Evening star., 1919-04-14
MAY CALL HUNS
BEFORE APRIL 70
Petit Parisien Says Peace
Congress ''Is Very Close
at Hand"
LEAGUE NOT COMPLETE

PARIS, April IA (Havas). - The
peace conference leaders have come
to an understanding regarding the
be called into conference. the Petit
Parisen says it understands. That
date, it declares. is very close at hand
before April 20.
Premier Lloyd Georges trip home to
England will be brief one, according
be back in Paris Friday to attend the
peace conference proceedings, the
newspaper says.
President Confers With Italians.
The council of four did not meet
this morning. Instead President Will
son had a long conference with Pre-
mier Orlando and other Italian lead
ers on the Adriatic problem, one of
the last vital questions remaining to
be discussed by the council.
Premier Orlando recently suggested
to the President the advisability of
informal exchanges over the question
OF Fiume and Italy's claims in the
eastern Adriatic. President Wilson, in
concurring with this suggestion,
promised to give the matter his per-
sonal study. The conference today
probably was the outcome of this sug-
gestion.
Amendments Not Fully Settled.
The status of the American, Jap
anese and French amendments to the
covenant of the league of nations has
been definitely established SO far as
the league of nations commission is
concerned, with the American amend
ment concerning the Monroe doctrine
the only one to be given a place in
the covenant by the commission. The
French and Japanese, however, have
both made reservations which entitle
them to renew at a plenary session of
the peace conference the questions in
volved in these amendments. SO that
the final decision is still open.
ference as whole, they are shaping
themselves now with the league Of
nations question and nearly all the
main points in the peace treaty vir-
tually disposed Of. SO that the date
when the enemy delegates shall be
summoned to Versailles has been
tentatively set. The summoning of
the peace congress as it will be call
ed. instead of peace conference"
after the enemy delegates are admit
understanding, occur between April
26 and May S, and it is considered not
improbable that definite date may
be announced by Premier Lloyd
British house of commons the coming
Wednesday.
Will Restrict Hun ENJOYS.
Indications are that the Germans
will be given opportunity to discuss
the peace terms before the congress,
but that no extended discussion will
be permitted, two weeks being sug.
sessions to be held at Versailles.
These sessions. it is expected now,
will be attended by President Wilson,
who is said by those close to him to
feel that the progress made toward
concluding peace is such that he will
be able to remain for the Versailles
meeting.
The chief question as regards the
peace terms remaining to be settled,
now that the Sarre valley and repara-
tions problems have been disposed of
in virtually all their details. is that
of the Rhine frontier. The council
of four is likely mainly to occupy it
self with this question during the
present week. the debate probably
centering upon the French contention
for security from a military stand
point, the French attitude being in
dicated as a determined one on this
point.
1t is understood also to have been
largely Frances fear from a military
standpoint of what might happen
should there be another German at
tack that influenced her representa-
tives in their sustained opposition to
the Monroe doctrine amendment to the
league of nations covenant. Their ar
gument was that if the Monroe doc
trine principle were given a European
application the effect might be that the
United States might be kept from
again coming to Frances help in the
event of a future German ebullition.
Settles Territorial Problems.
Havas dispatch says: The con-
ference commission on territorial ques-
tions has settled the problem of the
Banat district, south of Hungary
proper, in which Serbian and Rumanian
claims were involved. according to the
Petit PariSien. The newspaper does
not give the terms of the solution
reached. but says that the decision re-
spected the rights of each nation.