PEACE CONGRESS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 81, 31 December 1918, Page 5

PEACE CONGRESS

BRITISH AND AMERICAN . AGREEMENT ' THE LEAGUE OF -NATIONS RUSSIAN PROBLEM A DIFFICULT ONE By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright New York, December 20. The London correspondent of (lie NewYork "Times" states that Mr. Lloyd George told American correspondents that President Wilson and the British leaders are in complete accordance on the general principles, which will be made certain by the combined action of Britain and the United States at the Peace Congress. He adaed that all the Allies are in accord on the basic principles, lie said that only he and Mr. Balfour had yet been chosen as tho peace delegates, but the names of the others Would soon be announced. Mr. Sonar Law would not be designated, as his presence was necessary in Parliament. The correspondent learns (h excellent authority that President Wilson found that Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. Balfour agreed with him that the question of the League of Nations should be disposed of at the beginning of the conference, and should be included in the terms of the General Peace Convention.

The correspondent adds: "All confess that they could not suggest a practical solution of the Russian situation." Persian delegates will be permitted to attend the Peace Conference—Aus-N.Z. Cable Assn. INDIANS INIOuTH AFRICA RACE QUESTION'S FOR THE CONFERENCE. Cape Town, December 29. The British Indian Council has cabled to Mr. S'inha, the Indian peace delegate, requesting him to insist that there should be no disabilities upon Indians, as to colour, race, or creed, in the conquered German territories, and to appeal for the removal of the political, civil, and trading disabilities of Indians in the South African Union. .A (able to the Indian National Congress at Delhi urges it to insist upon full responsible government and full British citizenship for the Indians in South Africa.

A conference of South African Indians will meet in Cape Town on January 20. A meeting of coloured people last night passed a resolution declaring that the timo. has arrived when full political rights should be granted to the coloured people in the Union, and also that in the event of the Peace Conference handing over the German territories to Britain, no part should he incorporated in llio Union until the coloured people have had restored to them the political rights of which they were deprived by the Act of Union, and until all the subjects of those colonies are put on a footing of political and civil equality.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.