GERMANY REFUSES TO SIGN PEACE

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10287, 23 May 1919, Page 5

GERMANY REFUSES TO SIGN PEACE

ALLEGES POLITICAL DISHONOUR By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and IS'.Z. Cable. Association. BERLIN. May 31. The Cabinet announces that Germany will refuse to sign the Peace Treaty, on the ground that the terms will involve economic destruction, political dishonour, and moral degradation. THE GERMAN, REPLY. TIME EXTENDED FOR A WEEK. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. PARIS, May 21. Count Rantzau has returned) to Versailles. He was accompanied from Spa. by Herr Wassermann, Director of the Reichstag. The full Financial Delegation will proceed this morning. Guisbert and Landsberg aro remaining at Versailles, so the delegation will be complete. A German official wireless from Berlin states that the Government and the National Assembly are in complete accord with the plenipotentiaries, who by determined and hard work will be able to reply within the time limit. This leads to the expectation that delivery of the reply will be made on Wednesday. It will be a considerable document, and will demand perhaps eight or fifteen days’ inspection by the Allies. PARIS, May 31. Ah extension of a week has been granted the Germans to reply to the Peace terms. PERSHING’S VISIT TO LONDON. POSTPONED BYi. GERMANY’S ATTITUDE. (Roeived May 22, 9.30 p.m.l LONDON, May 20. General Pershing’s projected visit to London on Thursday has been postponed, owing to uncertainty regarding Germany’s attitude, which necessitates the postponement of tho American troops’ march through London. IRISH-AMERICAN DELEGATION. REFUSED AN AUDIENCE BY LLOYD GEORGE. PARIS, May 21. Mr Lansing has passed.on to President Wilson the Irish-Americans* application for assistance in obtaining passports to Paris. The Sinn Fein delegates are not likely to obtain any attention in consequence of their speeches and actions while .in Ireland. Mr Lloyd George now refuses to see tho Irish-Americans, Messrs Walsh, Rvnn, and Dunne, whom, on President Wilson’s suggestion, he promised to receive.