SUPREME COUNCIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 August 1921, Page 3

SUPREME COUNCIL.

SUPREME COUNCII, CONVOKED

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. LONDON, Aug. 1. The Paris correspondent of the “Times” states if is officially announced that the Supreme Allied Council ha s definitely been convoked for August Ith. Belgium representatives will attend. Intense relief was expressed on the receipt of a British Note assenting to Premier Briand’s proposal that the Allied Ambassadors in Berlin should jointly request Germany to prepare to facilitate the transport of Allied troops across Germany in the event of the 4 situation demanding such action. ~ ]t transpires that the position was , regarded so seriously on Friday that j a strong section of French deputies j favoured a Convocation Extraordinary , session of both houses, which is only held in. a national’ crisis. There were , 250, out of 300 required under the con. ■ stitution, who had then signed a petition for the convocation. The personal intervention of Premier Briand and Lord Hardingo (British Ambassador) largely accounted for the dramatic change for the letter. • The Supreme Council will firstly deal with the question of sending reinforcements to Silesia, and then the delimination of the German police in / Upper Silesia. The technical experts are at grips over the flatter problem. They have * already traced a frontier on the map according to the respective French and British views These suggestions are widely divergent, but the Italian suggcations provide for a compromise. j If the experts fail to agree on a solution, it is most likely the Supreme ' Council will begin by giving Germany and Poland what is indisputably theirs, and then establish a provisional Allied regime over the debated territory. The Council will also consider the German .sentences on the war criminals, and also the partial remission of the sanctions imposed on Germany, and also the Near East questions. ' BRITAIN’S DELEGATES. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 1. Hon Lloyd George and Lord Ceram will attend the Supreme Council on Monday. Both the Central and Prussian Governments have appealed to all inhabitants of Silesia to act with restraint in order to make an unbiased decision liy the Supreme Council possible. They urge Germans generally who wish to serve the German cause, to keep cool.