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tenng TO the station to meet Premier
bonomi, of Italy. He prohted by g
0rlef conversation they had on the way
to the Italian Premier's hotel. Short
~ before noon, at the Foreign Office.
Premier BRAND received the Marquis
della Iorretta, who assured him tina!
reports from Rome that the Italian
delegation had decided to adopt the
British viewpoint on the Near East
and Silesia questions were untrue.
As he left the Foreign Office the
marquis told newspaper men that Italy
had decided It was physically mpossi-
Bile TO send troops into Upper Silesia
but that on the other hand Italy was
not inclined to give satisfaction, in
the Silesian decision, to the pan-Ger-
man party, whose propaganda was as
much against italy as France.
Later BRAND had important confer
enccs with Marshal Foch and Generals
Weygand, Lerond and Nollet 1t was
understood that Marshal Foch gave
the Premier purely military advice on
the question of immediate reinforce
ments.
Foch suggested that if France con-
tnued TO dispatch materials to the
forces already in Upper Siesia the
question of further reinforcements
might be allowed to wait until after
the Supreme Council had discussed the
boundary problem. Brands confer
ence with foch strengthened the re-
port from the British sdQ that Lloyd
George had made it known this morn
ing That ne WAS willing to CanceGe the
French demand for an inter- Allied
troop movement into Uppe~ Silcsia if
BRAND would agree 70 POSTPONE this
angle Of the Councils discussions until
the boundary issue had been dis
posed Of
Prcmiers Still at Odds
Lloyd George believes that the
boundary matter is of supreme i'm
the conversation Of the two premiers
last night at their dinner at the Hotel
Crillon was Of the most amiabe ma
ture, it is believed they found no com
mon ground on any point Lloyd
George IS most anxious to throw the
boundary question into oren debate as
early as possible
From a source close 20 Lloyd George
The Tribune correspondent learned
shat tho British Premier leans in the
last analysis toward 4 plan to split
giving the Poles and the Germans the
undisputed areas and keeping the dis
puted Industrial territories under
allied military supervision for term
of years. On this theory e is willing
to yield to the French idea of sending
reinforcements, although ne is ready
to warn France that England will be
unable to send more than battalion.
Since early morning the Foreign
Office has been closely guarded by
gendarmes, who have excluded all ex-
cept bearers of official diplomatic
passes.
The delegates began arriving for the
initial session at 3 o'clock this after
noon. First to enter the gate were the
two Japanese ambassadors accom-
panied by four experts on the Upper
Silesian controversy.
Premier Lloyd George, whose hatred
Of French newspaper men is we'll known,
turned his head from his would-be in
reviewers and the camera men as ne
entered Lord Curzon, on the other
hand, saluted them.
Harvey Abandons Ancient Hat
Ambassador George Harvey, the
American delegate, entered last, accom-
panied by frock- coated embassy secre-
talies. Mr.. Harvey had abandoned the
strange looking, nat topped derby
he wore on his arrival in Paris, which
created comment in all the French
press. The bowler was Of such an
Gent American mode that the French
were moved to ask whether it was n
new style This afternoon Ambassador
Harvey was wearing q new straw hat
Auguste Gauvain, writing in the
Journal des Debats, says that il the
Supreme Council does not allocate at
least million inhabitants of Upper
Silesia to Poland, Poland must feel
herself the victim of an iniquity, "but
it Will be an iniquity not only against
Poland, but against France"
an all their official declarations be-
fore the Treaty Of Versailles" Gauvan
continues "thc Allies proclaimed that
they would establish a strong Poland
within her ethnographic limits and
destroy Prussian militarism.
"Giving the industrial basin of Upper
Silesia to Germany would be contrary
to these solemn engagements 1t would
throw several hundred thousand Poles
to Germany and permit German mill
tarists. more arrogant than ever, to
reconstitute their powerful war ma
terial. 1t would eXalt German chauvin-
ism 10 disquieting degree for France
1t would constitute a return to the
policy Of dominion which all the Allies
and the United States promised to