Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-31
NO PEACE OF LOOT
Will SON DECLA ARES
At CONFERENCE
Tells Delegates He Will Not be
Party to Distributing German
Colonies Among Powers.
HIS PLAN IS WINNING
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Paris. Jan 81 The crisis IN the pence
negotiations over the disposition To he
made Of Germany colonies seems tn
have passed. momentarily at least. IT IS
too early 10 say that President Wilson s
view has prevailed IN it's entirety, but IN
American quarters there Is confidence
that n compromise plan, which has been
accepted in principle, will bc carried out
with details which will be acceptable TO
the American viewpoint
When the Supreme Council of tho
Peace Conference meets today, IT viii
have before IT the very piaIn statement
made by President " IlsOn at Wcdnes-
days late session So particular was Mr..
Wilson tn have an exact record OF what he
had said that aoon after entering the meet
ing he summoned one of his personal
stenographers and kept him ut hIs sldc
during the session
What he said did not appear m the
official communiuie, nor h as II been is
closed with any official authority, hut It
mav be stated that il was n very clear re
affirmation Of the principles for which the
President has previously contended In
phrases stripped Of diplomatic niCctIes,
II IS understood, Mr. Wilson told tho
members Of the Supreme Council he would
not he party 10 a division of trermany'E
colonial possessions among the powers
which now hold them, and then become
party to n League II Nations, which IN
effect, would guarantee their title There
arc infnrenccq that the President even re-
ferred to peace of loot
The net result of tho past two DAYS Of
discussion on the colonial question, IN the
opinion of many Americans here. has
been 10 clear tho atmosphere generally
and 20 force clear definition of aims on
all sides
wrrHoN's FIRM ATTITUDE.
In the discussions concerning the DIS
posal of the former German colonies.
President Wilson ooutended in no un-
certain terms that to divide the colonies
among the Entente Nations would he IN
direct cnntravention of the fourteen
points which we're accepted as the
bas's of peace.
The DIVISION. he Is SAID 30 have added
also would VIOLA Q the principles of the
league of naflons as laid down at The peace
conference last Saturday
The American attitude, IL IL declared,
il very positive. and IN case the powers
insisted upon dividing the COLONIES among
them might be such that IT. would prob
ably affect the Nn9tC iutafH pI ttlH Issntt
conference. President Wilson, II Is under
stood. still holds Ia his original opinion
that IL would be scarcely worth while for
the United States to Iartiranats IA the
negotiations nnless n league Of nations,
with the accompanying principles, werc
provided for ~ making pear..
The general public probably will not see
a full report Of Yesterdays session nf
the supreme council, which will probably
have historic significance until after the
treaty OF peace IS signed, Il At all.
UNCERTAINTY As 70 RUSSIA.
The Peace Conference SO far has had
two replies to its invitation 70 the various
Russian governments for conference at
the Princes Islands In one Of these the
government Of North Russia formally re-
fuses to meet with the Bolsheviki The
Omsk government. under Admiral kol-
chak, while less categoric in IT'S reply. ex-
presses strong reserve.
Nothing official IN connection with the
invitation has been received from the
Russian Soviet government