Evening star., 1919-02-28
United States Delegates View.
conferees Fear Trouble
Following Differences OF
Italians and Juqoslavs

PARIS, February % (by the Assoc
ciated Press).-The relations Of Italy
and Jugoslavia are viewed as serious
in peace conference circles, possibly A.
requiring action by the powers to
prevent members of the conferences
from drifting into conflict Differ
ences have been growing until both
sides are taking a threatening attf-
tude.
An Italian report that the Jugo-
slavs are mobilizing forces brings a.
rejoinder from the latter that no such
step has been taken, and that the
army, which was disbanded after the
defeat of Austria, is being reorgan-
lied on very restricted basis.
1t is admitted that the younger
classes are being called to the coiors.
but it is asserted that this is nothing
like general mobilization.
The Jugoslavs complain that the
Italians continue to land troops on
the Dalmatian coast and that they are
digging trenches at Fiume and else
where; also that they are arrestinE
and imprisoning female Jugosisy
teachers on political grounds and
stopping couriers of the Jugoslav
government
Officials of the food administration
say that obstruction by the Italian
military authorities in controlling the
a
for the time beingAd does not permit the
movement of relief stores. Thia
has brought energetic representations
from the food authorities, which, Il
not sufficient to check the attitude OF
both sides. it is intimated, economic
and financial penalties provided for
in the plan of the league of nations
NAV be applied by both sides.
The conference commission to et-
anime into the problems of the peg
ration of Czechoslovakia held its hrst
meeting today and completed the
study of the question of Germans IN
Bohemia. after which it took up the
question of Silesia. The commission
organized by electing Jules Caniborf
as president.
Clenenceau Attends Sitting.
Premier Clemenceau today attended
the meeting of the great powers, the
first time he had met his conferees
since the attempt against his life 4
little more than a week ago. The
premier remained for half an hour dis
cussing various great questions In
which France is highly interested. He
told his colleagues he would return
next week to resume the presidency
of the council. ssr
The premier looked well and viEof-
Gus and gave no sign of the recent
ordeal he had undergone. He joking
ly referred to his experiences and said
as he greeted Henry White of the
American peace delegation, Il hope
you have not got bullet in your
lung"
David Lloyd George. the British
prime minister. has arranged to ar
rive in Paris March s. when it, is exs
pected that all the commissions will
have reported, that M. Clemenceau will
again be presiding and that action
will he heguu on the prelimiuSrv
peace treaty
:, M. CIemenceau paid a visit this
afternoon to President Poincare at tiiS
EIysee palace. Later he returned to
the war ministry, where he received
numerous visitors, among them Mar.
shal Foch. Andre Tardieu of tho
French delegation and Edouard Ig-
mace, under-secetary for military jus.
tice and pensions.
PARIS, February 81 (French wire.
less service) The superior council OF
Alsace and Lorraine. at its first meet
ing in the French war office, adopted
a resolution declaring against the
German proposals for A plebiscite in
A lsace- Lorraine. The council was
created to adjust various matters con-
tration of the two provinces. The
resolution says:
I'VE refuse to stand for any foreign
in our national affairs
such as those attempted recently at
WeiInar (the seat of the German ma
tionaI assembly, and elsewhere with
the object of making the future of ALI
SAGE and Lorraine depend on a pleb-
scite. We most energetically deny to
all Germans the right of manifesting
eight years too late. We are and will
'emain French without any pIebiScite
through the restoration Of the rights
violated in 1871