POSITION NOT SATISFACTORY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVIII, Issue LXXVIII, 14 June 1919, Page 5

POSITION NOT SATISFACTORY.

DOMINION DELEGATES URGED TO

REMAIN

MAIN PROPOSALS WILL BE

ADHERED TO

TERMS FOR TURKEY

WILL BE CONFINED TO

ANATOLIA

LONDON, June 12. Official— Thm Peace Conference is stiil making very slow progress, and apparently the Germans are determined that they will not sign the treaty as originally presented to them. The Allied Powers are agreeable to certain modifications as regards the eastern boundaries and other matters •of secondary importance, but will adhere to their main proposals and principles. The position is far from satisfactory, and the overseas delegates are naturally impatient at the delay. Mr Lloyd George has urged Mr Mas_ *sey to stay as long as he possibly can, .< -as the greatest importance is attached to tjle final decisions. Mr Massey is -anxKfus that New Zealand should not' be unrepresented, but has indicated that he cannot stay longer than an-i other fortnight.

NEW "YORK, June 5 (delayed). The Herald's Paris representative ■says he learns from an authoritative British source that the Council of Four ■will ask Turkey to fiend delegates to Paris for the purpose of concluding a peace treaty between Turkey and the Allies. The fact that the Mohammedan races who are subject to British rule are opposed to. the elimination of the "Turkish Empire and the apparent disinclination of the United States to accept a mandate, over Turkey are given as a reason for th« new decision that a "Turkish State will be established within the limits of Anatolia. The Sultan •w:ll be given full religious and political «overeignty. Turkey will renounce all1 claims to Constantinople.