OPPOSITION IN FRANCE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 3 September 1919, Page 5

OPPOSITION IN FRANCE.

ITALIANS AND REPATRIATION OF

PRISONERS

CONFERENCE DISCUSSING BUL-

GARIAN TERMS.

JAPANESE NOT SATISFIED

BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGHT

LONDON, Sept. 1. The Westminster Gazette's correspondent states t>hat, although there is no doubt that the French Parliament will accept the' Treaty, there is opposition on all sides. One section recommends ratification^ but the Treaty is considered as constituting a damaging blow at the methods and results of the Conference. Thero are already minor modifications of the. Treaty^ such as the treatment of prisoners, the policing of Upper Silesia, the slower demobilisation of the German army,- and more vital changes.

There is a prospect that the cities will protest that France's territorial claims are not met, but instead are the nebulous terms of the reparation clauses, which shift authority to other bodies and leave nearly everything to the future. This aflords the chief cause for uneasiness. The absence of the Allied pooling arrangement is causing regret, and the shadowy provisions as to the financial future are provoking alarm. Meanwhile the doctrinaire Socialists declare the Treaty is reactionary, harsh and! vindictive.

ROME, Sept. 1. The Government has decided to repatriate the Austro-Hungarian prisoners immediately the treaty is ratified. PARIS/Sept. 1. >- The Supreme Council to-day discussed the Bulgarian Treaty. Thrace remains the stumbling block. The suggested compromise between the American and Greek.- conten'taons gives Greece the Aegean- seaboard/, except Dedeagach, which is reserved uhdqr the League of Nations as Bulgaria's economic outlet.

TOKIOj Sept. 2

Baron Saionji, head of the Japanese peace mission,, has arrived at. Kobe. He declared that all nations were dissatisfied with the work -of the: Peace Conference at Paris, although it marked the end of the war, over which, there i should be universal rejoicing. Baron Saionji was warmly welcomed, although many persons/ attempted to prevent a demonstration in his honor. .

He declared the world had witnessed the complete failure of Japanese diplomacy at the Peace Conference.