PEACE CONFERENCE.

Gisborne Times, Volume L, Issue 5136, 31 March 1919, Page 5

PEACE CONFERENCE.

BIG FOUR DISCUSS REPARATION HUGE TERMS SUGGESTED FOR HUNS. (Received March 29, 5.5 p.m.) United Services. PARIS, March 24. Mr. Murdoch writes:—The Big Four are getting close to an agreement on the reparation question. Experts refer repeatedly to figures—-twenty-five milliards francs immediately and six or eight milliards annually for at least thirty years. It is understood that Austalia’s amended claim presented last week approximates 350 millions.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association (Received March 29, 5.5 p.m.) PARIS, March 28.

A convention of the Foreign Ministers of the four Great Powers is now sitting to deal with subsidiary matters connected with the peace treaty. The finance committee of the conference, under the Hon. E. S. Montague’s presidency, is considering the apportionment of the- German public debt and also the question of Government State property in the States ceded under the peace treaty.

A credit of a quarter of a million sterling has been granted to Serbia to purchase horses and mules to enable the re-establishment of agriculture.

The Economic Council of the Peace Conference states that the estimates of the world’s food shortage has been greatly overstated.

PROTEST BY THE HUNS.

“TERMS APPEAR TO BE GROW-

ING WORSE.’

Australian and N.Z. Cable_ Association (Received March 29, 5.5 p.m.)

PARIS, March 28.

Herr Scheidemann in the National Assembly declared that the peace terms appear to be growing worse. He intends to comply with Ludendorff’s request for a trial before a High Court. Ex-Minister Court Dernberg, writing in the Berliner Tageblatt, says that Germany is threatened with dishonor instead of security on the West, and must turn eastwards to satisfy her needs and realise her future.

Australian and N.Z. Association (Received March 29, 5.5 p.m.)

PARIS, March 28

The Council of Foreign Ministers lias named a committee to inquire into the Moroccan question and the frontier of Schleswig.

CLEMENCEAU OFFERS TO RESIGN.

DISAGREEMENT WITH WILSON

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received March 29, 5.5 p.m.) A report is current that President Wilson on his return to Paris assured M. Clemenceau that America would not support the full French demands in reference to the west bank of the Rhineland, and would not support France’s opposition to the amalgamation of German Austria with Germany, whereupon, according to report, M. Clemenceau_ offered liis resignation on March 17th.