PEACE TREATY.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 October 1919, Page 3

PEACE TREATY.

) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) SHANTUNG QUESTION. NEW YORK, October 16. I The acceptance of the Shantung agreement was urged in th© Senate in the course of a speech by Senator Phelan, who said that lie hoped that giving Japan Shantung would help to rid the United States of the Japanese in- ' cubus. If the Japanese were allowed j to expand in China they would no longi er trouble the United States. Japan must be kept a member of the League of Nations in order to prevent her forcible expansion in future. Senator Phelan added that if the uncompromising attitnre of the Senate caused France and Britain to stand by Japan, the United States might jeopardise the League of Nations, and Japan and China might be united for war purposes, and thus might menace the world’s peace. The best diplomacy was to keep China and Japan apart. He asserted that the Shantung deal actually did this. Senator Johnston said that the Shantung agreement was immoral and infamous. Britain and France had violated their solemn agreement by not informing the United States in advance of their secret agreement with Japan over Shantung. In the Senate a division was taken on the Shantung question. The Senate voted:—For the Shantung amendment, 35; Against 55.

FRENCH FEIARg. OF GERMANY. PARIS, October 15.

During the discussions of the Peace Treaty in the Senate, M. Clemenceau the Premier, declared that he feared German economic domination more tjjSia.n military domination. Germany, h© said, had a. larger organisation as a means of action. The guns and forttresses that were granted to Germany in the East were, li© added, given because it was Germany’s interest to; defend herself. It was not to France’s interlest .to see a Bolshevik Germany. Franco had nothing to fear from Germany.

BULGAR TREATY. (Received This Dav at 9.15 a.m.l PARIS, October 16. Bulgarian delegates have arrived who are instructed to sign the Treaty.