Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-01-17
PLAN TO TAKE
GERMAN PORTS
Allied War Chiefs Seek Force on
Armistice Terms.
DILAToRY TACTICS CHARGED
Preliminary Peace Meetings Consume
Much Time-President Wilson
Present at Supreme War cour-
Gil at French Foreign Office.


Paris, Jan. 14.-Official statements
regarding the progress and the decl-
sions of the peace conference Will pc
issued by France. The American
peace commissioners announced that
they have decided net to issue sepa-
rate communiques, but will accept the
French statements as official reports
for the entire conference.
London, Jan. 14.-At Mondays ses-
sion of the allied military advisers IN
Paris, presided over by Marshal Foch,
the suggestion was made that the al
lies occupy some of the German
ports, according to an Exchange Iele-
graph dispatch from Paris.
The occupation would be undertake
en- as guarantee for the carrying
out by Germany of the armistice con-
ditions and as punishment for Ger
many's dilatory methods in comply
ing with some of the terms.
War Council in Session.
Paris, Jan. 1.-THE supreme war
council reassembled at the French for
eign office at 2 80 o'clock Monday aft
ernoon. President Wilson and French,
British, italian and japanese dele
gates were present. It was the flrst
time that the Japanese delegates had
attended.
Auree on Terms.
An official communication issued af-
ter the adjournment of the war coun-
Gil says:
t'The meeting reached an agreement
as to the terms on which the arrnis-
tice is to be renewed on January II.
This included naval clauses, financial
vision for the restitution Of material
visison of rthe restitution of material
and machinery stolen from France and
Belgium by the Germans.
:.The meeting also continued its
discussion Of procedure. It was agreed
to hold the next meeting Of the SUI
preme war council on Wednesday at
10 80 and that the first full session Of
the peace conference will take place
on Saturday, January Is, at 2 80 p. M,
at the foreign Office"
1T is still unsettled what nations
will be represented or the number OF
delegates which will be allotted to
each. 1t has developed, however, that
China will not be represented by
Japan, but will have her own delega-
ton.
Efforts of the French press to bring
to the fore the question of the status
Of entente and American troops in
Russia and the ACCESSIBILITY of send
ing such troops into Poland to check
the bolsheyik advance, it is under
stood, have been without success SO
far.
The United States, it is said, will
not consent to accept in principle or
as a military policy the task Of using
American forces in Poland at all or
in Russia in larger numbers than al
ready are employed.
Poles Recruited in America.
Early last December General Pill
sudski, the Polish minister of war,
sent to President Wilson through
Marshal Foch a request that Polish
detachments under the American flag
be sent to Poland as quickly as pos.
sible for incorporation in the Polish
army" There has. been no official re-
ply to the request.
AT about the same time part Of
the Polish forces which had been serV-
ing in France under General Haller
arrived at Danzig with their leader.
German newspapers reported that
this was an American force. A great
many of General Haller's troops are
volunteers recruited in America. The
remainder were Poles from all parts
of the world.
Arnistice Issue Proves Difficult.
The armistice questions, as taken
up by the supreme council. proved a
more difficult one than was anticipate
ed, and as this was the pressing mat
ter, the armistice delegates having
been summoned to meet at Treves on
Tuesday and Wednesday, everything
had to give way before it.
The question was not only of the
dilatory methods of the Germans in
carrying out the conditions relative
to the handing over Of material, but
of other considerations of more gen
eral character. The attention of the
council was particularly held by the
reports Of internal conditions in Ger
many.
PreIiminaries Take Time.
The first actual session of the peace
congress was held Monday, although
it is officially designated as one of
the series of conversations for laying
the groundwork for the structure
which will later be presented to the
formal assembly of the delegates of
all the nations. Sundays meeting
was preliminary to Mondays, as Nor.
days was preliminary to today's and
those of the coming weeks and
months.
"Chew-Your-Food" Fletcher Dies.
Copenhagen. Jan. 14.-Dr. Horace
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