SECOND EDITION PEACE CONFERENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 84, 9 April 1919, Page 1

SECOND EDITION PEACE CONFERENCE.

IMPORTANT MATTERS DEALT WITH. V PRESIDENT WILSON ABSENT. (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) (Rec. April 9, ILIO a.m.) PARIS, April 7. President Wilson is still absent' from the Council of Four. .. V : , The latter considered Gpneral Smuts’ report from Budapest; ■ It is understood that the . Bolshevist Government controls Budapest, but hot the rest of the country. the Council also discussed reparation. Full agreement was also reached by the Committee of Three on the Sa a *" Valley formula and the Khme frontier, which the League of , Nations is draft* iing. fT-he Committee arranged • the articles, which the Full Commission will probably consider tomorrow, when amendments dealing with the Monroe Doctrine and Japanese equality will be dealt with. r - It is announced that the . transport of General Haller’s troops across Germany begins on the 16th. It is, expected to occupy , two months; ■ B’or a reason, unknown the Dutch Government has not yet . appbinted delegates to discuss the revision of the Belgo-Dut|h Treaty of 1839. '

BOUNDARIES. SOME IMPORTANT DECISIONS. (Rec. April 9, 10.10 a.m..)’.A .Ci.,. PARIS, April ,7.; ’ Mr Murdoch states that • American, headquarters announce ‘ that Presidont’ , Wilson has ordered his ’steamer fcCigt . ready on the Kith April- to convey 'him homeward. s ." (The announcement is, regarded ~ as another threat ove.s .tl|j Confprdnce’s head. . • r - • President ’Wilson’s adherents .have been blaming certain delegates, for flue- ~ tur| .ionr, »o'( i.Ttitudd? and (indfecisiyeness regarding, new ■ frontiers. taking shape in .the Central Boundaries Commission’s workrooms. ’ It has finally been decided that Belgium have the Moresnet, , EupenJ and Malroedy jdiitiricts,- whilst* “in. <neturn , for certain Scheldt adjustments,. \Sdl,land ’be asked to accept, "Clovei , Gldern districts fromv The Bulgarian seaboard , parses. to- r wards Greece, but within three nrchths" of p sace Bulgaria will dcmde\wl\ether- .. she wvdres access seaward' iWqpgb ; Salonika, Dedeagatch,, ..or . Ka^a. ; whereupon Greece garian rights under the sapervisjpn- 1 fiv© Powers. ... . - , i V - « Greece also guarantees liberties, especially to, Moslenjg,. j a , safeguards ethnical, minorities.,, . ; Bulgarrniw ' over 18 years .of ago have a right during the two vents - following peacs, .to choose Bulgarian nationality, .whereupon they will' ,pe given a year in -which to move to Bulgaria with their personal property.-, > , no Difference. / “V. >' .(Rec;. April |9, 12.55 p.m.) Baris, April 8. ■ The Matin denies differeh-ea between' Americans and French view-point. a>»: cernipg financial reparation, from uer* m The afternoon session of the Council of Four was devoted to questions. of responsibility for the war. '• - ■ President Wilson will be unable "to attend till Thursday. SOLDIERS’ VOTES. (United Press Association) . , WELLINGTON line DayAs there is some misapprehension t garding the rights of undisfcharged soldiers to vote in the Licensing Poll, suggestion having been made that , > special permit is needed, Base. Record® points out that no other document us necessary except the soldiers’ status certificate; viz., certificate on. leave ■ with notice of discharge, or sick leave, or in-patient or out-patient’s certificate. These show that the soldier has not been .discharged, and ig therefore entitled to exercise the Soldier's v6te, ’* .