PEACE CONFERENCE

Evening Star, Issue 16991, 13 March 1919, Page 6

PEACE CONFERENCE

DRAFT PROPOSALS READY. GERMAN DELEGATES TO BE SUMMONED IN A WEEK. INTERNATIONALISING THE RHINE AND KIEL CANAL. Auttralian and N.Z. Cable Association. r#3S Association —By Telegraph— Copyright. PARIS, March 12. (Received March 13, at 8.50 a.m.) Most important developments are expected before the end of the week. The . th© peace proposals will be ready ; to-morrow, and will probably bo adopted m their final form a few days after President Wilson’s return to Paris on Friday. The draft covers the military, naval, aviation, and reparation terms; also some of the territorial terms, though the Eastern settlement, including the Dardanelles, will be concluded after the preliminary peace. It is expected that the German peace delegates will be inritod to Paris about March 20. The Greece Commission have completed their report. It is understood that Bulgaria will be given access to the sea. It is also understood that the Kiel Canal will be internationalised. The Conference are willing to restore Heligoland to Britain, who, however, is reluctant to accept it, as it would require a great expenditure to prevent the island’s disappearance by erosion. ' The Waterways Committee recommend the internationalisation of the Rhine, similar to the system of control exercised over the Danube. MAKING GERMANY FAY, OTHERWISE—NO FOOD. NEW YORK. March 10. (Received March 15, at 9.55 a.m.) i The ‘New York World’s’ Paris correspondent says that the Allies have notified Germany that, if she surrenders her merchantmen and complies with the other conditions, she will bg fed until August. The same correspondent learns that Germany will be compelled to pay 40 billion dollars damages to the Allies and the "United States. Tliis amount is based on tha damage done by Germany, not on the cost of the war to the Allies. GERMAN GABLES. ANGLO-AMERICAN RIVALRY PARIS. March 12. {Received March 15, at 8.50 a.m.) Britain is claiming the captured German submarine cables, but the United States delegates, fearing a British monopoly, are strenuously objecting to the claim. FIRST GERMAN PRISONERS RELEASED. 400 SENT HOME TO SCHLESWIG. LONDON, March 12. (Received March 15, at 8.50 a.m.) A sign of coming events consists in the release of 400 Ochleswigers taken prisoner during the war. They left England homeward bound yesterday. [lt mav be mentioned that among tha Peace Conference’s business is consideration of the restoration of Schleswig and possibly Holstein to Denmark, from whom Prussia tor© it in 1866.] HO SECRET DIPLOMACY. PARIS, March 10. (Received March 13, at 9.35 a.m.) Sir Robert Borden, in an interview, said s he was thoroughly in accord with the idea of no secret treaties. The old-style diplomacy must be don© with if the nations were to avoid the perils of the past. _ Canada, he said, favored co-operation with the United States with a view to Working out the problems confronting British and American policies in the Pacific.