WE PEACE TREATY.

Taihape Daily Times, 10 June 1919, Page 5

WE PEACE TREATY.

A §PLEA- FOR MAGNANIMITY. INFLUENTIAL MEMORIAL _TO MR . ' . LONDON, June 5. Messrs Beauchamp, Dr. Cliiford, Dr. Meyer, Mr Sydney Webb, C.P. Scott (of the Manchester Guardian), and a dozen others have memoralised Mr Lloyd George and President Wilson in favour of an impartial and sympathetic consideration of the German appeals for a modification of the Treaty, with a. desire to meet them Wherever possible. They add that a peace Willingly signed «slll be of infinitely greater value than one forced by threats of famine, and a far better fou.nda7;ion for the new World order to which we are looking forward. ’ ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE‘. SIGNING. THE STAGE SJETTWNG. ~ PARIS, June 5. Owing to M. Orpen’s representation, numerous alterations have been made in the arrangement for signing peace in the Hall of Mirrors. It was first pro,posed that the terms should be hand‘ed round for signature. It was then suggested that the signing should be at a. small table facing the windows, so that the rest of the gathering would see only the delegates’ backs. "Upon M. 01-pen’s suggestion, the Tre.L-:'_7 will be signed at a table behind that at which the plenipotentiaries sit. Representatives of the various nations will walk up to the platform, turn round facing the light, with their backs to the mirrors, and then sign ‘the document.

EUROPEAN S.OC'IA_'LIST.S’. .. ‘ ATTITUDE. ' LONDON, June 9. An Italian Socialist Circular gays: M. Longuet and Mr Ramsay MacDonald, onbehalf of the Franco-B'ritish Socialists, accepted a proposal for a 24 hours‘ strike in France, England, and Italy; in sympathy with the Soviet Governments, as a protest against the Versailles Peace terms. According to German newspapers, the International Workers’ Leagues are organising a European strike of three days, in co-operation with the Germans’ demands for a just peace. GERMAN COUNTER PROPOSALS . THE ALLIED REPLY. TIME FIXED FOR SIGNING_ Received 10.50 a.m. ‘ A PARIS, June 9. The Allies intend to deliver their reply to German counter-proposals on the 13th June, and allow five days in which the Germans can sign fiche Treaty. ' AUSTRIAN PEACE DELAYED 4‘ 1 BY ITALIAN DEMANDS, Received 11.20 am. 4 PARIS, June The Austrian Peace is delayed owing to Italian insi.=+.-nice on the right is deport undesirab'es ‘rom the Austrian Tyrol. _ ' ’ THE COUNCIL O'F FOUR.‘ 3 DISCUSS AUSTRIAN PEACE i TERMS_ Received 10.50 a.m, l l PARIS,, une 9. , Council of Fourthave discussed the Lpolitical clauses ‘dot the Au.~;tr_-ian {Peace Terms.