GERMANY AND PEACE TERMS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17140, 21 April 1919, Page 5

GERMANY AND PEACE TERMS

ORGANISED RESISTANCE.

WIDESPREAD PROPAGANDA.

ECHO IN CONSTANTINOPLE.

Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association. (Reed. 5.5 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, April 19.

There is widespread propaganda in Germany in order to organise the public to resist what are regarded as extravagant terms. It is understood that the delegates will demand the immediate raising of the blockade, evacuation of the Rhineland, and the prompt release of all prisoners. Constantinople messages indicate that the movement for resistance to the peace terms is growing.

UPSETTING OF SCHEMES.

FRENCH MINING THREATENED Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 5.5 p.m.) PARIS, April 19. A great doal of bumptious talk filters through from Germany in regard to her attitude toward the peace terms oven before she knows the details. German newspapers strongly resent the proposals regarding the Saar Valley, and declare that Germany will never assent to them as they upset all her industrial schemes, of which the destruction of the French mining industry formed part. The Germans also appear to have lost faith in the League of Nations, which at the outset they regarded as a lifebuoy, but now see it is merely a machine by which the Allies can impose more severe peace conditions. RETENTION OF COLONIES. GERMANS' FOREMOST CLAIM. A. and N.Z. LONDON. April 18. The Weimar correspondent of the Daily Express interviewed Herr Rantzau, who stated that the German delegates would reject every demand differing essentially from Mr. Wilson's programme. Lasting peace, he said, would be impossible unless the colonies were restored to Germany, whose colonial activities were her foremost and most vital interest. AID FROM RUSSIA. BOLSHEVIK NEGOTIATIONS. Australian and NZ. Cable Association. (Reed. 5.5 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, April 19. The Berlin newspaper Deutsche Tages Zeitung says the Russian Bolsheviks are negotiating with the German Government, and offered 500,000 troops immediately. They also will permit Germany to select | recruits from Russian prisoners to operate against the Allies.