DISTRESSED EUROPE.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 April 1919, Page 2

DISTRESSED EUROPE.

SMALL NATIONS PREPARING FOE WAS. THii SITUATION DESCRIBED STILL ANXIOUS. Received April 10, 8 30 p.m. Loudon, March SI Mr Dillon, the Daily Telegraph's Paris correspondent, states that M. Clemenceau early desired the annexation of the Saar Valley, which the Anglo-Americans deprecated, considering it contained the germs of future mrsehief. An animated debate resulted on two proposals—-first, the British undertaking to hasten to France's assistance at the first alarm; the second, establishing a permanent inter allied vigilance hoard in Paris., which would watch the Germans' movements.

The French delegates questioned the value of the British undertaking if conscription were abolished, and they continue to claim military occupation ot the Saax Valley -until the debt « dischar Meanwhile Bolshevism threatens to spread over Bohemia, where the soil is favorable and German-Austria, where it is unfavorable- The Poles are less liable to Bolshevism, but are threatened by the Ukrainians and Magyars. The Germans are forming an antiPolish union of war, and preparations for *vara are continuous to the accompaniment of the peace concert The Czecho-Slovaks have issued a mobilisation ofljer. Roumania is iteadil* mobilising

General Haltes' Polish army is about to proceed to Konigsberg. 'Hip Hungarians are preparing to attack lloumania.

The Allies will probably put up a,fight in Odessa, where the food will be exhausted at the end of April. Private Berlin advices state that many propagandists of Bolshevism in political circles argue it is incomparably preferable to suffer a more dignified than the masked slavery of the pejwe terms, and advocate that a wholly different experiment from the Russian be undertaken methodically with the whole-hearted cooperation of the educateds surviving the bureaucracy.