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effective guarantees OF their loyal In
tention to observe its covenants.
The Council OF the Great Powers gave
most Of the session to-day to hearing
NJ Bratiano and NJ. Mishu concerning
Rumania's territorial interests, which
In addition to tho Banat region at issue
with Serbia, include Dobrudja PROVING,
and ports lying along the Black Sea. q.
well rs Pennsylvania and Bukowina re.
gions and portions OF Bessarabia.
The council gave Its final approva
to the instruction TO the commission
about to start for Poland to investigate
the. entire political. economic and mill.
tary situation, The somewhat warlikt
situation in the Teschen region between
the Poles. and Czecho- Slovaks has beer
Professionally adjusted by an agreemen,
between the delegates OF these countries
which the council approved.
The official communication OF the Su
preme Council says:
The President of the United States,
the Prime Ministers and the Foreign
Minister'S of the allied and associated
Powers and the japanese representa-
tlves met this afternoon at the DUAL
dOrsay from to 6:l5 O'Clock. ..
The conference approved the text Of
the provisional agreement between the
Czechs and the Poles, proposed by the
delegates Of the Powers, regarding the
Teschen district.
The instructions TO be given to the
interall!ed commission which Is to pro-
coed to Poland were definitely decided
upon and approved.
The Rumanian delegates, NJ. Bra
fiano and NJ. M!shu. were then intro
duced. NJ. Bratiano made detailed
statement of the Rumanian claims.
The next meeting will take place on
Monday at IL A. NJ.
Gompers Heads Labor Committee.
The Commission on International Leg.
islation on Labor of the Peace Confer
ence unanimously elected Samuel Com
pers. president of the American Fedora
ton of Labor. as president at a meeting
this morning. Arthur Fontaine of the
French Ministry Of Labor was elected
general secretary. with Mr.. Butler a
British delegate. as Joint general sec
rotary. The commission decided to name
two SECRETARIES. one italian. Palma Cas-
Tiglfore. and one Belgian. who fs to be
named LATER and who will also represent
the nations with special interests.
Those present at the meeting were NJ
Colliard. the French Minister OF Labor
NJ. Loucheur. the French Minister of Re-
construction NJ Fontaine and Leon Jou-
haux Of the French Labor Federation,
for France; George Nicoll Barnes, Sir
Malcolm Delevingne and Mr.. Butler, for
Great Britain; Emile vanderyelde and
NJ. Mehain.- for Belgium Mr.. Gompers
and Edward n. Hurley. for the United
States; Mayor des Planches, for Italy
NJ. Benes. for Czecho-Sl ovakia NJ. Zol-
towskl. for Poland. and a representative
OF A. S. Bustamente, the Cuban member
Preliminary peace terms probably will
be presented to Germany along with con-
ditions for further renewal OF the
armist.ce this month. II present plans
are not deranged. Recognizing the need
for return of the world to a normal
peace time basis. tho nations associated
against Germany are considering making
start toward the actual peace treaty
by inserting some OF the elementary
terms into the conditions which will be
submitted to the German Armistice CONF
mission on February IL
This decision is reflected also in the
examination now under way to de-
ttrmine what American troops II will be
nect ssary to leave in occupied territory
The plan Is to get them all out as soon
as II seems advisable and 1t has been
thought that a start might well be MAIDS
in laying down the terms OF peace. Some
chcials who have been closely studying
the situation believe that the armistice
itself might well be developed into a
peace treaty. just as they think q no.
ciety OF nations might be developed out
Of the deliberations OF the Peace Con-
ference. President Wilson is known to
nave examined Nlis view and contem-
plated its possibilities.