PEACE TREATY.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 June 1919, Page 5

PEACE TREATY.

ALLIES' AMENDMENTS, ESSENTIALS NOT AFFECTED. Br Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Paris, June 15. The Allies will publish the German counter-proposals this evening. The latter states that directly the economic restrictions end Germany will enjoy the same advantages as other members ot the league. The Allies' amendments to the treaty include the following:— (1) Germany must submit within four months proposals regarding the amount of reparation and methods of payment(2) A plebiscite will be taken in Upper Silesia within 18 months. (3) Germany will be admitted to the league in the near future. (4) Negotiations will be opened immediately with the view to a general reduction of armaments. (5) The effectives in the German Army will be limited to 200,000 for three years.

GERMANY'S COUNTER-FROPQSAT-S.

"MODEST" DEMANDS. deceived June 16, 9.25 p.m. London, June 15. The German counter proposals agree to the reduction of armaments, and ask that the period of transition be delayed, only the League of Nations supervising disarmament. The Saar must be settled exclusively on an economic -basis. A plebiscite in Alaaee-Lorraine is demanded. If it favors France the latter should assume a proportion of the German debt. Germany declines to yield Danzig, and aiks that a special committee shall decide the fate of the colonies, Which Germany is prepared to administer under the League, if made an immediate member on an equality with the others.

She also demands most favored nation treatment for a term of years and freedom from tariffs by all nations. The reparation* annuity for the first decade snail not exceed a billion marks, taied on revenues, and the total not to exceed a hundred billion (not a million as cabled earlier) marks.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.

Received June 16, 6.30 p.m. Washington, June 15.

The State Department has issued a •ummwy of the German counter-propos-als, stating that Germany claims the risht to retain the colonies on account •f the improvement* she made there. Germany agrees to pay the maximum reparation of a hundred billion marks, provided the Allies aocept the other German counter-proposals regarding the overseas colonies and territories.

Germany refuses to accept the trial of thß ex-Kaiser or sanction his extradition, and demands immediate admission to the League of Nations. Germany find* the labor clauses in the treaty unsatisfactory, also protests asainst the occupation of the Rhine provinces, and demands the Allies' withdrawal within six months after peace is coaeluded.

Germany proposes an international court, composed of judges from neutral countries, to determine .the share of war criminality ,of each belligerent.—Aus. &Z. (feble Assoc.

THE CZEOHO-SLOVAKS. * WEAKNESS OP THE Received June 16, 10 pjn. Paris, June 10. j The position of Czecho-Slovakia is be-1 coming serious. Obviously they are not strong enopgh to withstand the Hungarian Bolshevist attacks, and urgently need help. The action of the Peace Conference in stopping the advance of the Roumanians when they practically bad Budapest in their grasp and Bela Kim's regime -was tottering, has accentuated the gravity of the position. The Conference has now telegraphed to the Hungarians to stop their hostilities, threatening extreme measures if the request is not complied with. The Council have also referred the {question to the military experts. M. Cliemenceau favors the dispatch of French and Roumanian troops now in southern Hungary < but President Wilson and Mr. Lloyd George urge a policy of temporising.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. FOCH MAKING RSADY. London, June 15. Marshal Foch has left Paris on a tour of the army front. He will remain at Headquarters in Luxemburg In readiness to give the order for an advance In the event of the Germans refusing to sign the peace terms,—Aus.-NZ. tyble Ann.

THE SITUATION IN GERMANY. Paris, June 6. rhe Berlin correspondent of Le Temps, reviewing the situation in Germany, says that the contest is between two men—Erzberger, who invokes national unity, declares that refusal to sign the peace is theatrical and useless and will bring About the occupation of the country, disunion snd ruin, and claims that peace treaties are not eternal, and Count Rahtaau, wbd heads the "bluff It out" school, holding tost the Allies are powerless, their armies demoralised, strikes Increasing, and that the Soeialists are attacking the treaty and so refuses to ■ The-correspondent adds:, "The mood of Germany Is compounded of fatigue and fataliam." —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Am. NEW GOVERNMENT POSSIBLE. ; Paris, June 7. A ' French semi-official message says thai the German Government as a whole fa noflr unwilling to sign, but a large minority under Herr Erzberger is rea&y to construct a new Government which will sign. Herr Richtsofen, one of the principal democratic leaders, approves of the reconstruction. Count von Rantzau is willing to sign, but his present position in the Government is not as-sured.—Aus.-NZ. Cable Assn.