COUNT RANTZAU GOES TO SPA

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VI, Issue 1641, 19 May 1919, Page 7

COUNT RANTZAU GOES TO SPA

WILL CONSULT GERMAN FINANCIERS IMPRESSION THAT TREATY WILUBE SIGNED NEGOTIATIONS EXPECTED TO CONCLUDE IN JUNE >'.'. . •.••I") . T" By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. {A. & N.Z.) (Rec. May 19, 0.30 a.m.) PARIS, May 18. Count Rantzau has been granted a passport to visit Spa, for i the purpose of meeting German financiers and-other important <•■ personages from Berlin. ■-■*•■. There is a strong-impression in Paris that has decided to sign the Treaty. ■,.,'" j It is expected that the negotiations will conclude between 3une 5 and 10. SERIOUS DISAGREEMENTS AMONG GERMAN DELEGATES f(A. & N.Z.) (Rec. May. 19, 12.30 p.m.) / PARIS, May 18. It is reported that there have been serious disagreements • among the German delegates regarding, the signing of. the ..sYeaty. ,'; Heated discussions ended in the delegates refusing to confer. ' JThey are dining separately.' ... _ "TREATY CONTAINS NO TRACE OF JUSTICE." J(A. & N.Z.) (Rce. May 19, 8.5 a.m.) BEBIJN, May 10. The Prussian Prime Minister states that the Peace Treaty contains no trace of justice. It is a Peace of violence, from which will resultfurther Woodshed and tears. \ DUTCH NEWSPAPERS CONSIDER TREATY SEVERE. ;<A. & N.Z.) (Rec. May 19, 8.5 a.m.) .' AMSTERDAM, May 10. ■ Dutch newspapers consider that, the Treaty is one of unimagined severity, which Germany cannot accept. , !'■'■';• Tliey predict that the German delegation will withdraw from Versailles if the Allies reject the counter-proposals. ... NORWEGIAN GOVERNMENT ASKS FOR INDEMNITY. |(A. & N.Z.) (Rec. May 19, 8.5 a.m.) CHRISTIANIA, May 10. The Norwegian Government has ashed the PeaSe Conference to ohtain an indemnity from Germany for the Norwegian vessels BELGIUM SENDS APPEAL TO AUSTRALIA. Received May 19, 8.40 a.m.) .»■' MELBOURNE, May 19. The President of the Senate has received a lengthy cablegram from the Belgian Senate appealing to" the Australian Parliament hj to support Belgium's legitimate claims for satisfaction and her demand on the Paris Conference for the restoration of Belgium. ■ GEEMAH FORCES IN SOUTH BXJSSM. ALLIED PROTESTS RESULT IN THEIR RECALL. '• •• ; '"" " - ! f '"" ■■'■ -"'■'■' "!i ':' : '•' ". ''. '''"■' V js.i's N.Z.)■.•'•• '.' (Rec'.May '■19, 8.5 a.m.) . " BERXIN, May 10. Owing to the Allied protests, Germany is arranging to reeall the German trpops in Lettland and Lithuania. RUMANIAN ADVANCE INTO HUNGARY. INVADERS REPORTED TO BE SERIOUSLY REPULSED, ](A. & N.Z.) (Rec. May 19, 8.5 a.m.) VIENNA, May 10. The Hungarians state that the Rumanians were seriously ■repulsed near Szolnok (54 miles east-south-east of Budapest),'