PEACE CONFERENCE.

Taihape Daily Times, 8 April 1919, Page 8

PEACE CONFERENCE.

THE ALLIES' DIFFERENCES.

\SD GERMAN BLUFF,

Received April 8, 9.30 a.m. NEW YORK, April 7

German leaders are convinced that, on account of labour unrest in England, and the incidents at the Paris Conferences, the Allies can be bluffed into important concessions by the threat of passive resistance. '

AGREEMENT REACHED .ON

CERTAIN POINTS

Received April 8. 10.55 a.m. LONDON, April 6

The "Daily Mail's"' Paris correspondent states agreements have been reached on the following points; The left bank of the Rhine to be the military frontier.

The, Saar Valley, coal pits, and seams to become French property in, perpetuity.

No fixed sum to be, mentioned for uparatlor. but Germany must agree to pay war damages on land and sea. This does hot include war expenditure or pensions, excepting victims of air raids and submarine icutnages. the payment to be by a special income tax on German industry and trade for thirty years. The amount (is to be based biennially on the maximum, and payable without injuring Allied trade or bleeding German industry to death. The occupation of Rhenish territory for thirtv years as a mortgage.

A small Vncflo-Ainerican force is to assist the French and Belgian armies as a mandate of the League of Nations, thus making non-payment a casus belli with Anglo-Americans equally with France and Belgium. Tl;o uiide-cilded points are the status of the. Rhenish provinces and the method of the collection of revenues of the Saar coalfields without destroying Germany's independence, and the distribution cf reparation revenues.