PEACE TERMS.

Otaki Mail, 5 March 1919, Page 4

PEACE TERMS.

WHAT GERMANY MUST SIGN. NO FUTURE USE OF SUBMARINES. MAIN FLEET TO BE DESTROYED. . New York, March 2. The “New York Times’’ correspondent at Paris says that the terms of the Peace Treaty, which soon will be presented for signature by Germany, will provide for the following:— Destruction of all German submarines. Forbiddancc of future use of submarines in war. Destruction of the German main fleet. • Reduction of the German Army to. 200,000 'men. \ Retention of German cables by the Allies. Destruction of the fortifications at -Heligoland and the Kiel Canal.

’! LEAGUE OP NATIONS. 0 A PINE ACHIEVEMENT. \ I .GEEMANY MUST-BE MADE 1 *- r . - HAEMLESS. jj London, March 2. | The “Observer’s” correspondent at I® Paris contrasts the Conference’s really fine achievement in securing assent to the draft convention .of- the League of Nations with the academic debates 5I ami indecision in all other directions. He admits that a great effort is being made to atone for the absence of - a general European policy, and to present us with the first sketch of the new world before Easter, but contends that nothing substantial will be attained so long as we are kept in the dark concerning the future of Germany and. Enssia. Germany is certain to endorse any conditions we will now try to. enforce on her, but within a decadofshe will be able to tear up the treaty unless we not only make her harmless but see 1 that such treaty is compatible with her | necessities and her future development. | It is far more important to us that GerI many should be a federative State | from which Pruesianism will be ex- | eluded than that her 'borders should a run slightly more east or west.