THE PEACE CONFERENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 March 1919, Page 5

THE PEACE CONFERENCE.

PRELIMINARY PEACE TREATY. MAY BE READY NEXT WEEK. Received March 27, 12.45 a.m. Paris, March 21. Colonel House, in an interview, thought that the preliminary peace might be ready on Saturday "week. The German delegates would be here three weeks hence. A commission of five members visits Syria to obtain an idea of the peopled desires as regards a mandatory. A committee has been appointed to deal with the German shipping, and will hare headquarters at Rotterdam and not at Hamburg. The Economic Commission is faced with a great difficulty in drawing up a list of goods'which Germany may not export. The Allied views are-widely divergent. Americans take a mild view, while the. British view is moderate. Others desire a stringent list. The Council of Ten is still engaged on the Polish question.— Aus. and N.Z. Cable Amoo. LEAGUE OP NATIONS DRAFT. COMMITTEE MAKING PROGRESS. Beeeived March 20, 5.5 p.m. Paris, March 24. The League of Nations Committee has completed two-thirds of the drafts of the amendments. Articles 9 to 16 are being considered. INFLUX OP FOREIGN LABOR. REDUCTION OF ARMAMENTS. Received March 26, 7.50 p.m. Paris, March 24. The League of Nations Committee adopted the American amendment protecting the nations against the influx of foreign labor. v j Most of the committees of the Peace Conference have concluded their labors, and are merely waiting permission from the Supreme Council to submit their reports. The, reduction in armaments clause has beeii attended to constitute merely a re-j Commendation to governments to reduce armaments. —Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. SAFEGUARDING INTERNATIONAL POLICEBS. Received March 26, 5.5 p.m. Paris, March 20. The Uniteu States delegation agreed to the amendment in the League of Nations providing that agreements under the covenant shall not be construed'as as infringement of international policies heretofore generally recognised. — Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. fJDESTION OF GERMAN CABLES. Paris, March 25. The United States view that the German cables art not prizes of war is upheld by the Supreme Council Coni-tnittee.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn PROPOSED LEAGUE AMENDMENTS. Paris, March 24. The League Commission has received 15 amendments, of which 25 from neutral! are in the nature of suggestions, chiefly in the direction of securing clearer interpretations. Two important suggestions are: One from Japan for equality of treatment and one from France for the creation of aa Allied staff to secure speedy military action against sudden aggres«i*». The Labor Crimes Commission has tiew completed its investigations aud io engaged in drafting its final report. This report, like that of the Polish Commission, will be subject to rigorous dissection by the Council of Ten, and much time is likely to elapse before ftnmlfty is reached. It is officially denied that Italy threatened to withdraw from the conference if Fiome was not granted to her. „«t is understood that the Council of Ten has accepted the Polish Comrcisaion's report entirely, thus recognising Bftntrig as a Polish port.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. fiEFINITE PEACE PROPOSALS. Paris, March 25. Definite peace proposals have now been formulated and will be considered during the next two or three days by M. Clemenceau, President Wilson, Mr. Lloyd George, and Senor Orlando, and will probably be ready for signature next week. —-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. JAPAN AND THE EQUALITY PROPOSALS. Paris, March 2. ile chief of the Japanese Press Bureau attached to the peace delegation, in an interview, said that the idea of Japan in seeking to amend the League Covenant was to prevent discrimination between aliens who seemed advanced enough and qualified to become members of. the league. He believed the league could not be solidly founded on any other basis. It must be founded upon equity, because the citizens of the nations who joined the league would be compelled if necessary, to sacrifice life to defend the league. He believed it had never entered the minds of the Japanese delegates to utilise the amendment in order to press a solution of the immigration question. The former should not be confused with immigration. It was the unanimous demand of the Japanese people to have the equality principle clearly embodied in the covenant.—Atts.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ATJBTSO«ONGARIAN BLOCKADE RAISED. Paris, March 24. A Vienna despatch states that the Allies have raised the blockade against Anistti»'£imtguy.