Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-02-19
TRUCE DISPUTE
COMES TO END
Conditions for Renewal of Armis-
tice Agreed Upon.
DELAY CAUSED BY FRENCH
Acceptance of the League Draft Is
Halted by Apprehension Over I'm
potence Of Society of Nations
Without Police Force.

London, Feb. 13.-Premier Lloyd
George announced in the house of
commons that it has been unanimous-
ly decided that her colonies will not
be restored TO Germany. Complete
agreement also has been reached
among the powers on the demands re-
garding the western boundary of Ger
many.
Replying TO question from Colonel
Guinness the premier declared the
government favored not only repara-
ton for the war damages but stood
by its election pledge to make Ger
many pay to the full extent of her
resources. Reparation, Mr. Lloyd
George said. must include indemnity.
Paris, Feb. 13.-T.ie supreme court
at its meeting decided on the condi-
tions for the renewal of the armistice
with Germany, according to an official
announcement.
The league Of nations commission.
says the Temps. will probably be able
to submit to the council of the powers
the definite text of it's project before
President Wilson's departure.
'In its present FORM" continues the
paper, 'the project involves the ma
tons. members of the league, making
a definite engagement to take up arms
for the maintenance of their terri
tories and the safeguarding of inter
national treaties. 1t would seem that
the conception has been discarded
whereby the league becomes a super
state in favor of insistence on the ne
cessity of close mutual obligations fur
nishing guarantees for the independ-
ence of each nation, which is more eff
ficient- than the old systems of alli-
ances.
The French government formally
presented TO the league of nations com
mission last night an article creating
an international military force.
NJ. Bourgeois, alluding to the appre-
hension existing in France as regards
Germany, insisted that there was
grave danger confronting France if an
International force was not constantly
in being and organized for instant ac-
ton.
The French view, he indicated, was
that society of nations which did
not include a permanent collective
force might be beautiful experiment,
perhaps, but an experiment too great
for a nation to risk unless it had. l.
addition, defensive frontiers sufficient
to meet a sudden shock.
French apprehensions over the i'm
potence of league of nations without
an international police force for en-
forcing peace are the causes of the
delay in accepting the draft which
was completed Saturday and which
was expected to be adopted Monday.
Leon Bourgeois suggested an inter-
national army under generallssimo,
preferably Marshal Foch, for policing
strategically important areas such as
the Rhenish provinces, the Darda-
nelles, the Kiel canal, and the Vistula,
but Great Britain and America refused
even TO discuss the project.
Materialistic French views may de-
feat the idealistic American viewpoint,
by delaying adoption Of the draft I'M
til after President Wilson sails, thus
robbing him of taking home the new
born league of nations and personally
expounding its ultimate working.
Know What War is.
But the French, who have been
bombed by airplanes, shelled by big
Berthas-whO shivered with anxiety
every clear night, who saw where giant
projectiles from the cannon so miles
away smashed hospitals and killed
women and children, can't forget what
war is. Naturally they take a differ
ent view than the newly-arrived Amer
lean delegation, whose only concrete
reminder of war is that the restaurants
close at 9 80 O'Clock and that walters,
chauffeurs and doormen frequently are
one-armed men or one-legged, and
wear war decorations. The French
people can't forget the trainloads of
wounded and dying, which arrived at
the Care La Chapelle during the early
DAYS of the war. They remember last
June. when the z. S. marines stopped
the German rush Parisward dead on
the main highway this side of Chateau
Thierry.
Conveys of Agony.
Still vivid is their recollection of
how ambulances rolled endlessly
through the streets with their curtains
mn owing TO the intense heat, showing
khaki-elad Americans lying on hunks
inside with their bloodstained band
ages.
Previously the French always timed
the arrival of hospital trains for the
night. so the people would nor see the
erewsome ambulance sights. but last
lime the ambulances dashed right from
the field hospitals to Paris. 80 miles
too 90 ~