THE PEACE TREATY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11927, 21 October 1919, Page 5

THE PEACE TREATY.

United. Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. New York, Oct. 20.

Senator Lodge, in a statement, declared that a decisive majority of the Senate would vote that reservations he attached to the ratification resolution. The Treaty reservations •were most unequivocal, effectively protecting the peace, safety, sovereignty, and independence of ihe IJnited States, Americanising of the Treaty would at the same time serve the cause of general peace work. Paris, Oct. 20?

The indefinite postponement of a formal exchange of ratifications, which alone is needed for the operation of the Treaty, is due to President Wilson’s illness, Many measures must he taken within a specified time after the Treaty begins to operate. President Wilson desires personally to deal withq these.