PEACE CONFERENCE

Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16799, 1 April 1919, Page 7

PEACE CONFERENCE

-FORM OF TREATY AGREED TOBY THE "BIG FOUR." Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. PARIS, March 30. Newspapers state that tho "Big Four" have agreed respecting the. amount to be demanded from Germany and also as to the main features of the general treaty, which will be sent to the Council of Ten, whose considerations will occupy twelve days, when the scene will 'be removed to Versailles. ,-., ; LARGE GERMAN DELEGATION EXPECTED. Two hundred German delegates, .headed by Count Rantzau, ar« expected to attend the Peace Conference. ITALY AND FIUME. Received 5.5 p.m., March 31st. PARIS, March 22. Captain Ferucol, head of the Italian Press Bureau, in a statement said the reports that Italian delegates threatened to withdraw from the Peace Con- | ference if Italy were not given Fiume, are absolutely untrue. SOME OF THE TERMS. AN AMERICAN SUMMARY. Received 7.30 p.m., March 31st. NEW YORK, March 22. The United Pres3 Paris correspondent learns from authoritative sources thfct the following will be the military, naval, and aerial terms of the Peace Treaty with Germany:— The German army not to exceed one hundred thousand men, with four thousand officers; all fortified works within fifty miles of the Rhine, to be destroyed; Germany to be permitted only a definitely limited amount of ammuiiition. , The Navy to be limited to six" battleships of the Lothrington type. (12, i 097 tons), six light cruisers, twelve destroyers, and twelve torpedo boats; the' personnel of the Navy to be fifteen, thousand.

No military air force is to be allowed.

GERMAN DEMANDS. FOR .SIGNING PEACE TREATY. AMSTERDAM, March 24. Ereberger, addressing a, big meeting in Berlin, declared that Ger,many must sign involving annexations of Dantzig, West Prussia, and part of Silesia „ He added: "We demand ,the immediate release of all prisoners, the abandonment of the ■blockade, and the evacuation of occupied territory.