The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-04-23
Premier Lloyd George Returns
to Paris for Final S. ons
of Conference
A WEEK OF STRENUOUS
WORK AHEAD
Italians Are Still Working For
Favorable Decision on Flume
and Dalmation Question.


turn to Paris Of the British prime
minister David Lloyd George, ac-
companied by the Earl of Cu-zon and
Lord Miner, it is expected that tnere
will be & .,ceding up OF the flnaI prep
arationS, preliminary to the gamer
ing of the representatives OF asso-
ciated powers with the German dele
gates at Versailles on April %.
mere was no meeting Of the coun-
ell OF four at Paris Thursday and
President Wilson was thus enabled to
take up many matters with various
delegations which may be considered
side issues of the coming peace set
Element. The problems of many coun-
tries, including Ireland, Roumania,
Serbia and Portugal, have thus again
come under the consideration of the
president.
According to the present purpose
the covenant of the league of nations
will be the first subject treated in
detail after the declaration Of peace
After that the matter of the military,
naval and aerial terms. reparations.
responsibilities and frontier will be
taken in hand.
AS it is evident that the question Of
the possession Of Fiume and the Dal-
matian coast has not yet been def
nitely settled, the Italian delegates are
working earnestly to secure decis-
ion before the italian chamber OF
deputies meets >pril "a.
It is the intcl- n of the aeronau-
teal commission of the peace confer
ence to form permanent Internal
ional commission on aerial naviga-
ton, to act as kind OF clearing house
on all questions of air navigation be-
tween the respective States.
That the internal political and la
Dor troubles in Germany are not to
&c permitted to encroach upon the oc-
cupied zone anywhere is indicated by
an order of the British commander on
the Rhine, which informs the strik
ers in Cologne that they must imme-
diately return to work on pain of hav-
ing strong measures taken against
those who promote or countenance
unrest The American commander
cometime ago issued a similar order.
Northern Italy is experiencing a
spell Of labor trouble. the workmen
ut Milan, Bologna, Turin and Genoa.
the principal manufacturing cities.
having gone on "a hour strike.
Earlier in the week at Milan there
was fighting in the streets between
Socialist and anti-Socialist groups, in
which four persons were killed and
several wounded. Troops had to be
called out to restore order.
Labor troubles also are brewing in
the department Of the Seine, France.
of which Paris is the capital. one
day strike has been called for May I
by the general federation Of labor
to put forward the federation's pro- !
gram which calls for an eight hour I
day political amnesty. non-interven- !
ton in Russia, lifting of the state of
siege and the censorship and the re-
turn OF constitutional guarantees. A
general strike is threatened if the
government and the employers do not
meet the demands Of the federation.
Disorders of such ma agnitude are
reported from both European and
Asiatic Turkey as to give rise to the
fear that there will be great out
breaks at various points and ne"' mas
sacres of Armenians.
An investigation by the Belgian
central committee Of the damages
suffered by Belgium as q result Of
the war shows that these aggregate
8 900. .000,0 0G0 francs. The items in
clude damages to state property Bel
gian industry and private homes and
war expenses.
4 Russian Bolshevill wireless COM
announces that the Boil
sheviki at various points on the
Western Russian front from the Black
Sea to the Baltic have been victor
;ous in fighting against various groups