PEACE TREATY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16462, 14 June 1919, Page 3

PEACE TREATY.

BRITISH REPRESENTATIVES TINKERING WITH TERMS. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright, (Received June 14, 10.5 a.m.) PARIS, June 13. The British representatives on the Reparation Committee have reopened the reparation issue, proposing to control the raw materials furnished to Germany for the future. The is delaying the Allied reply to the Germans’ counter-proposals. Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. JNDEMNITY MAY BE FIXED. (Received June 14, 11.55 a.m.) PARIS, June 7. It is possible that the total German indemnity may be fixed at 8000 millions. SLOW PROGRESS MADE. MR. MASSEY’S RETURN. ’ LONDON, June 12. The Peace Conference is still making very slow progress, and apparently the Germans are determined that they will not sign the treaty as originally presented to them. The Allied Powers are willing to make certain modifications as regards the eastern boundaries and other matters of secondary importance, but will adhere to their main proposals and principles. The position is far from satisfactory, and the overseas delegates are naturally impatient at the delay. Mr. Lloyd George has urged Mr. Massey to stay as long as he possibly can, as the greatest importance is attached to the final decisions. Mr. Massey is anxious that New Zealand should not be unrepresented, but lias indicated that he. cannot stay longer than another fortnight.—Official. TURKEY AND THE ALLIES. A PROPOSED AGREEMENT. NEW YORK, June 5., The Herald’s Paris representative says he learns from an authoritative British source that the Council of Four will ask Turkey to send delegates to Paris for the purpose of concluding a peace treaty between Turkey and the Allies. The fact that the Mohammedan races who are subject to British rule are opposed to tho elimination of the Turkish Empire and tho apparent disinclination of the United States to accept a -mandate over Turkey are given as a reason for the new decision that a Turkish State will be establishedwithin the limits of Anatolia. Tho Sultan will he given full religious and political sovereignty. Turkey will renounce all claims to Constantinople.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.