THE PEACE TREATY.

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

THE PEACE TREATY.

COMPLETION EXPECTED ON WEDNESDAY.

BIG FOUR IN AGREEMENT,

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association*

(Received April 6, 11.30 p.m.) _ ; .... London, April 5. I The "Evening Standard" says that according ; to a high authority the peace treaty will.be. completed on Wednesday Mr iiloyd George will ■ make a statement in the .•■•House of Commons before he'signs it. The l)irr jr orir > m . o p rac ti ea ny agreed on ai! rhe most important questions except responsibility for breaches of the laws of war. The preliminaries will bo finally settled in a few days, and it is expec/ced tnat the Germans will bo irivitod to attend at Versailles within a fortnight. The Conference vail apparently settle the question of the occupation of the left bank of tho Rhine. Probable 200,000 Fronch and Belgians will undertake'the occupation- under the control of the League of Nations. If. is believed that out of the total fiirman indemnity Franco will receive ..To per cent.