THE INDEMNITIES

Southland Times, Issue 18811, 3 May 1920, Page 5

THE INDEMNITIES

GERMANY’S LIABILITY IUiIIP SOM PROPOSAL .(By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Imperial News .'Service.) LONDON. April 29. la the House of Guinnum.-, following Mi Lloyd George, air r1) contended th:ii it was highly desirable that the floating charge imposed on An. rria and Germany should be replaced by a fixed agreed-on sum. He was of opinion that I lie San Rome Conference marked a ei-ia-idi-raMe slip to Wards reconstructing Fun.jv. Nevertheless he wanted to see ihe effective establishment of a League of Nations ,-s Si ages, small and great, were already pan tiers o> the covenant, and they would he augmented by our lari 1 enemies. Mr Lloyd George, replying, said the Allies Were anxious in the mu re,-! of ail, including Germany, simrou the suspense as regards indemnities- an.l eitar The Allies agreed that it would, be !:■ :; ,-r for Germany to know the exact dc.i ci:iy. and invited her definitely to .-uiuiur a .-.posal lor payment of a lump slim <’—rm-u.v ha I imt done so. ••Germany," h- -ad: :. "'’-is tic- remedy in her own hands by s!at it-a what she is prepared to p iy." lie emphasised the tact that there vot at mv-uu lies 1 Powers with the strength, or-m: ■-M " -n. and will to direct the affair- oi 1 ur-m 1 until there was something of epu 1 organisation to replace them, i ■ ; : w : nd up the Supreme ‘ • ua-i!. L■. • .•mp-eie-e Council was t!ie hegin’iim: -fi ilm I \ pi,H--was an faree-t b.■ Fa-- I -a -u-'. ii it failed th ■ only ho: •• v • a !• Amt ion of Rations. MUNITIONS IM GERMANY. STAT £ ;V1 £N T DY_ TH £ WA R ! ; ■ X ! o V : ,v 1. i Rce-lv",! M o- P . .... A Berlin urn,cm, p Ministry of Defence has ma a a ■ ; ’■■■gardiag German war -l ua-,. b •!;■• tii.-rc are 43S guns at pre.--uii k .s. ,-rg. The Entente have be. n : : i ' i-i and 500 heavy gun.-. ,-..a-r-. •Jii.liuD machine-gun.--. 73 7.C i ."oo .no;) rounds of artillery cm-- ■ - ■ opu ' ■ o) cartridges, an-1 all aft. r-■■.uiin-ally 400 aenylatit s Tb ■ ■ ■ -'h of the arrav on April 5 11 ■' o . .p.vi-s and 220.00 0 Th ■ ama d ■ ; urn h :iv ,- been fulfilled, a::,! ;F- b v is-'.vc not Complained it; that ,-ti >n. SITUATION IN RUSSIA. THE POLISH OFFENSIVE. OFFICIAL DETAILS. 1 Imperial X-w.-- Service. 1 ! OX POX, April 20. A War Office official r;;ws:ar> -trues that the Polish offensive hr,.- i-e-.-u taken in consequence of th“ P.oN-heviks’ refusal to nn—t Polish peace delegates. The offensive is mi a from of 1.-V) mips from the Fripet to the Gni, star, it is believed that rhu' ! ’kraiabuts under P'-tlitra are co-operalmtr mi southern sectors oi this front. The Poles ha-re reached Ovrutch. Krosten. and .litomir. The average depth of the advance >- do miles and ihe maximum fifty. The Reds in the Crimea ere faced with grave difficulties. A number of peasant. risings have occurred in the Ckraine and also in Co.-,sack territories. A number or lb-.', regiments mutinied owing to .ureit't'is at- rh-dr conversion into labour units without i;>-mM>i!is:*«oo or leave.

GREAT POLISH SUCCESS. EXTENT OF THE ADVANCE, (Thr- Times.) LONDON, May 1. (Received May 2, p.m. i The Times’ Warsaw rorrs-amdeur. writing on April SO. says that. Lae Polish often- I Five proceeds with 'arcA. sitccess. and has reached the junction of the Dnieper and Pripet, less than Li miU-s from fvieff. ■ Cavalry crossed Uw river Trircff. erv 1 the infantry swing .dmig on the Zitonurkuff road. Two Red divisions were nn of? and surround ctl by Poles and Ukrainians jointly at Idtnimehilnf f. A Constantinople no-siyi states that the battleship Ajax m sorted from Batoum owing to the HoLh vid occupation of Baku,

