The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-19
SUPREME COUNCIL READY ID TAKE UP
 TURKISH PROBLEM Allies Feel That Americas Absence at Today's Con- ference Is Temporary.
 Express Regret
By Associated Pres,

San Reno, April 1S.--Questions in con rection with the peace treaty with Tur- key will comprise the first business to be taken up by the supreme council of the allies at it's first formal session here tomorrow
 This was decided upon at a conference today in the Duvaehan palace, where the sessions are to be held, attended by Pre- nliers Nitti, of Italy; Lloyd George of Great Britain, and Milerand of France.
 It was agreed that daily communiques should be issued, as upon the occasion of previous sessions of the council. It de- veloped definitely today that the United States would not be represented at the conference.
 Th prime ministers of the three great powers-Nitti, Afillerand and Lloyd George-have expressed decided regret } that the United States government was taking no part in what is regarded as one of the final acts of the peace confer ence.
 FEELING TOWARD U. S.
 As far as it can be sensed, the feeling here is that the absence of America is only a temporary one, and that the req sons for her present detachment are likely to disappear.
 For the present, however, the prime ministers, foreign ministers and ambassa- dcrs of France, Great Britain. Italy, Ja- pan, Belgium and Greece at the meeting are occupied with problems particularly affecting themselves and there is no dis position to dwell unduly upon the lack of American participation
 The first meeting will be opened at Il o'clock tomorrow morning.
 The decision to make the Turkish treaty the first business of the conference was not unexpected as there appears to be general agreement that as the Turkish question was one of the main reasons for the calling of the conference, it might as well be taken up at the very begin ming. 1t is surrounded by many per plexities, among them naval and military questions, such as the manner of policing the Daroanelles, what form of control shall be set up in Constantinople, the delimination of the boundaries of Thrace and Armenia. and the question of the Greek position in Smyrna.
 TWO SESSIONS DAILY
 Another subject which has not been much mentioned as yet, but which will be brought before the council before it's close, will be the condition of interna- tional exchange and the position in which Italian industry has been placed by lack of coal
 The Hungarian treaty will have to be passed upon finally. with the prospect ahead that the present Hungarian govs ernment may refuse to sign it.
 Then there is the vastly important ques- ton of compelling Germany to fulfill the treaty of Versailles, regarding which an early declaration by the conference is expected.
 Sessions win be held morning and aft ernoons with the possibility that even ings also may be arranged for. The Jap anese ambassador will be in attendance at all the sessions while premier veHi- zelos, for Greece, and foreign minister Hymans, for Belgium, will be admitted during discussions concerning questions affecting their nations. The Jugo-Slavs are not represented here and it appears doubtful if the Adriatic question will be taken up.