The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-03-06
Turkish State Created i'm the
Center of Asia @
Minor
TO DISARM GERMAN Y
It is Expected That Peace Council
Will Make Rapid Progress
from Now On

PARIS, March 6-The Supreme
Council met Monday and week of
critical discussion has been inaugu-
rated in which the military, naval,
territorial, financial and economic
conditions of the preliminary peace
will be arranged.
Enough is shown of the nature of
the problems which the Peace Coun-
Gil has to solve for it to be COM
paratively easy to forecast the gen.
eral subjects which will come up for
consideration. There is first of all,
the evident necessity of disar1ning
Germany and of reducing her army
to the limits called for by the neces-
sity of maintaining order within her
new frontiers.
This, as the Napoleon experiment
has shown is not altogether simple
operation. The success with which it
can be accomplished depends entirely
upon the efficacy of control and sup
ervision not only of the numbers of
that peace army, but also of the
methods by which it is trained, the
length of service of it's men and the
officers of its staff organizations. In
fact the whole series of measures
will have to be enforced so as to pre-
vent Germany from concealing the
extent of her military preparations
under the camoufage of short term
service for all citizens or by the de-
velopment of military training under
cover of societies, modelled upon the
lines of the Sokol, for instance. Con-
troll of these matters, however, can
be derived and made thoroughly eff
fective.
Iii It will be more difficult to control
the enemy 81 manufacture of warlike
material and to restrict her indus
trial capacity for war. The history
of this war has shown with what
speed, plant can be concerted from
the activities of peace to those on
war Without the most rigid control
Of all military, naval and aerial mat
ters, peace will be in vain and, what
is more the League of Nations will
be unable to give any security to any
of its members.
Is%has been decided these questions
shall be settled by two commissions of
Is members each, ten of these repre-
senting the five large Powers and the
others being single members of the
five smaller states.
The Polish commission-..deeid
yesterday to accept the proposal put
forward by the British and French
representatives that the western
frontiers of the new state should
follow the line of small portion of
Upper Silesia, where the Polish pop
ulation dominates. The Dantzig
question was not touched.
The commission on the Belgium
and Danish frontiers spent most sof
its time yesterday on Schleswig and
they decided to recommend that a
plebiscite should be held for the
whole of Northern Schleswig by dis
tricts, the Prussian officials to be re-
moved before the voting takes place.
The Greek commission devoted q
long sitting to Asia Minor and they
| came to the conclusion the Ottoman
Empire must cease to exist. The
Hellespont and the Bosphorus will bt
=! internationalized and Turkish STATE
| created in the centre of Asia Minor
all nationalities subject to TurkisI
rule to have their freedom.
The British proposal in regard Il
/ Greece was that all the coast from
Avail to Oos should be Greek, in
Guiding of course, Smyrna.