THE PEACE TREATY.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1919, Page 3

THE PEACE TREATY.

(By Electric Telegraph—Cop., ight.)

NEGRO QUESTION

WASHINGTON, August 28

A delegation of negroes, speaking on behalf of their Equal Rights League, told a Senate Committee that grave racial troubles were to be expected in the United States unless the negroes were treated better than now. Their

League proposed an amendment of the Versailles Peace Treaty, providing for equal consideration of all races, without distinction as to colour.

WARNING TO TURKEY. LONDON, Aug. >2B,

American has warned Turkey to step massacres of Armenians. Admiral Bristoe issued the warning with the sanction of the State Deparnient. According to despatchs from Athens President Wilson has sent the Turkish Government, a telegram, summoning Turkey to end the Armenian massacres, and threatening otherwise to cancel Point Two and Fourteen of the Peace Terms guaranteeing the maintenance of Ottoman sovereignty in purely Turkish regions.

REPORTED RUPTURE. LONDON, August 28,

American reports state that a rupture has occurred between President Wilson and Colonel House over the Peace Treaty. The report is authoritatively described, m London as a mare’s nest.

Colonel House is on a holiday in England.

AUSTRIAN TREATY. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, August 29

Colonel House, in an interview, said he was perfectly willing to sign the Austrian Treaty, hut could not as request, promise so far ahead, whether he would be able to be in Paris, when the Treaty was. ready for signature.

THE REPORTED RIFT. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, August 29

Colonel Mouse declined to state whether there was a difference of opinion with Mr Wilson regarding Shantung, and refused to discuss the suggestion that he had ceased to be Mr "Wilson's agent.