THE PLACE TREATY.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 June 1919, Page 3

THE PLACE TREATY.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copy rignL) (United Service .Telegrams).

.> GERMAN DELEGATION. PARIS, June 26. Official,— The German Delegation has been appointed and is expected on Saturday. GERMAN DELEGATE S SI ON ED. (Received this day at 8.15 a.m.) PARIS,, June 17. when the German delegates wero passing from their hotel' to the station at Versailles, a crowd stoned then automobiles. Melchior and another were slightly hurt.

TURKISH DELEGATION (Received this day at 8.15 a.m ) PARIS, June I'. The Turks met the Council of Ten and presented a note outlining their views. They declared the Sultan and Turkish people were not responsible for the war, which was due to a revolutionary party getting control. The delegation expressed the hone t a their Empire would not he dismembered or treated drastically. Turkey was now economically Ruined. They ■ al sla Minor was a desert country, and they objected to Greek occupation of Smyrna.

another german note. PARIS, June 23. Herr Bauer, the German Premier, has sent a Note to M. Clemenceau, requesting that the Peace Treaty be re-ex-amined by the League of Nations within two years. . » Herr Bauer added: Germany is ready to sign, but without recognising that the German people as being authors of the war, and without undertaking to deliver up anyone claimed to be war criminals. . “Germany,” he says, “signs only m the sehso that signature is being imposed by force. Germany declines any responsibility for the consequences of the Treaty, when as is bound to happen, the impossibility of carrying out the conditions comes to light. Germany cannot give up the Kaiser.” TOO LATE TO PARLEY. PARIS, June 26. The Council of Four has replied to Herr Bauer, stating the time for discussion has passed. The Allies cannot

accept any qualification or reservation They require the Germans to reach an unequivocal decision to sign and accept the Treaty as a whole or to reject it. J GERMANY YIELDS. j PARIS, Juno _2fi.

Germany’s final note on the Peace Treaty said: “Germany yields to overwhelming force, bu't the terms involve unheard of injustice. WARNING FROM ALLIES. PARIS, June 26. M. Cleniencenu the French Premier, has notified the Germans tilrat they will be held responsible by the Allies for any unofficial support given the movement against Polish authority, which has originated in Posen and Last Prus- * *sia.