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Show GZEGHKUIKS TO GUTTEUTONS Conference at Philadelphia Will Draw Up Joint Independence Inde-pendence Declaration. WASHINGTON, Oct. 22. Meeung in Independence hall, Philadelphia, Friday and Saturday, representatives of 65,000,000 people of the oppressed nationalities of central Europe will draw up a joint declaration of the independence of their peoples from the domination of the Teutonic Teu-tonic nations. Delegates to the conference, confer-ence, called upon invitation of the mayor of Philadelphia and the patriotic societies of America, left Washington today. Professor T. G. Masaryk, prime minister min-ister of the newly recognized Czechoslovak Czecho-slovak republic, will preside at the conference. con-ference. Other nationalities to be represented repre-sented include the Jugo-Slavs, Poles, Italian Irredentists, Ukrainians, Lithuanians, Lithu-anians, Rumanians and Reuthenians. On leaving Washington today with the delegates Prime Minister Masaryk referred re-ferred to the document to be signed by the delegates as one "which I trust will go down in the history of the oppressed nations of Europe." "We consider it an honor," he added, "and a singular privilege that our conferences, con-ferences, based as they will be on the principles of self-determination and cooperation co-operation among all groups against Teutonic Teu-tonic aggression, may he carried on under un-der the roof where the American declaration declara-tion of independence was drafted and published. We shall do our work under the shadow of a great tradition." |