Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-02-07
Declare Territorial Claims
Must Be Granted by
Society Of Nations.
SUPREME COUNCIL
WORKING PATIENTLY
Al Claims Being Referred to Special
committsss-Sscrst Treaties Made
During Stress Of War Must Give
Way, American 0sIesatss say-Hah
of Draft ef League Of Nations Com
l,istsd.

The allied premisrs, who will
meet this afternoon ~ the su.
prone inter allied war coneil, pro.
badly will fix new terms to b
imposed on Germany, whose tao
tics Of obstruction and rserimina-
ton arO said to have reached .
climax in . thrsat made at Wei
mar by Chancellor Ebsrt that
Germany would break on nssotia-
tiens with the allies.
Secretary Of state Lansjns In .
statsnssnt Issued today says that
the government Of the United
states welcomes the union OF the
Serbian, croatian and slovanian
psepIss.
William Allen White, Of Empe.
ria, Kan, and Pref. George Davis
Heron have been appointed the
American delegates 70 the Mar
mora esnssrsnes with the Rus
sian factions.
The feeling in peace conference
circles 10 that the Germans are
moro and moro forgetting their
position and it 10 expected the
suprsvns council will take measures.
to bring them to . sense OF the
realities.
Marshal Foeh will 90 to Trsves
10 fix the forms Of the third re-
rswal of the armistioAs
Il 10 understood that the council
will fix . brief time within which
the Germans must eaSry out the
ecndisiens they have oily partially
fpltiylsd. In this rSspect Z % nesed
that Mono q the oosWlon merchant
ships WssieI, vssrS - hase, hesn
ssnt q ssrtejn allied pDvts havs
seen hendsd over.
The council will fix the size Of
the oont;ngsnts Of allied natiens in n
the army Of occupation both in
Europe and Asia.
0asIe, Switzerland, Feb. r.
chaneslIsr Ebsrt in his address to
the German national assembly at
Weimar yesterday said:
"Ths conditions Of the arnistic-
have been Of unhsard severity and
we're carried out without shame.
We warn our advsrsariss not to
:push too far.
acenitdsnt In the promises Of
prssidsnt Wilson. Germany laid
Down her arms and now We await
the peace Of President Wilson to
which We have . right"
Paris, Feb. THE number OF terri
rial conflicts now making their ap'
earance in peace conference circles
is said in'some quarters is attribute
, the prospects Of m early realization
a society Of nations plan which vii
,volve the examination Of all sucl
aims by a legal tribunal Of the societ!
,r adjudication with due regard t
le wishes and welfare of the in
abitants Of the districts in dispute.
The community Of interest of SOM
atoms in certain questions has led t.
Ints' Of cooperation among those t.
AXE up the majority in the con
renee. Gossip in the corridors ever
threats of resistance to an.
ecisions adverse to those interests
he special commission working on th'
,ciety OF nations plan is not moved
i these rumors, however. and Is goint
bout its work quietly but rapidly.
Attthe same time the supreme coun
i In short daily session continues IT.
olicy at hearing patiently all claim,
ia generally referring Them to specia
7 standing committees for thorough
altho this procedure. /
understood. is not entirely agreeable
, all the powers interested.
treaties Must Give Way.
Secret treaties made under tn
,ress of war and which may be con
dered out Of harmony with the prin
Plies on which = society Of nations /!
eing organized have provoked grea
eal Of comment. The American dele
ates, 1t least, have said that sucl
greements in so far as they confiic
18th the principles of q society Of ma
ons. must give way.
The Russian problem again viii
orne TO the fore today in connection
18th the acceptance by the MOSCOW
olshevik government of the invitation
, the conference on, the Princes,
lands. In some quarters the action O
he Moscow government has beel
allied with satisfaction and relief II
lew Of the promise it gives Of an i'm
lediate termination of bolshevik at
acks on the little allied army in tn,
lrchangel sector. is
Small crowds are beginning to as
emble around the foreign Office wher,
ne supreme council meets. but the,
o not disturb the members.
Experienced diplomats say that wha'
urprises them Is that the proceeding
ave been SO remarkably harmonioul
]. view of the multiplicity and tn,
OF questions. 33
y Half n Nations Draft covsrtd:
Substantially, one half OF the draf
( the constitution for the society 9
atlons Has been covered by the chef
onlerenct commission dealing wit
Wy II n 4 I;Se X