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intimates had not been informed
that the stcamship George Washing?
ton had been sent for, while others
were of the opinion that the sum
monings of the stcamship would be
accepted as an intimaticn by the
Allied leaders that delays must be
brought to a sneedy conclusion.
Ainiy nnd navy offieials at the port
<?'' embarkation, Hoboken, said yrster
day they had received no official word
regarding the reported plan to hurry
the departure of the George Wash?
ington for France.
No prepsrations for an early sailing
have been undertaken. The vossel is
seheduled to sail nexf Monday. She
could be made ready to sail in two
or three days, it was said, if orders
to that offect had been received.
Lloyd George ///,
The Couneil of Four
Makes Slow Progress
PAR1?. April 7 (By The A.-sociatcd
Pressl.-- The couneil of four was to
have met at 11 o'clock this morning
at ihe White House ,where President
Wilson is still confined to bed, but
able to cpnsult with his collcagues in
(nmergenci.es. It develoned, however,
that Premior Lloyd George has been
?ffected in a similar mannr as the
rresidout, which has confned him
also to his bed. A morning session of
the couneil was, therefore. impossible.
It was then determined to have the
Couneil meet at Mr. Lloyd George's
residence, so as to he near him and
have the session begin at 3:30 o'clock
this afternoon, with Premier Clemen?
ceau, Premier Orlando, Colonel Houpe
nnd all the couneil reports present.
At the conclusion of the couneil it
was stated that on agreement had been
reached on reparations or other sub
jects, and that the discussion on repa?
rations would be resumed tn-morrow,
with President Wilson possibly pre?
sent,
Accepts Reparation System
The couneil heard the report of the
reparation committee and accepted a
proposition which provides for the
formulation of the categnries of rlam
agea which Germany will be roquired
to pay and the method of estimating
?them, but will leave to a commission
fitting after the peace treaty is signed
the determination of the full bill and
the amount which can be collected
from Germany. As it is not expected
that Germany will be able to pay the
, r.laftns in full, the assets which are
cealizcd from her will be prorated
among her ereditors proportionately to
fhp si/.e of the claims and wilhout
ptpference.
The couneil will fix definitely the
Amount of the inittal payment and in
strue.t the commission as to the mini
iiuim amount to be collected. It is now
?'. timated that this amount will run
?ip to about ?4.),000,000,000, of which
Germany will be required to pay $5,
000,000,000 down in cash or securities,
wilh another instalment payable with?
in two years after peace is signed.
Frontier Report Ready
Aftpr'the question of reparations is
frttied, the Rhine frontier and the
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Covets German Land*
OARIS, April 7. "The Tenips" to
day publishes the following:
"Contrary to certain statements in
the German press, circulafod in turn
by other foreign newspapers, we be?
lieve the French government is not
putting forward any annoxationist
claim, either openly, avowed, or co
vert, to any territory inhabited by
Germans. This refers pnrticularly to
the regions lying between the boun
daries of 1871 and IS14."
Adriatic coast will rcmain as the chief
j obstacles. Frontiers are still being
consid*red by Captain Andre Tardieu,
i represent'tng France; Professor
' Charles H. Haskins, on bchalf of the
? United " States, and Viscount'Morley,
for Great Britain. They have not re?
ported to the council, though it is un
derstood they have agreed on the main
? principles of effective security with?
out political annexation.
Premier Orlando of Itaiy held an?
other conference at noon to-day with
Colonel House over tho Adriatic issue,
which is gradually nearing a settle?
ment trfat is not, however, entirely ac
ceptible to the Italians conceming
Fiume and Dalmatia. That progress ia
being made is indicated in an an?
nouncement that a plenary session of
the peace conference is to be held Fri?
day afternoon, which will be the first
; assembling of the full conference since
President Wilson's doparture for the
United States some time ago, after hav
i ing presented the league of nations
| covenant.
