Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-14
WILSON TO RETURN
| TO PEACE PARLEYS
| SOON, He DECLARES
Incomplete Draft of Society
of Nations Rules Is
Adopted.
BRITISH TO DEMAND COST
OF WAR AND ALL DAMAGES
English Delegates Instructed to
Seek Huge Indemnity
From Huns.
FOCH GOES TO MEET GERMANS
Carries Allied Conditions for ArnliA
stice Forcing Enemy to Carry
| Out Promises.
FoCH GOES TO MEET GERAIA Ns
Carries Allied Conditions for ArniA
stice Forcing Enemy to Carry
/ Out Promises.


Will start upon his return trip to
America tonight. leaving for Brcss
carly in tho evening to 20 aboard
thcdU. S. S. George Washington which
is prepared to clear port carly sat
urday morning.
First formal announcement that
President Wilson would return to
Franco before the peace conference
cnds was made to-day in an address
10 a delegation of the French Society
for q League OF Nations
The outstanding development of the
days proceedings OF the conference
was the report that the draft OF the
society Of nations mad been adopted
m,,n M,n s.everai amendments, but that the
Pian Tor the international army had
been defeated. '..1Tr
BRITISH Will. DEMAND
WAR COST AND DAMAGE
:, Bonar Laws address TO the British
House of Commons revealed theffa
that the English delegates have {besnS
instructed to demand an sindemnffy
oni fr1m &c Germany which will include not
age which has been caused. ~ .'ts1,;i5
Marshal Eoch is understood to-, AVA
aeparted Tor q conference wifhffths
with him the conditions witch f;sr
many must carry out hereafter. these
sonoitions 6cins such as to make re-
possible. pract'caiiy I'M
The Bourgeois proposition for an in
Was seS defeated ts!,thry ar force to enforce peace
at the meeting of the society of ma.
lions commission -
III the French and czecho- slovaks were
firmativsS representatives. in the af-
DRAFT OF SOCIETY Oh
NATIONS IS ADOPTED
n1an ,ne ar, draft of the society of nations
pc ps'n Vas was then unanimously adopted
:, The final draft consists of ,wenty-
President Wilson will persona,,v
read the draft to plenary meetin;.
Tbo Tf Inc ne peace conference to-n,orrow.
hnaiiy adopt it at this time. ~
The Japanese delegation presen+oa
an amendment providing that -. li,I
discrimination should not be Iolerafnsa
" immigration laws. fe
several delegates urged that +ht,
Mould open such a large question tbsf
gre great Ia, delay might ensue and tho mat
'en was dropped without a vote.
. The new armistice terms agreed on
oS ,ne supreme war council must be
accepted by Germany -
FOCH LEAVES WITH
ARMISTICE CONDITIONS
Marshal Foch Is understood 10 have
oeparted for Treves late to-day to com
municatc the new conditions to Stbs
uGT'nan tnif nan aarmlstlce commission. He will
iist or military and naval terms viii
be completed within three or four
TSsxS TSex al and wi VIII then be presented.
uey. LOO, must be signed without any
attempt at bargaining or the advance
or or .ne allied armies into Germany Will
DC resumed where 1t was left OF.
to Germany that the time for harsiinr.
over the terms is past.
up dnrns tsF%S w1l be
Sence.. Colonel House will sit i'm the
Presidents place when they are framed
and voted upon. -
CONDITIONS VIRTUALLY
AMOUNT TO ULTIMATUM
The understanding of the French
press Is that the new conditions vir-
tuaily amount to an ultimatum and
a German offensive against the Poles. {
The draf. OF terms is said to be 4
Fransh Frsh and HPepe.n bstwsen the
The commission on reparations
heard the American and English points
or yiew on the question Of reparatiohs;
Louis klotz. the French Minister OF
Finance. presided.
The financial commission of tho con
ference met under the presidency or
former Premier. Salandra. OF Italy,
The secretary of the commission was
ordered to amalgamate all lists into
one for presentation to the commits
sion at It's next meeting on Monday.
ITALIAN FRONTIERS
QUESTION HELD LP
The supreme council sat for three
hours this afternoon. 1t heard tile
Rev. Howard S. Bliss. president Of tho
American College at Beirut and Chckri
Gahem president OF the Syrian ma
tional committee. 49,
The proposed arbitration Of the 1tal-
ian Jugo-Slav frontier question Is for
the moment in allegiance. The Italian
Premier. Vittorio Orlando, has seen
President Wilson and Informed him tha.
after consulting with his colleagues 4
OF the delegation they had agreed IL
would be impossible to take decislon y
on the arbitration proposal which the
Jugo-Slavs presented to the peace con- q
ference, asking President Wilson 40 q
be arbiter. without first consulting tho
King and the Cabinet, and, II neces-
sary. the Parliament. Is
WILSON MAY DECLINE
POST AS ARBvTRATOR& q
President Wilson took the oppor,
tunity to explain he was NOT the
originator of tho proposai, which wsa
presented by N. Trurnbitcb, during 4 =
conversation which he had with hfrY
last week, and no had simply nevy.Ss Il
toned Il to Premier Orlando In coH
ycrsation. The President added ftgt !,
he would prefer not to hesfoadad win q
tho responsibilttyGto atbstyatss hui 4 wHn s.
willing TO act ~ u friendly snltfu,ediy u