The sun., 1919-04-19
DANZIG IS TO BE
WORLD PORT
Council Decides Also to Give
Poland a Corridor From
City to Frontier.
BOUNDARY LINE IS SET
Diverse Views on Prosecution
of Ex-kaiser Delay the
Plans Further.
By The Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
PARIS, April 1s-The Polish German
boundary question was finally disposed
Of by the Council of Four this morn
ing. No announcement was made of
the decisions taken. but it is UNDER,
stood that Danzig will be information
allied, while the Poles will have a cor
ridor running from that city to their
frontier to give them access to the sea-
Only routine work in connection
with the coming of the German dele
gates was taken up in the afternoon.
The most important remaining ques-
| ton TO be settled is that OF Jugo- Slav
and Italian claims in the Adriatic.
This matter will come up tomorrow
with Baron Sidney Soninno, the Italian
Foreign Minister. probably present to
set forth the Italian case. 1t was said
tonight that the Council OF Four in
tends to settle this conflict at to-
morrow's session.
The plan of the Council OF Four TO
J have Belgium prosecute the former Ger
! man Emperor on the charge OF responsl-
/ bility for the war Is meeting with objec-
! tions which are again bringing up the
| whole subject for revision.
! Those who have the matter in hand
! divide the question of war responstmi-
| ties into two distinct classes The first
! class includes military and naval Of
! tenders. like Gen. Ludendorff and -td-
miral Won Tirpitz, and those accused Of
| various excesses against the usual rules
! Of warfare. The second class includes
| former Emperor William, eX-ChancellOr
| Won Bethmann-Hollwcg and others
whose offence is chiefly of political
nature.
Concerning the first class. that of
military offenders. 1t is greed that there
! is no international Court.martIal suitable
| TO undertake such military trials. but il
| is pointed out that every contry as its
| own system OF court-martial for military
Offences committed within Its Borders.
! This has developed the suggestion that
these countries combine their courts
martial. and act under u single military
procedure cooihed from all the separate
military codes. a joint court-martlai
would thus bo constituted capable df
dealing with offenders Of the first. or
military aud naval class.
Plan Prepared for Court-NIartinI.
Concerning the political Offenders It
| Is said that a tribunal is not necessary
and would be ineffective. owins to the
legal immunity OF political Offenders,
| Therefore It is maintained that the aC-
| tion against Napoleon J. furnishes a
precedent for tho determination of the
allied course as general measure OF
policy
In tho case of Napoleon there was
hn
Island OF St Helena as n general meas
ure OF policy for the tranquility OF
Europe. Some such general policy is
! designed to reach ex-Emperor William
and other political offenders. with Bel
gium, or another country against which
the political offenses charged were
chiefly directed, acting for the purpose
of securing the extradition Of the in
dividual as preliminary to putting the
general policy into effect.
Women Would Punish Deporters
petition asking for the punishment
OF the Germans responsible for the de-
portation of women from Lille, Roubaix
and Tourcoiug in the spring Of 1916
will soon be handed to the Peace Con-
ference. II is signed by $4,000 women
including Nine. CASTOR Calmette and
Mrs, Anna Roosevelt, The petition
says
I'm spite Of the most elementary laws
Of humanity thousa ndR OF women, girls
| and children of every condition wer,
systematically abdu from their fam
ilies and We're forced to submit to th'
| most odious treatment. We women oi
| France with bleeding and broken hearts
| demand justice from the Peace Confer
| encc on behalf Of our martyred sisters.
I "To prevent such crimes from ever be
| ing perpetrated again we demand tha
| those guilty of them be punished like or
| dinary criminals. We trust you will eN
act full justice from Germany and he
| allies. We are nearing the anniVersar!
of the day. April 7s, 1915, when tina
odious deed. against which the women q
all nations protest, was carried out, an,
we firmly trust that another year vii
not elapse before the guilty are punished
| both those who issued the order from
Berlin and those who executed II In tn
| most brutal way"
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