Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-11

London, Jan. .,I.-Ihe British
delegates to the peace conference left
for Paris this morning. Premier
, Lloyd George, with the premiers of
the dominions and the representa-
tives of India, travelled by the ordi-
nary route. Andrew Bonar Law,
the Chancellor of the eXchequer.
made the trip by airplane as he in
Nariably does when lie goes to
France.
President Wilson. it is said, vir-
tually has made up his mind how
far he will support Italy's claims at
the peace table and informed Pre-
mier Orlando, of his decision, but
| that it is probable his ideas will not
be made known publicly until the
peace delegates have been advised
of them.
1t is anticipated that the Presi-
dents leanings in favor of Italy do
not go SO far as TO warrant the sug-
agestion that lie ~ in favor of giving
Italy control of The Adriatic, but
that by a project of International
ization he is willing to satisfy the
Italians that there will be no mill
tary threat to the east of them. ac-
cording to persons supposed to be
NNiA ihiOl iliVd OH Tue SUBJECT.
The President is said to realize
thatthe Italians are depending al
most solely on the United States for
support, but that he has felt from
the first that he could not endorse
their claims in full. though he is
said to entertain the warmest SYM
pathy for Italy.
Foreign Minister Pichon, in "A state
ment to-day concerning the attitude
of the Allied governments toward the
Russian Bolshevik government de-
clared that the criminal regime of
the Bolsheviki" did not entitle them
to recognition as a regular govern
ment. If the Allied governments
should recognize the Bolsheviki, he
added, they would give the lie to
their policy of aiding the reconstruct
tion of q regular government by the
healthy and honest elements of the
Russian people.
While President Wilson has wait
ed for the opening of converse tions
with the premiers of the allied ma
tions, he has closely studied the food
situation, the acute question of de-
mobilization, and the extent to which
he will support the claims it Is ex-
pected Italy will make at the peace
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allied Intervention in Russia and
Poland or other countries and the
Bolshevist movement are problems
also considered.
There is collateral issue in con-
nection with the food situation
which vitality concerns the economic
situation in the United States. Large
contracts for food supplies in the
United States were cancelled very
recently by France and Great Brit
ain. France, understanding that
American farmers had been spur
red to food production by the prom
ise that their crops would surely be
marketed at good prices, was will
ing to renew some of these contracts
but negotiations with Great Britain
have not so far been successful.
A favorable outcome is hoped for,
but If the British contracts cannot
be continued, some other market
must be found for the immense
quantities of food stuffs produced in
the United States in response to con-
tinued appeals that the allies must
be fed.
The Chinese delegation to the
peace conference now is complete,
al 1.-The members who were not in
Paris having arrivd to-day.
The British government recently
submitted to France a proposition
involving an effort to obtain a truce
ir Russia which, if successful,
would have led to the admission of
delegates of the Russian Soviet gov
ernment to the peace conference,
according to a statement made to-
day by stephen Pichon the French
foreign minister.
The foreign minister declares in
his statement the opposition of the
French government to any plan
which would give the present Boil
shevik regime in Russia any recog-
milton whatever. THE criminal re-
gime of the Bolsheviki." he insists,
does not entitle them to recognition
as regular government and France
- resolved to continue treating the
Soviet organization as an enemy.
The American delegates to the
peace conference disclaimed to-day
any knowledge of any such PROPOSE
ton from Great Britain. regarding
Russia as that TO which Foreign
Minister Pichon has replied. They
state that there has been no change
in the American position regarding
RAsla. which contemplates only
the maintainance of protective
measures, with no aggressive action.