The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-26
COercive Methods VIII Be Used,
Is Threat Made.
is GIVEN THIRTY YEARS TO PAY
Three Billion Marks Gold Per
Year Is Decision.
Premiers Leave San Reno in
Accord Once More.

premierS this afternoon dispatched
note to Berlin demanding immediate
execution of the treaty of Versailles,
especially those clauses regarding dis
armament, indemnities, and coal de-
liveries, threatening to extend occupa-
ton of German territory if the de-
mandS were refused, according to an
announcement at the French foreign
office.
Paris, April 26.-The council of pre-
miers has fixed May 25 as the date
for the conference with German rep
resentatives at Spa, a n~ws agency
dispatch from San Reno today said.
The Germans will be called in as
soon as the allied leaders have agreed
on a program. the dispatch said.
| The council has postponed settle
ment of the Adriatic controversy, fol-
lowing a request from Anton Trum-
bitch, the Jugo-Slav representative,
patch.
Trumbitch. the dispatch said.
claimed he was unable to negotiate
satisfactorily because of interrupted
telegraph and telephone service and
disorders in go-Slavia.
Premier Nitti agreed to the post
ponement, the dispatch added.
Big Army Denied Huns
A joint French. British, Italian and
Belgian statement, to be ratified here
this afternoon, rejects Germany's re-
quest that she be allowed to retain an
army of 100000 instead of 100000
provided by the treaty of Versailles.
The statement says 1t is necessary
to fix the amount of reparations to be
paid by Germany later and that Ger
many must carry out the peace treaty.
otherwise the allies will be forced to
) use coercive measures.
PertinaX. writing in the Echo de
T0la n
thirty yearly payments of three bill
lion marks gold as a minimum. to be
increased. according to the state of
Germany's economic restoration.
Consider Russian Trade.
San Reno. April 26.-The council
of premiers has decided to take up the
matter of trading with Russia again. it
was learned semi-officially today, and
will allow entrance of a Russian mis-
sion into allied countries to discuss the
matter.
Great Britain. it was said. has con-
| sented to the plan. altho she objects
! to Maxim Iitvinoff, soviet emissary at
| Copenhagen on the ground that Lit
vinoff was guilty of a breach of diplo-
matte etiquet" in his recent conver-
+. .sations by ]. O'Grady the British rep
I resentative.
/ Nitti Must Decide.
Premier Nitti today was to give his
decision on the proposed Adriatic set
| tlement After Nitti submitted hi:
plan yesterday, including making
| Fiume a buffer state. based on the
proposals of President Wilson in hi:
note of December 9, France and Grea'
Britain pointed out they had not rati'
j fled this plan and declared Nitti mus
| choose between Wilson's original com
promise and the pact of London which
would give Fiume to Jugo-Slavia.
| While the council decided to aware
t4l. LOTT I
Great Britain and Syria to France, i
was learned semi that II
principal final decisions on thes
questions have been postponed pc
cause of the necessity in defining
Italy's spheres of influence in south
ern Anatolia.
Following out his peace policy, Pre-
mier Nitti has asked only economi
concessions, leaving sovereignty L
Turkey.
The San Reno conference of tn
council of premiers. which started
week ago with threatened serious dis
sension over the question of a unlfle,
allied attitude toward Germany, VII
end probably tomorrow night with ap
parently complete accord
In Complete Accord.
| While not all the questions hav
been settled. the outstanding differ
ences have been eradicated and IN
when the premiers resume their woTl
: in Paris next month.
The council has decided to tende
} the mandate oyer Armenia 10 IN
United States. In event that natio
refuses it, the council will ask Wilso
: to determine the boundaries of tn
new nation. by deciding whether IN
Fzerum district shall go to Armeni
or remain Turkish.
THE mandate over Palestine went
Great Britain. who with France WI
settle the borders of Syria and Pales
tine. especially as to whether the Ut
per Jourdan river shall be included /
Syria's zorders-
Palestine To Be Jewish.
Assurances have been given Zionis
; representatives by British delegate
here that the military administratio
: of Palestine which has been unsatis
! factory to Jews will be changed to
l sympathetic civil rule. Zionists ar
represented in San Reno by Benjam1
Cohen. of Chicago Ill. VINO came 1roi
Palestine with DR.. Chayin Weisemani
. president of the world Zionist cor
mission there.
The councillor premiers at the re
} quest of Premier Nitti of Italy, an
Foreign Minister Trumbitch of Jugt
tSlavia will allow the Adriatic questlo
to remain in negotiation between IT
Italian and Jugo-Slav governments
was learned today.
Ruhr District Evacuated.
Paris. April 26.-Dr. Goeppert hea
) of the Germans delegation in Paris Il
3 dav handed the foreign office a no
: addressed to Premier Millerand. sta
ling that the additional troops whic
Q had entered the Ruhr district had g
! evacuated that district on April FL