PEACE CONFERENCE.

Taihape Daily Times, 7 May 1919, Page 5

PEACE CONFERENCE.

THE PEACE SIGNATURE. MAY BE withheld^ Received May 7, 9.5 a.m. PARIS, May 6. In tile event of being forced into economic isolation by the peace terms, Germany will refuse to sign. PEACE CONFERENCE.

IT ILIAN DELEGATES RETURN.

Received May /, 9.5 a.m. LONDON. May 5. Orlando anVi Sbnnino returned to Paris on Wednesday.

PRESS TO BE PRESENT.

AT HANDING PEACE TERMS,

Received 9.5 a.m

PARIS, May 5

Yielding to strong pressure against exclusion of tbc Press at the handing over of the Peace terms. The Council of Three decided to provide seats for twenty-five Allied journalists, five Gormans, ten small States and five Dominions,

Mr. Lloyd George strenuously insisted on the inclusion of the Dominion*, who done so much in the war.

FIUME.

THE QUESTION SETTLED ITALY SATISFIED.

LONDON, May 6. An Exchange Telegraph Agency message from Paris reports l that /thei Fiumei question has been settled to satisfaction. Flume is to he autonomous for two years and Italian thereafter. *

THE PEACE TREATY. 3 P.M. ON MAY 7th. THE FATE HOUR. PARIS, May 6. It is announced that the Germans "will receive the terms at 3 p.m. Nclock <m the afternoon of the 7th, GERMAN DELEGATES IMPATIENT BERLIN, May 5. Newspapers state that the German delegates, at a meeting on Sunday, resolved to send an ultimatum to the Entente that they will quit Paris if there is further delay in submitting' the terms.

The ultimatum was handed to Colonel Henry, demanding a reply before 5 o’clock on Monday evening.