PEACE CONFERENCE

Evening Star, Issue 17032, 1 May 1919, Page 6

PEACE CONFERENCE

THE PRELIMINARY TREATY. PRESENTATION NEXT MONDAY, IF RATIFIED ON SATURDAY. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. PARIS, April 3a (Received May 1, at 11 a.m.) All the allied belligerents’ delegates, except Italy’s, will attend the Peace Conarence plenary secret session on Saturday, ~’hen they will bo invited to ratify the text of the preliminary Peace Treaty. The German delegates are to receive the text of the treaty on Monday. PUBLICITY PREPARATIONS. [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, May 1. The Postmaster-General, in view of the fact that the Peace Treaty is being franked to newspapers by cable, has agreed also to frank it by ‘telegraph to newspapers throughout the Dominion. ITALY OBDURATE. RISKS BEING IGNORED. ROME, April 29. (Received May 1, at 9.10 a.m.) Signor Orlando, in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, said he had warned, the Allies that peace was impossible without Italy’s assent. Her claims were based on justice and ought to be granted in their entirety. Then Italy could have a further alliance with any reconstituted European State. He repudiated imperialistic charges, pointing out that he had not sought oversells possessions for Italy, and had not displayed greed for indemnities; he had yielded only to Italian sentiment. April 30. The Chamber enthusiastically expressed confidence in the Orlando Government. Only the Socialists abstained from voting. KIAO-CHAU SETTLEMENT. PARIS, April 50. (Received May 1, at 8.50 a.m.) The- Council of Three met and debated the Italian Question and Kiao-chau. They reported that a solution of the Kiao-chau Question had been reached, both China and Japan accepting it. PARIS, April 30. (Received May 1, at 12.50 p.m.) Official: The Kiao-chau dispute has been settled. Japan has agreed to surrender Tsing-Tau to China in due. course. JAPAN AND SIBERIA. NEW YORK, April 29. (Received May 1, at 9.10 a.m.) Baron Goto, in a speech, said that if the Russians invite Japan’s co-operation in developing Siberia, Japan would not shirk the responsibility. Japan had no intention to exploit the Siberian workers. GERMAN TRADE. MANOEUVRING FOR OUTLETS. NEW YORK, April 50. (Received May 1, at 8.50 a.in.) The ‘ New York World's ’ Paris correspondent states that the German peace delegates will ask that Germany be given a mandatory over some of her former possessions in the Far East. As this will be. refused, they will then ask that Germany bo granted unqualified trading privileges in all lands controlled by the League of Nations. LEAGUE OF NATIONS. AMERICAN CAMPAIGN. NEW YORK, April 29. (Received May 1, at 9.10 a.m.) The New York Times’s ’ Washington correspondent says that Senator Lodge, who will be the majority leader in the new Senate, lias issued a statement that the League of Nations covenant will be unacceptable unless it is further amended The correspondent adds that a bitter fight in the Senate against the covenant is contemplated, although many Republicans are for the League of Nations. THE FRENCH AND MAURITIUS. LONDON, April 29. (Received May 1, at 8.45 a.m.) In the House of Commons Mr Cecil Harmsworth stated that the Government had received a petition signed hv live gentlemen claiming to represent the French population of Mauritius, demanding the retrocession of Mauritius to France in accordance with President Wilson's 14 points. [The French occupation of Mauritius, or the Isle of France, lasted from 1715-1810. It is 550 miles east of Madagascar.] GERMAN ARMY MOBILISING ON VISTULA. THREAT TO POLAND. HINDENBURG IN COMMAND. PARIS, April 29. ißeceived May 1, at 10.5 a.m.) It is reported from Germany that Hindenburg is at Kolberg, a Baltic port between Stettin and Danzig, with a large staff and an army of 200,000 men, which he is throwing along the Danzig-Thorn line. He lias 1,200 guns, many of heavy calibre. The German army scattered throughout the German Empire is estimated at a million men. BOLSHEVISM. SOME HOPE FOR RUSSIA. WASHINGTON, April 30. (Received May 1, at 8.50 a.m.) Reports from neutrals state that Trotsky and Lenin are about to flee from Russia, believing that the Bolsheviks are ruined. REFUGEES’ TALES. MALTA, April 29. (Received May 1, at 11 a.m.) A thousand refugees have arrived here from Russia. Their members include some of the noblest families, among them being three countesses who had been washing plates in a military hospital. They describe the terrors from which they escaped. It was a favorite plan of the Bolsheviks to lead out a party, shoot some of them, and march the others back for another day’s sport.