Improvement in Hungary
The arrival of General Smuts, of the
British delegation, in Budapest brings
reports of improved conditions in that
? country. It develops that General
. Smuts was aceompanied by Major Ron
sel, representing the American dele- '
I gat.es.
The progress mado to-day by the
reparations commission came only
after koen discussion, in which Colo
nel House presented President Wilson's
views. A draft report was finally
| adopted, with several minor resorva-!
tions, ono of which covered the extent
to which Bolgium was bound by the
definition of categorics for damages.
The Reparations Drafting Commit?
tee will meet again to-morrow.
The drafting committee of lhe
league of nalions has now completed
its work. The covenant as revised
containi twenty-seven articles. A full!
meeting of the league of nations com
1 mitteo will be held to-morrow to con?
sider the re-draft and the covenant.
French Official Predicts
j Drastic Treaty of Peace:
Clemenceau 'Delightcd'
Kntv Yprk Tribun*
Sperial Cabla Smice
(Copyrtght, 1!>1P. New York 'I'rthurif. lnr *
PARIS, April 7.?A French official j
. close to rremier Clemenceau said to
The Tribune correspondent today:
'?.You may rest assuered that the
i terms will be drastic enough to satisfy !
all reasonable men and will contain '
such guarantees, both military and '
economic, as will remove the terrible !
anxiety in this and other countries!
during the last few weeks."
The only other indication of the
nature of tHo document which will bo;
j presently prepared is that the amerded
. league of nations will form part of it. ,
It has been officially made known
that rremier Clemenceau is delighted
with the result of the deliberations.
Dutch Ignore Move
Of Peace Conference
To Revise Old Pact
PARIS, April 7 (By The Associated !
Press,t. The Dutch government appar
ently is ignoring the invitation of the
peace conference to send a delegate to
Paris to discuss with the conference
Belgium's demand for a revision of
the treaty of 183f. fixing the bounda
ries between Holland and Belgium.
Holland was asked two weeks ago to
send a representative to Paris, but has
not yet replied.
The peace conference has decided
that it would be imnroner to attempt
any revision of the rights of Holland
in relation to rectification of the front
ier that Belgium seeks without formal
ly hearing Dutch representatives. Hol?
land was represented here informally a
fortnight ago, and her failure to come
before the conference for a discussion
of an actual revision of the treaty is
causing much, commont.
Lord Rcading Denies
Lloyd George Advised
Reeognition of Reds
WASHINGTON, April 7.?Lord Read
ing, the British Ambassador, authorized
the statement' to-day that suggestions
that Premier Lloyd George had advised
the reeognition of Lenine or Trotzky,
ihe Russian Bolshevik i^ariers, were
wholly unfounded.
There have been many reports from
Paris that strong influence was being
brought to bear to have the associated
govornmerits rccogni/.e the Bolshevik
regime in attempting to work out a so
lution of the Russiun problem. Some
of these rumors have connected the
name of the British Premier with the
movement.
LONDON, April 7.- In the House of
Cornmons to-day, Colonei J. C. Wedg
wood, Liberal member for Newcastle
under-Lyme, asked whether the reports
by the Americans, Lincoln Steffens and
William C. Bullitt, on their vigit to
Russia, had been communicated to the
British government. Ceeil B. Harms
worth, L'nder Secretary for Foreign
Affairs, replied in the negative.
William C. Bullitt, who i? attached to
the American peace commission as an
intelligence ofneer, recently returned
from a visit to Russia, which he made
without official orders, i? hnn been
stated, but with full approval of his
superiors. Lincoln StefTtnn, a magazine
writer, went to Rugsia at about the
same time, and returned ? ?hort time
ago. H? has long been intercsted in
Russian affairs. The reports of neither
of the.se men have been pnnte.d.
