The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-01-30
PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE
HITS STRIDE
Supreme Council Lays Out a Pro
gram of Work and Committees
Are Named on Economic
Questions.

| Paris. Jan. 27.-The Supreme
| Council of the Peace Conference at
its meeting this morning laid out a
program of work and the constitu-
tion of new committees for economic
and financial questions. Questions
concerning private and maritime
laws also were discussed. At the at
[ternoon session the exchange OF
views on the former German Colo
nies on the Pacific and the far East
were continued. Representatives of
the Dominions and of China were
heard. +
Representatives of the Powers
with special interests met at 5
o'clock this afternoon at the French
Foreign Office and appointed mem.
bers of the missions decided upon at
the session of the Peace Conference
Saturday. Jules Cambon of France
presided.
A number OF technical advisers on
colonial matters, including three
Americans, accompanied the various
delegations as they entered the For
eign Office for the days session.
The council had before it, among
other things. the questions of terri
torial adjustments. the abolition OF
conscription and the economic recon
struction of Germany. These ques-
tons, i'll accordance with the settled
method OF procedure will be referred
by the council to suitable commits
sions.
There appears every prospect tina,
he peace conference will make rapid
progress from now on with the work
Of fixing peace terms for Germany.
as the conference appears to have
gotten into its stride.
A high French diplomatic author
ity is quoted by the Paris edition of
The London Daily Mail as estimat-
ing that the conference will have the
peace terms ready for submission
Tor ratification by the various ma
tional Governments between the
middle and the end of March. II
this is accomplished the German
delegates will be summoned to Paris
carly in April for the conclusion OF
the peace.
One OF the questions which it was
expected the council would take up
today. was the ultimate fate of the
Gefman colonies, France and Great
Britain, it is declared, are agreed up
on at least one feature of the solli-
tion of the problem, which is that,
under no consideration, shall the
colonies revert to Germany.
A prominent official declared to
the Associated Press today that
should the Franco-British viewpoint
prevail, the German Kamerun would
be taken over by the French, in ac-
cordance with an agreement reached
bv Great Britain and France. Bel |
gium lays claim to that part of the
Congo which she conquered by force |
of arms. the Belgian troops having
captured Tabora and the territory |
lying beyond the western slopes of
Lake Victoria. Nyanza.
The Belgians also desire strip
OF territory along the left bank of
the Congo, the delimitation, of /
course, to be settled amicably with
Portugal. territorial compensation J
being given the latter.
. Robert Lansing, Secretary OF |
State, will be one of the two men,
bers of the American committee ere
ated by the Peace Conference to deal
with the question of responsibility
for the war. The other members
will probably be one of the experts
attached to the mission who is now
preparing the American views on
this imnortant question that carries
with it the verdict of life or death
to the former German Emperor. and
some of his Generals and Admirals,
and even civilian officials.
The press is unanimous in praise
of those who spoke in favor OF d
League of Nations at Saturdays
meeting. The address of M. Glenn
enceau does not call forth vigorous
praise because, as the newspapers
put it, Its diplomatic solemnity al
lowed applause only at its most tell
ing points, but it was plain that the
wise counsels of M. Clemenceau lett
a deen impression"
lie Matin says that Marshal Foch
was silent throughout the meeting of
the conference, but when President
Wilson said the American soldiers
came mot merely to win a war, but ;
10 win a cause the Marshal showed
his approval by nodding his head
A number of newspapers pay trib-
ute to President Wilson's eloquence. ;
Everybody knows President Will
sons smile says The Petit Parisien.
1T has charmed Paris, but until
yesterday We were ignorant Of the /;
great effect its disappearance could ,
produce. Such q contrast, SO unex-
pected, was sufficient to give his
discourse rare eloquence." IL
Stephane Lauzanne, editor of The {
Matin says: II have heard Presi- Il
lent Wilsoa speak numerous times,
but never have l heard his voice so
clear and rich. 1t was the
iream of his life, it was the dream L
If humanity which that voice an
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