EXTRA EDITION; THE PEACE TREATY

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 5 June 1919, Page 7

EXTRA EDITION; THE PEACE TREATY

COUNT RANTZAU'S COUNTER PROPOSALS.

WHAT GERMANY IS WILLING TO

AGREE TO

ADRIATIC SETTLEMENT NEARING

COMPLETION

AMERICA REFUSES TURKISH

MANDATE

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT

(Received June 5, 12.5 p.m.) PARIS, May 30 (delayed). The Empire Delegation, consisting of Mr Hughes, Sir Joseph Cook, Mr Massey and Sir Joseph Ward were present and discussed the German counter proposals from the. British viewpoint. Count Rantzau, in a covering letter to the Conference, expresses his willingness to accept an army of 100,000 men, but desires that Germany shall become immediately a member "of the League of Nations He also requests a free plebiscite1 for Alsace-Lorraine. He is prepared to surrender Posen. and is willing that Dantzig, Koenigsberg^ and Meinel shall become free ports. Two fresh German notes have been received, one dealing with German properties in allied countries, the other W regard to the Turkish public debt and German possessions at San Panolo JBraaiL. r

Though it is premature t o say that the Fium© difficulty has been completely settled, there is every reason to assume that the Adriatic problem is neanng a1 solution on lines creating a little republic of Fiume, excluding Sarak, which belongs to Jugo-Slavia Frame, and its hinterland will probably be administered by a Council of Five composed of two Italians, one Croat! one Jugo-Slav, and one Hungarian It is understood that the Italians will surrender their Dalmatian claims except to Zara and Sebeniko. Italy "will xl *"etain strategic islands guarding the Bay of Fiume. ** 6 From an American source it is learned that America has definitely declined a mandate for . Constantinople 4 S Britain and France will not accept "it there is a possibility of Italy receiving the mandate. .

A French official states that information regarding the establishment of a republic at Coblenz is greatly exaggerated. ■■■""■' *

♦w6?? 1"^, from Constantinoole show that the Committee of Union "and Progress is gaining strength by help of the trouble" Bolsllevists and threatens