RATIFICATION.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IX, Issue 172, 7 July 1919, Page 5

RATIFICATION.

BY GERMANY TO-DAY.

Copenhagen, Julj 4. The German Cacunec. aiacussed ratification, wioch cue Na initial Assembly will adopt on toe 7th instant, alter hearing Herr Bauer and Herr Alueder, the latter outlining tnw toreign situation and reviewing Mr Ltojd George’speech. The Assembly ?t Weiu-ir read lor the second time the Constitution Bill. The first clause of rhe bill deciares the German Empire is a republic «itn sovereign right* rested in tne people. Paris. Juh 5

A bill of one clause has been introduced in the Chamber of Deputies to ralifv the Peace Treatv. —I A. and XX)

EASTERN EUROPEAN BOUNDARIES.

RUMANIA NOT SATISFIED.

London, July 3. The Rumanians have left Paris as a protest against the council’s alleged; lack of sympathy.—("The Times.”) | Lords Bryce and Crewe in a letter | to the newspapers urge the Peace Con-1 ference to appoint a commission to, impartially consider boundary and' other controversies in South Eastern ■ Europe, and so enable the conference! to settle these by the autumn. Otherwise errors are inevitable because the' conference was swayed by temporarily influential claimants. —(A. and N.Z.) THE ITALIAN DIFFICULTY. Paris, July 3. It is understood that the solution» of the Italian problem is being dis-1 cussed in the form of certain colonial concmaions, probably in Africa, in return for Italy’s support of the Peace Conference decisions regarding the Adriatic. BLOCKADE OF HUNGARY. NO PEACE WITH BELA KUN. ißecetved ", 1.45 p.m.) Paris, July € The Council of Ten maintains the blockade of Hungary, declaring that it is impossible to make peace with Bela Kun.