Republican farmer., 1919-05-02
GERMAN PLENIPOTENTIAR|ES ARE
 NOW AT VERSAILLES
Believe Italy Has Merely Suspended Participation
 in Conference.
(Ry the Associated Press

Ny
 The stage is rapidly being set for the final phase of the peace negotiations. Yester- days plenary session of the
 Peace Conference stamped it's approval on the Covenant of the League of Nations while today Germany's pIenipoten- taries are expected to arrive at Versailles to join the members of the mission already there.
 Eighty-seven members of the Ger
 man peace commission arrived at that
 place last night, being the second
 party to reach the scene of the pres
 entation of the peace terms. Of
 these, thirty were women. The Ger
 mans included the commission on limitation of armaments, composed of
 Drs. Von Becker and Schwe1l and
 Major Botticher and that on com
 merciaI affairs. Sixteen of the lat
 ter commission are women. With
 the party were the official courier von
 Bismarck, doctor, barber and
 Rudolph Brand, the press representa-
 tive. There was also a number of
 telegraph and telephone operators.
 The party left the train at the little
 station of Vaucresson, 12 1-2 miles
 from Paris, from which place they
 drove to Versailles in automobiles.
 The mayor of Versailles, Henri St-
 mon, posted a proclamation appeal
 ing to the population to maintain
 dfgnifed and calm attitude.
 Some points in the Peace treaty to be presented the Germans are as yet unsettled, but it is considered probable that the clauses involved will shortly be ready for incorpora- ton in the document, so that the completed treaty will be ready for the enemy delegates by the weeks end.
 Italy was not represented at the plenary session yesterday, but des- patches from Rome indicate the probability that her delegates will return to Paris after a brief period The Italian parliament will meet to- day, and it is expected that Premier Orlando will at once appear and lay before it the situation which arose at Paris when President Wilson made his public statement relative to Plume and the Dalmatian coast.
 Action by the parliament, which will be, in effect, a mandate to the Orlando ministry will be requested, there being an effort to secure an unanimous vote on the resolution de manding that Italy's claims on the
 eastern coast of the Adriatic be re- cognized. If this is done, it is proba- ble that Premier Orlando and his col leagues will immediately reappear at Paris.
 Advices from Rome state that the semi official view of the situation there is that Italy has not definitely withdrawn from the Peace Confer ence, but has merely suspended par ticipation. If the vote of the Italian : parliament is favorable to the posi- tion taken by Premier Orlando, it is probable that the diplomatic battle will be resumed in Paris.
 There is, apparently, no thought for the present at least, to annex Plume to Italy by parliamentary ac- ton, it being planned to demand ac- tion on the part of the conference. The national council at Plume. however, has, according to report handed over all the powers of the state and municipality to a repre- | sentative of Italy there.
 German government troops are slowly encircling Munich, which is
 held by Soviet forces, but it is prob able that it will be several days be- fore a general attack on the city is launched. Gustav Noske, the Ger man minister of defence, Is in com l mand of all the government troops Bavarian and Wuerttembu forces being placed under his control. Rumanian attacks against the So- viet army of Hungary are making progress, according to reports. which ! state that Beka Kun, the head of the Hungarian Bolshevtki, has admitted the troops under his command are be- ing defeated. Hundreds of people are being arrested at Budapest and are being held as hostages by the BoI- sheviki, who threaten wholesale ex- cautions if the Rumanians continue to advance.
 The withdrawal of American forces from most of the front line positions l fin northern Russia is reported. It is said that they will leave the country 1 as soon as practicable.
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