THE PEACE CONFERENCE

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11754, 11 February 1919, Page 5

THE PEACE CONFERENCE

A SUPREME ECONOMIC COUNCIL ITS CONSTITUTION. Paris, February 8. It is officially aonouncsd that in the i l, President Wilson moved that under present conditions many quesions not primarily of a military character, arising daily, and which are bound to become of increasing importance as time passes, should be dealt with on behalf of America fand the Allies by the civil representatives of their Governments experienced in such questions as finance, food, blockade, shipping, and raw materials, and to accomplish this there shall be conBtitnted at Paris a Supreme Economic Council to deal with them during the period of the armistice. The Council shall absorb or replace such other existing Allied nodies and their powers as may be determined. The Economic Council shall consist of not more than live representatives each, of each interested Government; also that there be added to the present International Armistice Commission two civilian representatives of each Government, who will consult the Allies’ high command, but who may report direct to the Economic Council. Discussion was adjourned till Monday. A COUNTESS’S VIEW. London, February 9. The Countess of Aberdeen, president of the Women’s International Council, requested the Peace Conference to hear the Conncil’s delegates on peace problems. MR LLOYD GEORGE IN LONDON. London. February 9. Mr Lloyd George has arrived in Lnodou. He announced that the conference ia progressing well.