Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-04-18
Wilson Spends Day With
 Delegates. LEAGUE COVENANT
 WILL COME FIRST
The lhieruhtiona! Labor Troubles In Germany Will Not
 Interfere.
By The Associated Press.

With the return to Paris of the British Prime British, David Lloyd George, accompanied by the Earl of Curzon and Lord Miner, it is .ex- pected that there will be a speeding up of the final preparations, prelim- mary to the gathering of represen- tatlVes of the associated powers with the German delegates at Versailles on April 25th
 There was no meeting of the coun- Icll Of four at Paris Thursday and
 President Wilson was thus enabled to take up matters with various dele gatons, which may be considered side issues of the coming peace set clement The problems of many coun- tries, including Ireland, Rumania. Serbia and Portugal have thus again come under the consideration of the president.
 According to the present purpose, the covenant of the league of na- tions will be the first subject treat ed in detail after the declaration of peace After that, the matter of the military, naval and aerial terms, re- parations, responsibilities and from tiers will be taken in hand. Italians Work Hard.
 As it is evident that the question | of the possession of Plume and the Dalmatian coast has not vet been definitely settled, the Italian dele gates are working earnestly to ob- tain decision before the Italian chamber of deputies meets on April 24th.
 That the internal political and la
 Dor troubles in Germany are not to
 be permitted to encroach upon the occupied zone anywhere, is indicated by an order of the British comman- der on the Rhine which informs the strikers in Cologne that they must immediately return to work or pain ! Of having strong measures taken
 against those who promote or coun- tenance unrest. The American com
 mander some time ago issued simi- lar order.
 Northern Italy is experiencing a spell of labor trouble, the workmen
 at Milan, Bologna, Turin and Genoa, the principal manufacturing cities have gone on 24 hour strike. Ear
 Her in the week at Milan, there was fighting in the streets between socia-
 lists and anti-socialist groups in which four persons were killed and several wounded. Troops had to be called to restore order.
 Labor Trouble Brewing.
 Labor troubles also are brewing in the department of the Seine, France, of which Paris is the capital. A one day strike has been called for May 1st by the general federation of
 labor to put forward the federa-
 tion's program which calls for en eight hour day, political amnesty, non-intervention of Russia, lifting of the state of siege and the censor ship and the return 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 magnitude are reported from both European and Asiatic Turkey as to give rise to the fear that there will be outbreaks at various points and new massacres of Armenians.
 An investigation by the Belgian central industrial committee of the damages suffered by Belgium as a result of the war shows that these aggregate 35,OOO,OOO,OOO francs. The items include damages to state prop erty, Belgian industry and private homes and war expenses. A Russian bolshevik wireless com- munication announces that the bol- sheviki are at various points on the western Russian front from the Black Sea to the Baltic, have been victor ious in fighting against various groups.