EXTRA EDITION. PEACE TREATY

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVIII, Issue LXXVIII, 16 June 1919, Page 7

EXTRA EDITION. PEACE TREATY

GERMAN ATTJTI i)H

TWO MAIN SECTIONS L\ K\" IDENCE

BY CABLE— PEESS ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT

(Received June 16, }-2.;'>:■> p.m.) PARIS, June 7 «flayed.) A French, semi-official statement says' that the German Government asa whole .'is now unwillini; t» higu the treaty, but a large minority under Herr Erzberger 3 is ready to construct a new! Government, which w'iJl si;m. Herr! Richtshof en, one of the 11 ri: i«• i pal .democratic leaders, approves* <>i the reconstruction. Count yon Ramy.au i s willing to sign, but his present position in the Government is not assured.

PARIS, Juiu- 0 eMayed.) Le Temps' Berlin com^pnndent, reviewing the situation in iJonnnny, says that the contest is betwvi>n two'men, Erzberger, who invokes national unity and declares that he wilL lvtiwe to sign a peace which ie theatrical ;md useless, bringing about the occupation of the and disunion um\ ruin, and claiming that peace treaties are not eternal, and Count Rantzau. who heads the "Bluff-it-out" school, holding that the Allies are powerless, ih>>ir armies demoralised, while strike's are increasing. »Socialists are attackine; the treaty and refuse to sign. The correspondent adds that the mob in Germany is compounded of fatigue and fatalism.