SPA CONFERENCE

Hokitika Guardian, 15 July 1920, Page 2

SPA CONFERENCE

Reuter’s Telegrams

A DEADLOCK. SPA, July 13.

The “Daily Chronicle” Spa oorres* purulent states it is hardly possible to hope the deadlock will lie solved by an agreement.

The German delegates, he says, are listless, like a bankrupt whose cause cannot be made worse. Unless some unexpected interposition occurs, the Allies will certainly be driven to take coercive measures as repeatedly foreshadowed.

A ROW AT SPA. LONDON, July 13. A series of minor incidents between * the Belgian and German delegates at Spa culminated in a midnight affray in a cafe. The band played the British National Anthem. The Germans sang “ The Students’ Song,” which is set to the same music. Later a giant Belgian cavalryman interrupted a merry German group, thrashing a German journalist (.Stocklossa) with a riding whip. The latter is now in bed, suffering from injuries to his head. An inquiry is demanded.

ALLIED TERMS FOR SOVIET. PARIS, July 13, The newspaper, “Petit Parisien,” outlines the Allies’ terms for Russia. They include: —A Polish armistice, to include Poland’s renunciation of any aggressive policy and the reference gf all disputed questions (including Danzig and Tcschen) to the Allied Council; Poland to withdraw her troops to a fixed line passing southward of Przemysl; the Soviet armies ’be allowed to advance to within thirty miles of the Polish front; and furthermore, the Allies wholeheartedly support Poland if the Bolsheviks advance beyond this lino; the Peace Conference to be held in London; all the States on the border of Russia to be represented. The United States cannot officially concur, but America agrees to tlya Allies’ aetiop.