PEACE CONFERENCE.

Evening Star, Issue 17062, 5 June 1919, Page 4

PEACE CONFERENCE.

TfiE FIUM'E- COMPROMISE. CONSTANTINOPLE GOES BEGGING. SWORE GERMAN NOTES. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable AsßOoialion. PARIS, May 30. (Received June 5, at 12.5 p.m.) The Empire Delegation, Mr Hughes, Six J. Cook, Mr Massey, and Sir Joseph Ward being present, discussed the German counter-proposals from t-ho British viewpoint. Count Rantzau, in a covering letter to the Peace Conference, expresses Germany's willingness to accept an army of 100,000 maximum, but says that Germany desires to become an immediate member of the League of _ Nations. Ho also requests a free plebiscite for AlsaceLorraine. She is prepared to euirreiicler posen, and is willing that Danzig, Koenigsberg, and Memel become free ports. Two fresK Ger-maii Notes have, been received, one dealing \ritli German properties in allied countries, and the other in regard to the Turkish public debt and the German possessions at San Paolo, Brazil. Though it is premature to say that the Fiume difficulty has been completely settled, there is every reason to assume that the Adriatic problem is ncaring solution on the lines of creating a little republic of Fiume, excluding Sarok, which belongs to Jugo-Slavia. Fiume and its hinterland will probably be administered by a council of five, composed of two Italians, one Croat, one J-ugo-Slav, and one Hungarian. It is understood that the Italians surrender tlheir Dalmatian claims, except as to Zarar and Sebenick. Italy also retains the strategic islands guarding the Bay of Fiume. From an American sowvee it is learned that America has definitely declined; a mandate for Constantinople. As Britain and France will not accept it, there is a possibility of Italy receiving the mandate. YOUMG TURKS BOLSHEVIK BACKING. PARIS. May 50. (Received June 5, at 12.5 p.m.) Reports from Constantinople show that the Committee of Union and Progress aw raining strength bv the help of Russian 0 Bolsheviks, and they threaten trouble. HAS PETROCRAD FALLEN? LONDON, June 4. (Received June 5, at 10.35 a.m.) The fact that Bolshevik propaganda continues to be wirelessed from Tsarkoe Selo is interpreted to mean that Petrograd has not- yet, fallen. THE RHINELAND RUMQU. PARIS, May 30. (Received June 5, at 12.5 p.m.) A French official message states that the information regarding the establishment of a Rhineland republic, with Goblenz as its capital, are greatly exaggerated.