Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-16
POLES ARE DENIED
RIGHT TO HUN NAVY
Prisoners of War Held by
Russians Are Ordered
Sent Back.
ROUMAMIA OPPOSES TREATY
Decision to Divide Banat Arouscs
Feeling Among
Delegates.
ROUMAhIA OPPOSES TREATY
IRv Associatcd rrcc,

paris. May i5,--Thc council Of for
eisn ministers today refused the
Polish request for part Of the German
navy. The Poles claimed tnat war
ships were necessary for tho defense
of their country.
The council also decided tina. pri-
Soncrs OF war held BY the Russians
in siberia. tho Baltic provinces and
the Caucasus may he sent back i'm
ncdiately. Those in Soviet Russia
wil ne rtpatriated later
The Eoumanlan delegation may pos
Slbly Withdraw fiom the peace con-
nuhl:c bv tho Houmanian hurcau at
Fern. say that, owing 70 the decision
OF the council OF ton TO divide Ranat
between Serbia and Roumania rrcnf.,u
Eratiano and the Ttoun,anian de'"rs
ton will quit Paris unless there is A
modification Of the terms. Tines" are
considered hy the Eoumanjsns - be
unacceptable.
Premier clcmenccau resolved tho
italian Premier Nittorio Orlando, and
the Fors'sn H.s Minister' ,nis,' , Baron s%nnino.
nouncements were made concernin.
the conference.
delegation IS unyieldins in it's posi-
ton concerning Fiumc.
Austrian Terms Arc Ready.
:Nthourh tho peace terms which the
allied and associated powers arc 10
present TO the Austrian delegation are
virtually complete and rcpor; has IL
that next Wednesday has been chosen
tho day when the Austrians are 70
he called before the peace congress.
:he negotiations may be delayed ny
reason OF tho fact that Hungary. wher..
extremely unstable conditions still
exist, has failed TO appoint delegates
I" go 10 St. German.
The council of four Thursday con-
tinued discussion OF the military items
TO be embodied in ;he Austrian com
pact These. it is asserted. not only
will require denomination OF the Aus
trian army and prevent future con
scriptton. but VIII call for the dis
Austria's great armament factories at
Vienna and Prague. where the monster
howitzers and other big guns used by
the Teutonic armies during the war
were made.
Discuss Daimntiun Coakt
Premier Clemenceau on THURSDAY
discussed with Signor Orlando and
Baron Sonnino the claims OF italy with
coast, which are still unsettled. While
II Is reported that the Americans re-
main opposed TO sanction the turning
over of Fiume to the Italians. another
rcport is to the effect that NJ. Trum-
bitch. head of the Jugo-Slav commits
sion. and Colonel House and Thomas
Nelson Page. American ambassador TO
Italy. have discussed the formula Of "A
compromise, on Fiumc..
refusai TO consider the note Of
the German peace delegation regarding
international labor legislation. has
been forwarded to tho Germans by the
council of four. All the other German
communications have been referred to
peace conference commissions for re-
ports.
Count Won BrockdorF- -Rantzau. head
Of the German delegation at Versailles.
is declared in Berlin dispatch TO have
informed his associates that the peace
treaty as IL stands cannot he accent ed
As IL would be impossible 10 fulfill it's
German delegation would not he affixed
10 any document. the terms of which
could not be carried out.