PEACE TREATY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 10 November 1919, Page 5

PEACE TREATY.

PROVISIONS IN FORCE. FURTHER REPARATION DEMANDS ON URRMANY (By' Electr'c Telegraph—-Copyright) (Australian & N.X. tame Association-' BERLIN, Nov. 6. A communique from, the Entente ha& notified Germany that in consequence of the ratification of the Peace Treaty a large number of its provisions have come into force, including the InterAllied Commission’s administration of the Rhine provinces, the functions of the military, naval, air, and reparation mssions in Germany, the inter-Allied occupation of Upper Silesia and Schleswig pending the plebiscites, and also of Memel and Diantzig, and the transference of the Saar district. The Supreme Council acquests Germany to send representatives to Paris before the 10th inst. to arrange details concerning tfie foregoing. Further Germany i s _ requested to surrender five light cruisers as compensation for the. Sea pa Flow sinkings within 60 days, floating docks, tugs, and dredges totaling 400,000 ton s within 90’days, and certain U-boafc machinery, as compensation, lor undelivered 1 submarines, within ten days. The newspapers, commenting on the Supreme Council’s note demanding five light cruisers, etc., declare that- it is fresh evidence of British hatred, and emphasise that coercive measures are threatened in the event of non-compU-anco. • ■

SENATE FEB ATE. * (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7. Senator Hitchcock conferred with President Wilson, and there is a prospect of the reservations being adopted. President Wilson told Senator Hitchcock that he would be satisfied with any interpretative reservations provided hose did not nullify the League of Nations Covenant. '. . . Senator Hitchcock, interviewed, stated that the plan was to defeat the reservations first, and if unable to do this then to reject the resolutions containing them. If a deadlock ensued they would offer to compromise with the Republicans. . The Senate, by 48 to 40, refused to debate the provision requiring accept:mce of fh© reservations by other Pow-

Minor amendments on similar lings were similarly ©defeated. The Senate adopted the frfst clause of the Treaty reservations an drawn up by the Foreign Relation* Committee, requiring three other Great Powers to accept the reservation®. The Senate rejected an amendmen rlesiPlied to make it possible for a 10're?en Power to accept the reservaticm by 6 recOgmsmg the UnQted States as 'i i>ariv to tho Trofl'ty. n ” y 'WASHINGTON Nov. 8. The first attempt to alter the Foreign Relations Committee’s reservation® f't'iAfl hv 67 vetisa to lv. * The Senate adopted by SO 35 the reservation 'relating to the United State s withdrawal from the League of Nations. The Senate also refused to fitnko out provision with reference to tongressional notice of withdrawal. shantung question. ;Bv Electric Telegraph—Copyright! Australian & Association LONDON, Nov. 8. The Daily Express’ Tokio correspondent states that the Government . m anxioiia to allay foreign coolness arising out of the Shantung setMeraent and wffl shortly dpen with China for the restitution of acquisition® in Shantung, but « generously in order to enable settlement, especially as J»P an feels the effect of the ‘Chinese traders boycott. , ; WAR CRIMINALS. (By Electric T pto-Conyright) (Australian & N.IV Cable Association! (Rec. Nov. 10, 9.30 a.m.) ' PARIS, Nov. 7. The Supreme Council appointed a committee, to settle the composition and procedure of mixed tnbunal which will deal with the guilty men Germany must hand over to the Allies.