PEACE CONFERENCE

Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16800, 2 April 1919, Page 9

PEACE CONFERENCE

GRAVE ON THREE POINTS. « . Australian <iad' N.Z,■ Cable Am. ,v" , PARISj, March 31. j Hie Big Four have reaped, the graver, est part of the deliberations on thequestions whereon compromise is are (X^tjip...%rmaS' policy towards Bolshevism. FRENCH CRITICISM OF BRITAIN. ;,.i •'French papers are filled with every land of appeal to Mr Lloyd George and Mr Wilson to face the facta. M. Pertinaux, in the "Echo de Paris," insists that Britain has gained everything from the war. German trade is rained, her colonial empire and .'her. fleet have been seized, the approaches to India and Egypt; conquered, and siie' flbw- wishes,i\ as .after every European war/ to withdraw into her sea-girt isle and become herself again. Thisy it is explained, is the policy towards .which London anil Washington ''ore leaning. INDEMNITIES. % A COMING DISCUSSION*. • LONDON, March 31. The Alfies have nob yet fixed indemnities. . . The House of' Commons will discuss the subject on Thursday. IF GERMANY REFUSES TO SIGN. In ifche event, of Germany's refusing to sign .the Peace Treaty, it is understood that Marshal Foch 'has been authorised to undertake a general' advance; on the Rhine. ( WAR GUILT. " PARIS; March 30. The Commission set up to fix responsibility for the, war .decided to condemn violation of neutrality and all crimes committed by the Central Empires.: .lib: recommends j-an,, international tribunal to: judge the ex T Kaiser andi,all responsible. 7 ~ y~ ' '''