SETTLING PEACE.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 February 1920, Page 3

SETTLING PEACE.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.; I THE REPLY COURTEOUS. (Received this day at 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, February 18. (j It is understood the Allies’ reply to Mr Wilson, expresses the hope that the Allies will soon see America represented at the Conference, but the reply points out it is not possible for the Allies during the Americans abstention to delav settling vital questions which are actively affecting the nationalities of Europe. ITALIAN SARCASM. ■ (Received this day at 9.20 a.m.) ROME 1 , February 17. M-r Wilson’s Adriatic pronounfcelhent has caused a sensafon in Italy. The ‘Courrier Della Sera” states it' is intolerable that this American phenomenon should become the decisive authority regarding the destinies of the human race, that the Sick Man of America should prescribe for the sick nations of the world; also it was England’s and France’s business whether they would tolerate this offence to their prestige. Other Italian newspapers generally comment along these lines.

FEANCO-iBRITISH CONSENT. (Received This Dav at 12.25 p.m.) „ PARIS, Feb. 16. The London correspondent of the “Echo de Paris” states, M. Millerand and Mr Lloyd George in reply to Mr Wilson .declared they would abide by the solution of the Adriatic problem which they had notified to the Jugoslavs in January. Mr Lloyd George, acting as President of the Peace Conference, wrote M. Trumbitch, the Jugo-Slav Foreign Minister, emphasising the point that unless Jugo-Slavia accepted the compromise, the Treaty of London would be carried f out.