DELAY IN TREATY

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10272, 6 May 1919, Page 5

DELAY IN TREATY

SUE TO ITALY'S ABSENCE

DELEGATION TO BE ASKED TO ATTEND CONFERENCE.

Bv Telegianh—Press Association Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received May 5, 7.30 p.m.) PARIS, May 4.

The delay in handing over the treaty is officially ascribed to a desire that Italy should be present. A telegram will be sent to Rome asking the delegation to resume its place at the Peace Conference. M. Clcmenceau to-day read the mam clauses of the treaty to bis Ministers and Secretaries of State, and asked their approval and advice.

LIMITATION OF GERMAN DISCUSSION.

ONLY WRITTEN OBJECTIONS TO BE PRESENTED.

PARIS, May 1

T'na “New York Times” Pans correspondent says the Council ot Three has decided that the negotiations with the German delegates .will not be oral. Tho terms will be presented to the Germans, who will bo given fifteen days in which to submit written objections. It is expected that the Allies «ill take live days to consider tho objections, and tho Peace terms will then ho presented to the Germans, who will bo required to sign them immediate!}.

HUNS TO HAVE NO VOICE iN OTHER AGREEMENTS.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received May 5, 11.40 p.m.) *■ PARIS, May A. It is understood that a. clausa msorted In the Treaty prohibits Germany from having any voice in the agree ments the Allies make with AustriaHungary, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Russia. _ It is alleged that the Germans at Versailles questioned the absence ot Italian credentials from those tubmitted by the Allies, and also the fact that all the Entente Powers had not yet recognised the new Jugo-iSlav kingdom. , GERMAN NATION AC ASSEMBLY. TO MEET IN BERLIN. AMSTERDAM, April 30. The German National Assembly will meet on May 11th, at Berlin, where it will remain, instead of at Weimar, during the Peace discussions, with a view to keeping in the closest contact with the delegates >av Versailles.' ENEMY LEAGUE SCHEME. TO BE PrJ|6ENTED AT VERSAILLES. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. AMSTERDAM, May 4. The German Government will shortly publish its own League of Nations scheme, which the delegates have been instructed; to ; Versailles- an a substitute for the Paris Conference proposal. The “Frankfurter Zeitung” announces that the delegates have been instructed that Germany cannot sign tho Peace preliminaries unless they provide for the immediate return of Gorman prisoners. WHAT~GERMANY~LOSES. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. PARIS, April 30.’' ' Germany, under the Peace terms, will lose TO per cent, of her iron ore, one-third of her coal, 20 per cent, of her potash, between seven and eight million inhabitants, and all her colonies and all her ships. SOCIALISTS’ DEMANDS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. AMSTERDAM, April 30. The Socialist Conference disapproved of tho annexation of tho (German colonies, and has urged that Ireland should be granted her independence. SINN FEIN DELEGATION. Australian ana N.Z. Canla Association. (Received May 6, 1.10 a.m.) London, May 5. The Irish-American delegation has arrived in uu’olin. It reports that Mr Lloyd George has agreed to facilitate tho journey of a Sinn 1 Fein delegation to Paris. FRESH PROPOSALS.

(Received May 6, 1.10 a.m.) LONDON, May 5

Mr Hymans, Belgian Minister for Foreign Affairs, has gone from Paris to Brussels, bearing fresh proposals.

AGITATION AGAINST SIGNING PEACE TREATY.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received May 6. 1.30 n.m.) BRUSSEL'S, May 5. Owing to the Peace-Conference’s re. fusal to accept responsibility for 350 millions sterling, German paper money is circulating in Belgium. A great agitation is being raised against the signing of , the Peace Treaty.