AN IMPASSE.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15040, 7 April 1919, Page 5

AN IMPASSE.

BRITISH DELEGATION HOPEFUL,

COMMISSIONS SPEEDED. UP.

(United Service.}

(Received April 6, 5.5 p.m.) •ru a ~ - Paris» April 4. ihe deaaiocK continues, and the ques*lon x . i? r .f ho will give in first. . President Wilson and Mr Lloyd George oftVFrance neutralisation of the left bank of the Rhine and Saar Valleys, but M. Clemenceau refuses any solution other than-the. annexation of, the Saar and a mn?h^ occu Prtlon of the Rhine. _. ±Jie British delegation thinks the position is grave, but expects an early de-

The greatest danger seems to bo that the decision will raise a storm of protest and perhaps repudiation in France whilst publication of the indemnity terms is expected to disturb the British public.

*v i 6 ?VP renie Council, in response to the, lashing of tne press, has issued a peremptory order that all the commissions final reports must be ready by Monday. The Economic Commission has been instructed to prepare for Germany a refusal to sign the terms, the intention bemg to restore a sharp and »hal ? f figntin S m the West, the Allies Uma confident that starvation '4vi.l. settle Germany. The Dominions' delegations are ex--7>vesßin R a hope that they ViH be kept m doser touch with the proceeding wnich are becoming more secret daily' W?^^ 001"^ 0? 5' wP^esentativosWMely^been finding time heavy on