PEACE TREATY

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 3889, 2 December 1919, Page 2

PEACE TREATY

BEFORE THE AMERICAN SENATE

WILL BE PASSED WITH RESER-

VATIONS

.'By Electric Telegraph—-Copyright), (Aus-N.Z.Cable .Association.)

New York, Nov. 27

Tho Tunes' Boston correspondent slates that Senator Lodge in a statement :;-.iys that Senate will pass the. treaty with reservations. "1 have always advocated peace with Germany, and the League of Nations, but my desire is for a victorious and honourable peace, and a League which does not sacrifice America's constitution or sovereignly." '•'-•' CHINAS ATTITUDE. The New York Times' Paris correspondent stales that it is understood tliat in the event of the United States Senate ratifying tlie Treaty with reservations which the Allies will accept, China will ask that she be allowed to .sign the Treaty with a reservation in reference to Sliaiitung. The Chinese representatives in Paris point out that China, will never ratify the Treaty without the .Shantung reservation. London, Nov. 28. ■ Premier Lloyd George, in a writtenreply to a question, stated that the Mate for the exchange of the ratification of the Peace Treaty was still liable to postponement, owing to the i difficulty of completing arrangements with Germany with regard to the administration of (he occupied territories. AMERICA AND THE RESERVAI UTONS. COMPROMISE POSSIBLE. REPUBLICANS DEFENDED. (Received Dec. 2, 8.50 a.m. Washington,-Nov. 28. It is believed that Senator Hitchcock will urge President Wilson to accept .Senator Lodge's reservations to the Peace Treaty with only slight textual changes in order to effect a quick compromise between the Republicans and Democrats. ln the Senate, Senator McCormick made a statement to.the effect that it is astonishing that some pubho men in England and France say that America is repudiating her agreements because the Treaty is not ratified They must know that when the American people last year elected a Republican. Congress. President Wilson was repudiated. He therefore had no power to bind the American people at the Peace Conference: