Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-22
OTTOMAN PROBLEM
|. BECOMES ACUTE IN
|. PEACE: CONFERENCE
Other Powers Urge United
States to Act as Man
datory.
| AMERICAN DELEGATION
is OPPOSED TO PROPOSAL
Germans Are Granted Seven
Days Extension to Consider
Treaty Terms.
HAVE NOT COMPLETED STUDY
/ Experts, According TO Huns, Have
Not Had Time to Prepare
Statement
HAVE NOT COMPLETED STUDY
Experts, According TO Huns, Have
Not Had Time to Prepare
Statement.

PARIS. May cl.-The Turkish prob
lem has become most acute in the
peace conference. Various delegations
arc striving 10 find some solution for
the dismembermcnt of the empire
which Will not provoke a religious war
The United States Is being looked
TO by the other powers as the only
nation which can become tho manda-
tory for Constantinople without the
danger OF precipitating another Euro
pean war, but the American delegates
Ia the peace conferences express doubt
OF the Willingness of the United States
to accent the mandate. especially un-
der the conditions which the powers
have outlined. Ill
With the Sultan removed FROM Con-
stant!nople, the American delegates cx-
pressed the belief that it might be pos
sible for the American public to be-
come reconciled TO the mandate. How
ever, the Indian delegation which has
appeared before the council of four
to plead for special consideration for
the feelings of the Mohammedan world.
as we'll as other Mohammedans who
have made statements, assert that. the
Sultan must not be forced out of Con-
stantinoplc, declaring that such action
would greatly affect his standing i'm
the church Consequently Great Brl-
main in Constantinople as head of.the
Moslem faith. but with purely spiritual
powers. lEc5fr
Retain Temporal Power.
1t is now suggested that instead or
transferring the Sultan to a strip OF
territory somewhere in Asia Minor that
he remain in Corstantinoplc, but be
allowed TO exercise "A degree Of tenn
porai power over some territory III
Asia Minor 10 be selected, thus pre-
pire. Such plan. it is asserted. would
prevent the obliteration of Turkish
pre-war debts and necessi,ate : the
framing OF peace treaty with the
The American commission discussed
TINS plan yesterday, bur apparently.
there was considerable differencel-of
opinion among the delegates. Some of
tneh feel that the United State prob
ably would be unwilling to accent thr
Constantinople mandate under any con
ditions as in the event il accepts athe
namaate for Armenia, it would require
until such time as native forces coi,ld'
ne organized and the unsettled conrIi
tions controlled. 49,,
Discuss Treaty of 1880.
The council Of Foreign Ministers
,. Iom,.nuea today the discussion, of the
nolland: Jonkheer Van karn@beek.
Dutch Minister Of Foreign Affairs. Wl,o
mas mas appeared before the councils ion
day to examine the question with Ills
government. At as early dateS bs
possible he will resume nesotiations is
1T Paris with the council
NJ. Spyromilies. Deputy in the
Greek Chamber from Northern Epirus.
mas presented to President WILSON, 81
TSs rem orandum n,an6on on the situation there.
haoitants have had to struggle con-
tImuously against tho Turks and the
y mans, and demands the union OF
the region with Greece.
\ -.
bHen extended to Germany by The rens
rcsentatires OF the allied and asso-
riated governments, in which the Ger
nd c,i,dc prnes their pienipotentiaries may con
and formulate such replies to the Va
rious clauses as they desire
Extension Is Granted,
Inc eNtention OF time. which orisi-
nal naiiE was to have expired al noon
day, May 90. at the request of the Ger.
mans who advanced tho pleai thar
more more tlmo was required in order thai;
rmeH, ,,,, might formulate arguments of
n,uch Importance. Almost Smut
.aneousiy with the request BY the
peace pienipotentiaries for more time
comes from Berlin statement of the
herman cabinet that Germany is mn
Wiling to sign the peace treaty. The
document is reiteration. although In
Stronger words. Of the views of the
,ns ,nnsemosi rnsii statesmen in Germany tfst
~. S'S compact would smell
me rum OF the former empire
IS too late for Germany to sect
10 deny both the aggression in the
"ar ana her responsibility for il. This
declaration is made by Premier c,Iem
enceau, as president OF the peace cor
ference. in replying to the German
note on reparations. the text of yrhici
night. '"s'
The argument put forth by coun,
Non brockdorfr- Rantzau was that Ger
many did not start A war OF arrroa
sion; mat the German people wsrc
convinced they fought a defepsj,o
war, ana that the present German gov
crnment cannot he held rcsponsible
tor faults" OF the former Germam
government.
Premier Clemcnccau takes un the
points made by the German DELEGATION
ana declares that the German govern
mcnt last November made no protest
against the charge in q note OF Secre.
tary OF State Lansing that Germanv
was the aggressor Tho president ~
inc conference points out further that
Ger|nany made the French govern.
ment OF 1871 and the Russian govern.
ment OF 1917 responsible for the acsS
~ inc imperial regimes In France uad
Russia. - 81
Text of Repnrntion Note.
The German note reads: "
"At Versailles, May IL, 1919
TO His Eacellency. ". Cler1enccau.
President OF the Peace Conferences.
Sir,-ln the draft OF The peace treat