UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 December 1918, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

WILSON'S FOURTEEN POINTS. ATTACKED BY SENATOR LODGE. £iM OOMESimOK DEPBECATED LEAfflja OF- NATIONS PREMATURE. wBARANTEES, NOT TREATIES, NEEDED. leeefod.Dec. 23, lUSp.m. Washington, Dec. 21 Senator Lodge, bitterly attacking Presi9ent Wilson's fourteen points in a speech in the Senate, said that these were certain to, lend to divisions amongst the AlKee. Though the Government had taken control of the cables he hoped the fact] that the United States Congress has some power tat ratifying treaties will penetrate fta far as the Peace Conference at Paris, It was a singular development on the part of United States to begin comSition in naval armament with Britain, ere was no further dinger to the United States on the Atlantic, but a powerful fleet was needed on the Pacinc. Signatures to peaec documents were worth little. Germany was ready to sign anything, and to break it when it suited her. Such guarantees ought to be established as will satisfy the nationalities of TJurope that Germany will never agata b* ante to use the Sedavio populate** to her purposes. Indemnities must also be demanded {rout Germany, in which the United States mutt share. Her colonies ought not to be retained-to Germany under anv cJrcumstfißoes. The attempt to form a league of nations at this juncture was only to emharass the peace settlement. Was the United States, he asked, prepared to allow any association of nations, by a majority of votes, to order the American troopships to go to wart If the freedom of the seas meant the abandonment of belligerent right of blockade, the United States should think twice before agreeing to relinquish such a vital weapon. regarding Russia, that which calls itself a government there was no more fit to be dealt With than a band of anthropoid apes. The United States troops there were wholly inadequate for their pur-gfl*»r-dtti.,and N.Z. Cable Assoc.

'4.TMB.Y DENIAL t&Cti&BD A 6 TO- SINKING WARSHS?. PEACDWaONFEEENCE DELAYED. Stated Dee. 23, 1155 pan. New York, Dee. 2L Paris cables deny the report that the United States delegation advocated the ainkiag of the surrendered German fleet A forrapondent describes Venicelos at a coming dominant figure at the Fmm Oonfartnce. Marcel Hutin says that the preliminary Peace Conference has been postponed till the beginning of February at tae.earliest, owing to President Wilson's vm to England and Mr. Lloyd George's Cabinet reconstruction.—Renter Service.

FRENCH SHIPPING SECURED -MB. RETURN OP TROOPS. Washington. Dee. 20. jimagemeatt are being made in Paris to release a million tons of shipping for vm in tiie American export trade in ante to aid American industries to return to their pre-war footing. The United States is believed to have obtained a million tons of shipping because Canada and Australasia do not Med them, as their troops are not returning early. America desires her troops to be returned within twelve mrr*V *nr H£ Cable Assoc LEAGJJE OF NATIONS.

Washington, Dee. 20. Senator Lodge, addressing the Senat;, strongly 'demanded the postponement of the league of nations questions until after the Peace Conference. It was impossible to properly discuss the question, until peace was properly established.— An. HZ. Cable Assoc.