THE PEACE TREATY.

Taihape Daily Times, 15 May 1919, Page 5

THE PEACE TREATY.

I.LOYD GEORGE'S TRIUMPH. NIVERSAL CONGRATULATIONS. Received May 15, 9.5 a.m. j ., LONDON, May 8. Mr Lloyd George has received shoals E telegrams congratulating him on the eaee terms from all parts of the Emire. The Pall Mall. Gazette states Lloyd George awaits the German decision -ith utmost confidence. He regards he terms with deep personal satisfactory particularly the inclusion of the trial, indemnities clauses, eduction of German Army to a small olunteer force, for which he had to gilt against stubborn insidious atacks, JQNSIDERING AUSTRIAN PEACE TREATY. Received May 15, 8.45 a.m. PARIS, May 14. The Council of Four debated the Ausrian Peaco Treaty. AUSTRIAN DELEGATION DIFFICULTIES. Received May 15, 8.55 a.m. - VIENNA, May 13. difficulties are arising regarding representation at Versailles. The Socialists demand the leader of the delega;ion shall not be an advocate of union with Austro-Germany. GERMANY'S LOST COLONIES.

Received May 15, 8.55 a.m. J.ONDON, May 13. Rantzau presented a fifth, note to M. Clemeneeau, protesting against the decisions regarding the German colonies. SCHEIDEMANN'S SPEECH. LONDON, May 13. Newspapers regard Schiedemann 's speech as an indication of anxiety to avoid banging the door on Peace. A VIOLENT SPEECH. b'EtiLIN, May. 12. SpeaTdng at the National Assembly, Schiedemann made a violent onslaught on the Peace Treaty, describing it as a murderous proposal. "Th e Allies are driving a knife into the living body of the German people." he declared. "President Wilson, hitherto pictured as the bringer of peace., is now becoming a gaoler. He proposed a peace which means the miserable enslavement of our children and our children's children.'' .. <£; THREE TO SIGN. PARIS, May 13. >UA clause inserted in the Peace Treaty at the eleventh hour, in view of the Italian deadlock, provides that the signatories of th e three chief Allies shall be sufficient to make the Treaty effective.

GERMAN PRESS VIEWS. ' BERLIN, May 10. Vorwaerts says: The terms are proof of Imperialism drunk with victory." The Berliner Tageblatt says: The terms mean the end of Germany as a Great Power. The Treaty has been inspired by intoxicated brutality. The military terms are impossible, and the idemnity terms only raise a grim laugh. The Lokal Anzcigcr declares: The colonial terms are the heights of oppression. Our worst fears are realised. The Bourse Courier sums the terms up as "intolerance." THE ITUME PROBLEM. * A POSSIBLE COMPROMISE. PARIS," May 12. It is suggested that at President WilbcsSST instance, Italy may consent to a compromise regarding Fiilme on lines similar to the arrangement covering the Saar Valley, seeing that France did not consider such arrangement beneath her dignity to accept.

THE ARMY OP OCCUPATION. NO AUSTRALIANS INCLUDED. SYDNEY, May 14. The Araiy Council has advised that no Australians are retained in the army of occupation in Germany. SOCIALISTS' {MAF^IFESTq. Received May 15, 10.10 a.m. PARIS, May 13. The committee of the International Socialist Conference has issued a manifesto which welcomes th e League of Nations. It regrets it is a league of Governments and officials, instead of peoples. Germany and Russia ought to he admitted to the original membership. The manifesto criticised tfoj corridor dividing Prussia, and deploy the Saar "Valley episode, which savoM I orjpexation and capitalists' exploit-| latiofa. It denounces the colonial clauses '

of the Shantung settlement, which is an open recognition of the right of conquest. DENMARK'S JOY AT THE PEACE TREATY. Received May 15, 9.20 a.m. COPENHAGEN, May S. The newspapers are enthusiastic, declaring without the Entente victory, Denmark would never again have received Northern Sehleswig. The Olitiken says: The Treaty is so paralysing that the Germans see before them a closed horizon. The National Tidcnde states, it is in the interests of the Allies that the present German Government be able to wether the storm, which will undoubtedly arise. Therefore, the delegates will pi'obably secure concessions.

NEWSPAPER COMMENTS. Received May 15, 11.55 r.m. NEW YORK, May 8. Newspaper comments on the peace terms states it is the irony of fate by which the terms were handed to Germany on the anniversary of the Lusitania sinking. Newspapers express satisfaction at the clauses providing for the trial of the Kaiser and Germany's war leaders. ■ The New York Leader says the world is made safe against the German peril by the terms of peace—that is allimportant. The New York World says the terms arc the most drastic imposed on any great nation, yet the terms are moderate compared with the terms Germany would have imposed on France, if she had been the victor.

THE INDEMNITY QUESTION. PRESS COMMENT. Received 9.35 a.m. LONDON, MSy 8. The Daily G-raphie states that the 5,000,000,000 tndenmity provisoually is utterly inadequate. The total indemnity should be definitely fixed. The Manchester Guardian complains the indemnity clauses are . indefinite. The treaty contemplates payments extending over thirty years, with Allied occupation of German territory. Fifteen years of such a peiiod -would exhaust British patience. It would be betier to fix a sum Germany can reasonably hope to pay within & shorter period. o MARINE WAR LOSSES.

BRITAIN'S POSITION. Received noon. LONDON, May 13. Admiral Reginald Hall states the nsval terms satisfactory, but any arrangement not allocating German ships to the Allie s according ro tonnage of lo: £6s is unjust. Arthur Fell states as eight thousand British chips w?.;c suilr we ought to be given the ships seized in American ports to make up our losses.