ALLIES' DECISION

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10293, 30 May 1919, Page 5

ALLIES' DECISION

IF TREATY NOT SIGNED

WILL ADVANCE ON GERMANY

By Teletrrapk-Press Association-CopyrisV Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. PARIS, May 28.

Immediately Germany refuses to sign the' Treaty the Allied Armies, after 72 hours' notice, will advance on Germany. Arrangements for blockading the coast are complete.

An extension of time was granted Germany in which to sign the 1 eace Treaty. The time expired yesterday. HUNS' COUNTER PROPOSALS.

PROTEST AGAINST DISAIIMA-

MENT.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.. PARIS, May 2is. The Germans' counter-proposals demand a Peace based on tho lourtcou Points, an. indemnity, and the raising of the British blockade. They point out that Germany is now a nfrnctij democratic country, COPENHAGEN, May 17 (delayed;. Forty thousand demonstrators m .Berlin protested against the disarmament of Germany, and expressed confidence in the Government to only accept a Peace based on right. Genoral Hoffman (who was a member of the German delegation to Brest Litovsk). addressing the Bavarian Assembly at Bamberg, violently protested against the terms, and rejected the idea, of seeking a separate Peace for Bavaria.

(Received May 29, 9.40 p.m.) COPENHAGEN, May 27. The German newspapers coutain the text of the counter-proposals. These declare that Germany is willing; to reduce armaments more than is demanded. Germany proposes the setting up of a snecial Commission of all belligerents to settle territorial and colonial, questions and deal with the League of Nations. Germany definitely declines to surrender Upper Silesia or any part of Prussia. She demands that Danzig be made a free port and the Vistula neutralised. Germany offers to assume' the amotion of the German colonies under tho League of 'Nations. She refuses to. accept the punishment terms. She is ready to giro an indemnity of one hundred milliard of marks in gold and a further tiventv milliards before 1926. .PARIS. May 28. The Allies will decline discussion beyond methods of application. THE LEAGIJEO^NATIONS. WASHINGTON, May 26. King Albert of Belgium is expected to -»isit the opening:; of' of Nations.