The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-03-14
END DRAFT ARMIES,
IS PLAN OF MEET
United States Hopes to Abolish
Levy in All Nations.
TREATY is READY FOR HUNS
Lloyd George Announces Document Is
Finished and Will Be Signed by
ApriI-Dotted Line Awaits
Signature of Germans.

London. March 12.-Premier Lloyd
George and Foreign Secretary Balfour
have sent word to their colleagues
here that the peace conference has
nearly completed it's work, the Eve
ming News says it understands.
The draft of the peace treaty al
ready has been finished and will be
signed before the end Of March.
When the Germans are summoned
10 Paris, the News adds, the treaty
will be read to them and they will be
invited to sign it.
There will be no discussion with a
view to alterations of the principal
articles of the treaty. If it Is
thought necessary, questions invOlv-
ing the adjustment of details will be
referred to a special commission.
Probe for lntrigues.
Paris, March 12.-An investigation
of German-Austrian and Hungarian in
trigues against the new state or
Czecho-SlOvakia, as soon as document
airy evidence is received, was decided
upon at the meeting of the supreme
council.
The official statement issued after
the meeting reads:
''The supreme council considered
communications from the armistice
commission regarding the situation in
Poland. At the request Of the Czecho-
Slovak republic concerning German
Hungarian intrigues against the new
state, the council considered the re-
ports and decided to investigate them
as soon as documentary evidence is re-
ceived.
"The council then discussed the con-
special interests and the states in proc
ess of formation should participate in
the discussions with the great powers
respecting their frontiers"
Speed Frontier Verdict.
The decisions of the various bound
airy commissions are being framed in
accordance with the instructions of
the supreme council for speedy action
by the conference, and it is expected
all the reports will be completed by
the end of the week.
The commissions have been told
that when they could not agree they
should submit the reports of various
viewpoints, leaving it to the council
to make a decision.
The American members of the COM
mission, it is reported, have been
coldly judicial and without favorit-
ism, thereby incurring criticisms from
partisan claimants almost daily.
American members of the supreme
council, it is understood permitted
the military experts to exercise their
Judgment regarding the proper size
and character of the future German
army.
Tentative Army Limit.
In order to have a basis of discus
sion, the Americans, it is reported;
suggested an army of 100000 men, but
only because that was the number
mentioned in the first armistice pro-
poSal.
Germany to a volunteer 12-year army
is regarded by the Americans as likely
to lead to it's review by the league
of nations when it takes up the sub
ject of the limitation of ornaments or
the policy of general prohibition of
cOnscript armies in all nations.
This is on the theory that the great
expense of regular lOng-term armies
viii be such as automatically to keep
down militarism.
The supreme council in accordance
with the decision reached yesterday,
today closed the question of the rep
reSentation of the small nations on
the economic and financial commits
siOns by making the following APP
pOintments
Economic CommiSSiOn.-Represe
tives of Belgium, Brazil, China, Po-
land, Portugal, Roumania and Serbia
Financial Commission--Rep
tives of Belgium, Greece, Poland,
CZecho-Slovakia, Roumania, Serbia,
and one country to be named.