The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-20
Listened This Morning to
French Ambassador Re-
Gently from Archangel
WILL HEAR DANISH
MINISTER TOMORROW
Today's Session of Peace Congress
Lasted From 1890 to IL O'clock
oficial Communique Immediately Up
on It's Close.
on Its Close.

PARIS, Jan 2O.-Tne situation in Rus
sia was taken up by the supreme council
at the peace congress today Joseph Nou
lens. the French ambassador to Russia,
addressed the meeting on the Russian
question. This announcement was made
IL the official statement regarding the
proceeding. The next meeting viii be to-
morrow at 1870 o clock
The official communique follows:
The President Of the United States Of
America and the prime ministers and for
eigl ministers of the allied governments
assisted by Baron Maxine and the Japan
csc ambassador IN Paris met at the Quai
DOrsay this morning between 1919 and
y o'clock NJ, Nouens, the French am
bassador to Russia, who returned few
days ago from Archangel, addressed the
meeting and gave particulars OF the stu
alton in Russia. The next meeting viii
take place on Tuesday at 1890 O'Clock in
the morning to hear the remarks OF NJ
Soavenieus, the Danish minister in Pctro-
grad who left the Russian capital very
recently.
Some points in the report to which Pre-
mier Clemeneeau referred Saturday when
he said he had consulted two eminent ju
rists on the penal responsibility OF the
former German emperor we've made pub
lie YESTERDAY The report was drawn ~
by Ferdinand Larnaude, dean OF the Paris
law faculty, and DR. y G. de Iapradelle.
professor of rights oil nations in TIC same
faculty The authers OF the report give
long argument against the bringing OF
I he ex-emperer before tribunal of com
mon law, because his will commanded.
but his hand did not execute. They say
| that hc was not the principal offender,
and that therefore he could only be pun-
| ished as an aceomplice
| An international tribunal consequently
must be found They consider The Hague
arbitration court, founded at the 1890 con
! ference, incompetent to try the emperor.
as the court was meant for cases where
no penalty was TO be applied. They argue
that an entirely new jurisdiction must be
created. which should be tho first instrl-
ment Of a league Of nations and in which
should appear exclusively the states which
| fought Germany.
/ The report quotes a letter from the cx.
emperor to the emperor Of Austria in the
early days OF the war, in which the Ger
man emperor wrote:
My soul is torn asllnder. but every
thing must be put TO fire and blood. The
ltiToats OF men and women, children and
the aged must be cm, and not tree noi
a house left standing
with such methods OF terror, wlticl
alone can strike SO degenerate a peepl'
as the French, the war will finish bcior,
two months, while. ii | use humanitarian
methods, it may prolong for years, De
lspite all my repugnanee | have had t,
choose the first system
Leon Bourgeois. former premier an,
/ French authority on the league Of nations
in statement to the Aatin cites as
precedent for the punishment OF Ger
mans Of all degrees convicted of violation
Of the laws Of war, the case of IIenr
Wirz, who was tried By court martial AM
executed after the Civil war Tor cruelt
suffered BY northern prisoners in the cam
he commanded at Andersonville, Ga.