Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1919 — PARIS AGAIN BOWS TO PRESIDENT AND THE MRS. [ARTICLE]

PARIS AGAIN BOWS TO PRESIDENT AND THE MRS.

PARIS, March 14.—President Wilson conferred with Premier Lloyd George, Premier Clemenceau and Col. House, in the latter’s office at 3 o’clock this afternoon. When the president arrived, accompanied by his wife he was cheered by the crowds around the hotel DeCrillon and he asknowledged the greetings with a salute. lit has been learned that the status of secret treaties and conventions made during the war again has arisen. Information obtained here today for some of the American delegates to the peace conference was to the effect that the action of a ing with the subject*, of Greek boundaries in declaring that the treaty of London in 1915 was .effective and will not be permitted to go unchallenged and could not become effective unless ratified by the council of ten which they asserted would refuse its approval. The subject matter of th dcision of the commission is not of especial interest to Americans, but the decision relative to the treaty of London which is one of those secret . conventions made during the war, is regarded as of the gravest importance, it being ■declared to be in direct conflict with one of President Wilson s fourteen points concerning such agreements and one relative to the rights of self-determination of small nations. . ° It is held that if the decision of the majority of the commission were upheld, it would of nessity carry with it affirmation of Italy’s claims to nearlv all the eastern shores of the ~Adriaticr~as ments for the 1 disposition of colonial possessions, which have been regarded as proper subjects for action of the supreme council and the peace conference itself. A point of especial interest is that the action was taken by the commission through a combination of votes of Great Britain, France and Italy.