THE PEACE CONFERENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 April 1919, Page 5

THE PEACE CONFERENCE.

ITALY UNREPRESENTED.

SIGNATORIES TO PEACE TREATY.

, Paris, April 28. Italy was not represented at to-day's plenary session. The Italian Ambassador declined the invitation to attend the conference, which was considering the League of Nations covenant, particularly Japan's claims to the insertion of recognition of racial equality— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. A WIRE ENCLOSURE. FOR GERMAN DELEGATES. Received April 2t>, 7.30 p.m. Paris, April 27. German delegates to the Peace Conference, fearing the French barbers, telegraphed to Berlin for hairdressers. A barbed wire enclosure in Versailles Park has been provided for the Germans to exercise in.—United Service. Received April 20, 730 p.m. Paris, April 28. The special correspondent of the Australian Press Association states: "I hear on good authority that the Germans will be allowed a fortnight to peruse the treaty. It is difficult to forecast subsequent events, everything depending on t'ne nature of the German representations."

TRIAL OF THE KAISER.

AMERICAN OPPOSITION. Received April 29, 0.5 p.m. Washington, April 28. The State Department has published the text of the articles under discussion at the Peace Conference providing for the trial of the Kaiser and requiring Germany to deliver all persons charged with bresflies of international law. The proposal that an Allied tribunal of judges to try the Kaiser and a courtmartial to try subordinates for responsibility for the war. was carried, despite opposition by Mr. Lansing to the clauses arraigning' the Kaiser. —Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.

GERMANS ON THEIR WAY.' ! " Received April 29, 8.10 p.m. Paris, April 28. The' maj6rity of the German peace delegates have arrived at Cologne, where the French received the train, which proceeds to Versailles via Charleroj and . Brussels.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. MORE AMERICAN GOSSIP. New York, April 28. The 1 Paris correspondent of the Tribune slates that the British Minister at Berne sent a message to the British plenipotentiaries, saying that the Gerlrians would not sign the peace treaty unless they were immediately admitted to full membership in the League of Nations. New articles proposed for insertion in the peace treaty include the arraign* ment of the ex-Kaiser and his trial by five international judges, also a request to Holland.to surrender him.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.