The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-22
Agreement Reached for
United Stand Against In
roads of TerrOrists.
ANNOUNCEMENT TO-DAY
American Opposition to
Military Intervention Is
Not to Be Modified.
ACTION TO BE IMMEDIATE
President, After Conference
With Bourgeois, in Harmony
With French.
ACTION TO BE IMMEDIATE
by LAURENCE HILLS,
stag Correspondent Of THE SUS.

/ Std6 Correspondent Of THE SUS.
Copyright. 1919: oil rights reserrot
/ PARIS. Jan. 21.--The Allies appar-
emily have reached an agreement re.
garding Russia, which may be an
nounced tomorrow. Whatever its
nature II is certain 1t will have q tre-
mendous interest for the world Nc
revealing for the first time the posi-,
! ton the Peace Congress will take In
/ regard TO Bolshevsm in its general
| aspects, to which recent events have
| given sudden and transcendent i'm.
portance.
There is no Indication on the eve
| Of this announcement that the Amer
ican opposition to anything like real
military intervention has been modi-
fled in the slightest degree, although
the arguments presented by the
French and Danish diplomats yestcr-
day and to-day favored such action.
it is understood.
While the congress has yet to get
down to the league of nations plau
there Is increasing evidence that it
may be worked out. Information
from authoritative French sources Is
that during the important interview
between President Wilson and Leol
Bourgeois, who Is preparing the
French plan, the two found them
selves In accord on most points.
This may have the greatest Sig
nificance. as Bourgeois's plan has not
been announced yet, but il is admitted
| now that It bears the seal of the.
French Government, and il IS be.
lieved TO go further than those Of
Gen. Smuts and of Lord Roberr Cecil
In advocating some use of force f.
compel obedience 10 the decrccs pf
the league.
Mercier May he Delegate
Cardinal Mercier is likely to sit in
the Peace Congress as one OF Eel
gums delegates. Paris hears the
Belgian Government intends To use its
privilege OF replacing delegates with
alternates to gain admission for the
famous prelaje 10 the conference.
This Ia taken 70 mean that Belgium
Will make q moving appeal before
the worlds statesmen for justice and
the reparation of her wrongs. with
the punishment Of the criminals wnu
violated her territory.
There Is no person who can draw
more vivid picture of pillaged Rel.
GUM than Cardinal MERCER. His
presence in the conference. il IL
agreed. may have an important lr
fluence an the general character Of
the peace treaty.
Germany's two cables reaching
from Emden to New York, which
we're seized by the Allies on the first
day of the war. are not to he re-.
turned to her. and negotiations are
expected soon TO determine their
ownership. II i expected thar
France will make n vigorous claim
for one and that the other will ~.
main in the possession Of England.
EngIand's War Prize.
Technically the two cables became
Il war prize Of England when one or
her cruisers IN 1914. four hours after
the declaration Of war, cut the two
lines ar point near the Azores Nor
long afterward the British Govern
ment raised and repaired one cable
and Immediately put it into opera
tion.
The other cable WAS placed at the
disposition of the French Government.
which has allowed ii 10 remain III
repaired. France now is particularly
anxious TO gain title to that cable
and make the most Of the advantage
it offers for closer communications
with the United States.
Undoubtedly the problem Of tho
possession Of the cables Will ho r..
ferrcd to n special commission Of the
Peace Conferences, us the armiSticp
commission has not been endowed nl
the Powers with authority to u"Co~
tiatc such transaction, Which
amounts literally to division of thl
spoilS
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