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Show LONDON PRESS IS REFLECTING MORE . OPTIMISTIC SPIRIT By Universal Service. IvONDON. April 7- Optimistic expectations expec-tations of an early peace are contained in newspaper dispatches from Paris. The Times announces that Premier IJoyd Georpre expects to return from the Fiench capital at the end of the week and hopes to be able to make u statement state-ment in the house of commons on t he preliminaries of peace before parliament adjourns for the Kaster recess, probably a week from tomorrow. The Daily News says it was authoritatively authorita-tively and semiofficially stated in Faris on Saturday nlsltf that ait the outstanding outstand-ing difficulties of the council of four had been practically settled, except for the subsidiary question of responsibility for the crimes of the war. It adds that i: was announced the drafting of a peace treaty was to be started immediatelv. The correspondent: of tiie Daily Express says without reservation that there h:-.i been a complete agreement on all the main peace terms, including those relating relat-ing to territorial adjustments and reparation. repa-ration. The only question vital to a treaty with Germany whh'h remains to be ed-eided, ed-eided, he says, is that of the responsibility responsibil-ity and punishment of the former, emperor em-peror and others. He adds that it is now certain that a peace treaty, which wiil follow the main lines of a draft treaty drawn up by Premier I.lovd George will be ready by Kaster, tf not before' that date. The Daily Mail correspondent wires that "more or less agreement" has been reached regard ins Hie Saar basin and also on a plan to make Germany pay an "income fax" for thirtv years on her industry as reparation. The Manchester Guardian correspondent writes of a "break in the cloudy,'- and a:so reports that an agreement was reached on the question of reparation p-hh-h had been the chief obPta'U- to a settlement of tho terms. A method he reports, has been discovered for ass'e-ins ass'e-ins oatOKories of damage that is ent;re;v I consistent with tho terms of the answer of thr allifs to President Wilson list Novcmb-r. ar.d is at the sume time satisfactory satis-factory to France. , |