PEACE QUESTION.

Otaki Mail, 28 February 1919, Page 3

PEACE QUESTION.

INTERNATIONAL NAVAL LAWS, REVOLUTIONARY CHANGES PROPOSED. Paris, February 25. It is understood on the highos authority that the Pence delegate! favour certain changes in tho laws of tlie sea. making it clear what constitute* contraband, contravention of neutrality, and tho rights of neutrals to sell munitions to belligerents. These changes contemplate making war virtually impossible and the freedom of the seas real. THE LEAGUE AND AMERICAN OPINION. New York, February 25. Tho "New York Pun's" Paris correspondent says that European statesmen arc eagerly watching developments following upon President AVilson's arrival in America. An expression of American opinion is anxiously sought. The Senate's disapproval ofthe League of Nations would bo considered a sign that President Wilson v.-ent too far with the League of Nations plan. MEASURES OP CONTROL AND GUARANTEE, V London, February 25. The Press Bureau reports: —A communique from Paris slates that a meeting of representatives of the greatPowers, at which Marshal Foek was present, referred the Albanian claims to tho Greek Affairs Committee. It.also considered the information and proposals from the inter-Allied Commission at Warsaw. The Repatriation Commission Ims decided to hasten tho work of- the subcommittee entrusted with the valuation of the damage and the moans of payment. Mr W. M. Hughes was chosen president of the third subcommittee appointed to study measures of control and guarantees. FINAL MILITARY TERMS. TO BE IMPOSED ON GERMANY. i London, February 25. | The "Daily Express" states that the i final military terms to be imposed on i Germany include the fixing of the . army maximum at 000,000, of which there shall be no more than u per cent of officers. The army must be purely defensive. Importation of war material is forbidden, and the manufacture of poison gas prohibited. INTERNATIONAL LABOUR LEGISLATION. London, February 25. A communique from Paris slates that the Commission on International Labour Legislation has considered the ; articles of the'British draft concerning | economic penalties in tho event of a , Slate failing to carry out its' obliga- j turns under an International Labour . Convention.

THE SENATE'S OPPOSITION. New York, Pcbruary 25. Tic newspapers, in commenting on President Wilson's speech at Boston, point out Unit lie is prepared to light against the opponents of the League of Nations in the Senate. They declare that the President has the majority of the people in the United States supporting him.' One Republican paper says that Americans should be nationalists, not internationalists, as President Wilson would have them. Washington, February 25. A Bill has been introduced in the Lower House providing for a popular referendum to vote on the adoption or rejection of the constitution of the League of Nations. The Bill lias been referred to the Foreign Affairs Committee.