Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-07 | Page 6 | French Asking Wilson Opinion

jFHENGH ASKING ' j ilLSiflll Occupation of Cities Beyond ; the Rhine in Neutral Zone United States WASHINGTON. April 7. (ijy the AspoclaU'd Press.) The Trench gov-' eminent, through Ambassador Jus-MM'Aiul. Jus-MM'Aiul. ha.j asked for an oxpressiou of opinion by President Wilson as to the French occupation of cities in the neutral stone beyond the Rhine- It was learned today that the French ambasulor presented n ta lenient le-nient of the French position to Seerc-. tary Cojby yesterday, and asked that It bo communicated to the president.' Presumably this was tho commiinlca-1 tion referred to in recent pres.1? dispatches dis-patches from Paris as having been! fent to the lJritish, American and Ital-I j lan governments. j I At the state department today It1 was said that the United States had I made no statement with regard to the advance of the French forces, and that it was unlikely that any would be made for the present at least. Tho position of the American government' was described as that of merely an In-1 (crested spectator. Officials said Great IJritain and Italy had taken the ."-siniu view as the United States; that there was no ob-i Jectlon to the movement of Gcrniun j troops Into the Ruhr district, to quell disturbances thorn provided thoy wore withdrawn ns poon as normal conditions condi-tions had been restored. ' nn '