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Show ! DELEGATES WARN WARRIH6NATI0HS POSSESSION OF TERRITORY BY FORCE WILL SERIOUSLY DETER THEIR CLAIMS. Commission to Carry Forward Early Demobilization and Establish Pro-portwnate Pro-portwnate Allied and Associated Forces on Western Front. Paris. A series of international events of the highest order took form - on Friday at meetings of the council of the treat powers and the military commanders on all the fronts. These may be summed up as follows: First The issuance of a solemn warning to the world that the possession posses-sion of territory gained by force will seriously prejudice the claims of those who use such means and set up sovereignty sover-eignty by coercion. This declaration was framed by. President Wilson. Second The appointment of n commission com-mission of the highest military authority, author-ity, including the British minister of war, Marshal Foch, General Diaz and General Tasker H. Bliss, to carry forward for-ward early demobilization and establish estab-lish proportionate allied and associated forces on the western front. Third Discussion of territorial claims on conquered German colonies, with hearings of interest to Australia, New Zealand and South Africa on German East Africa and the German island groups of the Pacific. Fourth Approval of the council of the striking of a medal for all troops' taking part in the war. Fifth Authorization to M. Pichon, the French foreign secretary, to draft instructions for the joint mission which is about to proceed to Poland. The foregoing embrace some of the most difficult questions before the peace conference and, with the projected pro-jected actions, indemnities, punishments, punish-ments, labor and international highways, high-ways, it goes far toward clearing the slate of most of the large subjects before be-fore the conference. While the solemn warning with regard re-gard to the gaining' of territory by force specified no countries, it covered broadly the warring elements of the Ukrainians' and those around Vilma and Lemberg, where bombardments have occurred, and also in the Caucasus, Cau-casus, where the new Georgian re public is fighting the new Armenian republic; also Serbian inroads on Montenegro, as well as territorial occupation oc-cupation along the eastern Adriatic, in Thrace and in Poland. |