Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-04-29
Opinion in Paris Views
Action as Suspension
and Not Break.
PARLIAMENT WILL
BACK ORLANDO
Unanimous Approval Of Course Of
Italys Delegation Expected and Re-
turrsof ENJOYS to Paris Will Follow
Peace Council Takes Up Question
Of Shantung Belgium
Heard Regarding lndemnities.
tBy Associated Press. ]


The stage is rapidly being set
for the final phase of the peace
negotiations. Yesterdays plenary
session of the peace conference
stamped it's APPROVAL on the coven-
ant of the league of nations, while
today Germany's plenipotentiaries
are expected to arrive-at Versailles
to join the members of the mission
already there.
Some points in the peace treaty
to be presented the Germans are
as Yet unsettled. but it is con-
sidered probable that the clauses
involved will shortly be ready for
Incorporation in the document, so
that the completed treaty. will be
ready for the enemy delegates by
the week end.
Italy was not represented at the
plenary session yesterday, but dis
patches from Rome indicate the
delegates probably will return to
Paris after a brief period. The
Italian parliament will meet today
Orlando will at once appear and
lay before it the situation which
arose at Paris when President
Wilson made his public statement
relative to F,iume and the Dalma-
tian coast.
Action by the parliament which
will be. in effect. a mandate to the
Orlando ministry. will be re-
quested, there being an effort to
secure an unanimous vote on the
resolution demanding that Italy's
Claims on the eastern coast OF the
Adriatic be recognized.
If this Is done it is probable that
Premier Orlando and his colleagues
will Immediately appear at
Paris. Advices from Rome say
that the semi official view Of the
situation there is that Italy has
not definitely withdrawn from the
peace conference but merely has
suspended participation.
If the vote Of the Italian parlia-
ment is favorable to the position
taken by Premier Orlando it is
probable that the diplomatic battle
will be resumed in Paris.
There is apparently no thought
for the present at least to annex
Fiume by parliamentary action, it
being planned to demand action on
the part of the conference.
The national council at Fiume.
however. has. according to report,
handed over all the powers Of the
state and municipality to a repret
sentative of italy there.
German government troops are
slowly encircling Munich. which is
held by soviet forces, but it is
probable that it will be several
days before a general attack on
the city is launched.
Gustav Noske. the German min
lister of defense, is in command of
all the government troops. Bar
varian and Wurttmburg forces
being placed under his control.
Roumanian attacks against the
soviet army Of Hungary are max
ing progress. according to reports,
which state that Bella Kun, the
head of the Hungarian bolsheviki.
has admitted the troops under his
command are being defeated.
7 Hundreds Of. people are being ar
rested at Budapest and are being
held as hostages by the bolsheviki.
who threaten wholesale execution
if the Roumanians continue to ad-
vance.
The withdrawal Of American
forces from most of the front line
positions in northern Russia is re-
ported.
It is said they will leave the
country as soon as practicable.