THE PEACE TREATY.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 June 1919, Page 2

THE PEACE TREATY.

(By Electric Telegraph —Copyngnt.)' iAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION PARIS, Juno 7. Possibly the total German indemnity, will be fixed at eight thousand million. THE RHINE REPUBLIC. PARIS, June 12. The German President Herj\ Ebert has sent an official protest td Mineral Nugont, the French representative at the Armistice Convention at Spa, against the recent' proclamation of a Rhenish Republic. The German President declares that the French High Command have provoked “this political act.” It is considered probable that the French Government will not reply to the German 'Note. j Tbe leader of the Republican move in the Rhine Province, Dorden, declares the Rhine Republic will abide by whatever terms are signed at Versailles although they would have liked to have a voice in the settlement. The Labour agitaors at as a protest against the proclamation of an Independent Rhine Republic, called a strike. The American military leaders there, however, apprehending interference with the transport of ” food, munitions, and troops, gave the strike leaders the option of calling off the strike or of being deported. Thereupon work was resumed. GERMAN DIPLOMATIC VICTORY. PARIS, June <l3. French public opinion is now disquictened over the rumours that are current of the extent of the possible alterations in the Peace Treaty, and the report that it is possible that an early admission of Germany to the League of Nations will be allowed.

Some of the French newspapers are apprehensive that Germany will now emerge from the war with a diplomatic victory. This, they fear, will prove a victory superior to the Allied military victory.

The French Press see Germany, while beaten by the Allied armies, yet relieved by intrigue a Germany strangely similar to that which existed before the war, under the Hohenzollerns, a. Germany preparing for revenge, before she has been constrained even to admit defeat.

TURKEY’S PEACE. NEW June 12.

The “New York World’s” Paris representative says that he learns from an authoritve British source that the Council of Four will ask Turkey to send Turkish delegates to Paris to the Conference. This will he for the purpose of concluding a Peace Treaty as between Turkey and the Allies. The fact, he adds, that the Mohammedan races who are subject to British rule are opposed to the elimination of Turkish Empire, and that there is apparently a disinclination on the part of the United States to accept a mandate over Turkey, is given as the reason, for this new decision. The Turkish State will be established within the limits of Anatolia. T.he Sultan will be given full religious political sovereignity. Turkey will, however, renounce all claims to Constantinople. A Turkish delegation will come, to Paris. It will find a lodgment at Vaucresson, three-miles from Versailles. It is understood that the Turks, while they are agreeable to losing Armenia and Thrace, are opposed to the Greeks having Symrna. The Turks, it is reported, lay the responsibility for the war at the door of the “Young Turks.”

OPPOSITION URGED. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, June 14

Berlin telegrams state Prince Max is urging opposition to the Treaty, because popular sentiment against the terms is growing in foreign countries. He quotes English Liberals and Labourites as disapproving of the terms.

AMERICAN CLAIMS. LONDON, June 14. The New York “Times” Washington

correspondent .states: Tlie United States State Department has announced that the claims of American citizens against Germany arising from submarine warfare and seizure of American property in Germany amount to a total of a billion dollars.