Germany to Subscribe
To League, but Will
Not Become Member
LONDON, April 7.- "The difficulty of
putting the text of the covenant of the
league of nations in the peace treaty
that. Germany iH to sign, if Gernvany
is not a party to the covenant, which
she hy her Bignature accepts," says the
Paris correspondent of "The Wcstmin
ster Gazette," "has heen cleared up. By
a akilfurl piece of draughtsmanship the
covenant, as it will appear in the
treaty, is so worded that while the ex
istence and jurisdiction of the league
will he recognizod by Germany, that
country will not be immediately re?
ceived as a member. She will, however,
express her full accord in the constitu?
tion of such a body and will agree to
abide by its decisions.
"Although there is at present no
question of Germany being one of the
original signatory powers, it is con
templatcd that so soon as it is certain
that that country will faithfully carry
out the obligations of the league, it
will come in. This is a line which will
be pursued in respect to other cnemy
states- They will be invited to sub?
scribe to the principles of thc league,
and in that sense they will be proba
tionary members without voice in the
councils.
"States without a stable government
are equally ineligible for membership,
which presupposes the ahility of a
signatory power to fulfil the pledged
conditions. It is learned that numer
ous neutral powers, who have been
consulted, are enthusiastic aupporters
of the idea, and there is no possihi"
doubt as to their inclusion al nn early
date. Their suggestions have been
carefully considererf and, in some
cases where practicable, inserted in
the new draft of the covenant.
"The difficulty concerning the Mon
roe Doctrine has been, it is believed,
overcome. It should he remenibered
that, except for certain cases, which
are clearly specifled, unanimous de?
cisions of the executive couneil, which
will be provisionally composed cf nine
members, will be necessary. There
fore, as America will occupy one of
these seats, no decision can possibly
be arrived at that does not have her
full consent."
Chinese Ask Envoys
For Right to Revise
- The Republie's Tarifjs
New Vork TriSittm
Wanhington Bureau
WASHINGTON, April 7, China
faces permanent ruin unlcss the treaty
powers permit her to exercise the
same right of fisctil autonomy as en
joyed by themselves and other nations.
according to a joint. lelegram sent to
the Paris f'eace Conference hy forty
six I'hambers of Commerce in China,.
representing the whole of the twenty
two provinces, it was announced here
to-day.
The memorial points out that China
has been able to revise its tariff only
once in sixty years, nnd asserts that
Ihe present tariff system imposed by
the powers upon China is fatal to the
industry of China and calamitous to'
the rest of Ihe world, economically and
politically. The lelegram says. in
part:
"The treaties concluded by . this
country date back to 1858 or earlier.
although a new import tariff was es
tablished in 19013. The latter tariff,
however, is far from being eompre
hensive. nnd so that of 1858 is still in
force, subject, to the few 1002 modift
cations.
"Under the circumstances, linan
cially as well as economically, the
losses and hardships occasioned to the
Chinese people have been almost in
calculable. For examplc, the following
are ''>iade duty free according to the
tariff of 1858:
"Gold nnd silver bullion, foreign
coins, flour, indian meal, sago. biscuits,
preserved meats and vegetables. cheese,
butter, confectionery, foreign clothing,
jewelry, plate ware, perfumery, soaps
of all kinds, charcoal, firewood. foreign
candlcs, foreign tobacco, foreign -i
gars, wine, heer, spirits, household
stores, ship stores, personal baggage,
stationery, carpeting, cutlery, foreign
medieines and glass and crystal ore.
These articlcs are classilied as luxuries
and taxed from 50 to even 200 per cent
in other countries.
"As the annual revenue from this
source to the National Treasury is
about six millions sterling and thcre
fore most meagre, our government, in
order to make the ends meet, had to
rcsort to other forms of taxation
for example, the internal likin and
other transit duties, admittedly ruin
ous to all domestic commerce. There
is no internal commerco to spcak of,
nnd all forms of industry are being
killed. This shortage of revenue has
reacted most unfavnrably on all
phases of national development and
accounts for our increasing poverty
and present backwardness in education,
agriculture, finances, etc.
