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Show EIGHTH WEEK OF CONFERENCE OPENS WITH FINE OUTLOOK PARIS, March 'J.. (By the Associated Press.) The eighth week of the p-ace conference opens wkh increased effort by the working commissions to get their . projects ready for consideration when President Wilson, Premier Lloyd George and Premier Orlando leturn to Paris, No ono is more anxious for prompt action ac-tion than the French commissioners, who want to hasten not only tho completion of the peace treaty, but the adoption of the league of nations plan as an integral part of it. An opening for a revision of the ; plan that will not threaten the integrity j of the league appears to bo broadening, j M. Pichon, French foreign minister, has indicated that he will oi'fer amendments relating t'o an. international force. It Is thought that the conference may consider con-sider other amendments, such as may bo regarded in America as necessary to remove re-move the ambiguity of clauses that rniht affect the Monroe doctrine,, the right or sedessiop from the league and the meth- j ods of using force against recalcitrant na- I tipns. , French apprehension is growing over the danger of anarchy in Germany, the French delegates, therefore, dedrc to hasten the conclusion of the peace treaty and Incorporate in U measures for the protection which they have expected from the league of nations. M. Pichon, reflecting reflect-ing this view, said that every one wants a. responsible government established in Germany with which peaco may be concluded. con-cluded. Some immediately pressing work has been sensibly advanced. It is thought, by j the creation of a committee on boundaries, boun-daries, which will take up all reports on , frontiers and get them ready for consideration consid-eration by the end of the week as directed by tho council of ten. This task will bo facilitated, it Is believed, by the decision to deal now only with boundary claims growing out of. ; the war, and not admitting admit-ting retroactive discussions. . Etienne Clem eh t el, minister of commerce, com-merce, has begun the formation-of a national na-tional federation of employers to act as a counterpart to the general federation cf labor. The minister cr.ys he has approached twenty groups representing the commercial commer-cial and manufacturing activity of the country, comprising five thousand associations asso-ciations vith 400.000 members, with a view to t tie formation of a regular employers' em-ployers' federation. |