POLAND AMD THE UKRAINE AN OFFENSIVE ALLIANCE. (Reuter's TV!- enn.-. > !,' .-N f!( >\, April 30. (Receive.! May 2, r,.r, p.m,. TRio Polish (luvienw"; i; is officially rc cognised IVtlur and ack nowledged the right of :he Ukraine to inde pendencc. Pilsudski is.tifd a p!-'e!..mati:m statins that his forces had er.P-i'ed the Ckraine to expel the BoUh-vlk-. and wouid remain (ill the Ukrainian (Invcnin i-m h;ul been cs tublished. and then withdraw. Pctlura has iesm-d a proclamation statins that the Polish-l'krmrd-.m ain-e-mcnt was established to fig!;; comnion enuny, Bolshevism, till it is defeated.. A BOLSHEVIK COMMUNIQUE. L'iNDON, May i, (Reer-lved May If 11 p.rn. i A Bolshevik roinmimip ;■> admits the low, af Jitornir. and foais ttiat the ohensivu threatens Kiel!. MASSACRE OF JAPANESE. TOKTO, May 1. (Received M.IV 2, 5.5 p.m. The War I )::irv I ihar p.olshe▼iks, aided by Ko -.'.as an.! Chinese, masBarred 070 .Isoanmo in the consulate at JMiitolaevsk, Siberia. COST OF THE REVOLUTION. TWENTY-FIVE MILLION LIVES. rivTiP r. ill \D. Anri! 30. It is omcialiy Sisni that irm .-evolution and di.-ea.-e Lromdit in its trahi have cost Russia Jo.oOnst L.m. THE CAPiTAL’S N A'YE. CHANGED TO LENINGRAD. PARIS, April 30. The Echo de Paris -has advice from Stockholm that !Vt,-oared will henceforth be called Leningrad. REVOLUTION AT BAKU. COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHED. -MOSCOW, April 30. A wireless states that the workers of Baku have overthrown the Government. A Communist Government has been established and proposes a military alliance with the Soviet.

NEWS NOT CONFIRMED. THE SITUATION OBSCURE. LONDON, April 30. (Received May 2, 11 p.m.) The Australian Press Association learns that there is no official confirmation of Moscow's claim that a Communist Government has been established at Baku, and the proposed military alliance with the Soviet Government, but recent news from Baku indicated very unsettled conditions. I It seems likely that the Government of i the new republic of .Azerbaijan, in which j Baku is situated, proved too weak to control ihe revolutionary elements. The situation is complicated owing to the biller lighting between the Tartars and Armenians. During the past two months 'several lynchings and assassinations have taken place, culminating in the murder of I 400 .Armenians at Marabagh. ! The Armenians retaliated and marched ;on Marabagh in strength, and kidnapped 1 the Tartar Governor as a hostage, but an | armistice was arranged a fortnight ago.

i FORTIFICATIONS OF TREBIZOND. I DISMANTLED BY THE BRITISH. | CONSTANTINOPLE:. April 29. Landing parties from tile Revenge am Kamillies dismantled the fortifications a Trciuzon-l under the armistice terms. MASSACRE OF FRENCHMEN. A TERRIBLE STORY. LONDON, May 1. (Received May 2. 11 p.m.) Tin’ Daily Express’ Beirut correspondent states ihuf Americans fioin Urfa give horril.la detail.- of the massacre of 400 Frenchne’.i near i.'rfa where they went defending tit: .:;- eivo ; in an impregnable position ini' Tiny It i in consequence of a s.afe conduct bole,: it.-d by 1 lie Turkish Government. Throe iii.ui-e.nd Kurds and Turks attacked the Fitnoi; column in a ravine and killed aii evvpt a few who escaped. There v ore shoe id ng scenes at Grfa, where lit,-i a cession of soldiers carried poles with the heads uf the murdered Frcnehm etc SHANTUNG. JAPANESE NEGOTIATIONS. TOKIO, May 1. I deceived May 2, 5.5 p.m.i It is -emi-officially announced that Mr ! 1.-imcii: tiie Japanese Charge d’.Affaircs at Boriii.. i, negotiating fur the Shantung ■ o w:u ■•>n-s. It is expected that in the event of China refusing to conduct negotiation.- villi Japtui for the return of Shantung. Jaian is prepared to maintain the status quo indefinitely. UNITED STATES SENATE. THE PEACE RESOLUTION. WASHINGTON, May 1. (Received May 2, 5.5 p.m.i The Sena.e Foreign Relations Committee reported favourably on the resolution terminal mg the state of war with Germany