PEACE CONFERENCE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 17, 22 January 1919, Page 6

PEACE CONFERENCE

DOMINION REPRESENTATION, RUSSIAN SITUATION JMSOUSSED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) (Rec. Jan. 22, 1.25 p.m.) PARIS, Jan. It is understood that the Dominions are asking for admission to the League, of Nations with the status of individual nations whose sovereignty is admitted, although the right of Great Britain to control their foreign affairs remains uncontested. It is officially announced that good ■progress was made with the discussion on the Russian situation, and concrete proposals are expected! to result from another session. GERMAN PACIFIC COLONIES. OUTSPOKEN STATEMENT BY MR HUGHES. AUSTRALIA AND JAPAN . (•Rec. Jan. 22, 1.30 p.m.) PARIS, Jan. 20. Considerable agitation has been amused in certain quarters by the outspoken statement of Mr. Hughes in an interview with an American paper. He said- “If we don’t get fair treatment concerning the pacific Islands I .will not hesitate to appeal to public opinion of the Allied countries. The Japanese are a highly intelligent people, but their ways are not our ways and we would regard with suspicion any geographical advance by Japan towards Australia.”

LUXEMBURG. CLOSER RELATIONS W !TH ENTENTE DESIRED. - BRUSSELS, Jan. .18. The Grand Duchess Charlotte, in a speech from the Throne, <jeire to (Waw closer Luxemburg a ties with the Entente. HAPSBURG CAStLES BEING SOLD. ADftTERDAAf, Jan. 18. The Austrian Government is selling the Hapsburg castles to adjoining municipalities) who are converting them mto museums and parks. ITALIAN CLAIMS. ANNEXATION OF DALMATIA. ROME, Jan. 18. There was an enthusiastic meeting at Milan in favour of Italian annexation of Dalmatia. Troops dispers'd a counter-demonstration, fifty persons being injured. GREECE’S CLAIMS. STATEMENT BY M. VENIZELOS. PARIS, Jan. 19. M. Venizelos, in an interview with Le Temps, said that Greece claimed Thrace. She admitted that this would deprive Bulgaria of access to the Aegean Sea, but Bulgaria’s economic interests were not essential enough to induce Greece to eternally suffer the domination of insatible neighbour?. M. Venizelos believes that Constantinople will be internationalised and that all the Eastern Mediterranean islands should return to Greece.