PEACE TO BE SIGNED

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVII, Issue 5649, 23 June 1919, Page 2

PEACE TO BE SIGNED

DEFINITE ANNOUNCEMENT

NEW GERMAN CABINET

MOMENTOUS HAPPENINGS IN BERLIN

Mustralian and N.Z. Cable.) (Received June 22, 8 p.m.) LONDON June 22. It is definitely announced from Berlin that Germany will sign tho Per.ee Treaty. (Reuter’s Telegrams.) LONDON, June 21. A Berlin message states that a new Cabinet has been formed in which aro included tho following;— Herr Bauer, Premier. Herr Hermann Muller, Minister of Foreign Affairs. Herr David, Minister of Ihe Interior. Herr Boil, Minister of Communications and Colonics. Herr Noskc, Minister of Defence. (Australian and N.Z. Cah'e ) LONDON, June 21. Tho Gormans at Versailles, on learning of Hcr r Scheidemann’s fall, burned all the papers and correspondence between Scheidemann and Rantzau. Many confused reports are coming from Weimar, showing that momentous changes are taking place. There is great uncertainty as to tho outcome, but it is unquestionable that no extension of time will be allowed by the Allies. (Received Juno 22, 8 p.m.) COPENHAGEN Juno 20. Weimar messages state that the Government resigned alter a midnight Cabinet mooting, at which Her,- Schoideman, Chancellor, Count BroekdorffRantzau, Foreign Minister, and Herr Dcrnbcrg, definitely threatened resignation if the Assembly dee,Tied to sign the Peace Treaty. (Received Juno 22, 3 p.m.) PARIS, June 20. Acceding to advices from Copenhagen tho members of tho Scheidemann Cabinet at Weimar, the German peace delegates, and tho representatives of the Federal States, hold a lengthy conference on tho question of signing tho peace terms to-day. Tho representatives of Hamburg, Bremen. and Lubeek supported Sehe'domann’s determination to refuse signature. Wnrtemburg and Baden favoured acceptance, while Saxony and Bavaria were doubtful. Tho Berlin Exchange is firm owing to confidential assurance that signature is certain. It is reported that Germany asked for a further extension of time to enable a referendum to ho taken. GERMAN AND RUSSIAN MONARCHIES. MOVEMENT TO RESTORE, THEM. THE KAISER’S PROPOSAL. (Australian and N.Z. Cable.) (Received June 22, 8 p.m.) LONDON Juno 21 A Bolshevik wireless states that the Kaiser's agents at Odessa in February sent Herr Zinger, a former chief of the German secret service, to General Kolchak, proposing that tho latter should co-oporatc in overthrowing the Soviets, and then in restoring tho monarchies in Germany and Russia.

,o GERMANY'S RECENT ATTITUDE. THOUGHTS OF REJECTION. iri (Australian and N Z. Cable.) k (Received June 23, 8.40 a-.m.) n PARIS, June 13 (delayed), t Throughout Westphalia Germany is e actively removing her war material and t, troops. She is evidently preparing for - the rejection of the Treaty and the t marching in of an army of occapas tion. c THE COUNCIL OF FOUR. MEMBERSHIP INCREASED. 1 JAPAN ADMITTED. ; (Australian and N.Z. Cable.) (Received Juno 23, 8.40 a- m.) ; PARIS, Juno 13 (delayed.) It is significant that Baion Makino has joined the Council of Four, which . will now he called the Council of Five. Baron Makhno’s addition foreshadows Japanese participation in any action against Germany in the event of refusal to sign. UNREST IN ITALY. REVOLUTIONARY COMMOTION. GOVERNMENT'S SENSATIONAL DEFEAT. (Australian ana N.Z. Cable.) (Received Juno 22, 8 p.m.) . LONDON, Juno 21. Owing to strict censorship little in- ' formation is available regarding the 1 disturbances in Italy, cuilminating in tbe 1 sensational defeat of the Government by 1 259 to 78, 1 Dr Dillon reports that Italy is sceth- c ing with discontent, tho revolutionaries • seeking to establish a communist republie. Signor Orlando’s defeat, bo says, 1 is due to his failure to induce tlio Peace t Conference to endorse the Italian aims *< ju the Ad With’l also the irritation at- i :

tho dwindling food supplies and h'gh prices. It is expected that Signor Orlando will form a new Cabinet, omitting Raron Sonnino. BOLSHEVISM IN PARIS. ARREST OF AMERICAN JOURNALIST. (Australian and N.Z. Cah-e.) (Received June 23, 8.40 am.) PARIS, June 13 (delayed ) Tho newspaper Populace states that Robert Minor, an American journalist associated with a small but active group o' pro-Bolshevik Americans in Paris, has been arrested and handed over to the American military authorities., THE NEXT WAR. JAPAN MAY FIGHT AMERICA. (Australian and N.Z. Cable.) (Received June 22, 3 p.m.) WASHINGTON, June 10. During a debate in the Senate to-day, Senator J. D. Phelan, California, urging concellation of the. agreement with Japan, anticipated that America’s next war would be in the Pacific owing to Ihe Japanese attempt to obtain filent conquest of the Western Hemisphere.