The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-01
Allies Decide to Send Dele gates to Assure Peaceful Exploitation of Industrial Districts of Teschen, Aus trian Silesia
By A,seslstsd Press

ae By Associated rress Paris, January 31.-While the supreme council of the great powers was occupied to- day with some of the lesser con troversies, those in the Balkans and Poland, the chief business was in private conference as a sequel to the decision on the German colonies.
 {, Having accepted the American
 plan for supervision of the colonies
 by the league of nations, 1t has now become necessary to give body
 and substance to league Of na-
 tfons in order that 1t may perform
 the Important tasks which are com
 mttted to it's care. This is re- garded as the chief business im-
 mediateIy ahead, and President
 Wilson Is giving it his main atten-
 tion.
 The President called to the Paris White House last night and entertained |. members of the league of nations com mission, and tonight he went to Amer ican headquarters for another discus sion on this subject with Lord Robert Cecil, the British representatives Col Aonel House, Secretary of State Lansing and others. It is the Presidents per sonal desire with regard to the col onies, with the league of nations su- pervising the mandatories, that the de- tails to be presented will prove ac- sceptable and workable. There is every expectation that the Presidents plan will be carried out acceptably to him. B TWO PREMIERS HEARD
 Two premiers, of Rumania aud Serbia. M, Bratiano and M. Pachitch, were heard by the council today on the boundary issue, the last question lying between them. It developed that an lkother secret treaty was signed in Au- gust, 1916, as condition of Rumania's entry into the war, under which Ru- mania was holding all the territory within designated river boundaries
 M Uachitch, on behalf of the Serbs, ! Croats and Slovenes, declared that the Rumanian treaty was not made With. j out the knowledge of Serbia, which was largely concerned in it. He invoked the principle of nationality which Pres ident Wilson has enunciated, in sup port or the CldlI1 Ol ehc ,oci oioiiS " s.iS region where he asserted the Serbs largely exceed the Rumanians.
 Although the hearing showed sharp difference in views, there is reason to ! hAlieye that mutual concessions will. lead to an agreement between Serbia and Rumania, or, if not, that commits sion will be appointed to deal with the subject.
 DELICATE QUESTION INVOLVED
 The hearing given to the Serbs today is expected to be followed by the early presentation of the Jugo-Slav claims to the eastern Adriatic, which involves delicate questions and render probable a formidable issue with Italy over the Adriatic coast.
 In anticipation of this question Prince Regent Alexander of Serbia will arrive here tomorrow for the specific purpose of personally laying Serbia's case be- fore President Wilson. Meantime, from the region in controversy show increas- ing tension there
 One dispatch from Laibach says the Italian troops have withdrawn from Fiums, the central point of the con troversy, and that an interallied com mission has taken charge of the city Another bulletin from Agram announces that Serbian battalions have entered Plume and that the Italians have re- tired to a point near Volosca. These dispatches are unofficial, but they are taken as indicated at the growing acuteness of this issue on the Adriatic coast.