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Show SH RUPTURE NOT ALARMING Paris Expects Matters to Be Adjusted Without , Serious Trouble. . ; By HENRY WALES. (Chicago Tribune Cable, Copyright.) PARIS, March 7. The rupture of relations rela-tions between the allied . and German economic commissions at Spa is not re- J garded as serious, as it is understood that' the enemy's demands that food be supplied until the new harvests in exchange for the1 allies' taking over German shipping will , be ugrced upon. As the Germans need, food more than they need their ships, it is expected that tho incident soon will bo! rectified with a further meeting. Tiie German demand that German sailors bo the crews for Gorman tonnage taken over is not expected to bo accepted by the allies, al-lies, although the enemy asserts a refusal re-fusal will throw 42,000 German sailors into Bolshevism. Tho council of ten this afternoon broke down the Italian obstructionist tactics toward to-ward the feeding of Austria-Hungary, Czecho-Klovakia and Jugo-SIavia, and the entire feeding problem is placed in control of Herbert Hoover. Besides awo and a half million tons of food that Germany will need until the next harvest, the southern countries will need 3000 tons of food daily. Mr. Hoover has accumulated SO.00O tons of food at Fiuino and Trieste since tho Serbian-Italian frontier was closed at Laibach, but it will be immediately immedi-ately reopened, and trains have been started already. Mr. Hoover asserted the belief that he could begin feeding a substantial sub-stantial portion of tho starving peoples immediately and greatly relieve famine conditions within a short time. Tho committee com-mittee has not yet worked out a scheme for payment, but all countries receiving food. Including the enemy powers, aro willing and apxious to pay any price to obtain food, as all realize that foodstuffs are tho best ammunition against Bolshevism. Bol-shevism. The military phases preliminary to peace havo not yet been discussed by the council, coun-cil, but it is understood that Lloyd George suggests reducing the Gorman army from 2l0,000 troops as heretofore agreed upon to 75,000 professional soldiers, voluntarily enlisted, prohibiting conscription. The adoption of that proposition would materially mate-rially change the terms as drawn up by Marshal Kochr |