RECONSTRUCTION OF EUROPEAN.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 1, 12 April 1919, Page 5

RECONSTRUCTION OF EUROPEAN.

COMMUNICATIONS.

(United Service.)

(Received April 11, 8.30 p.m.) Paris, April 9

General Smuts reported to the Conference that his mission to Hungary had been successful. It was questionable if the Soviet Government controlled the provinces, and therefore he returned.

M. Paderewsld attended the Council and protested against the decision to neutralise Dantzig. He urged that the Teschen coalfield was vital to Poland.

The Supreme Economic Council has taken over the reconstruction of Eu-^ ropean inland communications, which require re-creating. In some cases only 20 per cent of.-, the necessary rolling stock remains. The Allies have distributed the "work as follows:—Britain undertakes Roumania, Poland, the Baltic, Caucasus, and Don regions; Italy undertakes Austria and Hungary; France undertakes ~uropean Turkey, Greece, the Donate Basin, afod the Ukraine; and America undertakes Czeeho-Slavda . and Jugo-Slavia.