PEACE TREATY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16454, 5 June 1919, Page 3

PEACE TREATY.

LEADERS DISAGREE, OVER CONCESSIONS TO GERMANY. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. PARIS, June 2. In connection with certain undisclosed peace terms, it is understood the Council or Four is reconsidering the inclusion of a reduction of the German indemnity, the dissolution of the Allied financial commission, and a plebiscite in Silesia in order to guarantee German coal from the Silesian mines. It is understood, that enemy property in the surrendered colonies will be sold, any debts due by the enemy owner being settled out of the proceeds, and the balance being devoted to meeting the reparation claims against Germany. The enemy owner will thus have to make a claim on Germany for tho balance taken by the Allies on the reparation account.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. (Received June 5, 9.30 a.m.) PARIS, June 4. The Council of Four was unable to •gree respecting financial modifications to the German treaty, President Wilson pressing for generosity to Germany and M. Clemenceau resisting.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. AUSTRIAN PRESS ON PEACE TERMS. VIENNA, June 3. The Nieue Freie Press, the Wiener Journal, and the Arbeiter Zeitung all vehemently assail the peace terms, declaring that they are unacceptable because they mean the annihilation of Austria.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. GOSSIP FROM PARIS. ON EUROPEAN AFFAIRS. (Received June 5, 12.5 p.m.) PARIS, May 30. At the Empire Delegation Hr. Hughes, Sir Joseph Cook, Mr. Massey and Sir Joseph W ard were present and discussed the German counter-proposals from the British viewpoint. Count von Rantzau, in a covering letter to the conference, expressed willingness to accept an army of 100,000, but desired to become an immediate member of the League of Nations. He also requested a free plebiscite for Al-sace-Lorraine. He was prepared to surrender Posen and willing that Danzig, Koenigsberg and Memei should become free ports. Two fresh German Notes have been received, one dealing with German properties in Allied countries, the other with regard to the Turkish public debt and German possessions at San Paulo, Brazil. Though it is premature to say that the Fiume difficulty is completely settled there is every reason to assume that the Adriatic problem is nearing a solution on the lines of creating a little republic at Fiume, excluding sarak, which belongs to Jugo-Slavia. Fiume and its hinterland will probably be administered by a Council of Five, composed of two Italians, one Croat, one Jugo-Slav, and one Hungarian. It is understood tne Italians will surrender their Dalmatian claims except that to Zara and Sebenico. Italy also retains the strategic islands guarding the bay of Fiume. x From an American source it is learned that America has definitely declined the mandate for Constantinople. As Britain and France will not accept it there is a possibility of Italy receiving the mandate. A French official message states that the information regarding the establishment of a republic at Coblenz is greatly exaggerated. Reports from Constantinople show that the Committee of Union and Progress is gaining strength by the help oi the Russian Bolsheviks and threatens trouble.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.