Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-25
|CZEC CHO OVAK
REPUDIATE MAP
Jugo.Slavs Object to Sign
on Conference Build.
ing Here
RUPTURE IS AVERTED
Diplomats Decide to Leave
Boundary Lines to Men
at Peace Table

4 threatened rupture in the confer
euce Of the democratic European
Union. meeting in Independence Hall
was averted today by the conferees
| branding as unofficial a disputed mar
| and asserting that the boundaries of the
new nations emerging into being would
be settled AT the peace conference.
The threat to withdraw from the de-
| liberatons was made by DR.. Hinkc
| Hinkovich and NJ Nosjnak, representa-.
| tivos of the ,Jugo-Slavs.
Bitterly protesting against the bound
ary lines indicated o ma huge map on
the west wall of the old City Hall. Fifth
and Chestnut streets. Doctor Hinkovich
declared:
Unless the map Is repudated by this
| conference | and my colleague, TO our
great regret. will be forced to withdraw
from the conference. i cannot be a
member of a convention where the ma
tional rights of my people are mistreated
and msrerresented in this way.
The rnvoy's objection to the map was
based partly on the fact that II sepa-
! rated a strip of land on the Adriatic
Sea from the territory claimed by the
Jugo-Slarse. This strip the Italian Irre-
dentists desire in the possession of Italy.
AS Doctor Hinkovich voiced hie OBJ
lection and his ultimatum. the envoy of
the Italian irredentists, Or. Giovanni
Almagia, interjected:
ITS a shame, it's shame"
But oil speedily was poured on the
troubled waters by DR.. Thomas c.
Masaryk, president of the new Czecho-
S!ovak republic and chairman of the
conference.
tionable map was intended merely for
publicity purposes and that 1t indicated
no intention of fixing boundary lines.
The presidents statement was upheld
by DIR. Herbert A. Miller. director of
the federation for mid European
union. The conference thereupon passed
a resolution branding the map as un-
official
Want Jerusalem Capital
The declaration that Jerusalem should
be the capital of the world, the capital
of the spiritual rebirth of the world was
made by Mar Ittamar Ben-Avi. of Pal
cstine, who. in a brilliant and impas-
snned speech, reminded the envoys that
the Jews must be accorded just treat
nent at the hands of the oppressed peo-
pies now nearing freedom.
II was born on the hills of Judea.
said Ben-Avi, ''and have Travelled
through all the countries represen,e ed al
this conference. Jerusalem, Palestine
again is the homeland OF the Jews and
we thank Christendom for its unsclfisl
sacrifice in our behalf
1T will be great cay when Jerusalem
becomes the capital az Jewish State
in Palestine. 1t should become tn.
capital of the ,rebirth of the spiritual
world, it should truly become the capital
of the world"
At the conference today christopher
Dako. of the Albanian National party
| urged "the Balkans for the Balkans,
and laimed that the Albanians were
the first inhabitants of the Balkan re
| gions. their location there dating bach
| for 5000 years.
Dako, in asserting that Albania wa,
now occupied by French and Italiar
troops, declared that France and ITALY
had assured Albania that the occupa
ton will be only temporary
Yes. we are generous people," re
marked Doctor Alamgia, the envoy o
the Italian irredentists, looking toward
Doctor Hinkovich. the Jugo-Slav dele
gate.
Don't insult, please" exploded Dee
tor Hinkovch.
"Rumania today is standing for com.
plete Freedom declared Captain Vasile
Stoica, envoy of the Rumanians He
said autonomy under Austria or Hun
gary was not desired because in the fu-
ture it would only lead to the same
oppression and despotism.
Captain Stoica said a plebscte con.
Quoted under the iron hand of the Hun
garian police would not reflect the
wishes of the Rumanians
Give me the police Of Hungary" he
declared, "and let me bring them into
Philadelphia and ! could force the citi
zens of Philadelphia to vote a union with
Budapest.
sour nation wants to be completed,
free from Austrian and Hungarian dom.
ination. We demand the unity of the
whole race under a single political body
Wilson Called Great Liberator
President Wilson was described as the
great liberator of the nations" by p
j. Nolkeapaa, who spoke for the Firms
He said the Firms can be a nimportan n,
factor in the Mid-European Union. He
suggested that .Petrograd might even
tually be made free city and in
ternationalized. with the northern rail-
ways Of Russia controlled by the League
of Nations.
Greetings were sent to the conference
today by the Lithuanian National Coun
ell and by the Polish natiopal party
Representation at the conference was de
MED the Carpatho- Russians on tn,
grounds that the peoples of the Ukrain,
already were represented
Doctor Masafyk this morning received
the fervent congratulations of the col.
! leagues over the victory of the Czecho,
Slovak army in FRANCE. Reports from
abroad assert that Immediately after
hearing the proclamation of their new
Republics constitution. the Czecho-
Slovak troops assaulted one of the most
difficult pOsitions along the Aisne and