SMUTS'S PROPOSAL.
A GENEROUS OFFER
(lleoeived June 11, 1.30 p.m.) PARIS, J,lme 6. It is deported that General Smuts favours a German mandate over bouth West Africa, if Germany will agree to concessions re Silesia as a set-off.
One -Paris newspaper severely cc-m- - General Smuts's attitude. It is believed that Mr Lloyd George * desires to shorten the term in the occupied territories of the Rhine, while •the French are .agreeable to iix the total amount of reparation. Ilantzau has written to the Coni'er•eace protesting against tSie Rhenish jjroelamation.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9631, 11 June 1919, Page 5
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