12 APRIL 1919, Page 2

Nearly three hundred members of the House of Commons have

sent a telegram. to the Prime Minister in Paris informing him that the greatest misgiving exists throughout the country at the persistent reports that the. British Delegates in Paris, "instead of formulating the complete financial claim of the Empire " against Germany, are "merely considering what amount can be exacted from the enemy." They remind the Prime Minister of what their constituents had been led to expect at the time of the General Election, and they add : " Although we have the utmost confidence in your intention to fulfil your pledges to the country, may we, as we have to meet innumerable inquiries from our constituents, have your renewed assurances that you have in no way departed from your original intention ? "