BELGIAN TERRITORIAL CLAIM.

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

BELGIAN TERRITORIAL CLAIM.

ALLIED DIFFERENCES DISAP-

PEARING

LIMITING SIZE OF GERMAN

ARMY

PARIS, Feb. 13

Mr Eraser states that the Council referred the Belgian territorial claims to the Committee for Investigation and the claims to the Scheldt to the Waterways Commission.

The Council is now discussing the Syrian question and will probably hear the Lebanon delegates to-day.

The League of Nations will hold a plenary sitting on Saturday,, lay the scheme on the table, give it a first reading, and take up the fuller discussion when Mr Wilson returns,. Britain, like America, is not disposed to accept th© clause with regard to an international army. . Marshal Foch and' Admiral Browning have gone to Treves in connection with the renewal of the armistice

It appears likely that the Conference ■will create an international Air Commission and draft a scheme of aerial communications. Mr Cook has been appointed chief British delegate. The Czecho-Slovak committee will investigate territorial claims.—Aus - N.Z. Cable Aesn.

The Americaii peace delegates do not oppose the reduction of the German army, but think a definite figure should! be set. There is a growing: belief that certain differences of opinion between the Allies will be satisfactorily settled, laying the foundation for lifting the German Wockade and restoring: the world to ■normal conditions.

It is likely the Americans will abandon their proposal to continue the peace conference outside France on account ■of the tendency to delay the peace agreement.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.