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Show oo I SMALL NATIONS ! WILL ORGANIZE Plan to Break Yoke of German Ger-man and Austrian Oppres- j sion in Mid-Europe. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 23 In hislor-j ic Independence hall there began today a conference which is expected to result re-sult in the formation of a mid-Euro- . pean organization of small nations and J the formal declaration of independence that will break tho yoke of German and Austrian oppression. Fifteen delegates, unofficially representing repre-senting about G5,000,000 people of small nationb, were present when May or Thomas B. Smith welcomed them to the city. After the greeting the delegates reverently marched by the Liberty Bell and went to the room where the forefathers of the American republic signed the Declaration of Independence In-dependence and began their conference confer-ence which is expected to last until Saturday. At the head of the delegation Is Thomas B. Massyrk. president of the newly organized Czecho-Slovak republic, repub-lic, and Professor Herbert A. Miller of Oborlln college, a director in the new union and the only American admitted ad-mitted to the deliberations of the conference. con-ference. Others in the delegation included in-cluded representatives of the Jugoslavs, Jugo-slavs, Bohemians and Poles. President Masaryk asked the colors of the now Czecho-Slovak flag. "Red and white," ho replied, "but the red is of certain unvarying shade. It is the red of blood." It was decided after an informal conference between President Marayk and Professor Miller to introduce" a resolution backing the government of the United States in the stand taken in regard to German .peace note. oo |