"We therefore pray that the associ
ated and Allied governments will agree
to forego their treaty privileges and
restorc to China the same right of
liseal autonomy as is enjoyed by tti'-m
selves as well as other indeoendent
nations, so that we may devclop our
industrics, manufactures" and natural
resources, become better consumers of
the world's cornmodities and, as a
people constituting one-fourth of the
world's population, contrihute our
share to the progress and civilization
of mankind."
Unfairness of Allies
Charged by Serfoian
Derlaration of Hope in Wilson
Evokes Applause in
<> Assembly
BELGRADE, April 2.?At the open
i ing of the National Assembly to-day,
Stoyan Protitch made a vehement pro
\ test against the treatment of Serbia
by France, Great Britain and ltaly in
failing to recognize the Serbian, Cro
utian and Slovenian states, while, he
i Raid. Poland and the Czecho-Slov'aks,
j whose sacrifices could not be remote
ly compared with those of Serbia, al
ready had heen recognized. The Pre?
mier said he attributed this, and a
similar omission on the part of Ru?
mania, to the existence of secre't
treaties.
"We shall not despair, however," M.
Protitch continued, "and will hope for
full Buccess for our national claims if
President Wilson's principles become
the true basis for the rcorganization of
Europe."
Here there were prolongcd ahout3 of
"Long live Wiluon!" M. Protitch also
made a strong proteBt ngainst what he
termed Italy's action in Dalmatia and
her claim of Fiume. i
"Wo demand the independent and I
impartial arbitration of the United
StateB," the Premier concluded. This I
Btatement aUo was gre^ted with pro- !
longed cheering. ^|
To Send Relief
To-morrow to
Armv in Russia
British Hope to Start Rein
forcements to Archangel
Troops at Once; Number
Keeruitiiig Encouraging
700 Reds Fall in Battle
American Soldier? and Re?
lief Worker Are Captured
aml Are Taken to Moscow
LONDON, April 7 ( By The Asso?
ciated Press i. The British govern?
ment hopes to be able to dispatch the
first part. of the relief force for North?
ern Russia on Wednesday, says '"'lhe
-Mail," which adds that the appeal for
volunteers is meeting with a gratify
ing response. There is already a large
wajjting list of officers and men who
are anxious to serve in Northern Rus?
sia, many Canadians being included in
the number.
There has been an improvement in
conditions at Kandalaksha, at the base
of the Kolo Peninsula ;.r. Cno White
Sea side, i.t is announced in an official
dispatch from .Murmansk under date of
April 5.
A rising of the Finns, Carelians and
Bolsheviki had been planned on a large
scale, the dispatch states, hut the an
nouncements that reinforcements for
the Allied troops were on the way and
thal other military prcparations had
been taken to meet the situation have
overawed the leaders for the time be
ing.
Step in Right Direetion
The leaders of the Finnish Legion
(among which, according to recent Lon?
don reports, m de feet ion had been
threatened i have signed an agreement
to the elfect thal they will in lhe future
comply with lhe wishes or lhe com
manding offlcer, This. says the dispntch,
does nof imply that the danger has
complotely passed, bul ii is a step in
t hc right dirccl ion,
ARCHANGEL, April 7 | By The A io
ciaie.l Press), The Russian official re
porl on lhe lighting in the Sre.l
Mekhrenga sector Friday shows thal
the Bolsheviki lost 700 dead and
wounded in addition to the 108 prison
ers taken by tho Allied forces. The
Allies sustaincd no casualtics,
The Bolsheviki yesterday rcsumed
lhe bombardmenl of the British and
American positions on lhe Dvinu and
Vaga rivers.
Americans Taken to Moscow
M, V. Amold, of London. Ont., and
Bryant R, Ryall, of Bloomfield, X. .1..
V. M, C. A. workers. wh.. have been
miss'ing for several days, and three
American soldiers captured by the Bol?
sheviki in the Bolshie Ozerki sector,
are being taken to Moscow, according
to information received in Archangel
to-day from Obozerskaya. They are
apparently being well treated.
