PEACE TREATY

Hokitika Guardian, 3 April 1920, Page 2

PEACE TREATY

i AUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION]' UNITED STATES AND „ RATIFICATION. • WASHINGTON, March 31. A delegation, representing a large number .of prominent Republicans and Democrats, called at White House to urge President Wilson to again submit- t the Peace Treaty to the Senate and to give his assent to'its ratification with . Lodge’s Republican reservations. TROOPS ON RHINE. WASHINGTON, April 1. President Wilson has notified Congress that there are American troops in the Rhine Valley, and they are solely subject orders, and the armistice terms govern their movements.

PEACE RESOLUTION. WASHINGTON, March 31. The Peace resolution has been reported from the Committee of Foreign Affairs and sent to the House of Representatives. A debate has been arranged for Monday. REQUEST REFUSED. PARIS, March 31. The French Government, acting independently, has refused the request of the German Government that German troops should occupy the Ruhr l’. 'in, unless some urgent necessity should.develop . PARIS, March 31 M. Millerand in a letter to the German Charge d’ Affaires, points out that the penetration of German troops into tlie Ruhr Basin would only be justifiableby imperious necessity, but-~the Control Commission is emphatically of the opinion that military intervention in this district at the present time would be both useless and dangerous.. Therefore it is impossible to grant the request of the German Qovernmept.

THE PRESIDENT’S VETO. WASHINGTON, April 1. President Wilson replying to a resolution of the House of Representatives’ asking for the status of American troops occupying Germany, said: —“No one xan direct their activities without fhe express orders of the President of the United States. Foch can give uo orders to the United States forces without the aoproval of the President. NEW YORK, April 2. According to , the New York “Times” Washington correspondent, the State Department lias announced that the United States will not be represented at the Peace Conference when it meets this month at S fl n Remo,

NO AMERICAN DELEGATE. V (Received This Day .at 3 a.m.l WASHINGTON, April 1. United States refused the Allies invitation to send a delegate to the League of Nations for the committee investigating conditions in Russia.