Evening star., 1919-04-06
EXPECTS COMPLETE
PEACE AGREEMENT
&: BYNEXT SATURDAY
Council of Four Will Then
: Devote Week to Draft
ing Final Treaty.
REVISED COVENANT MAY
BE PASSED ON TUESDAY
Depends on Whether President Is
Able to Attend Meeting
of Commission.
BY the Associated Press.

PARIS, April 5.-At the end of today s
meeting of the council of four it was
stated that reparations had been con-
sidered all day without final result.
but that the progress made was such
agreement would be reached by next
Saturday on all the remaining ques-
tions. including the Rhine frontier.
the Saar valley and reparations The
following week will be devoted to
drafting the final text of the treaty.
A plenary session has been decide d
upon for the coming week for the
consideration of labor questions.
Col. House Represents President.
Col. House represented the Presi-
dent at the meeting with the premiers
of France. Great Britain and Italy.
Col House said President Wilson
probably would be able to resume his
place in the council on Monday.
A meeting of the league of nations
commission will be called on Tuesday
might, if the President is well enough
Ito attend. for the final passage of
Ithe revised covenant. Reports that the
Italians intend withdrawing are dis
missed as groundless.
Doubt Peace by Easter.
The possibility of peace by Easter
is doubted by French newspapers.
The Journal points >out that even
II the preliminaries are wholly
agreed upon by Easter there remains
all the negotiations with Germany,
which it believes will be at least as
lsborious as the pourparlers between
the allied and associated powers.
The Matin declares that there is
. divergence of opinion in the council
of four on the essential point of
reparation. while territorial questions
are in q fair way toward a salts
factory settlement. On the question
OF reparation, it says, there is still
. gulf between what France Is offered
and what she claims as fairly due
her. On that point, the newspaper
adds. the French government will be
irnmoyable, because 1t cannot sign
treaty which will make France
bankrupt"
Where do we stand in the work
of pacification:" asks the Echo de
Paris. 1t answers the question as
follows:
1T is only too clear that the league
OF nations lies in pieces on the floor
OF the Hotel de Grillon (American
headquarters) and the modest al
lance which might, with advantage,
occupy its. place. is only a vague
sketch
. The newspaper fears that the coun-
Gil of four will produce at any cost
some sort Of peace formula, good or
bad, which it believes will be the
worst danger. 1t urges the council
rather, to say that an agreement is
bsyond their powers and to refer
the decision to the parliaments of
the respective allied countries.
King Of Belgium Pleased.
Tho Belgian delegation has issued the
following note: :
Paris this morning for Brussels by
Airplane. During his stay in Paris
he met the most eminent members
a the allied and associated govern
Tnents, with whom he conferred re-
garding the essential interests of Bel
gium.
"A certain anxiety reigns in Bel
sium, where it is asked if the Bel
gian questions maintained their place
IN the conference. The king was
able to give precise information on
the principal points of the Belgian
program. particularly the reparation
due Belgium, to assure an economic
revival and conditions for her safety.
The king was listened to every
where with the greatest attention.
and left Paris satisfied with the I'm.
pressions he received"
Hun Delegates Selected.
BERLIN, Friday. April 4 (by the
Associated Press).-The German CO.
loniai administration will be repre-
sented at the peace negotiations by
DIR. Albert Schnee, former governor
of German East Africa, and DR.. Mar
0uardson and DIR. RuppeI, privy state
councillors. The colonial minister,
DR. Bell. will take part in the final
negotiations. The German peace COM
mission viii also haye at it's disposal
experts from each Of the former Ger