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Show PARIS CONFEREES NEAR END OF LABORS; LEADING PROBLEMS REPORTED SOL VED . ' i iAGREEMEHT ' REACHED 01 ! I TERMS FOR ij HUH PEACE il I I i j j Reparations, Frontiers i " , and Indemnities Deter- ! mined, According to j . ; Statement Given Out. j i President Wilson Car- i' ries Point for Exemption Exemp-tion of Monroe Doc- trine After Debate. PAEIS, April 11 The report of , rt the committee on international la- ' v' bor legislation, -which drafted a pro- 5. gram to govern international regu- t lation of employmeat conditions, J was adopted by the peace confer- tj ence today with amendments pro- i j postd by George Xicoll Barnes, :j minister -without portfolio in the I British cabinet, and one of the rep- i resentatives of his country on tee f - labor committee. 0 PAEIS. April 12. The league of nations commission completed its i-j consideration of the league cove- ' nant at Its meeting last night. No" - - ? sections were included granting the Japanese and French demands, but Japan and Franco announced '., that they would reserve the right to bring up the desired amendments 1 i before the plenary session of the -peace conference. tV PARIS. April 11. Havas.) The pac conference has reached an agreement on all questions cor.cerrtlnj: peace 'ith Germany, '( reparations, ipdemnities and the frontiers (. of the Rhine ar.d Polap.d. according to !n an interview in the Fctit Journal, Tvitii Vt th.e priate secretary of Tremier Lloyd j - George. Certain details remained and it is added they -will be settled in two or Phree days. The German deleg-ites -will be s-.:m- lemoned le-moned to Versailles xvithin two or three li: weeks. 1 The British premier, his secretary is quoted as saying, thinks that if the allfes arree as -well at present as during tha P war. the achievements of the peace con- 11 ference w 111 be lasting and numerous dan- gers, including Bolsheviki. will be abolished. abol-ished. " S SUBSTANCE OF MONROE I AMENDMENT PUBLIC. . While the text of the Monroe doctrine C amendment adopted by the league of nations na-tions commission at ite sessions last night is withheld, its main features are substantially sub-stantially along the following lines: "Article X Nothing in this covenant ! shail bo construed as invalidating an j ! agreement such as the Monroe doetrin j I for the maintenance of peace." v j " j Discussion of the Monroe doctrlno i I amendment by the league of nations com-i com-i mission lat night is described by those i ! present as having been of a dramatic I character, concluding with a speech by j President Wilson deprecating the oppoii- tion which had been expressed and uphold -i Iik: the doctrine as one of tho great buh-: buh-: warlts against aosolutism. i'he debats ' ' came late in the session, after other sub- ,t ! jt-cts I'.ad been passed upon. : Tl.e Hritish attitude had been in doubt until the last, but Lord Robert Ceil turned the scales by announcing that he saw no objection to the amendment In the form presented by the president. M. 1 Larnaude of the French delegation foS lowed Lord Roberts with objections to inserting in-serting the Monroe doctrine. PRESIDENT SPEAKS WITH GREAT I ORCE. The president paid the closest attention to the opposition to the amendment and Jotted down notes for a reply. u ys speech the president spohe wit- great earnest ness and v, ith some evidence vt '' He dec'ared that the Monroe doctrm i-il was enunciated to combat the holy alliance alli-ance and to hold back the threat of ah- V.'." solutism which was then menacing Eurore 1 : and seeking to spread its absolute powe- " ! t-i the western hfmi ere. It served its (CouUuucd ou rajo Column 3.)' SSI REACHED DJ TERMS FPU PEACE (Continued from Page One.) purpose in keeping this absolute power from the western world. One of its jrreat purposes, he said, was to maintain territorial and political in-tpcrity, in-tpcrity, and, having served its great purpose pur-pose in the western world, it was now beinc brought to the lands which bad felt the hand of absolutism and militarism. It was a source of surprise and discouragement, discourage-ment, the president said, to hear opposition opposi-tion expresesd to such a doctrine and such a purpose. XO VOTE TAKEN ON PROPOSED AMENDMENT. The president's speech closed the dis- cussion. There was no vote and when there were no further remarks the chairman chair-man of the meeting said "the amendment would be considered adopted. The commission com-mission then took up the next article of the covenant. The exact language of the amendment is closely guarded and efforts to obtain a cony of the text met with tlie statement state-ment that, although there " peculiar American interest in the amendment, there was no reason for departing from the definite policy of the commission not to d isclnse . textual changes in the covenant cove-nant as the work progresses. The official statement on last night's session? issued this morning, does not mention the action on the Monroe doctrine, doc-trine, although it has been admitted officially of-ficially from . other sources that the amendment wus adopted. OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE ISSUED BY COUNCIL. The official communique' on the session ses-sion of the commission reads: "President Wilson presided at iast night's session of the league of nations L-om mission. The --om mission received a deputation from the international council of women suffragists of the allied countries coun-tries and the United States, lady Aberdeen Aber-deen introduced a deputation who raised several points of interest to women, and, be: ore leaving, they were thanked by the chairman, who assured the.n the commission com-mission appreciated the merits of the suggestions. sug-gestions. It all of i hem were not embodied em-bodied in the covenant of the league, uiey were told it was because it was deemed inadvisable to but den the league with a mi.Itit ude of details before experience had shown of what it was capable. "The commission discussed the redraft of the covenant, received from the drafting draft-ing committee, and covered the articles from one to t--n. There will Le discussion discus-sion of the st Lsequerit articles tonight.' The Pa r:s dispatch contains the first report that the important questions ol the Rhine and Polish frontiers had been settled by the peace eonierenee. Agreement Agree-ment on reparations and indemnities was announced earlier in the. we-k. The Rhine question includes the future not onlv of the river itse f . but ;-lso of the Gprm:n territory wtrst of the Rhine from JjOrraine north to thA border of Holland. It also affects the eastern bank of the Rhine and its use for military mili-tary purposes. i The Polish frontiers aff"ct aU'the coun- 1 tries bnrupriug on the nw Polai.d and- the 1 rroposal l uive Poland an outlet to the; Bailie by. way of Danzig. ! Apparently the question cf the Adriatic and Italian chums on the eastern shore of ; that sea still is In abeyance. Tht AdrhiUo problem does not r oncer n .G-rmany primarily pri-marily as the territory involved formerly was included in the Ausiro-Hungarian empire. |