PEACE TREATY.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 January 1920, Page 2

PEACE TREATY.

(By Electric Telegraph —Co i.vighL* (Australian <fc N.Z. Cable Association) NEW ALLIED CONFERENCE, IMPORTANT QUESTIONS. LONDON, January 8. There is to be a fresh Allied Peace .Conference at Paris. L’he Premier, Mr Lloyd George, accompanied by no fewer than fifty, officials has departed for Paris to attend this inter-Allied Conference, which will really amount to a seond Peace Conference. It is to deal with most momentous questions.

The questions for decision include those of the trial of the ex-Kaiser and and accomplices. R is staled that the British Government' will adhere to the past declarations of Mr Lloyd Gorge that the ex-Kaiser and other guilty persons must be tried. While the AJlies are getting ready to decide as to the trials of Germans, the people of Germany are meanwhile strongly agitating against the surrendering of any war criminals. Berlin is developing a Society called the “Save Your Honour League..l’ The Berlin Government is being now urged to defy the Allies and to tell them to “Come and fetch the guilty parties!” If the Allies do come, as the London •papers say, some surprises are promised.

At the second Peace Conference the future of Constantinople is another of the big questions. It is now hinted that the British Cabinet may adopt the French view. This is to leave the Turks at Constantinople, hut it wijl mean establishing some machinery for guarding the Straits. France and England are now reported to be in accord about the Allies occupying certain parts of the Turkish Empire, and tile internationalisation of the Dardanelles, and also the institution of a new Armenian regime; but the future status of Constantinople is still unsettled. It is now unlikely that the Turkish question will he discussed at next week’s “Second Peace Conference.” The French desire to hold the matter over until the new French Cabinet is formed.

BULGARIAN CABINET. SOFIA, January 8. The; Bulgarian political crisis has developed against Government. The Socialists are evidently controlling the situation. The Socialists are now engaged in an effort to form a Cabinet. The loader of the Socialist Ministry will Ik; M. Da lie ft.