PEACE TREATY.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 July 1919, Page 5

PEACE TREATY.

■MyMArnvs hunt jm a m&* Rr Telegraph.—Press Aisn.—CopyritWl t Received July 2 ( 7.20 p.m, London, June 86. ' Jfo. Massey searched Paris for a seal Suitable for signing the treaty. A seal hearing his own initials was unobtainable. At last he discovered in a pawnshop a heavy ancient seal bearing the fetters "N.Z.j" and with this the treaty Vas stamped. ; The Daily Telegraph, in an editorial Mm Mr. Massey's return, says the appointment of New Zealand as mandatory for Samoa is merely one instance in Which Mr. Massey has done splendid service at the Peace Conference) where he played the role everybody expected frbln so staunch, a. patriot. The journal hopes that if Mr. Massey emerges safely from the election he.will.be one of the first appointed' resident Ministers lit London and be able to attend the la> perial Cabinet. The Telegraph concludes with a tribute to the New Zealand soldiers, who won the golden opinions of all.— Reuter. i CHINESE (DELEGATES SILENCED. Paris, July 1. 'The Chinese delegates were not allowed the privilege of making a declaration of then* Views at the time the peace treaty was sigftsd.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Association. y~

jCERIto OF MANDATES APPROVED.

'. London, July 1. 'Tie terms of all the mandates have been approved, and it may be said that they are mucin more satisfactory from the Dominions' standpoint than in their original iotm. The chief credit for this is due to Mr. JCugb.es* insistence on having the terms so framed as to conserve the rights of the mandatory Power.— <AOf. NZ Cable Assoc. COUNCIL OF TEN RESUME. . pAris, July 1. The Cojoncil of Ten has resumed the IPtoce Conffrence work* Mr. Balfour; Signor Tittoni, and IMr. Lansing replacing Mr. Urtyd George, Signor Orlando, jttd Prwidtat Wilson. .If^MA^SY^VIEWS. 1 Paris, July 1. ' Wh«l« th« treatr had been Signed Mr. I&sser w*s interviewed. He stated that the signing was the signal for universal filief tothe world, which could look |*Twar4 to a period of rest While slowly Mturninjr to normal conditions. VevertfctlHs the lesions of the war tjirat be kept steadily in mind. Neither Britain, nor the peace-lovite nations would allow themselves to be caught with insufficient forces agfinst a posWble attsok. When they remembered tie German atrocities and the latest tftacliery »*• Scapa iFJow they could only Wyt "Never again!"—Aus. NZ Cable &SSOC.

FURTHER INFORMATION ■ REQUESTED. Wellington, Last Night. The cablegram regarding Mr. Bonar taw'Vann&uncement that .the peace oeletrations in London would commence on I Jifly 19 was referred to Sir James Allen, | •who "rtaied that the only official flewe in the possession of the Government was " thai' da' »Wbra,tions would be held on August 2!,,*, 4, and 5. He had cabled •it> the Home authorities asking for further information. ' fBOCLAMATIOtf Off PEACE, ' UedeWed July % 9.46 p,m. tendon, July 1. ' The officers of the Heralds' College, acMtapftaied by the trumpeters of the Life ■Guards, will read the King's proclamatiott of peace on Wednesday, at St. James J iiut, in' Trafalgar Square, Chancery ftfe, Wood Street, and at the Royal E* and N.2. Cable Assoc.