Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-31
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Military to Establish Order
in Near East; Council
Reaches Agreement
on Colonies Plan.
By Associated Press.


Gil, it is officially announced today
reached satisfactory provisional ar
rangements dealing with the Ger
man colonies and the occupied ter.
ritories Of Turkey in Asia.
The council decided that the mill
tary representatives Of the allied
powers at Versailles should meet
and report on the most equitable
distribution of the burden of sup
plying military forces for the pur-
pose of maintaining order in Turkey
pending action by the conference re-
garding the government of Turkish
territory.
The war Council at meeting to.
day considered economic and finan-
cial questions and the subject OF
raw materials. The sentiment was
favorable to the relaxation of the
blockade, so far as it concerned
southeastern Europe, including the
Balkans and Adstria-Hungary.
Official Communication.
The official communication on The
peace proceedings today reads:
THE president of the United
States, the prime ministers and min.
isters of foreign affairs of the allied
and associated powers, as well as
the. Japanese representative TO-DAY
held two meetings at the Quai dor
say, the first from ii a. m. until
P. IN, and the second from $3.50 TO
6 p. m.
The exchange of views Continued
on the German colonies in the Pa.
cific and in Africa, in the presence
of the representative of the doniin
ions and NJ. Simon, French minister
OF the colonies, and of the Marquis
Salvagoaggi, Italy.
In the afternoon satisfactory pro-
visional arrangements were reached
for dealing with the German colonies
and the occupied territory in Tur-
key in Asia.
AT the afternoon meeting the
Belgian delegates were present.
MN. Hymans Vandenheuvel and
Vanderveldo were accompanied bv
M. ORTIZ, who explained the Belgian
point of view concerning the CONGO.
1T was further decided that the
representative of the allied
and associated powers at Versailles
should be asked to meet at once and
present a report as to the most eoui-
table and economical distribution
among those powers of the burden
of supplying the military forces for
the purpose of maintaining order in
the Turkish empire pending the de-
cisions of the peace conference RE-
the government of Turkish
territory.
The next session will be held to-
morrow at 8 p. m.
Wilson's Plan Accepted.
The provisional arrangement 10
which the communication refers IS
The acceptance in principle Of Prssi-
dent Wilson's plan of mandatory
administering of the colonies.
The reference to the occupied
territory of Turkey in Asia indi-
Gates that Mesopotamia, Palestine,
Armenia and Syria are brought
within the scope Of this new policy
of dealing with the colonies.
Thus has suddenly come within
range of practical accomplishment
one of the most sweeping changes
in colonial management that ever
has occurred. The basic idea Of this
policy is that the colonies will 81
administered by mandate for the
benefit of their own people and not
exploited as profit making enter
prises by the powers claiming them.
While acceptance of the principle
is with the condition that details
may be worked out on a practical
basis, yet exchanges among the pow
ers lead to the belief that the de-
tails will be formulated for ACCEPT.
anee by all the colonies and powers
including Great Britain. France. Ia
pan, Belgium and Portugal. The
most formidable opposition has
come from Premier Hughes of Aus
tralia, who has maintained that anv-
thing short Of outright annexation
of New Guinea to Australia mirhs
endanger the friendly feelings to-
ward the mother country.
This, however, is in process 81
being reconciled by concessions OH
details, but, in any event, the opposi
ton is considered to have lost its
effectiveness since the British home
and South Africa are
favorable to the new colonial policy.