Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-01-28
PEACE DELEGATES
MAKE GREAT GAIN
Nineteen Small Powers Give Full
Adhesion to Plan of
Organization.
COUNCIL HAS TWO SESSIONS
Financial Subjects and Private
and Maritime Laws Are
Given Consideration.
[By Associatcd Press. l

PARIS, January 27.-The peace con-
ference to-day made distinct gain
when the nineteen small! powers gave
full adhesion to the organization for
mulated By the five great powers.
thus securing united front of the
great and small powers at the out
set of the work on the main sub
iects before the members Of the com
mission.
iui direction os Jules Canlbon. French
delegate. who was designated by the
council Of ;he great powers to pre-
powers held this afternoon. This
meeting convened at the Foreign Office
at the same time the council Of the
i: one in the ohiee q NJ; Piehon. ihe
FOREIGN Minister; and tho other in
For n time there was some ap-
prehension Of the sequel TO the diff
days conference. Su, to-day's meeting
OF the small powers was without Incl
dent or renewal Of the claims then
on the various committees. Belgium.
Serbia. Roumania, and all the. other
small powers had their full delcga-
tions a; the afternoon meeting.
REFERS TO GREAT WORK
DONE By THE BELGIANs
NJ Cambon In opening the meet
erea, par, Belgium had h :I"s taken in in the the
part played s BY pa's seaba ,r'qse r9 ,hs
Greece and the others. This dissipated
any lingering shadows of disagree
ment. and the meeting proceeded with
entire harmony 10 designate the mem
bership OF the small powers on the
com m iss ion.
great powers held two sessions dur
ing the day. resulting in the formation
Of two new commissions to deal with
private and maritime laws.
While the official comnuniQue gives
no indication OF the nature of "the
seem TO be a term embracing Presi-
dent Wilson's second point of free
dom OF the seas.
CONSIDER DISPOSITION
OF GERMAN COLONIES
The council also proceeded TO hear
!ngs on the disposition of the con-
and he. Far Eae.. j tnnalssaonclasion
giving evidence OF real progress since
the committees were named. and most
OF these bodies began to initiate their
.Presldent Wilson. who is chairman
Of the committee on the league of ma
lions. i,onss joined toiI his colleague Colonel
mittee: during the noon recess OF the
counc:i Later in the day. Lord Robert
T.
tee. joined him in a further consiilera-
ton OF the questions which the Presi-
den; and Colonel House had examined
get under way. President wilson mot
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American an Fedcra;ion of Labor; James
members OF the American ilabo. dele
cation. for . brief exchange OF greet
ings; and later Mr.. Gompers and Ed
members Of the labor commission he'd
their, first conference on the work
ahead.
MILITARY COMMITTEE
CONSIDERS DISQUALIFICATION
The military committee on demobil-
iZation also had session. while 81.
pichon completed the draft of instruc-
tons for the commission which leaves
lot roland in few days.
Henry White. the American delegate
on the waterways commission. also es-
TAD :ished relations with his colleagues
of that body.
Thus. real progress on all the main
subjects is becoming apparent as the
! commissions are beginning to formu-
iate detailed projects for presentation
10 the conference.
REPRESENTATIVES, NEE.
AND CONSIDER PLANS
Representatives Of the powers with
special interests met at 3 o'clock at the
french Foreign Office and appointed
members OF the missions decided upon
al Inc session OF The peace conference
on saturday. Jules Cambon. of France
The official statement, giving the
names OF The members appointed fol-
lows:
The representatives OF the powers
With special interests met this after
under the presidency Of MIR Jules
Cambon. ambassador and French dele
gaze gaze a. ne peace conference. to ap-
point members OF the missions in ac-
cordance with the decisions of the
plenary session Of Saturday, January
25;;,, The following were appointed:
LEAGUE of nations-Paul Hymans.
Wellington Koo. plenipotentiary. China :
M. r. Nesnitch, Serbia: Jaime Ba-
talkha Reis minister plenipotentiary,
RESPONSIBILITY For WAR
WILL BE DEALT WITH
Responsibility for the war-Bel-
| gium. not yet appointed: Serbia. Slo-
bodan Yovanovitch: Roumania. Mr..
Rosenthal; Greece. NJ lPolitis: Poland,
not yet appointed.
Belgium. NJ. Vandervelde and VI. Ma
hahn: Cuba. a. S. Bustamanto: Po-
Land. not yet appointed; tho czecho-
Slovak republic NJ. Henes
Regulation of ports, waterways anil
railroads--Belgium, not yet appointed:
China. II. r. Thomas and c. r Wang.
plenipotentiary, delegate; Greece. NJ,
Coromilas; Serbia. NJ. Trumbitch; Uru-
quay, Carlos Blanco."
SUPREME COUNCIL MAPS
OUT WORKING PROGRAM
! The supreme council at it's meeting
this morning laid out program OF
work and the constitution of new
! committees for economic and nnan-
f. cial questions Questions concerning
| private and maritime laws also were
! discussed
At the afternoon session the ex-
change OF views on the former Ger
man colonies in the Pacific and the
| Far. East were continued. Represent
atives of the dominions and Of China
werS heard. The Official statement
reads:
| THE President of the United States,
! the Prime Ministers and Foreign Min
listers OF the allied and associated pow
ers and the japanese representative
met this morning at the Ouai d'Orsay,
| from 1880 O'clock to 1890 o'clock.
| and defined n program OF work and
the constitution OF new committees for
economic and financial questions. "a
well as questions relating to private