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Show BELGIAN MS H SUPPORTED Desires Military Convention to Insure Kingdom Against Hun Aggression. By HENRY WALES. (Chicago Tribune Cable. Copyright.) PARIS. Nov. 7. British and French support of the Belgian claims is holding up a settlement of the revision of the treaty of 1839 with Holland. Belgium asks military guarantees against future German aggression. Since it wishes to discard the treaty terms guaranteeing guar-anteeing its neutrality. It wants to substitute substi-tute a military alliance similar to that which France obtained from Great Britain and the United States. Both France and Great Britain are supporting sup-porting Belgium in her demands for a military convention in which the United States will take part, as Belgium is a buffer state for France against Germany, and is a barrier against the Teutons in their efforts to reach the channel porta and to menace England. Belgium asserts the United States. France and Great Britain should form a triumvirate in a military league with her against possible German assaults. It it understood that had President Wilson not been ill. King Albert would have sought his support personally during his recent visit to America. Holland pernistently refuses to permit the Belgians io defend Dutch L.lmburg or the south bank of the Scheldt in case of future wars, and thereby strengthens Belgium's Bel-gium's demand for a military alliance. The supreme council today decided that the questions of Russia, the Adriatic and Kiume will not be settled by the present peace conference, but will be discussed and negotiated by the various foreign offices communicating with one another through the ambassadors in the various capitals. Thus the supreme council has cleared the final barriers to breaking up before Christmas, and now it is assured Frank Polk. Henry White and General Bliss will be home in Washington for the holidays. The Americans received British support in their campaign to wind up this peace conference, con-ference, and have been all packed up and ready to leave since Prime Minister Uoyd George tried to break up the peace conference con-ference a couple of months ago. The Hungarian treaty will be finished and tabled, and when the Rumanians behave be-have and the Hungarians set up a representative repre-sentative government, the document will be handed to them and the various ambassadors am-bassadors will sign instead of the present members of the council of five. |