PEACE DISCUSSION
TO MAKE THE TREATY EFFECTIVE THREE OF CHIEF ALLIES AIUST SIGN. By 1 Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received Alay 14, 5.5 p.m.) PARIS, Alay 13. A clause was’inserted in the Peace Treaty; at the eleventh hour in view of the Italian deadlock. It provides that the signatures of three of the chief Allies shall bo sufficient to make the Treaty effective. BERLIN PRESS ANGRY AND DESPONDENT. Australian and N.Z, Cable Association. (Received May 14, 8 p.m.; BERLIN, May 8. German Government circles assert that the Government will reject any Peace terms that do not coincide with President Wilson’s Fourteen Points, especially as relating to Danzig and the Saar Valley.
"Vorwaerts” says the terms are_ a proof of Imperialism being drunk with victory. The “Berliner Tageblatt” says: “The terms mean the end of Germany as a Great Power. The. Treaty has been inspired hy intoxicated brutality. The military terras are impossible, and the indemnity terms only raise a grim laugh.” The “Lokal Anzelger” declares: “The colonial terms are the height of oppression. Our worst fears are realised.”
The “Bourse Courier” sums the terms up as “intolerable.”
GERMANY UNABLE TO ACCEPT PEACE TERMS.
(Received Alay 14, 7.5 p.m.) BERLIN. May 13. . „ Scheidemann states that Germany is unable to accept the Peace terms.
SCHEIDEMANN ON CONDITIONS,
Australian and N.Z. Cable Association, COPENHAGEN, May 13.
Herr Soheidomann, addressing representatives of the foreign Press, outlined the speech which ho later delivered to tho- National Assembly. He said it would bo possible to form a Government which would sign the terms of Peace, but it was doubtful whether such a Government, would be acceptable to the Allies. The manifesto of the Independents showed their willingness to sign, but personally he thought the present Coalition was tho only pos- ; sible Government. A reactionary? Government would be impossible, while an Independent Socialist Administration would bo ns unable to fulfil .tho conditions as the existing one. “Wo will do all we can to modify and make the terms acceptable, but it is not to be thought that we can secure a Government to accept the terms in their present form.”
LONDON, Alay 12, Herr Scheidemann, addressing the National Assemlby, described the Peace Treaty ns unacceptable, and protested against the violence it would involve against tho German. people. - Tho Social Democrats opposed ‘a* deflhite ’fefusal to sign the Treaty.
“THE MISERABLE ENSLAVEMENT OF GERAIAN PEOPLE.”
Australian and N.Z
Cable Association.
(Received May 14, 11.5 p.m.) BERLIN, Alay 12. Speaking in the National Assembly, Herr Scheidemann made a violent onslaught on the Peace Treaty, describing it as a murderous proposal. “The Allies are driving a knife into the living body of the German people,” he declared. “President Wilson, hitherto pictured as a bringcr of peace, is now becoming its jailer. The proposed peace means a miserable enslavement of our children- and our children’s children.”
HOW BRITISH PRESS REGARDS
SPEECH,
(Received May 14. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, May 13. The newspapers regard :Schei|demann’s speech as an indication oi anxiety to avoid banging the door on Pe«oe.
THE LAST DAY ALLOWED FOR SIGNATURE.
LONDON, May 12. The “Echo, de Paris’’ states that it has been decided that June 15th shall be the last day allowed to the Germans for the signing of the Treaty. President Wilson, who will remain in Doris for the signing of the Treaty, expects to sail on June 13th.
INDEPENDENT SOCIALISTS. MANIFESTO ITIGES OVERTHROW
OF GOVERNMENT,
COPENHAGEN, May 13,
A’ manifesto by tho Independent Socialists charges the German Government with inspiring the Allies with distrust by heading a movement to reconstruct the army, which is mf insult to the proletariat, whom the manifesto urges to overthrow .the Government. Tho document says: “The terms are inhumanly harsh, but refusal of them will entail re-enforcements of the hunger blockade.” SHANTUNG QUESTION. CHINESE DELEGATES NOT id SIGN PEACE TREATY. PEKIN, May 7. . The Chinese Cabinet has decided to instruct the Chinese Peace delegates at Paris ; not to sign the Peace Treaty which assigns to Japan the German rights* in Shantung. JAPAN WILL RSTORE TERRITORY NEW^ YORK, May 7. Baron Goto, in a speech to the Japan Society, delivered in his capacity as a private citizen, said Japan did not intend to retain Kiao-chnu and Shantung permanently, but would* eventually restore these territories to China.
THE FIUME DIFFICULTY
AGREEMENT IMMINENT. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received May t 4, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. May 13. Negotiations in regard to Fiume have reached a stage at which it is expected that an agreement is imminent.
ITALY MAY CONSENT TO A COAIPROMISE. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received May 14, 8 p.m.) PARIS, Alay 12. It is suggested that at President Wilson’s instance Italy may consent to a compromse regarding Fiumo cn lines similar to the arrangement covering the Saar Valley seeing that France did not consider such arrangement beneath her dignity to accepty
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10280, 15 May 1919, Page 7
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