The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-03-17
WILSON STANDS
LIKE GIBRALTAR
Upon Decision That Peace
Treaty and League Be
Signed ConCurrently.
SOME FACTORS OF DELAY
Unless Wilson Can Perform
Miracle Treaty May Not Be
Signed by March 90.
(By Robert ]. Prew,)

Paris. March III. n. S)-A
feeling of nervousness has arisen IN
Paris today as a result OF President
wilson's determination to force the
signing of the covenant OF the league
of nations at the same the German
enyoys are ordered to place their
signatures upon the preliminary peace
treaty.
Foreign Minister Pichon's state
ment that he believes 1t would be I'M
nossible 10 sign the two documehts
concuirently represents the frencn
view that the primary necessity ~ "
make tentative peace win Gerhahs,
and then complete the covenant OF
the league of nations by the time Tue
final treaty is ready. -.
Another factor making Tor oeiay -
the approaching departure OF 1T
mier Lloyd George for LONDON. lhe
labor situation in Great Brltaih VI
gently calls for the presence OF lne
premier in London, and ne Is eN-
pected to leave before the enu oi t"'
present week. A.. t,ot
| that the biggest driving forces Vi elIe
Conference Wilson, IRE
mier Lloyd George and Premier ~
r,oncpa,I-,are unable to get togethof
more than a few days at q tiile WIZ
I something happens to take one or th@
other away from the peace Worh' ~
reenlt is the round table labors drag
! nurino. the absence of President
| Wilson in the United States, both the
! hpIpVDtpS
actually alarmed at reports from Ger
many that the country was last lai''
ing A prey to bolsheVism.
Their whole efforts heretofore has
been towards putting through tenta'
i've naace arrangements which woul'
exneditef the demobilization or thei
own afsnia& and restore ~Buropeai
/ +rade and by allowing Germany I'M
modiatclv to resume internauonai re-
Iations under" restrictions, enapie nc
70 h,,ild m her wrecked comhetc,
and feed her starving millions VIII
| American food. r,,,
There is a feeling IN conierchc
circlcs that unless President Nliso'
is able TO perform miracles the pre-
limina,,y treaty may not be slshe'
NV March 20, but must be delayeu ~
several weeks, if the president ue
termination to make the league
nations covenant part OF II, is oes
tined to prevail. .,o
If was found, when Brlnsh cllci'
; were sounded, that they undelsVoo'
the presidents intentions We're 10 -
tho preliminary treaty with GERMAN
ont of the way first making ~
league of nations covenant an III
t tceral part of the final treaty sou.
e,1rn,isc was expressed in TINS quar-
tor that the presidents plan Is 10 ue
Law the preliminaries unless u,
league of nations constitution
framed. This must not be taken
t mean that the British are antagohiS
/, tic to President Wilson's Nle"polii
r On the contrary, nowhere is the en-.
=, of the American delegation lkely ',
find such strong backing in ms nsl
This week as from Premier LloS
George. The British premier MOI
than any other nom American del'
oato. is sympathetic to the president
ideals and methods. A..
Nevertheless, it is understood 'il'
/, the British delegates viii rcqulre
- to he known whether the contereh'
+ cam DELAY the preliminary pea
g treaty without allowing Germany
Z drift into anarchy. They are eve
q more insistent upon this alleged pei
than are the French.
n The Polish commission reported
k the council OF ten today. IL IS Pr
e noscd to give the Baltic port
u Dantzig to the Poles and also SUI
of land, sixty miles wide, eTtehdli
,r northward from the main poIlsh
d cleus to the port. The Germans q
o 10 be granted freedom of trah'
II across this Polish corridor to ca
t. Prussia.
A plebiscite is recommended tor
section south of the northern boun
arv of Alenstein to enable the tho
>. sands of Protestant Poles living
the Mazurian lakes district to 5
IN whether they wish to join Catho
a Poland. CAlenstein is i'm east PruSsS
e5 on the Ale river, siNty-hVe mi
~ south of Koenigsberg1
The Germans have agreed 10 an
shipments to Prague cine capital
as Czecho- -Slovakia) by way OF hal
IT, burg and the Elbe river WIN u
movement in railway carrying {
pacitv put through by Col. Ryan a
col. Causing at Vienna, II Is expect
that tho acutest phase or the 10
IN crisis in Czecho- Sloyahla VIII
n passed this week.