The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-04-03
AMENDMENTS
TO DRAFT OF
LEAGUE STILL
INCOmPLETEO
Text May be Adopted Satur-
day-Belgium and France
to Hold Rhine Until Ger
many Pays.
KOREANS ASK LIBERTY
tBy Associated Press,

10y ASSOCidteQ fIeSSb
PARIS. April 3.-The drafting COM
mittee of the league OF nations COM
mission has finished work, but has
not passed upon the French amend
ments to Articles VIII and TX, as well
as American and Japanese sugges-
tions as to the Monroe Doctrine and
the equality of nationalities. 1t is ex-
pected that the league Of nations COM
mission will meet on Saturday to
adopt a definite text of the covenant
President Wilson will act as chairman
of the meeting.
The council Of four has virtually de-
cided, according to information from
French sources, that the left bank of
the Rhine will be neutralized until
Germany has paid the indemnities fix
ed by the peace conference. 1t is un-
derstood that French and Belgian
troops will hold this territory, the
United States claiming it TO be i'm
possible to leave American troops in
peace treaty and England having In
sufficient effective troops to maintain
garrisons along the Rhine
1t is surmised that the visit of King
Albert OF Belgium to Paris was not
unconnected with the share that Bel
gian troops will be asked to undertake
in this territory
Commission to Hungary.
President Wilson and premiers in
conference yesterday decided to send
to South Hungary for information on
the situation and to remove misunder-
standing regarding frontiers OF new
states.
An appeal for the independence of
Korea will be submitted to the peace
conference before the end of the pres
ent week by q delegation headed by
Kinsic Kimo, representing the new
Korean Young Mems Society. The
appeal is declared to represent the
vehement desire of almost the entire
Korean nation, as manifested by the
present widespread passive resistance
movement.
The document is accompanied by a
long memorandum reciting the alleg-
ed injustice and unpopularity Of ia
paness rule and the harshness of the
measures with which Japan is declar-
ed to be endeavoring to repress the
national movement for liberation.
At national conference held here
today under the auspices Of the trade
union congress and the labor party,
resolution was adopted unanimously
declaring that the covenant of the
league of nations should form part
of the preliminary treaty of peace.
Understanding Near.
Several members of the French
peace delegation assured the Matin
that French ideas on the peace treaty
and other matters are gaining ground
and that an understanding has almost
if not wholly been reached.
Regarding the subject of the finan-
cial demands to be imposed on Ger
many, the Echo de Paris says that
the council of four believes that Ger
many will be able to pay Immediately
6,000,000,000 francs in money of var
ious kinds. Deliveries of raw mater
ial and manufactured goods from Ger
many, it says, will reach an undeter-
mined sum which some optimists es-
innate will amount to 10000, 600, 900
francs.
SEES PEACE BY APRIL 8.
PARIS, Apil ST have always
thought and think more than ever to-
day, that the peace preliminaries to
be imposed upon Germany will be
ready before Easter unless something
unexpected arises" said Stephen Pin
chon, foreign minister yesterday. in
reply to questioners at banquet
given by French republican journal
lists, according to the Matin.