Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-02-04
NO DECISION
BY COUNCIL;
WILSON BUSY
President Rushes Work to
Get League Enacted
Before Departure.

Paris. Feb. 4.-The supreme
council at its meeting today
agreed that questions in the
statement OF Premier NenizelOs
concerning Greek territorial
interests in The peace settle
ment should be referred TO
commission of experts whose
duty it would be TO make rec
concentrations for a just set
uement-
The commission will be compOs-
ed of two representatives each
from the United States, the British
empire, France and Italy.
Premier Venizelos of Greece, who
is asking the peace conference for
all the Greek islands in the Medit-
erranean sea, said to the Associa-
ted Press today that he felt sure
England would not refuse 10 give
Cyprus to Greece. The British
government, he said. offered the
islands to former King Constan-
tine in order to induce Greece 10
enter the war,
Wilson Rushes Work
President Wilson has several ap-
pointments for today, including a
call from representative Of the
bible society and visits from some
Republican congressman who have
arrived in Paris. He is determined.
however, that nothing shall be per
mitted to obstruCt the progress OF
the commission of which he is
chairman and which now is engag-
ed in perfecting the scheme for the
creation of a society OF nations.
He is therefore concentrating his
attention upon that work. While
less than two weeks remain before
the date set for his return to Wash
ington it is still regarded as withig
the range of possibility for the great
project, not only TO be reported
from the commission, but also for
the peace conference in plenary
session to ratify the plan and thus
put ii fairly in the way to be reg
istered in treaty form within the
time limit. This would make a rec
ord for international conferences.
but the Paris gathering already has
done that in several instances.
Fix Enemy Boundaries.
There is a growing feeling here
that the treaty OF peace should be
speedily perfected, in the principle
of the society OF nations and many
OF the details of its construction.
have been agreed upon Arthur J.
Jalfour, the British foreign secre-
:ary, is engaged upon a proposition
70 fix the territorial boundaries OF
the defeated nations at once and
promptly conclude peace with the
eremy as so constituted. The pro-
gram would then go on with the
settlement of the other questions
remaining to be solved under the
rules OF the society of nations.
No Need for Specific Cases.
With such an agreement on gem
cral principles as has been reached.
it is held in some quarters that
there may be no need 10 treat spe-
cifically such subjects as the free
dom of the seas, the use OF subma-
rines in warfare, the creation Of
buffer states or even the delimita
tion of national boundaries with
reference to their defensive posi-
Lilities. The idea is that there
would be no necessity TO consider
the question OF defense against
neighbor whose good behavior was
assured.
Some questions. however, require
immediate consideration, IL has
been agreed. The question Of dam
ages caused by the war, the respou-
sIbility for the war. the use Of the
use of international waterways and
railways are difficulties presented
by the present state Of chaos in the
treaty relations between the ma
tions as one result Of the war, and
treatment of the labor question by
international accord