Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-05-02
PEACE PARLEYS
WITH GERMANY ARE
FORMALLY OPENED
Delegates Present Creden-
tails at Brief Meeting--Ja-
pans Demands Met, Italy
'Softening in Her Attitude

VERSAILLES, May Peace me-
ficially opened here at 5 o'clock this
afternoon.
At that hour Foreign Minister
Brockdorff- and Herr Lands
berg, German delegates, handed
their credentials to Jules Cambon,
Henry White and Japanese Ambassa-
dor MatSui, representing the allies.
The meeting lasted for five minutes.
POSSIBLE DELAY IN
PRESENTING TERMS LIKELY
NEW YORK, May 1.-(Summary OF
European Cables to the Associated
Press -Possible delay in the hand
ing of the peace terms to the German
delegates at Versailles is indicated in
late adviceS from the Paris confer
ence. The function may have to go
over to next week, while questions as
to the powers of the enemy's repre-
sentatiVes and their qualifications as
spokesman for Bavaria are being
looked into.
The Chinese-Japanese dispute over
Kiao Chau and the adjoining Shan
tung province territory has been set
tied by the. council of three. An
nouncement is made that the former
German holdings are to be given
without reserve to Japan, which
would engage to hand the Shantung
peninsula back to China. with rela-
lions between China and Japan and
the future integrity of China to be
under the control of the League of
Nations.
All German rights in shantung are
to be held by japan. The Kiao Chau
railway will be guarded by special
police forces composed of Chinese,
which will be trained by Japanese Of
ficers selected by the directors of the
railway and appointed by the Chi
nese government. All Japanese mil
itary forces are to be withdrawn from
the province.
Japan is given the right to estab-
lish a settlement at Using Tao,
city on the extremity of the point of
land which forms the eastern shore
of Kiao Chau bay. the strategic base
seized by the Germans in the Far
East after the Boxer rebellion in
Although China is sale by Pekin
dispatches to be demanding the abso-
lutte return to her of Shantung prov
improbable that the council of three,
will reconsider it's decision.
Reports from Paris and Rome seem
to indicate disposition on the part
of both the council of three and the
Italian government to reach some
sort OF UNDERSTANDING dS W IliC
question that will permit the Italian
delegates to return to the conference
without loss of dignity.
Conversations between Premier
Orlando and american Ambassador
Page took place yesterday at Rome.
Mr. Page later reported to President
Wilson.
There are reports that the soviet
at Munich has beer overthrown, but
other dispatches state that the gov
lance away from the city, although
closing in on the soviet forces.
GERMAN CABLE QUESTION
CONSIDERED BY COUNCIL
PARIS. May 1-Various lesser de-
tails of the peace treaty we're taken
up today by the council of three,
among them the question of the cap
tured German cables.
p With the Kiao Chau problem dis
posed of, the Adriatic question is the
only highly important matter remain
ing unsettled.
DENIES ARGENTINA WAS
MIXED UP WITH MEXICO
BUENOS AIRES, Wednesday,
April 30.-Foreign Minister Pueyrre
don denied today that Argentina had
any part in Mexfco's refusal to recog-
nize the Monroe Doctrine.
Salvador LEGO Fernandez, chief of
staff in charge of the department
of foreign relations in Mexico, is
sued a statement on April % to the
effect that Mexico has not recog