THE PEACE CONFERENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 January 1919, Page 5

THE PEACE CONFERENCE.

ALLIED INTERVENTION.

IN RUSSIA, AUSTRIA, AND GERMANS". ' DANGEROUS SITUATION" IS AUSTRIA. Beceived Jan. 9, 9.5 p.m. London, Jais. S. Tlx 6 third problem is the intervention of Allied troops in Kussia, Austria-, and Gci many to pievest the spread of Bolshevism. It ia understood that Resident Wilson is energetically opposing further intervention in Russia, yet representative Russians plead to the Allies to send sufficient troops to prevent horrorsThe situation in Austria is exceedingly dangerous, the people being on the ?erge of starvation, and the Provisional Government unable to cope with the difficulties of the position. Already various nationalities are gathering together in order to fly a£ each other's throats, and bands of desperadoes are profiting by the general insecurity to perpetrate artocities

British and American troops are required to act a g police to keep older. If aid is denied, an army corps may finally be -equired to do the work that companies could do now.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc.

OPTIMISTIC OUTLOOK. FORECAST BY WELL-KNOWN CORRESPONDENT. London, Jan. 7. ; Mr. Or. H. Perris, writing from Paris, says things art: going well with the ieace Conference. An extraordinarily w«nn reception was given p re . s " l , cn * Wilso ''- by the public, and the quiet, kindly, but definite resolution of the British Government, 11 five overcome the danger that will revert, to the old-fashioned militarism. European statesmen have come up against the American train workmg on a direct disease of world politics. The results ■will be revolutionajj-, but the happy change -would have been impossible without the energetic sympathy of the British Government. The chiefs TirJt-h Foreign Office came to Paris will, definite plans ct a far-reaching character which they have been elaborating for a year. Mr. Lloy a-George i„ not afraid to challenge old-fashioned militarists' methods. It is practically certain the Allies and Amenca are determined to establish a world trusteeship for smaller nationalities. The Allies will also establish a world executive to solve future international (Liferents without war. Under the scheme parts of Turkey or the German colonies may be transferred to a certain Power as mandatory under superVision of an international board. The Peace Conference will base it,self upon the declared intention to found a League of Nations to carry on the work begun by the conference. The British idea is that the league should le a business-like body, clastic in constitution, and using such precedents as the Imperial Cabinet and the Versailles Committee. The league must have the means of enforcing its decisions and courts of law to deal with disputes. Such is the broad outline of the chief schemes thus far suggested.—Aus. N.Z Cable Assoc.

RUSSIAN REPRESENTATIVES. I CENTRAL COMMITTEE FORMED. TO ARRIVE AT COMMON PROGRAMME. Received Jan. 9, 8.30 p.m. London, Jan. 8. A central committee, composed of leading Russians, has been formed to watch Russian interests at the Peace Conference. Prince Lvoil is tho president, and lie is supported by the ambassadors at London, Paris, Rome, and Madrid. Sazanoff is expected shortly to join the committee as representing the Governments sitting south of the Caucasus, and the Kolchak's Government at Omsk. The well-known revolutionary, but antiBolshevik Tchailowski, head of the Archangel Government, has also been invited to join the committee.

Well-informed quarters regard the committee as a coalition which will seek to arrive at a common programme for submission to the Allies for tha hitter's decision.—Eeuter.

PRELIMINARY ARRANGEMENTS new economic- council formed. London, Jan. 8. The newspapers of France and Britain are discussing aspects of the Peace Conference. The secretariat of the various delegations are already hard at work arranging data for the delegates who meet at the Quai d'Orsay. The problem of naval security is an outstanding one from the British standpoint. The general belief is that there is now harmony of view between the British and Americans regarding British naval supremacy. The Figaro expresses satisfaction that as it ia impossible for France to maintain a large navy in addition to an army she must confide to the British fleet the responsibility of French protection at sea.

The Figaro adds that though proGerman elements in America very noisily demand a very great extension of the American fleet they are not in a majority. Another matter of supreme importance is the handling of Allied resources in goods, ships, and money, particularly the distribution of raw materials on a plan of preference for the Allies. A new Allied Economic Council has been formed to allocate tonnage for food and raw materials to friendly and enemy countries alike. The Economic Council will be affiliated with the Peace Conference, and may finally become the foundation of an economic scheme for the League of Nations. Leading Allied bankers ." ' merchants now oppose the popular denuin<U&at all ; raw materials should » e ;f used to . enemy countries. They** o Munich a ho rati, economically J l '' l *" u » as it would prevent the Cent 1 * 1 Kuwerg paying the cost of the, war.—Aus. NX Cable Assoc.

THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS VIEWS OF A EKENCH AUTHORITY. Received Jan. 10, 1.50 a.m. Now York, Jan. 8. The United Press correspondent at Paris interviewed M. Burgeoise, the leading French authority on the League of Nationr;, who said that three things must be done by the league. First, it must provide that arbitration shall be obligatory; secondly, limit armaments; thirdly, create penalties for refractory nations. These penalties shall be diplomatic, juridictal, economic and military. President Wilson wishes Germany to be admitted to the league on mi equal basis with other nationa I believe Germany should be admitted only after she proves her sincerity by obeying all the conditions of the treaty of peace.—Aua. and N.Z. Cable Assoc.

A SUCCESSFUL CONFERENCE. BETWEEN CLEMENCEAIU AND WILSON. LATEST PEACE CONETKRENCB PLANS Received Jan- 10, 1.30 a.m. New York, Jan. 8. The New York Evening Sun's Paris correspondent reports that M. Clemnnceau and President Wilson held a conference and arrived at an understanding regarding their apparently conflicting views on the balance of power and tlie League of Nations. The latest plan for the I'eace Conference includes ten day meetings of individual delegations, then a formal combined sitting of Italian', French, English, and American delegates to settle the questions of Russian and neutral representations, and finally there will be sittings including delegations from the smaller Allied nationalities.—3ni3.-NJZ. Cable Assoc. GREEK AND SERBIAN REPRESENTATIVES. T Paris, Jan. 7. n Jj ® Temps states that Greece and Serbia will each have two delegates at tha Peace Conference—M. Venizelos and _M. Politikis for Greece, and M. Wochifeh (the Serbian Premier) and M, Trumbitch (president of the Jtigo-Slav Comin Paris) for the Jugo-Slavs.— Renter.