THE PEAGE CONFERENCE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17503, 20 December 1918, Page 5

THE PEAGE CONFERENCE

BRITISH PEACE CELEBRATIONS.

EXPEDITING RETURN OF PRISONERS.

LONDON, December 17. _ It is understood that the official celebration of Victory -will occur in January or February. The authorities are discussing a scheme on an unprecedented ecale, enabling every unit in the field to be represented Possibly the Navy and Air Force will have separate pageants. Steps are being taken to expedite the return of British prisoners. Fifteen Danish ships, in addition to British transports, have been chartered. Many men are arriving at the Rhine towns, and a Rhine steamer service has been organised for their transport.—A. and N.Z. and Renter.

MR WILSON'S INSISTENCE. PARIS, December 18. President Wilson, in a speech, said he believed a League of Nations would be indispensable for the preservation of peace —A. and N.Z. Cable.

MORE GERMAN HUMOUR.

DEMANDS FOR INDEMNITIES.

LONDON, December 17. (Received Dec. 19, at 7.45 p.m.) The Times states that German financiers are busily juggling with estimates of indemnities with a view to proving that the Allies must moderate their claims. They admit that the damage done in Belgium and Northern France and the submarined tonnage must be restored, but counter claims are minutely and in some instances humorously detailed. These include paymentfor the destruction of oversea trade, colonial interests, and merchant ships seized, the cost of feeding prisoners, compulsory business liquidations, damage to bombed towns, the value of food abandoned in France, and surrendered guns, aeroplanes, warships, and the AlsaceLorraine railways.—Times.