PEACE TREATY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16448, 30 May 1919, Page 3

PEACE TREATY.

THE FIITME PROBLEM 1 .

SETTLED AT LAST,

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright

(Received May 30, 12 10 p.m.)

PARIS, May 17. . French and American efforts to bring about an understanding; between, the Italians and Jugo-Slavs nave lad some success. An agreement about Fiumo has not yet,, been reached, but both countries are moving towards a recon-ciliation.—Ans.-N-Z. Cable Assn. (Received May 30 12 10 p.m.) PARIS, May 29.

It is understood that the Finnic. question has been settled, tire city becoming autonomous. Italy will receive tho Adriatic islands in exchange.—Ans.N.Z. Cable r \ssn.

OCCUPATION OF SMYRNA

SHOWS END OF TURKISH EMPIRE

(Received May 30, 12.10 p.m.) PARIS, May 17

Tie newspapers give prominence to the importance of the occupation .of Smyrna, which they regard as the end of the Ottoman Empire.

GERMAN SUGGESTIONS,

AS TO THE TERMS.

COPENHAGEN, May 27. German, newspapers contain the test of the counter-proposals. These declare that Germany is willing to reduce her armaments more than the demand. Germany proposes that a special commission of all the belligerents should settle territorial and colonial questions and deal with the League of Nations. She v definitely declines to surrender upper Silesia or any part of Prussia. Germany demands that Danzig shall hd a free port and the Vistula neutralised, and offers to assume direction of the German colonies under the League of Nations. She refuses to accept the punishment terms, and is ready to give an indemnity of one hundred milliard marks in gold and a further twenty milliards before 1926.

BERLIN, May 27

The German counter-proposals are to disarm all battleships and make conditions for the restoration of part of her mercantile fleet. ' She refuses the cession of‘upper Silesia, and demands! that the occupied territory be evacuated at the end of six months. Germany to be accorded membership of the League of Nations, and nor territorial changes to be made without the population agreeing thereto. Germany offers to pay an indemnity totalling' 100,000,000,000 marks (£6,000,000,000). —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

ALLIES WILL DECLINE DISCUSSION.

PARIS, May 28. The Allies will decline discussion he- ■ fond the methods of application. - Immediately Germany refuses to dgn the Allied armies, after 72 hours’ notice, will advance into Germany. Arrangements for blockading the coast are complete.