A FURTHER CONCESSION.

Colonist, Volume LXII, Issue 15308, 23 February 1920, Page 5

A FURTHER CONCESSION.

REDUCTION DELAYED

(Router's Telegrams.)

London, Feb 18 Mr Lloyd George, as President of the bupreme Council, has to-day written to fc>t. Hamer, German Charge d'Affaires in London, stating that he has received intimation from the president of the Commission of Control in Berlin pointing out the difficulty with which' tlie^berman Government is confronted if the Allies insist on a reduction of the military strength under the Peace Ireaty to 100,000 by March 31st Thisi date was fixed in the belief that the Ireaty would operate much earlier, ihe Supreme Council has decided to permit a reduction to 200,000 by April 10th and to 100,000 by July loth