Arizona republican., 1919-02-01

PARIS. Jan. 31.-(By the Associated Press). While the supreme council Of the great powers was occupied today with some of the lesser controversies those in the Balkans and Poland the chief business was in private con ference as a sequel to the decision Of the German colonies.
 Having accepted the American plal for supervision of the colonies by the league of nations, it now has become necessary to give body and substance to league of nations in order that 1t may perform the important tasks which are committed to it's care. This is regarded as the chief business i'm mediately ahead, and president Wilson is giving it his main attention.
 The president called at the Paris white house last night and entertained Colonel E. NJ. House and the other members of the league of nations com mission, and tonight he went to Amer ican headquarters for another discus sion of the subject with Lord Robert Cecil, the British representative, Col l onel House. Secretary of State Lansing and others. It is the presidents per- sonal desire with regard to the colonies with the league of nations supervising the mandatories, that the details to be presented shall prove acceptable and workable. There is every expectation | that the presidents plan will be carried out acceptably to him.
 Serbian Affair Heard 1 Two premiers, of Runania and Ser 1 bia, M. Bratiano and NJ Pachitch, were 1 heard by the council today, on the boundary issues, the last question lying between them. IL developed that an- other secret treaty was signed in Aug ust, 1916 as a condition of Rumania's entry into the war, under which Ru- mania. was holding all the territory within designated river boundaries. 1 M. Pachitch, on behalf of the Serbs,
 Greats and Slovenes. declared that the Rumanian treaty was Tot made with out the knowledge of Serbia, which
 was largely concerned in it. He in- voked the principal cf nationality
 which President Wilson has enunciated
 in support of the claim of the Serbians
 to the region, where he asserted the
 Serbs largely exceeded the Rumanians.
 Although the hearing showed sharp
 difference in views there is reason to
 believe that mutual concessions would
 lead to an agreement between Serbia
 and Rurnania, or, if not. that a com
 mission will be appointed to deal with
 the subject
 The hearing given to the Serbs today
 is expected to be followed by the carly
 presentation of the Jugo-Slav claims s, to the eastern Adriatic, which involve delicate questions and render probable , formidable issue with Italy over the Adriatic cast
 In anticipation of this question Prince Regent Alexander of Serbia [ will arrive here tomorrow for tht special purpose Of personally laying
 Serbia's case before President Wilson
 Meantime reports from the region ir I controversy show increasing tension there.
 z One dispatch from Laibach says tn, n. Italian troops have withdrawn iron Plume, the central point of the con. g troversy, and that a2 inter allied com. 5 mission has taken charge of the city
 Another dispatch from Agram, an.
 nounces that Serbia battalions hay.
 entered Plume and that the Italian
 have retired to a point near Volosca S These dispatches are unofficial. bu 0 they are taken as indications of tn : growing acuteness of this issue on tn ,. Adriatic coast.