Evening star., 1919-04-19
Regarded Significant Baron
Sonnino Should Appear
Before Council of Four.
FRENCH FOR ALLIANCE
WITH U. S. AND BRITAIN
German Delegates to Go to Ver-
sailles by Way of Spa-Train
Will Be Guarded-Rhine
Question to Fore Again.
Ry the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, April 19.-Italy's territorial
claims, especially in the Adriatic.
were presented to the council of four
today by Baron Sidney Sonnino. the
Italian foreign minister.
The fact that Baron Sonnino and
not Premier Orlando presented the
Italian case to the council is regarded
as significant, because the foreign
minister is an extremist advocate Of
Italy's utmost claims. 1t was Baron
Sonnino who signed the treaty of
Lloyd George and Clemenceau to the
pledges made in the treaty.
Triple Alliance Discussed.
The question of an alliance between
France, the United States and Great
Britain is still being discussed by the
newspapers. The Excelsior today says
that the latest suggestion for a
special covenant restricted to defen-
sive measures This agreement would
not be intended to insure the pay
ment of financial reparation.
The text of the preliminary peace
treaty will be transmitted to the press
Friday or Saturday of next week.
April 25 or 26, the Petit Parisien says.
Germans Entry Into France.
The German delegates to the peace
congress are coming to France by
way of Spa, Belgium, to which point
they will travel in their own convey
ances, says the Petit Journal today.
At Spa, however, a special train pro-
vided by the French authorities will
l'await them and their journey thence
will be made under military guard.
At Versailles a military delegation
hnf
to their lodgings.
The German representatives Will be
| treated courteously, but will be regarded
| as enemies as long as the peace treaty
remains unsigned. They will not be al
| lowed to go about as they please. nor
will newspaper men be permitted 10 in-
terview them, on pain of being charged
with communicating with the enemy.
In Case Germans Refuse.
Considerable speculation is taking
| place regarding the possibility of the
German delegates refusing to sign the
treaty. In case they should refuse.
says Marcel Hutin IN the Echo de
Paris. the text of the peace terms
would be Immediately made public
and a special train would lie placed
at the disposal of the German repre-
sentatives.
The allies have been prepared for
past, NJ. Hutin adds, and simultaneous
| ly with the German refusal a plan
elaborated by the chief commands of
the allied armies and navies would
be put into operation.
Rhine Question to Fore.
LONDON, April 19.-In political
circles here much significance is at
tached to the resolution adopted by
| the French senate demanding the in
sertion in the peace treaty of guar
antees suggested by the allied high
| command. The resolution may. per-
| haps, be read in connection with the
interview with Marshal Foch had by
correspondent Of the Daily Mail, in
which the allied generalissimo in
sisted on the necessity of regarding
the Rhine as the real barrier against
another German attack, because the
Rhine could be held with small
force, whereas the political frontier
west of the Rhine. as proposed under
/ the peace treaty, would, as the mar
shall explained, have to be held with
large forces along its whole length.
| There are rumorS that Marshal Foch
insists strongly on these guarantees.