The sun., 1919-03-20
LEAGUE TO CONTROL
GERMAN ARMAMENT
French Disturbed Over Alter
ations in Military Clauses
in Treaty.
Special Wtreiess DsspsfcA TO Tnr sus from the
Londos Times Service.

Lordos Nv>s Servtoc.
Copyright. 1919; all rights rsservsd.
PARIS, March 1.-the Supreme Coun-
ell has made an important alteration in
the military clauses of tho preliminary
peace treaty. The control Of German
ornaments will be carried out through
q special commission sitting in Ger
many only until the signature OF the
final peace. After that time the duty
of control will be entrusted to the League
Of Nations.
1t cannot Be said that this amendment
nnds much favor among the French and
especially In Paris, which has learned
TO It's cost how successfully the Germans
wsre able to plan and manufacture their
20 osntimeter guns and their Big Ber-
thas without anyone knowing anything
about II.
This alteration undoubtedly Is looked
upon here as weakening the security
which France desires in the preliminary
peace treaty. and the linking up Of thai
peace treaty with the League Of Nations
would In no way affect the French ar
guments before the council of ten this
week in support of a more or less per-
manent occupation of the nine grea,
bridges OF the Rhine over. which Ger
many has been able In the past to fling
her armies.
Need of Elective Control.
The Temps, commenting upon this
says: Unless we were mistaken. the
proposals submitted to the supreme
council provided for control without
time limit, and this control was to be
applied by the inter Allied command
This idea was abandoned unanimously
because II was seen that the Allied COM
mand may disappear within the next
three months. .
do Germany's neiEhbors now know
where they are? French. Bclgians
Dutch. Danes, Poles. Czechs. Swiss, even
the Italians and JugoLslavs? Supposing
the Germans are allowed to annex Aus
tria- We all know now that there will
shortly exist no organization which Is
capable of effectively controlling the re-
construction Of Germany's military
power or replying instantaneously to
any German aggression. For II must
not be said the League Of Nations would
undertake this double task
Just as II has been found necessary Ia
create a central territorial commission 70
deal with territorial questions as a whole
so it seems likely that the British pro.
posals for the formation Of another spe-
cial mandate" commission viii b.
adopted. The commission will be formed
by two representatives of each of the
fve great Powers. anu vne each OF Aus
tralia. New Zealand. South Africa, Bel
gium and Portugal where their interests
are concerned. This commission will hav,
as its task to consider how German
rights and claims to former colonies car
til
dates for them may no entrusted and thu
conditions which shall be attached to the
execution of the mandates.
Three Types Proposed.
Three types of mandate had been pro
posed ono to be applied in those coun'
tries whose population has reached q
degree Of civilization which entities 1t.
| wishes to consideration ono for thost
semi-bsrbarous peoples who have be
come sufficiently civilized as to be fight
ing among themselves all OF the time
and third to be applied to those ma
tive populations who are still engaged
In eating each other. This is the some
| what jocular definition given the DIFF
| ferent mandates by one OF the chile
| delegates OF the conference. They cover
a wide extent OF territory and a grea
I ulNOISily VI NdhdlOs
Thus II seems possible that the Otto
man Empire Will be split up into eigh
or nine parts Turkish lands alone be
ing left under Turkish rule, Kurdestan
| Armenia, Constantinople and the Strait!
with adjacent strips Of territory. Ara
| bia, Mesopotamia. Syria, Palestine anC
Sicily being allotted to mandatory states
Their re I'm all at least sixteen man
| dates TO be given. 1t Is understood IL
sse[ JcsAN4 with the mandate question
| that when the habitants OF a countr!
| administered by the mandatory seel
| absortion in the mandatory state, tina
state will have TO guarantee that no for
| tifcations shall be erected upon the ter
ritory thus Incorporated.
Another interesting development Il
commission work Ia seen in the recon-
| mendation OF the International Water
ways Commission. which has reached az
| agreement as to the draft OF the article.
| for the peace treaty relating to tn
Rhine. Its proposals will international
| ize this great highway trade and a new
| international Rhine commission is to b,
| formed upon which the German rive
] and states will be represented by four
| teen members, the British two, 1tal!
| two. Holland two. Belgium two. Switzer