Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-02-01
COLONY CONTROL
GREAT TRIUMPH
FOR U.S.EXECUTNE
Australia Alone Objects TO Non
Grabbing Policy: Serbia Asks
Allied Direction.
ITALY YIELDS ON FIUME

Paris, Feb 1.-Whcn the Supreme
Council of the Peace Conference met
yesterday IL had before il the very PLAIN
statement made hy President Wilson
at Wednesdays late sessions 80 oar
ticular WAS MIR Wilson 10 have an ex-
act record of wha. he had said that soon
after entering the meeting he summoned
one of his personal stenographers and
kept him at hls side during the session.
President Wilson and the Alli,d prime
ministers Yesterday afternoon consid-
ered the Balkan problem particularly
the disputes between the Scrbians and
Rtmanians. The commissions charged
with examining the labor problem, com
pensstion and damages shortly will be-
gin their work
The intcr-Allicd commission on Po-
land met and decided to adopt draft
report which will be submitted TO the
conference committee The conclusions
will be formulated by NJ. Noulcus.
OFFICIAL. CoNMuNIouE.
The full text of the official communi-
cation issued this evening dealing with
the session of the Supreme Council fol-
lows
The President of the nited States
of America. the prime ministers and
foreign ministers of the Allied and asso-
Grated powcrs and the representatives
Of Japan met this afternoon at . clock
"Thc delegates Of the great powers
composing the interahed commission
which will shortly proceed TO Poland
were introduced 10 state the Conclu-
sions which they had reached after hear
ing the representatives ot Poland and
of the Czccho-Slovak republic regard
ing the provisional exploitation OF the
industrial district oi TCschcn
After listening 10 the reports made
hy NJ. Nolilcns and by General Gothic.
mi the name of their colleagues. the Allied
ministers decided t. send 70 Tcschen
Allied delegates for the purpose ot assur-
ing peaceful exploitation IN agreement
With the Czechs and the Poles, pending
territorial settlement of the question
hv the conference
\ statement of the views Of tho re-
spcctlvc interests and rights Of RumanIa
and Serbia III the Banat ~ Icmesvar
was then heard VI Bratano and NJ
Aiishu represented the Rumanian gov
crnmcnt and the Serbian delegation
was composed IL VI Pachitch. NJ. Yes
mitch and NJ Trumhitch.
There viii b. no plenary session Of
the Peace Conference today, according
70 an announcement made Yesterday
TRIUMPH FOR WILSON
The Paris correspondent Of tho Daily
Mail in a dispatch to his paper today
saws hat Japan on Thursday formally
accepted the theory Of ntcrnatIonalIza-
ton of colonies and that il was under
stood South Africa had abandoned its
opposition TO the scheme
president Wilson, the correspond
ent adds. undoubtedly won an immense
diplomatic victory but has had To modi-
" his original proposals to some extent
Is result OF Great Britain ac-
reptance Of President " ilson's propos-
II. the correspondent adds. she hopes
for an easier solution Of some other
problems. especially concerning Mesopo-
tamia. OF which India expects 10 be the
mandatory. India, the dispatch con-
tjnucs. also desires 10 he tho manda-
tory for German East Africa. hoping
that IT viii afford a field for emigration,
In the discussion concerning the dis
posal of the former German colonies,
President " Nilson contcndcd IN no un-
certain terms that TO divide the colonies
among the Entente nations would he In
direct contravention of the fourteen
points" which were accepted rs . basis
of peace. Such DIVISION he Is said to
have added, also would violate the
principles Of the League of Nations rs
laid down at the Peace Conference last
Saturday.
The American attitude, Is very pos
tive. Y hat the nited States would
do in case the powers insisted upon
dividing the colonies among them has
not been disclosed.
I. : MIGHT BREAK AWAY
The American attitude, 1t IS held IN
some quarters. might be such that Il
probably would effect the whole future
of the Peace Conference. President
Wilson, it Is understood, still holds to
his original opinion that II would be
scarcely worth while for the United
States to participate III the negotla-
tions unless a League Of Nations with
the accompanying principles were pro-
vided for In making peace.
The net result of the past two days
OF discussion on the colonial question,
in the opinion of many Americans here
has been to clear the atmosphere gen
orally and to force clear definition
OF aims on all sides.
The opinion is rather generally cX-
pressed that with this question settled
II will be much easier 10 go ON 10 other
subjects that are awaiting attention
" neither the compromise program
of Observation-Disclosures will meet Presi-
dent Wilson's views. depends wholly, 1t
appears, upon the way In which the
details will be worked out
AUSTRALIA STILL OBJECTS
The only government that was con
tlnuing to make formal objection to the
compromise plan of administering the
German colonies was the Australian
Government. says the Paris edition OF
the Daily Mail today Her delegates
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