PEACE TREATY.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 15978, 21 November 1919, Page 5

PEACE TREATY.

EFFECTIVE ON DECEMBER !. (Reuter.) Received November 21, 9.40, a.m. PARIS, Nov, 20. The Supreme Council has decided that the Peace Treaty shall become effective on the Ist Qecemher. AMERICA’S ATTITUDE. MAY TURN TREATY DOWN. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. WASHINGTON, Nov. 20. President Wilson is expected to re-submit the Treaty to the Senate at the new session in December. If President Wilson does not submit the Treaty at the December session the Republican leaders intend to pass Senator Lodge’s resolution, declaring a state of war with Germany ended. In view of the direct majority against ratification, it is believed the Republicans will insist on refusal to accept the Treaty in any form. . —————— « AMERICAN SENATE VOTES. Received November 21, 9.40 a.m. WASHINGTON, Nov. 19The Senate defeated the Treaty ratification resolution with the Lodge reservations by 55 to 34. Senator Sherman, in his final speech, said the Treaty was really a charter for an international homicide club which was likely to convert Europe into a legalised cockpit. It would provide no code of laws for the nations. : The Senate then voted on a motion to reconsider the Treaty, which was carried by 62 to 30, with the object of reaching a compromise. AMERICA’S REJECTION OF THE TREAT!. ENCOURAGES THE GERMANS. AMERICAN TROOPS TO LEAVE THE RHINE. Received November 21, 11.30 a.m. WASHINGTON, Nov. 20. The return of the American forces from the Rhine is expected owing to the non-ratification of the Treaty. It is not expected the new session of Congress will reach the Peace Treaty until January. Senator Hitchcock visited the President with the object, it is believed, or urging the re-submission of the Treaty. According to reports from Paris, the Germans are greatly encouraged at the failure of the Peace Treaty in the United States. French opinion fears that the United States will not ratify the Treaty at all.