PEACE TREATY.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 June 1919, Page 6

PEACE TREATY.

STRONG WORDS FROM LLOYD GEORGfi. PEACE IN BERLIN IP NOT AT .VERSAILLES. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Paris, May 30. Mr. Lloyd George, recently addressing a Welsh Division at Amiens, said: "The Germany have "been reckoning on this ■war for years, even counting *the spikes per yard in the barbed wire. We are bound, in order to prevent its recurrence, to make the terms severe. We must carry out the edict of Providence and see th&t the people inflicting these horrors is never in a position to do so again. The Germans, their newspapers; and politicians say they will not sign; we say 'You must; if not at Versailles, you will sign in Berlin.' The world's future depends on this peace being imposed; if necessary you soldiers will march to Berlin, though your leave will be cancelled and your return delayed," —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. PRESIDENT WILSON'S VIEWS. Paris, May 30. President Wilson, in a Memorial Day speech, said there had been secret councils of the nations in the past, but, because the peoplea were now in the saddle, private meetings of statesmen would no longer determine the destinies of nations. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. OPERATION OF THE TREATY. New York, May 18. The Washington correspondent of the New York Times, according to information received, sayy th# peace treaty | contains a clause not included in the summary cabled from Paris. The clause makes the treaty operative when signed by three of the principal Allies Governments and Germany.— Cable •Aasn, I MR. HUGHES BUSY.

London, May 19.

Mr. Hughes is actively engaged in London in connection with the terms; of the mandatory, the wording of which requires the most careful drafting in order to secure the special interests of the different mandatories. Mr. Hughes is also negotiating with the Supreme Economic Council over the sale of Australian products.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Asm. GERMANY AND THE LEAGUE OF ' NATIONS. Paris, May 30. Germany is willing to agree to the destruction of her military power if she is allowed to enter the League of Nations an equal terms according to the statement of German counter-proposals.