THE PEACE CONFERENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 March 1919, Page 5

THE PEACE CONFERENCE.

> THE PEACE PROPOSALS,

ALMOST COMPLETED. . i FORECAST OF THE FRINOHiES. Paris, March 12. Moat important developments are expected before the end of the week. The draft of the peaee proposals will be ready to-morrow and probably be adopted in its final form a few days after President Wilson's return on Friday. The draft covers military, naval, aviation and repatriation terms and some territorial terms, though the eastern pettlement, including the Dardanelles, will be oooclnded after the preliminary peaee. It is expected the Germans will tie invited to Paris about the 20th, The Greece Commission has completed its report. It is u: -ierstood that But garia will be given access to the sea, It is also understood that the Kiel Canal wflt be internationalised. The conference is willing to restore Heligoland to Britain, which is rernctwt to accept it as it cwoH require great expenditure to prevent the disappearance of the island by erosion. Tie waterways cormniwion has recommended internationalisation of the Rhine en similar lines to the Dantrbian controt— AW.-K.Z. CaWe Aflsn. Britain is elararins the captured German eaMes. The United States, fearing a British monopoly, is strenuously KjJneetJng—Am-N.Z Cable Asm New York, (March TO,

The Paris correspondent of the New York World says that the AHies have notified Germany that if she surrenders her merchantmen and oompfies with the other eondrHoiM she will be'fed until 'August. The correspondent leama that Qe» ntanv will he compelled to pay forty billion doflaw damages to the Affies and the United States. The ammnt is baßed on the damage done by Germany, not on-the cost of the-war t»th« AlKea.—Aasv-NX Cable Aseu

'• POSPTIOir m GERMANS.

BOSHING TOWARDS BOLSHEVISM AND DESTB3JCTBK, 1 ALLIES qflttATTJi CONCEBNED. Received tttaiau 13, &5 pans •f%ffji\rm l March 1L The moat immediate compticatioa of 1 the peace situation is the fipartacista. The official reports circulated atnongit the delegates, including secret agents' intelligence, is of a startling character. The delegates agree that Germany la rushing towards Bolshevism, and is extremely anxious to prevent this, even if only because it would mean lengthy •» cupation of a large part of Germany, which would delight the German capatalista hut would noE suit the Allies. It would appear that the Spaxtacists have at their disposal enormous sum* mostly from Russia, some from Holland, and money even reaching them from England. The Allies believe the Government's military victories cannot avail long. The so-called "proletariat rising" win come again. The insurgenta call themselves communists, but they aim at complete destruction of the present social system of order and build up a new world in which the proletariat will be dictators. Many of the leaders are Russians and other revolutionary traveling carpetbaggers. In all cases the Spartaeisto cooperate with the loosest and most reckksM section of the community. They generally seem a mixture of intellectuals and brigands phrying upon mil lions, whose morale is lowered by hunger defeat. Indeed the harriers of habit and deceney have largely been Sroken down. Corruption « everywhere rife. The depressed people eagerly torn to the only movement wfcfca seems to have a real political faith and actively preache? a creed of action. Unfortunately the Allies have to deal with the Scheideinann group as the only alternative to Bolshevism.—United Sertiee.

SIB R. BORDEN'S VIEWS. Pads, Maarh 19. Sir Robert Borden, in an interview, Raid lie was thorongtty in accord wfth the Hea of no secret treafies. The old diplomacy most be Awe away with if ttv» nations were to avofl the perils of tiie part. Canada favored co-opera-tion with the TJmted States with a view to working out the proHenw eonfrooSng British and American poßsiea in the fame— Aus-N.Z. Cable Asm.