The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-01-11

would be back in Paris by the begin
ming of the week and nj. Clemenceau
was expected back from brief vaca-
ton at the same time. Mr. Lloyd
George arrived in the French capital
Saturday. Conferences among the
representatives of the allies were to
begin at once. II seems probable that
the number of delegates to the peace
conference will be enlarged 50 that
experts in certain lines may sit at the
board when the things they know most
about are being discussed. Great Brit
aims delegates include Lloyd George,
Balfour and Bonar Law, and among
the advisers on special matters are
such men as Viscount Hardinge, Sir
William G. Tyrrell, Sir Louis Mallet,
Sir Esme Howard, Sir Ralph Paget,
Sir Eyre Grove and Lord Robert Cecil
AN imposing list of truly big men
thoroughly trained in diplomacy and
{, statecraft.
The numerous and complicated
! questions that the peace conference
must take up and settle have given rise
to the suggestion that the congress
should be continuing body so that fu-
| ture developments might be taken in
to consideration end matters decided
! that are now too hazy for clear vision.
| If this plan We're adopted. the forma-
4 .Nft To- ,,f, nht
! be so pressing question as it is now
considered by President Wilson and
many others who support his views
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General satisfaction is expressed
| With the desire of the department of
justice to have deported most of the
enemy aliens now interned for their
perncious activities. These men and
women-a few of the gentler sex are
/, included-were either German spies
and agents, taking their chances as
I such or else traitors to the country
7! that had given them shelter In either
| case they are not wanted in America
! and should be sent back to the land
I they came from or that they served.
4, There are lot Of others who might
| we'll be deported. but we are too mild
hammered people for our own COED
lin such matters
Secretary Daniels tells the congress
/; sional committee that his determine
4 ton to have great navy is based on
/ the argument that if the league Of ma
tons is formed he United States will
I be Sinking its share of the policing Of
the world if its navy is not as big as
Great Britain's and that If the league
I Is not established and a curtaiment
of armament is not agreed upon we
must have ''incomparably the greatest
! navy in the world" to defend the Mon
4 roe doctrine and protect the weak ma
tons. His program, according to his
own admission. is intended as an argu-
ment by which President Wilson can
bring the other nations to accept the
proposed reduction of armament. The
secretary says the president backs up
his policy If competitive building is to
continue. Mr.. Daniels new three-year
building program calls for the appro-
priation Of S600,0000O0 to provide for
156 additional naval ships, including
ten dreadnaughts and six battle cruis-
ers.
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Two severe attacks on the admins
tration were made in the senate last
week. First Senator Chamberlain,
chairman of the committee on military
affairs assailed the "dilatory" policy
followed in rehabilitation, asserting
that the administration Is as unpre-
pared for disbanding the army as 1t
was for the war itself. He warned his
party that it would be held responsible
politically by the returning soldiers
A if it failed to adopt an adequate pro-
gram for taking care of them. The
other attack was made by Republic
an, Senator Weeks of Massachusetts,
whe bitterly criticized the war depart
ment for delays and errors in cOmpil-
ing casualties among the expeditionary
forces and for failure to cooperate
with the Red Cross in the matter of
forwarding letters from wounded sol
diers to their relatives in this country.
In many instances Mr.. Weeks said,
parents were incorrectly Informed that
their sons had been killed. Also sew.
eral hundred American soldiers report
ed as missing by the war department
had been located in French hospitals
by the Red Cross and letters written
by them had not been forwarded be-
cause of an order by the department.
The senate commerce committee has
extended its investigation of the Hog
Island shipyard to general inquiry
\ into the doings Of the shipping board