THE PEACE CONFERENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 March 1919, Page 5

THE PEACE CONFERENCE.

HUGE REPATRIATION BILL. TO BE PAID IN THIRTY YEARS. Received March 5, 12.35 a.m. Paris, March 3. | The reparation committee estimates that the Central Powers must pay the Allies £24,000,000,000, the payment being extended over a period of thirty years, including £1,000,000,000 immediately in gold, foreign securities, mer- . chandise and ships.—Aus and N.Z. Cable Assuc. CUTTING UP HUNGARY, i CZECHOSLOVAK PROPOSALS. Paris, March 3. It is understood that the Czechoslovak Commission will give the city of Presbur to the Czechs, while the Hungarian districts inhabited by Ruthenes will probably be handed to Roumania. The greater part of Torontal and the western part of the districts of Banat and Temesvar are likely to belong to Serbia.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. GERMANY'S FORMER RULERS. MR. LANSING'S INDICTMENT. Received March 5, 12.55 a.m. New York, March 3. A Paris telegram to the New York Times states that Mr. Lansing has prepared a pamphlet mercilessly indicting Germany's former rulers. Mr. Lansing proposes that the Peace Conference should adopt the indictment. —Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. THE PRINCE'S ISLAND CONFERENCE >VHY BOLSHEVIKS ABSTAIN. Received March 5, 12.50 a.m. Washington, March 3. Dispatches from Archangel say that Zinoneff, Governor of Petrograd, in a speech, said the Bolsheviks were unwilling to attend the Prince's Island conference because any peace signed with the Allies would not be considered binding. It would serve the purpose of alleviating the fool shortage, but would not prevent the continued organisation of the Red Army and the spread of Bolshevism. — Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. DISARMAMENT OP GERMANY. Received March 4, 9.50 p.m. Paris, March 2. A communique states that the Supreme War Council discussed the report of the military, naval and air experts concerning the disarmament of the enemy.— Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. ■J CONTROL OF ASIA MINOR. Paris, March 3. The Greek Commission discussed the question of Asia Minor. It is believed the commission favors the dissolution of the Turkish Empire and the creation of a new Turkish State in the centre of Asia Minor. The commission agreed on the principle of Greece having mandatory control of a strip of coastline between Avalik and Cos, including Smyrna and Ephesus. THE GERMAN DELEGATES, Paris, March 3. It is not improbable that the German delegates will be summoned to the Peace Conference in the middle of April. —Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc