EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS.
FRANCO-GERMAN NEGOTIATIONS. DELEGATES ENEMIES AS BEFORE. Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association. LONDON, May 20. (Received May 21, at 8 p.m.) Hie ©ally Telegraph's Paris correepondent states that the excliange of German and French prisoners will begin in a fortnight. Tho negotiations, which were initiated by the Geneva Red Cross, lasted for two months. Though the delegates understood each other's languages, they declined to speak except in their own language. They never spoke, or even bowed, outside the conference hall, tho Swiss R-ed Cross representatives acting as go-be-tweens. The two grou-s of diplomatists parted enemies, as before the negotiations. rThe cablo news in tills ißsne accredited to The Times has appeared in that journal, but only where expressly stated is such news tie editorial opinion of Tho Times.!
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17321, 22 May 1918, Page 5
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