The Rev. Father Roach, a chaplain
wjth the British forces. who was capt?
ured near Bolshie Ozerki on March 31,
was released by the Bolsheviki and
yesterday made his way through the
American lines on the Vologda front.
The chaplain brought a letter l'rom
fiyall saying that he. Amold and the
soldiers were heing taken to Moscow.
The soldiers are Sergeant Glenn W.
Leitzell, of Mifflinburg, Penn.; Me
chanic Jens C. Laursen, of Marlettc,
Mich.. and Private Freeman Hogaii, of
Detr.oit.
Bolshevik IT ar Fund
Stolen hy Cossacks
To Back Revolution
ARCHANGEL, April R (By The As?
sociated Press). The theft of four
million Bolshevik rubles hy a hand of
Circassian Cossack officers, whose ac
tivities also included ihe arrest of the
American Consul a! Archangel and the
kidnapping of the North Russian gov?
ernment, was explained at the trial of
"lhe officers to-day before the supreme
judicial authority of Northern Russia.
The officers, among whom were Cap?
tain Bers and Colonel Melia, were
convicted and sentenced to imprisnn
nient and deprivation o' their rank
and decorations. Because of their
military valor the court rccommerided
' that they he pardonod.
The defendants unfolded an as
tonishing story of 'he inner details
of the days before 'he Allied troops
latlded at Archangel and of the politi?
cal plots that occurred afterward.
They admitted nearly every accusa
I tion, ptcading oid Cossack 'laws and
the political situation as justifkation.
Stayed Back When Rods Fled
Last July. when nn Allied landing at
j Archangel seemed imminent, Captain
Bers and the other Cossacks were
aligned with the Bolsheviki. As the
; Allied transports approached the city
? the hulk of the Bolshevik force fled,
but Bers and the Cossacks j-emained
: behind, as did Colonel PotifporT, the
, Bolshevik commander, who was ar
rested later.
Captain Bers sei/ed the ?afe con
taining the Bolshevik war fund of four
million rubles. Then, with Colonel
Potapoff, the Cossacks arrested the
American Consul, Felix Cole; the Brit?
ish and French consuls and the French
military mission. The Allied officials
were taken to a barn and hidden, the
Cossacks holding them and the money
as hostages.
When the Allied landing and tho
.local counter revolution occurred al
j most simultaneously on August ]-2 tho
I consuls wore released. The Cossacks'
i however. after declaring themselves
I ready to support the new government
and elaiming that they were seeretlv
against the Bolsheviki throughout
| kept the four million rubles as a
Cossack prize of war.
- Money Backed Coup
"t the trial it was revealed that
j the money furnishod the financial
sinews for the attemptod coup against
! the North Russian government early
in September, when the proviHional
; government was sniriteit away to a
: lonoly monastery near the White Sea.
It was largely through the initia
tlve of David R. Francis, the Ameri?
can Ambasaador, that the attempted
coup was frustrated nnd the members
of the government released and rein
Stated in their offices. The defend?
ants said that much money was spent
in bribing various officials not to in
terfere with the kidnapping.
By some means the defendants
were able to restore the four million
rubles they had taken, and they have
handed the money over to the present
government.
1,000 Recruits to (io
Overseas Within Week
.More Than 6,200 of Needed
50,000 Volunteers Are <H>
taincd in First Week
Ni w York Tribune
Wathington Human
WASHINGTON. April 7. The first;
1,000 of the 50,000 recruits now being!
enlisted by the aj'my in the national!
recruiting drive will start for France
within a week, it was announced to- i
day by the operations division of the
General Staff.
More than 6,200 men enlisted during
the first week. Of this number approxi
ms tely 75 per cent are men who al- !
ready have had military training and I
will be ready for transfer to the army
of occuDation as quickly as their cn-!
listment papers pass through the War i
Department and they are furnished
with overscas equipment.
