PEACE TREATY.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 June 1919, Page 5

PEACE TREATY.

GERMANY OBDURAJE. - MNTZAITS DEFIANCE .." ' I ftfftlflgr&ph.—Praß Assn.—Copyright ' Bsceived June 1, ILS p.m. London, May 31. Tito Oeiwan Foreign Office has categorically declined to' aign the Peace Treaty. Count von Rantzau, addressing several departiag colleagueu at Versailles, declares: "Tell Berlin I will never sign the p«acf preliminaries unless they are severely modified, Someone else may sign, l won't." Possibly Herr Ereberger will replace pWtun.-Aus.-NA Gable Amu, • THE FIUME QUESTION. THE MFFERENCES- SETTLED. , Received June 1, 55 p.m. . \ Paris, May 28, TieltalioM and Jugoslavs have practically settled their dispute on the basis ' ot Italian concessions in the hinterland o! Frame, like Danzig, pending a plebiscite after a few years. Lite .Italians are still resisting the "Creek claims to the Dodecanese islands. RUSSIA AND HUNGARY. Beceived June 1, 5 5 pan. , . ; . Paris, May 26. The Big Four are willing to recognise any nonr-Soviet Russian government which agrees to convene a national convention and respect the new independent bolder 9late«. The Allies have decided to lift the blockade from Hungary immediately any stable government is formed at Budapest, even one headed by Bela Kun—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.