The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1921-02-10


near Stockton, Cal.
George said this was out of the ques-
ton, calling attention to the difficulty
in obtaining f1O,0OO,0OO to build hous-
es in London. The council, feeling
that the case of Austria is so closely
bound up in the general central Eu-
ropean situation, referred the whole
matter to a special committee, made
up of the commerce ministers of the al
lied nations, for investigation.
Admitting that the treaty of Sevres.
with Turkey, must be revised, the
council decided that representatives OF
the allies shall hold a conference with
Turkish and Greek representatives in
London in the latter part of February.
If the governments of Constantinople
and Angora can get together for the
purpose, they will be allowed to send
a joint delegation. To this extent the
council recognizes the Turkish Ma
tionaliSt government, and it probably
is the least it can do in view of the
strong position of Mustapha Renal
Pasha and his recent military sue
cesses against the Greeks in Asia
Minor.
Disagreeing with the views of Pres
ident Wilson as set forth in Secretary
Colby's note to the Italian ambassador
last November, the council decided
that Esthcnia and Latvia, two of the
states carved out of the old Russian
empire, should be recognized as SOW
ereign states. Action on Georgia and
Lithuania was deferred.
From the other side of the fence
Berlin-comes the information that the
German government will not recognize
the right of the supreme council to set
tie the subject of Preparations. Berlin
holds that there must be first a dis
cussion by Industrial experts regard
ing deliveries, and then the confer
ence of the governments at Geneva as
promised at the Spa meeting.
"Pertinax," a usually well-informed
Paris Journalist, says Great Britain
is going to propose that payment of
the British war debt to the United
States be postponed until 1885 and
1947. This debt now amounts to some
thing over four billion dollars. 1t is
said Lord Chalmers, permanent secre-
tary of the British treasury, will come
over here with the plan for postpone
ment.
President Wilson's note, asking that,
before he undertake mediation for Ar
menia, the great powers promise Rus
STA that her territorial integrity shall
not be invaded, seems to have met
with little response from the capitals
of Europe, though it may be the states
men are merely digesting it. Armenia
herself appears to have ceased to in
terest any except the philanthropists
who know that her people still are suf-
fering and oppressed. AS for Russia,
the main development of recent days
is the progress of the negotiations for
resumption of trade between her and
Great Britain. The soviet envoy has
received the terms demanded by the
British, and it is likely they will be
accepted. The movement toward the
same end in the United States has
received a setback in the senate COM
mittee, where majority seems OPP
posed tc an arrangement which they
think involves the recognition of the
soviet government.
That same Wilson note was inter-
preted in this country as aiming chief
ly at Japan's continued occupation of
Vladivostok and the surrounding por-
ton of Siberia, and in this light might
have been generally approved if the
Republican press had not jumped on
! it as a presumptuOus attempt to es-
tablish a policy by repudiated adj
ministration. Anyhow, the Japanese
so far have not given it official atten-
ton; neither have they made cany
move toward getting out of Vladivo-
stok. The murder of an American
naval lieutenant by one Of their SEN
| tries, and other unwarranted acts,
however, have forced Tokyo to dis
avow all such actions.
Ambassadors Morris and Shidehara
have concluded their negotiations for
! the settlement of the California alien
land law question and the definition
of the rights of japanese in the United
States, and their recommendations are
embodied in report which Mr.. Nor
ris has submitted to Secretary Of State
Colby. The principal features OF this
report are as follows:
/. An amendment to the existing
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