PEACE TREATY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16448, 2 June 1919, Page 3

PEACE TREATY.

COUNT RANTZAU.

REFUSES TO SIGN PEACE.

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright,

LONDON, May 31

The German Foreign Office ha’s categorically declined to sign the 1 eace Treaty. Count von Rantzau, addressing several departing colleagues at Versailles, declares: ‘‘Tell Berlin I will never sign the peace preliminaries unless they are severely modified. Someone else may sign. I won’t.” Possibly Herr Erzberger will replace Rantzau. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE FIUME QUESTION.

PARIS, Maf 26. The Italians and Jugo-Slavs have practically settled their dispute on the basis of Italian concessions in the hinterland of Flume, like Danzig, pending a plebiscite after a few years. The Italians are still resisting the Greek claims to the Dodecanese islands. The Big Four are willing to recognise any non-Soviet Russian government which agrees to convene a national convention and respect the new independent border States. . The Allies have decided to lift the blockade from Hungary immediately any stable government is formed at Budapest, even one headed by Bela Knn.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.