THE TREATY.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 January 1920, Page 5

THE TREATY.

SIGNATURE ON SATURDAY. STATE OP PEACE FOLLOWS. RESUMING DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS. 8j Telegraph.—PreM Ann.—Copyright, Received Jan. 7,7.25 p.m. Paris, Jan. 6. The Matin states that the Protocol will he signed on Saturday afternoon, together with a statement dealing with reparation and the scuttlings. Diplomatic relations between Germany and the Allies will resume after the exchange of ratifications.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Asm. London, Jan. 6. The Daily Express states that the path to peace is cleared. Final details are being arranged and the treaty will come into force on January 10.—United Service. THE SCAPA SCUTTLINGS. HARBOR MATERIAL CLAIMED. Received Jan. 7, 7.23 p.m. Paris, Jan. 6. *fhe Supreme Council has decided that Germany need hand over only 275,000 tons of harbor material, instead of 300,000 tons in reparation for the Scapa Bcuttlingß.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. [Though Germany signed the actual Peace Treaty lut year, the delay in the ratification and the enforcement of "a state of peace*" is due to the delay in signing the Protocol to the Treaty. The Protocol and Note sent by the Supreme Council to the German Government at the beginning of November, regarding the terms of the original armistice and its various extensions which Germany has failed to fulfil, contained the following passages. Such grave violations of the armistice as the destruction of the German fleet at Scapa Flow and of the submarine U.C. 43 off FerroD, and the destruction in the North Sea of a certain number of submarines on their way to England to be handed over, cannot lfe overlooked, and Germany accordingly pledges herself to deliver up within a period of sixty'days from the signing of the Protocol the five light cruisers Konigsberg, Pillau, Gratidenz, Regensburg, and Strassburg, and within ninety days such number of floating cranes, tugs, and dredgers as shall be equivalent to a total displacement of 400,000 tons. It is also provided that the officers and men of the German warships sunk off Scapa Flow shall, with certain exceptions, not be repatriated until Germany has satisfied the above demands. In compensation for the destruction of U.C. 48 Germany is to deliver up the engines and motors of submarined I) 137, U 138, and U 158. as well u the three motors of submarine U 1'46, which still remain, to be delivered, as compensation for the submarines destroyed in the North Sea. Germany has also to pay the Allied and associated Governments the value of the aeronautical material that has been exported. In the event of Gtancny not satisfying these obligations within the periods here in provided the Allied and associated Powers reserve to themselves the right of taking all military or other measures of coercion which they shall consider appropriate.]