PEACE CONFERENCE

Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16713, 22 January 1919, Page 7

PEACE CONFERENCE

1 THE RUSSIAN PROBLEM. Received 7.45 p.m'. r , Jan. 21st. PARIS, Jan. 18Jti is expected! thai* the Peace Conference will consult Russian representatives now in Paris. The French government adheres to its decision to have no dealings with the Bolshevik Government, but other countries hope to find a way of including it in the deliberations without departing from an abhorrent attitude towards the - Bol : sheviks' terrorism • ,* / ' f , MpThUGHES. TO DEAL ■'WITH'INDEMNITIES.' (United Service.) ■ Received 10.15 p.m., Jan. 21st. h-~ '"' • PARIS, Jan.' 18.' It is understood that Britain has asked Mr Hughes to .take charge of. the whole indemnity question for the -British Empire. ■*.-•> It is semiofficially announced that the French colonies will be represented] at the conference similarly, to' the ' British. ' CLAIMS OF GREECE: .. -. M. VENIZELOS'S VIEWS. ' ' M. Venizelos. in an interview by the "Temps" said that! Greece clainu Thrace. He admits that tins would deprive Bulgaria of access to the ' Aegean, but ' Bulgaria's economic interests are not siifficien% essential to , induce Greece eternally to suffer the ■ domination of insatiable neighboursi ' ° 1 FUTURE OF CONSTANTINOPLE.' M., Venizelos believes* that Ctfistantinople will'be internationalised. All the eastern Mediterranean islands should return to Greece. * REPOBT ON RUSSIAN SITUATION. NO TRUCE "WITH BOLSHEVISM'. - Received- 1.30 a.m., Jan/ 22nd.,--, - PARIS,' Jan., 20. Mr Fraser states that there was no formal meeting of the Conference, today, the Allied Premiers, Foreign Ministers, and Mr "Wilson conferring on' the Russian situation. The Council on Russian National and Democratic Conditions, in a Note to M. Pichon (French Foreign Minister) approve of the exclusion of Lenin and Trotsky representatives from • the Conmise with Bolshevism would be capitulation to a worse scourge than German militarism."? ' *