Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-30

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delegates, Kramarz and Benes
While this bore on the instructions
| to the commission about to start
| for Poland, yet the main desire of
the council was to hear the Poles
and Czecho-Slavs concerning the
warfare now going on between them
| along the. Silesian frontier. This
clash between the military forces of
the two countries is regarded as con-
trary to the recent warning given
by the council against the occupa-
ton of territory by force.
The hearings yesterday and the
departure of the commission for
Poland are expected to put AN end
to this internal conflict between two
powers which are represented at the
conference.
Await Word From Russia
As yet the peace conference has
received no formal reply from the
Russian Soviet government regard
ing the invitation sent to all the
Russian governments to meet con-
ference representatives. at the
Princes Islands, but the Russian
committee in Paris will probably
make a formal response in a few
days on benclf of the various other
Russian governments.
May Not Sit With Reds
This committee now is consider
ing the proposals but the prospects
seem to be that it will decline to
sit in conference with any repre-
sentatives of the BolshevilIi. The ex-
pected declination, however, will be
couched in courteous language and
will embody lengthy explanation
of the committees reasons for de-
clining.
Tschaikovsky on the Way
Members of the Russian commit
tee their unqualified support. Pres-
dent Tschaikovsky. of the govern
ment of North Russia, who sailed for
Archangel January /, is expected to
reach Paris within u few days to
confer with the committee.
British Labor Pleased
The British labor delegates in
Paris, who to-day completed plan
for an international labor bureau to
be laid before the peace conference
and forwarded it to London for con-
sideration by the employers are
greatly pleased at the speed with
which they were able to complete
the draft. The consultation between
the laborites concerning the plan
lasted only two and one-half days. at
the end of which they had reached
complete agreement.
Throuhout the discussions the en-
ployers in England were kept ad-
vised of the proceedings. Arrange
ments had been made TO continue
the consultations betwee nthe labor
ties and the employers after the plan
is presented to the conference.
The Matter of Indcmnitics
The peace conference has settled
one important point with resard to
the indemnity question, the Paris
correspondent of the London Even
ing Standard says he has reasons for
reporting. The conference, he de-
clares, has eliminated any intention
of calling on. Germany and her as
sociates to pay the Allied countries
the cost of the war, or to impose
heavy indemnities on the enemy
nations.
Treaties iR Danger
In Ia e edition, the London
Daily Mail prints report from its
correspondent in Paris to the effect
that Great BIitain's decision re-
garding the treaties with Japan rel
ative TO the islands in the Northern
Pacific and with the Arabs regard
ing Syria and the understanding
with France as to the future status
of the Kamerun involves the admis
sion that they must be arbitrarily
modified, if not torn up.
The Japanese delegates are an
CRY and alarmed and declare their
unalterable determination to claim
the islands, as promised" the cor
respondent says. and adds: These
islands are really the crux of the
whole situation"
THE Australians" the correspon-
dent continues, believe President
Wilson'S firm stand in this matter
is due to his fear that Japanese oc-
cupation of the islands would i'm
pair his prestige in the United States
and that he fears to meet a hostile
congress in March if he agrees to
the absolute retention of the islands
by Japan.
Italian delegates frankly avow
their claims to Fiume and insist that
the promise of part of the .Dalma-
tan coast stipulated in the pact of
London must be made good. They
declare that President Wilson's atti-
tude regarding Fiume derectly con-
tradicts his declaration of the rights
of peoples outlined in his fourteen
points "