"We wil! get our first 1,000 oa board;
ship t'ortFrance within another week,"
Brigadier General Edward Anderson :
said to-day. "Nine officers, including
eight company commanders, and a nia
jor or lieutenant colonel in charge of
the detachment, wil] be sent with each
1,000 men. It is expected that General
Pershing will absorb both the officers j
and men and return to this country an
equal number for discharge."
General Anderson said recruits who'
enlist in the present drive and have !
had no previous military service will i
be given a six weeks' course of drill !
and rifle practice before assignment to I
oyerseas service. The instruction will
be at Camp Meade.
In addition to the 50,000 men wanted
i'or service with the army of occupa- i
tion, General Anderson announced that |
400 recruits are needed for Alaska and
2,000 for Panama.
Labor Lnresl in Spain
? Laid to German Plot
Situation Greatly Improves as j
ihe Military Authorities
Assume Control
WASHINGTON, April 7. Advices to
the State Department to-day from
' Madrid state that strike conditions in
Barcolona and Valencia have greatly
? improved in the last two days and that]
the situation throughout Spain has
quieted down.
It has been dePlnitoly eslablished, ae
eording to these advices. that German
propagandista and syndicalists were
active in conncction with tho strikes in
both cities. Twenty-five Germans have
been arrested in Barcelona.
The military authorities are reported
in full control at Barcelona, and con
ditions at Valencia are described as
appaienl ly normal.
?
Chamberlain Domments
Forgeries, Lxpcrt Says
Specialist Points lo Similarity
Between American Aviator's
Handwriting and Signalures
LONDON, April 7. Wilford M.
Webb, a hand writ ing expert of the
British War Office. testifying to-day
al the resumption of ihe court martial
of Captain K. G. Chamberlain. of San
Antonio, Tex., in connection with his
reported aerial exploits on the British
front last .summer, expressed the he
lief that the documents offered by
Chamberlain tovcorroborate his claim'-.
, were forgeries. He did not charge, how?
ever, that the forgeries were committed
by Chamberlain, but pointed out what he
beheved to be the similarity between
the handwriting of the accused Amer?
ican officer and that of the signatures
purporting to be those of officers writ
ing to substantiate Chamberlain's
' story.
Mr. Webb said that the same charac
teristics of misspelling simnle 'words
appeared in reports supposed to be
written by four different officers. The
name Chamberlain. he testified, was
consistently misspelled.
Beatty Onits as Head
OT the Grand Fleet
LONDON, April 7. On the dispersal
to-day of the Grand Fleet, Vice-Ad
miral Sir David Beatty hauls down his
tlag as commander in chief.
All the newspapers publish articles
on the historic occasion. dwelling on
thc fact that the Grand Pleet's pur?
pose was achieved with the complet
destruction of the enemy's naval
power. They pay tribute to Admiral
Viscount Jellicoe as the organizer and
, leader and to Vice-Admiral Beatty as
a first class fighter, who crowned Lord
Jellicoe's work.
There is some discussion as to
whether Sir David. now unemployed,
will be offered the post of First Sea
Lord, the importance of which, it is
pointed out, has never been gerater, in
view of the possible effect of the league
of nations upon Britain's naval policy.
It is also urged that a properly or?
ganized naval general staff must ncvy
again he allowed to laps*>.
Open Rhine to Switzerland
.
Shipments May We Forwarded I
From V. S.'by That Route
WASHINGTON, April 7, -The War
Trade Board announced to-nitjht it had
been iaformed that the Rhine River j
has been opened to traffic with Swit- j
zerland by orders of the military au- !
thorities of the associated govern?
ment s.
Shipments from the United States
may be forwarded to Switzerland by
that route.
Hungary 6Reds'
0ul$ Kun Slain,
Vienna Hears
Auslrian Rumors Do Not
Say W h e t li e r Soeial
ist or Bourgeois Factions
1. e d the R e v o 1 t
Had Planned an Election
Previous Reports Had
Shown Little Opposition
to the C o ni m n n e
VIENNA, April 7.?The Hungarian
Communist government in Budapest
has been overthrown, according to ',
runiors current in official circles, the ,
newspapers say. Bela Kun, the Foreign
Minister, is reported to have been as- j
sassinated.
