PEACE TERMS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 8 April 1919, Page 8

PEACE TERMS

FURTHER DETAILS

IMPORTANT DECISIONS BY THE CONFERENCE.

BY C»w'JB—PBKSS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT

(Received April 8, 10.55 a.m.) LONDON, April 6

The Daily Mail's Paris correspondent states that agreements have been reach- ■ ed on the following points: 1 The left (west) bank of the Rhine to be the military frontier. . j The Saar Valley coalpits and seams to , become French property in perpetuity, j No fixed sum to be mentioned for re- i paration, but Germany to agree to pay \ war damages on land and sea. (Thais '. does not include war Fxpenditur© or pensions excepting on victims of air raids and submarine outrages). Payment to be by special income tax on German industry and trade for 30 years, the amount to be baaed biennially on the maximum payable, without injuring Allied t"-'*de or bleelinji German industry to «toath. Occupation of Rhenish territory for thirty years as a mortgage, a small British and American force to assist the French and Belgian armies as a mandate from the League of Nations, thus making non-payment a casus belli for Britain and America equally with France and Belgium. Undecided points are: Status of Rhenish provinces; Method of collection of revenues from Saar coalfields without destroying the Germans' independence; and The distribution of reparation and revenues.