PEACE CONFERENCE PREPARATIONS

Sun (Christchurch), Volume V, Issue 1540, 20 January 1919, Page 9

PEACE CONFERENCE PREPARATIONS

■THE INAUGURATION DETAILS COMPLETED

legates will be welcomed by poincare. I DETAILS OF THE PRELIMINARY BUSINESS. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright. II NX) (Bee. January 20, 1.5 p.m.) PAEIS, January 16. | The preparations for the official inauguration of the Peace on January 18 are complete. | [ The fi2 delegates will be grouped according to their nations, Hrf will all be seated around the horseshoe table in the famous Ru-k Room at the Foreign Office. : J President Poincare will enter and deliver a speech of ■lconic, and then retire, M. Clemenceau taking the chair. The first business will be the appointment of an Inter-Allied Bmmittee, including the presidents, vice-presidents, and general Hrctariat. The decisions covering the procedure reached at the Bctings since January 12 will be read and ratified, and the Hument afterwards issued for publication. MOMENTOUS DAY IN GERMAN HISTORY. ■TING OF THE FIRST SEPARATE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. j I N.Z. (Bee. .Tai uary 20, 12.55 p.m.) LONDON, January 17. [ A Berlin wireless message states that the first separate Htional Assembly in Germany met on January 15 at Karlsruhe. [ There were 107 deputies, including nine women. I The Minister-President thanked the Baden soldiers for their ■•vices in the war. and said that the Grand Duke of Baden had Kt participate!! in the war, either at the beginning or the end. the Government expressed its thanks to the unassummk wearer of the crown and the heir. [ The Minister-President favoured Imperial unity. "We K desirous above all," he said, "of remaining in the great democratic State." IIGA AGAIN IN HANDS OF BOLSHEVIKS. RdER AND PLUNDER MARK COMING OF TERRORISTS. my .7.. (Bee. January 20, 12.55 p.m.) COPENHAGEN, January 16. [ The "Yossische Zeitung'' states that refugees from Riga Hort that there are fires in several places. iTlie Bolslnviks are plundering and murdering.