PEACE TREATY.

Taihape Daily Times, 17 September 1919, Page 5

PEACE TREATY.

I DISSATISFIED ITALIANS. j ROME. Sept. 15. I The Socialist minority in Parliaj ment has issued a statement urging Italy to annul the Treaty of VersailI les as Italy has received no advantage | from it. NEW YORK. Sept. 15. ! The Senate has begun consideration ! of the Peace Treaty. , !l ' v • WASHINGTON, Sept. 15. | , Senator Jones, in the Senate, said ■■■ I that if the reservations were adopted ■ the Treaty would fail, consequently the hope for the prevention of future j wars would fail also. The League of Nations sole authority able to restore order out of the anarchical conditions now prevailing |\ u ’ A TISSUE OF LIES. j LONDON. Sept. 17. | The Daily Telegraph’s Paris corres- ! pendent states, that Mr Bullit’s ac- | count of his conversation with him is a tissue of lies. !■ [ | BRITISH ARMY OFFICERS PAY. NEW .SCALE OF PAY. LONDON, Sept. 14. The new army pay is announced as follows: —’ Second lieutenant (married) £394 per annum, (unmarried) £'32o; lieutenant £448 and £375; captain £620 and £517; major £768 and £684; lieutenant-colonel £1242 and £1184; general £4342 and £4280, MEXICAN RAID. \ CAPTURED PERSONS TORTURED BY BANDITS. MEXICAN TROOPS EQUALLY GUILTY. Received 8.30 a.m. WASHINGTON, Sept. 16. Miss Agnes Laut, a v, 'man journalist who has been making ' vestigation of The Mexican situation, gave evidence before the Senate Committee which is inquiring into conditions in Mexico. Mis s Laut made an appeal for American women who had been carried off by bandits and tortured. One American farmer was tied to a tree and stabbed till insane. Women captives are at the mercy of the bandits. Mexican treopg are equally guilty with the bandits.