The reports do not say whether the
atlempted revolution was organized by
the Socialists or the Bourgeois parties.
The Communist. government in
Budapest was still in office Saturday
when Bela Kun was interviewed for
The Associated Press. Recent reports
from Budapest have indicated that the
Communist government was not meet?
ing with strong opposition, at least
in the Hungarian capitai, in carrying
out its mcasures.
Rela Kun formerly -was private sec?
retary to Premier Lenine, of the Rus?
sian soviet government, and has been
looked upon as the real leader of the
Communist government in Hungary.
PARIS. April 7. ? Peace conference
cirelos had received no eonrirmation
this afternoon of runiors from Vienna
by way of Rasel that the Hungarian
Soviet government had been over?
thrown and Bela Kun assassinated.
There was an inclination to doubt the
accuracy of the reports.
Soviet clections had been planned
for Hungary to-day and a general hol
iday had been proclaimed.
BASEL, April 7.- No corrnrmation
has been received here of the reports
of a counter revolution in Hungary and
lhe nssassination of the Foreign Min
! ister, Bela Kun. The "Frankfort Nach
richten" says, however, that changes in
the Hungarian Cabinet are imminent.
Smuts Puts Proposal
Of Peace Parley Up
To Hungarian Soviet
.BUDAPEST, April 6 (By The Asso?
ciated Press).?-General Jan Christian
Smuts. Ihe peace conference commis
sioner to Hungary, placed his proposals
before the Hungarian Communist gov?
ernment on Saturday. They included
the following:
The Hungariair government to with?
draw all troops west of a line which
General Smuts outlined; that Ruma
nian troops be ordered not to advance
.beyond their present positions and that
the territory between the line drawn
by General Smuts and the Rumanian
army be neutral and be occupied by
British, French, Italian and, if possi?
ble, American t roops.
That. the Hungarian government ac
cept the terms of the military convon
tion concluded last November 13 by the
Hungarian government with the Allied
Powers; that the a forementioned line
of demarcation has no influence on the
territorial arrangements' in the final
peace conditions, and that General
Smuts will propose to the peace con?
ference to raise the. blockade of Hun?
gary immediately and allow facilities
for the immediate import of prime
necessities, especially fats and coal.
Conference on Frontiers
General Smuts also suggested that
he would propose to the peace confer?
ence that before it finally doterminod
the political frontiers of Hungary it
should invite the Hungarian govern?
ment to send representatives to Paris.
These representatives would formulate
their standpoint on the frontiers and
tho questions arising from them in a
special conference with representatives
of the Czecho-Slovaks, Jugo-Slavs, Ru
manians and German Austrians. A rep
resentative of the Allied powers would
bc chairman of the special conference.
The government replied to General
Smuts, thanking him for his civility
but declaring that tiie conditions pre'
sented were inacceptable, except as
an order to those who might he in
clined to assume the government of the
country on such terms.
"But," the government's replv added,
"rolying on the good will displayed bv
you, we beg you to interpret the fol?
lowing proposals to the Entente
powers:
"First, the Soviet government also ia
disposed to create a neutral zone, but
solely on the condition that the fron
tier thereof is shifted eastward to the
Maros line and.that the Soviet republic
shall administer without interferenc
in the territory occupied by the Allied
troops, thus allowing the Soviet re
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Smuts Reception Friendly
Eela Kun, the Hungarian Foreign
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with The Associated Press on Saturday
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us. General Smuts has been received
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Communist Revolt in
German Austria Feared
WASHINGTON. April 7? Advices
reaching the State Department to-day
indirectly from Vienna said a com?
munist revolution seemed imminent in
German Austria.
Ukraine Readv for
Truoe With Poles
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Premier Suggefcts Entente
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l>v Both Ne>v IN ation*
LONDON, April 7. The Ukrainians
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