The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-05-03
BELCIAN DELECAT TES TO PEACE
CONFERENCE ARE DISSATISFIED
over TERRITORl AL CO.;sIl,'s..''..o.l';''S.l;; '.'. .''.l; =;
arman and Inter-Al1ied FL
lance Commissions Hold
Prolonged Preliminary
Discussion.
POINDEXTER TALKS
ON ITALIAN ISSUE
Republican Says France and
England Achieved Diplo-
matte Triumph in Shifting
Responsibility to u. S.

paris. May 2.-The Belgian dele
cation TO the peace conference is
expressing dissatisfaction over
terms of preliminaries for peace aft
fectinq Belgium. None of Beleiun1's
territorial claims have been grant
ed. except that for MaImedy in
Rhenish Prussia. short distance
south Of AK Ia Chapelie, the poPu-
laton Of whish before the war was
largely WalIoon.
Malmedy will revert to Belgium.
of $500 oo0o, 900 already mentioned as
immediate financial indemnity for
BeIqium more than half merely
been placed to 6eIsiunn's credit in
allied countries as part payment of
war loan.
Versailles. May PA meeting of the
German and inter- Allied Finance COM
mission was held this morning at the
|Trianon hotel. The German delegates,
numbering 8, arrived on foot under
escort of a French C tain. American
mad other inter-ailied delegates drove
from Paris in an automobile. The
delegates held prolonged discussions.
Washington. May 2-"People look
upon the italian controversy as pc
culiarly a European psoblem." Sena-
tor Poindexter of Washington, re-
publican. said in a statement today
lon returning from a trip to the Pa
cafic coast. and he said he felt that
France and England achieved a Dip
lomatic triumph in shifting the re-
snonsibiIity of its settlement to the
EAited States.
One of the consequences of the at
tempt by the American delega ton to
dominate and dictate the settlement OF
purely European controversies is shown
in the bitter resentment being mani
tested 81 the various peoples who
hut short time ago were our ardent
friends, he said.
Paris. May 2.-The credential COM
mittee of the peace conference held
meeting today to examine the Ger
man credentials received at yersail-
es yesterday.
There is no disposition. it is said,
on the part of the allies and the Unit
ad States to raise any question regard
ing the competency OF the Berlin gov
eFnment to speak for the remainder
Of Germany In the matter they are
proceeding on the theory that the Ber-
lin ministry is the real German gov
eminent
Another meeting with the Germans
on this question is improbable be-
cause the decision of the committee
regarding verif1cation md adequacy
probably viii be communicated to the
Germans in writing.
II the work of carrying out the last
Rnase of the peace negotiations pro-
sresses according to the program out
Ahed in Paris dispatches. the treaty
ehaing the great war probably will
ee signed early in the week begin
ming May 25.
The treaty will be presented to the
Germans next Monday afternoon. Re-
ports from the peace conference in
.lcale !. i is to be a "victors peace and
'lere viii be no oral conversations
eAceps the merest formalities when
i'e treaty is handed over. Fifteen
uays VIII be given the enemy to con-
siuer the treaty, with an additional
uays or week for the exchange
news hetween the allied and Ger
man delegations.
mus. at the latest, if present plans
~ followed, May 27 should see peace
sulng once more between Germany
.ua The allied and associated govern
-. secret plenary session of the con-
.'1aee viii be held Saturday, while
\ Nonday meeting will be held for
-. organization of the league of ma
:, 5 Italy still is not represented
A.. 'Hs conference, but her ambassa-
s1. : invited to attend such confer
f-o as the regular peaee delegation
bss mat country would attend He
ent peen asked. formally. to be pres
h, "a Monday to represent his ma
Iess.a Al the formal launching &c the
sUe Of nations.