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Show ITALIAN DISPUTE STILL BEFORE COUNCIL! COUNCIL WILL I ANSWER NOTES I Germans Ask Reciprocal jfl Policy on Repatriation of Prisoners by Allies. LEGISLATION NOTE New Consortium for Financ- fl ing of Chinese Loans Organized Or-ganized by Bankers. PARIS. May 12. -1 40 p m. The council of four at its meeting todny de id-d to refer the German notes on H labor and war prisoners to experts H for consideration instead of answering answer-ing them at once as it did with the M firM two communications from the German delegation. PARIS. May 12. (Hava) The coun-i coun-i ii of four decided yesterday upon the ti mis of th n ply to be made to tho jH ' two notes sent to President Clemen-i Clemen-i u of the peace conference on Sat JH urday evening by Count von Brock -dorff-Rantzau. The first of these H j notes asked that there be a reciprocal H policy adopted as to the repatriation of prisoners and requested that the details de-tails of the transfer be placed in the hands of a commission In his second note the head of the German peace H delegation advanced a counter project to international labor legislation. According to the newspapers, the jH basis of the second note is a laborious j article inspired by the conference at Leeds and Berne and they argue that JH the purpose is to creato among Socialists Social-ists an opinion favorSble to Germany II ! by putting in direct collaboration the working classes and the present government gov-ernment of that country. PARIS, May 12 A new consortium II for the finam Ing ot Chinese loans was II organized today by American. French, British and Japanese bankers. A reservation res-ervation was made for later participa- H lion by Belgian bankers. oo |