PROBLEMS OF PEACE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18076, 26 October 1920, Page 5

PROBLEMS OF PEACE

GERMANY'S OBLIGATIONS. GREAT BRITAIN'S LENIENCY. Press Association—By Telegraph— Copyright. LONDON, October 25. (Received Oct. 25, at 8 p.m.) Tlio Daily News Berlin correspondent announces that the ,/B'ritish Government has decided, in the event of tho German Government's voluntary default in performance of her peace obligations, that Great Britain will not adopt against individual Germans any economic financial measures of compulsion allowable under the. Pcaco Treaty. German property in Great Britain or in .tho British colonies will not be confiscated. This decision should remove any serious obstacle to tho renewal of tradebetween Britain and Germany.—A; and N.Z. Cable. VIOLATION OF BELGIAN TERRITORY. BRUSSELS, October 25. (Received Oct. 25, at 8.35 p.m.) M. De La Croix states:. "Mr Lloyd George, during tho conversations at Spa, told me in the event of Germany violating Belgian territory again, Britain would onco more- bo found on our side." Mr Lloyd George was very anxious that the Premiers of all the Allies should' attend tho first meeting of the League of Nations at Geneva on November 15.—A. and N.Z. Cable, LEAGUE OF NATIONS. THE GENEVA CONFERENCE. PUBLIC OPINION IN FRANCE. LONDON. October 25. (Received Oct. 25, at ~8.35 p.m.) The Morning Post's Paris correspondent points out that public opinion is strongly against the French Premier accepting an invitation to the Geneva Conference! in November unless it is definitely arranged that the vexed question of Germany's ad- ! mission to the League shall not be "raised, or the gathering changed into another Versailles Conference.—A. and N.Z. Cable,