the Finnic question, j The Italian delegates, Signori Salan- ' dra, Raggi alid Barzilau all support the extreme pan-Italian Party view. They are against Signor Orlando, who it is understood, favours a compromise.