PEACE TREATY

Taranaki Daily News, 30 May 1919, Page 5

PEACE TREATY

GERMAN COUNTERPROPOSALS. COpii DKMANBiS. EMPDMP TO BE LEFT INTACT AND JRAOnCALLY UNPUNISHED. Received May 29, 8.35 p.m. Berlin, May 27. xlie German counter-proposals are to disarm all battleships and make conditions for the restoration of part of her iperegatiie fleet. She refuses the cession Qf .11jpter Silesia, and demands that the occupied territory be evacuated at the end of six months. Germany to be accorded membership of the League of Nations, and no territorial changes to tie mftde without the population agreeing thereto. Germany offers to pay an indemnity totalling 100,000,000,000 marks (£6,000,000,000)Aus. N.Z. Cable Association, . • .Reesiyed.May 20. 9.30 p.m. j l Copenhagen, May 27. German newspapers contain the text bf the counter-proposals. These declare that Germany is "willing to reduce Jier armaments more than the demand. Servant proposes that a special commission «f aQ the belligerents should settle territorial and colonial questions and deal %ith the League of Nations. Shedefifcitely declines to surrender upper Silesia or any" part of PriMsia. Germany demands that Danzig shall be a free, port lend the Vistula neutralised, and offers to assume direction of the German coloIties under the League of Nations. She fefuses to aefcept the punishment terms, fend is ready to give an indemnity of taw hundred milliard marks in gold and ft further twenty milliards before 1926. Paris, May 28. The German counter-proposals demand peace "adcoMUHp to the fourteen points, Mi indemnity for the British blockade, and point wit that Germany is now a ftr'rtly democratic country.—Aus.-N.Z. Oabfe Assn. THE AMIES FIRMONLY METHODS OF APPLICATION! TO BE DISCUSSED. f Received May 20, 9.30 p.m. ' Paris, MAy 38. N Tl* AIM— will decline discussion beyond the methods of application.—Aus. Gable Assoc. AT.T.TF.S' ARMIES'. Willi- ADVANCE INTO GERMANY. Paris, May 28. immediately Germany refuses to sign the Allied armifes, after seventy-two hoars' notice, will advance into Secmany. Arrangements; for blockading the coast are complete.