Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-04-04
PEACE DELEGATES
SEEK TO UNRAVEL
TANGLED ISSUES
Ten Days of Labor Fails to
Produce Tangible
Results.
NEW FRONTIER BOUNDARIES
SAID TO CAUSE DIFFICULTY
President Insists on Self-Deter-
rnination Principle Being
Upheld.
REPATRIATION is AGREED UPON
King Albert OF Belgium Calls on
Colonel House, Thereby Shat
tcring Royal Procedure.
fBy Associated Press. l

PARIS. April 3.-President Wilson
and Premiers Lloyd George, Cicmen-
ceau and Orlando continued their dis
cussions at President Wilson'S resi-
dence today. Other peace conference
organizations also met.
All the conferences tended TO uu-
ravel the tangled issues still stand
ing in the way OF peace.
The meetings proceeded amid an
other wave of apprehension spreading
through the conference over lack OF
any tangible results after the coun-
cii OF four had labored continuously
for ten days.
founded reports from those close IN
touch with the council OF four show
ing that the situation. while not des-
OF radical differences on some tunda.
mentals in the settlement of Ger
and the eastern Polish frontiers.
Situation Difficult One
one OF :hc American experts who is
constantly being consulted Oh various
questions before the council gives the
following glimpse Of what is going
on behind scenes
Tho situation is extremely difficult,
frontier of Germany. President Wil-
SON, in conciliatory spirit, has been
EaS sscn,S as W0s' short any,s9 u fa
| cation of engagements made al the
! tlne or the armiSt ice.
he French have been assured of
every military protection along the
. Rhine and for nifty kilomcters east or
mat river even TO the extent of con-
that section shall he looked upon as q
hostile act. lint this is not consld :
lead to the conviction that they are
open TO construction as meaning
Ssonethins s,,. more than military sccur,
II! nNd NcrSinc on territorial control.
Tho President; is not willing to go
that far in creating more Alsacc-I.or.
aeansi enT hess and n;n i is this stand
INC delays until some middle ground
is found"
Practically Agreed on Rcparation.
Concerning reparations il was added
early agreement. This will not specify
the t"tal amount. but will leave it to
II commission TO work out details of
reparatioa through "a period Of years
The priority of Belgium and France
ir the division of the German indcm
nifty. also Is said 20 he nearing agree
mcnt.
As means of finding the middle
cround, on the Rhine controversy, the
super-councl of four created n con
Tarditu. f'rench: Charles II. Haskims.
AMERICAN, and Niscount Morley. Brit
morning and then called on Colone
, Edward VI. House before, seeing tie
council TO intimates they were not
p'''!''St!S OH lhc progress tnat Is be-
ing made.
Insist on Thorough Application.
Another of President, Wilson'S en-
| courage said the real issue was whe-
ther President Wilson's principle OF
self !i-detcrmination was TO be uph Id.
The President. he said. did not regard
this as a principle which should be
applied when favorable to the entente
and not applied in all cases alike
Just now, 4, was asserted. the issues
over uanZs, the Saar Valley and the
region west OF the Rhine brought up
tEis principle of clf-detcrmy nation
as i was not clear the transfer of
territorial control of these localities
would he in accordance with the wishes
and determination of their peoples.
King Albert Of Belgium iigured pro-
mintnuy during today'S conference
Ihc Eelgian monarch called on Colonel
House in the morning, and later saw
President Wilson. before the arrival OF
Premiers Lloyd George and Clemen-
ccau and SiSnor Orlando. The call of
King Albert on Colonel House was a
decided novelty for which Veterans OF
ROYAL procedure said there was no
precedent.