Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-01-30
Russian Factions Are Invited to
Confer With Commission
From the Allies.
ON SEA OF MARM0RA ISLAND.
Must First Cease Military Operations
Majority Socialists victors in
German Elections = British
Plan for League Of Nations
Presented-!rish Par
liament Meets.
BY EDWARD w. PpckARp.s

Realizing that they cannot establish
peace in the world while Russia is at
war with herself and her neighb0rs,
the supreme council of the peace con-
greSs has invited all Russian factions
to send representatives to the Princes
islands in the sea of Marmora, that
they may there confer with representa-
tives of the associated powers with 81
view to bringing about an understand
ing by which Russia may work out her
own purposes in peaceful ways. 1t
was stipulated that the Russian
factions must first cease all military
action. and the invitation made plain
that the allied powers had no intention
or desire Of interfering with the right
OF the Russians TO settle their differ
ences in their own way. February 10
was set as the date of the opening of
the conference.
This solution of the Russian prob
council by President Wilson and in the
main is on the lines of the action pro-
posed by Premier Lloyd George At
first the French, who admittedly are
afraid of the spread Of bolshevism in
their own country, We're opposed to
bolshevists, hut they yielded to the
opinion of the majority. 1t was be-
.lieved that the contending factions
would accept the invitation, since their
resources are nearly exhausted The
bOlsheviki were severely defeated very
are numerous and extensive peasant
risings against their rule in the terri
tory they have controlled
1t is understood that the allied COM
lnissioners who will meet the Russians
will state these four conditions as he
adjustment:
First-Peace at all points.
Second-Remoyal of all economic
barriers which restrain the free circu-
lation or exchange Of food and com
nnodities between the factional zones
and the outside world.
1'hird-General elections on Il repre-
/ sentative basis.
Fourth-Some adequate arrange
ment for the payment of debts.
The plan of the supreme council
was very badly received by the anti
bolshevill Russian leaders now in
Paris. >Iheir comments were bitter in
the extreme and SergiIs Sazanoff, rep
fesentatiNe of the governments of
EkaterinOdar and OInsk, declared he
would not sit in conference with the
|. traitors who had betrayed his country.
-E-
Decision WAS reached by the SUI
preme council last week on another
| very troublesome matter-the Polish
question. 1t was determined to send
at once 10 study this problem u mis-
sion composed of Il military and civil
delegate from the United States, Great
Britain, France and Italy. Probably.
If the. Russian bo:sheviki remain recall
citrant, the Polish state will be set
up as a strong barrier between them
and western Europe.
-A-
The Temps of Paris said last week
that the peace congress is likely to
create two commissions, one on the
league of nations and one on the com
pensation Germany must pay. 1t
added that the American delegates
elso. proposed commissions ON terri
torlal questions, on overseas territor-
lies and on responsibilities. 1t is said
in Paris that the American delegates
are not yet satisfied as to the respon-
sibility of the former kaiser and his
chiefs for the war. In this matter they
are likely to find themselves opposed