THE PEACE CONFERENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 May 1919, Page 5

THE PEACE CONFERENCE.

ANOTHER CRISIS. BELGIANS DISSATISFIED, WITH REPARATION PROPOSALS. Received May 1, 1-2.35 a.m. Paris, April 29. Another critical situation lias developed. Six Belgian Ministers are in Paris as the result of a meeting of Cabinet at which the reparation scheme was strongly denounced. The Belgians claim that an immediate large indemnity is essential in order to avoid a serious internal crisis and enable reconstruction work to proceed. The Cabinet threatens to withdraw from the conference if the scheme is not modified so as to provide that Belgium shall receive priority in the initial payments and the whole share of the indemnity within ten years. The,. Council of Three will receive the Belgians to-day.—Aus. N.Z, Cable A»sociatlon. THE PEACE TREATY. LABORS DEMANDS. Received April 30. 5,5 pjn. Washington, April 29. _TV labor clauses proposed for inclusion in the peace treaty provide for a day of rest weekly, the abolition of child labor, tiie right of association for all lawful pnrpo&s, a standard eigbt-honr day, and equality of pay for both sexeß. •—Aus. K2. Cable Assoc.

RACIAL BQUAUTT. Japanese ihbappointment. ■j Received April 30, 8 pja. J London, April 29. ' Baron Makino, addressing the Plenary Council, regretted the covenant did not •nunciate the principle of racial equality, leaving' the governments concerned to devise in a feir spirit means to meet it. If just and equal treatment was denied to certain nationals it would have the Bfgirificanoe of a certain reflection on their quality and status, and their faith in the justice and righteousness of future interMtkaol intercourse between members of tie League nay be shaken. This would be detrimental to the harmony and cooperation on which the League can be Mcsrely taHt. Japan will not press the proposal at the moment, but the Japan* Government and people fed poignant regret at the failure to approve the just demand. Tiey will continue to iuU on the adoption of the principle by the League in future, M. Bomgeois referred to the French fcmwidiiwnt for strengthening the league's power apainst sudden military aggWMion upfin France, and considers the League weak in this respect-—Ana. &Z-Cafele Assoc, THE GERMANS' MOVE.' ,T0 SECURE BETTER TERMS. Received April 30, midnight. London, April 28. The Daily Chronicle's Geneva correspondent states that the German Government and party leaders had a secret conference in Berlin, and decided ostentatiously to oppose the signing of peace and to organise popular demonstrations and create a fictitious Cabinet crisis in order to secure the amelioration of gb* twins.—Aus.-N.Z Cable Assn. .RETURN OF KAIOCHAU. . ' Received April 39, 10 p-m. New York, April 29. The Werld's Paris correspondent states that the Peace Conference hag tentatively agreed that Japan shall return Kaioehau to China. The date has not Jmob ffttd.—Aas. NjZ, Gable Assoc. SOCIALISTS AND ARMED FORCES. Amsterdam, April 29. At -the Socialist Conference Mr. Ryan advocated the abolition of conscription everywhere and the creation of professional armies.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. . LEAGUE WELCOMED. .. London, April 29. t3» newspapers almost unanimously tofeuutt the birth of the League of Nations. PSBUA2S3 BSSENT RESTRICTIONS. « London, April 28. It Is expected that the Peace Treaty ffjQ be published on Friday, several Of the German delegates who have arrived at Versailles are piqued at the restrictions confining them to the palace grounds. Two, who were permitted to attend church, were accompanied by septet police. Some Germans brought golf dobs,- bint tt'ls unlikely they will be fUowed to appear on French golf links. Nta JT 7i, Cable Assn.