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Show CLEMENCEAU IN CHAIR AT PEACE ENVOVMEETING (By ibc Associated Pres.) Premier CHemenceau, president of the peace conference, yesterday presided pre-sided over a meeting of tbe rcprescn tatives of the various powers at war with Germany and gave them fomc of the details concerning the coming Versailles Ver-sailles congress on April 25 when the 1 '-i-nian cmoys will be present. It has not hern disclosed whether the yi-J yi-J itation to the Germans will be Issued (n the name of the council of five or 'f all the powers represented at the peace conference. The foreign minister?, who had un- der consideration certain provisions of tho peace treaty, have reported to thej council of ten that somQ of the articles have been referred back to tbr drnft 'nc committee, and it it understood that the remaining articles will be dls posed of at theory earliea! date', . The British prime minister. David Lloyd George, has presented the Bit ualion at Paris .before the bOUSO of commons. In a iengthy speech be con tented himself with diBCUBStng general aspects, rather than details of what the peace conference has done He oppoicd Intervention in Russia, declared de-clared that bolshevism wan gradually waning breaking down under th- relentless re-lentless force of economic acts, deprecated de-precated attempts to sow dissen Ion among the delegate?, and declared that the whole peace of the world bangs on j the society of nations. Food relief for Russia, under neutral i control, has virtually been decided ' upon by the allied and associated DOW- ' ers. Reservations by the French ap- parently are the only obstacle sin the I way of immediate action, and these, according to Paris advlce6. are cxpe. i- ed speedily to be surmounted. The agreement to feed the Russians anticipates antici-pates that the bolsljeviki must cease fighting. With rioting still reported to be, lanipanl m Munich and strikes contin-' utng in numerous other parts of Qer-many. Qer-many. tbe workmen at Bremen, Ger- j many's big port on the Weser, have i I I railed a general walkout which is af ' fecting most of the big industrial ' works and the street railways. Unof-Hdlai Unof-Hdlai advices are that soldiers and j non-commissioned officers of the Ger-: man army also have threatened to , nrike if an order reducing their pay to j a peace time basis is not rescinded. Tbe financial section of the allied . and associated governments in confer i . enec with financiers of Holland. Den-; mark, Norway. Sweden and Switzer- land, have concluded an arrangement to permit Germany to obtain food and raw materials and also for an adjust-Dent adjust-Dent of maturing credits of Germany in neutral i tatos. Albania is the latest state to re-guest re-guest the peace conference lor coin-I coin-I plete independence, rectification of , its frontiers and the appointment of a mandatory to supervise tbe govern-II govern-II inent. ! Helgoland, Germany's extensively fortified inland in the North Sea; is to ' be dismantled and virtually destroyed, bj order of the council of four, ac-' cording to unofficial advices. I 1 DO |