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Show TBrlTY OF FtflCETO " BYJIPHIL 1 Draft Ready for Acceptance Accep-tance by End of Month, Is Statement Made by David Lloyd George. Boundary Commission Decisions Likely to Be Announced at Close of the Week, Paris Hears. COPENHAGEN, March 11. Tbe German delegates are to start for Brussels Tuesday to learn the decision de-cision of the allies concerning the turning over of the German mercantile mercan-tile fleet and the conditions of the food supply that is to bo givon Germany Ger-many in return. LONDON, March 11. Premier Lloyd George and Foreign Secretary Balfour have sent word to their colleagues here that the peace conference has nearly completed its work, the Evening News says it understands. The draft of the peace treaty already has been finished and will be signed before the end "of March. When the Germans are summoned to Paris, the News adds, the treaty will be read to them and they will be invited to sign It. There will be no discussion with a view to alterations of the principal articles of the treaty. If it is thought necessary, questions involving the adjustment adjust-ment of details will b referred to a special spe-cial commission. PARIS, March 11. The decisions of the various boundary commissions of the peace conference are being framed in accordance ac-cordance with the Instructions of the supreme su-preme council for speedy action by the conference and It is expected that all the reports will be completed by the end of the week. The commissions have been told that when they could not agree they should submit the reports of various viewpoints, view-points, leaving it to the council to make a decision. The American members, it is reported; report-ed; have been coldly judicial and without favoritism, thereby incurring criticisms from partisan claimants almost daily. YANKEES PERMIT ALLY TO FIX ARMY STATUS. The American members of the supreme council, it is understood, permitted the military experts to exercise their judgment judg-ment regarding the proper size and character char-acter of the future German army. In order to have a basis of discussion, the Americans, it is reported, suggested an army of 400,000 men, but only because be-cause that was the number mentioned in the first armistice nfnnnsal The decision uf the council to limit Germany to a volunteer twelve-year army is regarded by the Americans as likely to lead to consideration by the League of Nations, when it takes up the subject of the limitations of armaments, of the policy of a general prohibtion or conscription armies in all nations. This is on the theory that the great expense of regular long-term armies will be such as to automatically keep down militarism. mili-tarism. AUSTRIAN KAISER MAY BE BANISHED. Information has reached responsible j quarters in Paris that the Austrian gov- ! eminent is contemplating the enactment of a law banishing former Emperor Charles. This report has aroused d iscussion here as to what country the ex-emperor would be likely to retire. It is said to be certain that he will not go to Italy or Germany, wh tic the Pea ndinavian co'in- ' tries, with Holland's trouble over the present of former Emperor William as 1 a warning, ar5 not considered hkely to j receive him. The choice would seem to j lie between Swit rerla nd and Spa in. j Either nf these two powers, however. ' would require guarantees from the pow- ers, it. is thought, against any powpible I fnt ure demand lor the ex - ruler's ext ra- dition. ! An inve.stie3.ti0n of German-Austrian and Hungarian intrigues against the new i j srat of O.ccho-Siovakia, as srwm as! i documentary evidence if received, was i decided upon at the meeting of the tu- ! preme council today. j Medico-Aeronautic Gathering, j j PARTS. Mar-h 11. The first interallied j me'lici! aeronautical roncret-s opened r.re I yesterday, its onject l-emg to promote ihe I stuy of merfir;il problems ansii from ' I aviation. It was decided to form a pr- manent committee to p-esent the view of the medical profession in rr,at;e pertain- J iner to aviation. Professor GUlam of t':e. Vniverrly of Paris wa.s t lected pres:dnt j'of this tody. ! T.'te I'nited Fta'es is rep-enteo at the I (Continued on Piga 2, Colnnm 3.) TUT! OF PEACE TO HICBI APRIL (Continued from Page One.) congress hy Dr. O. Uowntree uf Minneapolis, Min-neapolis, Minn. To Resume Negotiations. 1WKIS, March Jl. The. interallied commission, com-mission, which will leave Paris on Wednesday for nru.-sels to resume the negotiations with I ho Germans lor the release of the German merchant shipping ami the provisioning of Germany, will consist only of the commissioners. The American members of the commission are Thomas W. I niout, i Icrbert C. Hoover arid J. .11. Robinson. Representation' Is Settled. I'AFGS, March. 1.1. The supreme council today closed, the question of the representation repre-sentation of the. small nations on the economic and financial commissions by malting the following appointments;: Jv'onornie commission representatives of IJelgipm, Uracil, 'China, Poland, Portugal, Portu-gal, Rumania and Serbia. Kin a nei a I commission Representatives of I ielgium, Greece. 1 'of and, Ozeeho-Slo-vakia, Kumania, Serbia and one country I to be named. j Fighting Still in Progress. i l-ONDOX, "March 1 1. Kighting Is still j going on in Kerlin with great fury, yc-! yc-! cording to undated report s received in Copenhagen from the German capital and forwarded by the Exchange Telegraph company. Witnesses of the fighting in the last few days say that both t he Spartacans and the government soidiers acted like wild beasts. . Hostilities continue in the northern and northeastern sections i of -Ucr in, and the government troops are . killing all prisoners who fa'l into their hands. Women, the reports add. participated partici-pated in the cruellies with as much desperation des-peration as the men. ' The reports estimate the loss In Berlin Ber-lin from pillage alone at n0.ouo.000 marks. Frank furl erst rasse, a well -known Jewish business section, suffered heavily. Former King Has Close Call. GKN 1'WA, Monday, March 10, Former King William of Wurttemberg had a narrow nar-row escaping from drowning today during a scu ffle tli at occurred when a party of German sailors f roui Kiel seized the ex-king's ex-king's yacht on Lake Constance. The sailors took the yacht to use it as a fishing fish-ing boat. Disorders 1 along the Rhine towns not under a Hi oil occupation arc continuing. The German and Austrian consuls have been withdrawn from the Lake Constance territory because of the hostile attitude of the neighboring peasants. Hun Officer Under Charges. LONDON. March 1 1 . Lieu! enant por-ten, por-ten, formerly an officer in the German aviation service, has been tried by court martial, according to Berlin advh es received re-ceived in Copenhagen and forwarded by the Central News agency, on the charge of having sold an entire park of airplanes at. Yilna to the Bolshevik for 2,000,0i) marks. The a ir planes were valued n t Ui,tinu,(ino marks. Fortu then fled to Koenigsherir a nd headed a conspiracy in the local workmen's council aga inst the commander of the German garrison at Kovno. The (dot was discovered and For-tcn For-tcn was arrested. Pershing at Coblenz Today. OOBD.FNZ. Monday. March 11.) By the Associated Pres..) General Pershing will arrive in Golden. Wednesday by wa y, of .Luxemburg on an inspection trip which will take him o er virtually all the area occupied by the American Third army. 1 If? swill review 'and inspect the sis divisions divi-sions of the army of occupation, including includ-ing the Forty-second (Rainbow.) division, which will begin entraining for A n twerp and home April l. |
