PRESIDENT STANDING BY HIS PRINCIPLES.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15044, 11 April 1919, Page 5

PRESIDENT STANDING BY HIS PRINCIPLES.

CONTROL OF THE ORIENT.

THE SAAR VALLEY.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

. New York, March 29. Despatches from Paris say that the Australian delegates pointed out that the proposed amendment of the League of Nations covenant, recognising the Monroe Doctrine,' claims preponderance for China in the Orient. ■■Experts are trying'to-find a formula fOT overcoming the objection. _The "Tribune" avers that President Wilson authorised the statement that he intended to stand by the principles he enunciated before the Allies accepted the armistice terms '■•■-■ The ''New York Times" Paris correspondent learns that M. Clemenceau demanded annexation of the Saar Val-i leym the reparation claims. The view being that it would be payment in kind for the devastated mining regions of France, the United btates and Britain oposed the scheme