PRESIDENT WILSON LEAVES FOR HOME.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 17 February 1919, Page 5

PRESIDENT WILSON LEAVES FOR HOME.

DISCUSSIONS TO CONTINUE.

BRITAIN CLAIMS COST OF WAR

FRENCH DEMANDS THE SAAR

BASIN.

BY CABLB—PE£SS ASSOCIATION—COirrBIGai

BREST, Feb. IS. President Wilson, has departed, bound for the United States. Ms announced Iris ©arly return, and said he had been received and treated as a friend in France. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable, Assn.

NEW YORK, Feb. 13. The Herald's Paria correspondent statee that it would not be surprising if tke representatives of the "Big Fire," <ieapite the absence of Mr Lloyd George And [President Wilson, complete the; peace direaty before both men. refearn to Paris.

There has been growing diissatisiaetion at tha slowness of the Peaoa Congress.

PARIS, Feb. 15. Tke Supreme Wai' Council debated tile Russian question, and heard the delegates from Lebanon AdminisfcratiTd Council. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Association.

8 LONDON, Feb. I*. Tiie British delegates at Paris hay« been instructed to claim an indemnityincluding the cost of the war besides th« damage actually incurred. A commissHWi is considering the amount and- the method of enforcing

PARIS, Feb. 13. It ds stated that France will demand at the Peace Conference possession, of tiie Saar Canal basin in Rhaneland. 9h« will, nab ask for any further annexations of German territory.

Although there are a million Germans in the Saar basin, the French Government points out that the great majority *re German coloniatfcs sent by the German Government to oust the French. — A.US.-N.Z. Cable Association.