Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1916-11-29 | Page 2 | Small Powers Eager to Bring War to End

I SMAll POWERS EAGER j TO BRING WAR TO END j jAre Are Di Discontented W IV Wit i t t. li Course of Entente According Accord Accord- ing illg to Berlin Report Berlin Nov O 28 The Tho Tho che tums ung's report of the recent conference 1 of oC tho the representatives oo of the entente allied governments held at Paris states that hat the lie conference was followed b by byan I Ian ian an Informal discussion of oC the general situation In which representatives of or orthe the he small powers ers took part sa says s 's the Overseas 0 News agency This report of ot the he discussion declares I Belgian lan Serbian Montenegrin and Italian representatives gave ent to jitter hitter feelings against pi prolongation elongation of ot the he war ar and against the wn way in which ho tho desires of or small states were un un- hee heeded ed A l. l former ormer Portuguese minister stated that it would have o b been en better for or Portugal to have o maintained neutrality neu- neu friendly to the entente and that the he war completely J ruins Portugal Representatives of the small states de declared declared de- de dared that they were without Influence Influence ence upon the general policies of or the entente nn and said saM it was a n reproach to neutral powers that they ther made no noo effort of- of fort ort to bring about peace but sought to gain aln wealth Finally the tho small powers decided to repeat this Influential meeting after a short Interval No o officials ambassadors ambassadors dors dora or representatives cs of the tho press wore were to be admitted nor were an any official of- of Invitations to bo be sent since as the Italian representative c said this would but cause discontent among the time great powers of or the entente Tho TIme next meeting was call called d to moot meet in Paris later meetings however to be held In other capitals