TREATY TERMS.

Evening Star, Issue 17036, 6 May 1919, Page 4

TREATY TERMS.

INTER EST! NO SUMMARY. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian, and N.Z. Cable Association. PARIS, May 3. (Received May 6, at 1.10 p.m.) Germany will renounce her rights to 15 German main cables, but the Council of Three have not decided how to dispose of them. President Wilson, opposes the British scheme of redistribution, and he has urged that it would he undesirable that submarine cables, which are of great international importance, should become a British monopoly. He has suggested that the allied and associated Powers should act as trustees for these cables pending the establishment of an international convention. The council authorised President Wilson to draw up a formula covering his suggestion, providing that subsequently the Allies and associated Powers determine under what national or international mandate thev shalL be used. „ ~. , All the Allies have accepted the British protectorate over Egypt. A clause in the treaty will require Germany to recognise the protectorate, and to undertake not to interest herself in anv negotiations relating to Egypt. All the Powers contorred upon the Sultan relating to the Suez Qanal by the Convention of 1888 pass to Britain. _ Germany renounces all her hights m Morocco to Franco, and abandons all property of the German Government, compensating German nationals for their lost possessions. The council have decided that they are unable to give Poland full ownership of the Danzig docks, but the treaty will guarantee Poland power to develop the port. Grodno and Brest Litovsk will be excluded from Poland. The conditions governing the return of. Alsace-Lorraine to France will be eminently favorable to France. The provinces will be handed over, lock, stock, and barrel, without debt, and the frontiers will be those of 1871. French nationality will bo assumed by tlio inhabitants. Germany will repay the forced levies made on AlsaceLorraine for war expenditure, and will become responsible for the civil and military pensions. The French Government secure the right to liquidate German nationals' property in these provinces, Germany indemnifying dispossessed persons. An interesting clause will provide that landlocked States may possess ships and give maritime certificates, which all ports must recognise. Germany will undertake to disgorge the gold acquired by various transactions during the war, including Turkish and Aus-tro-llungariau payments in exchange for paper loans, and booty removed from Russia and Rumania. All Germany's claims for repayment from her former allies are to be transferred to the Allies. PARIS, May 5. The Peace Treaty will be handed' to the Germans at 2.15 p.m. on Wednesday. The Belgian Crown Council have decided to sign the Peace Treaty.