PEACE TERMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17726, 10 September 1919, Page 5

PEACE TERMS

THE AUSTRIAN TREATY. WHAT RUMANIA MUST DO. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. PARIS, September 8. Rumania has agreed to sign the Austrian Peace Treaty, with reservations. Later. The Peace Council has informed Rumania that she must sign the Austrian Peace Treaty without reservations or ab stain altogether—A. aud N.Z. Cable. AUSTRALASIAN DELEGATES' INTENTIONS. LONDON, September 8. Senator Pearce (Australia) and Sir Thomas Mackenzie (Now Zealand) go to Paris to-morrow to sign the Austrian Treaty. Sir T. Mackenzie will afterwards inspect the operations of the Graves Commission in the battlefields area.—A. and N.Z. Cable. -SIGN HERE." WHAT GERMANY HAD "TO DO. NEW YORK, September 8. A't Omaha, President Wilson said that the Allies had not asked Germany's consent regarding the terms of the Peace Treaty. They handed Germany the pen telling her to "sign here." "Did any patriotic American want th'e method changed?" asked President Wilson.— (Cheers and "No" from the crowd.) —A. and N.Z. Cable. AMERICAN SENATE'S RESERVATIONS. PRESIDENT WILSON'S CAUSTIC GIBE. NEW YORK, September 8. Speaking at Omaha, President Wilson, referring to the Senate's reservations, said that .the sponsors obviously meant the United States to sit near the door when trouble was impending, in'order that, if there were anything that they did not like, this position could enable them to scuttle and run. The reservations regarding the Monroe Doctrine were unnecessary, as the doctrine was accepted for the first time— hook, line, and sinkejv—by all the nations. —A. and N.Z. Cable. BELGIUM'S INDEPENDENCE. PARIS, September 8. The American peace delegation denies the reported Anglo-American guarantee of Belgium's independence.—A. and N Z Cable. AMERICA AND THE TREATY. THE SENATE'S ATTITUDE. PRESIDENT WILSON SARCASTIC. NEW YORK, September 8. (Received Sept. 0, at 5.5 p.m.) In the course of his speech at Omaha. President Wilson, referring to pan-Ameri-canism, said he did not believe the American people desired to arm themselves and stand on guard, ignoring the rest of the world. Regarding the adoption of the Peace Treaty by the Senate, Mr Wilson declared that no man knew how long it would take the United S'La&s Senate to do anything.—A. and N.Z. Cable. •