Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1919 — U.S. FORCES MAY GO TO SCHLESWIG [ARTICLE]

U.S. FORCES MAY GO TO SCHLESWIG

Council of Foreign Ministers Considering Plan to Maintain Order There. GREET ENVOYS OF AUSTRIA St. Germain Meeting Has Friendly . Tone, but There Is No Hand Shaking—Treaty May Go to Austrians This Week.

Paris, May* 15—The council of foreign ministers fs considering a plan prepared by the allied military and naval authorities to maintain, order in. Schleswig after the evacuation of that territory by the Gerrnansi • It is planned to u£e an allied naval force stationed at .Flemsburg, in which the United States, Great Britain and France would join. Several battalions of Infantry also ! would be employed to police the territory. The selection of an allied com-, ■ rnander for this force is under consideration. The Austrian peace delegation arrived at St. Germain-en-Laye at 5:55 o’clock in the evening. The delegation was me by Prefect Chaliel representatives of the French government and the allied and associated powers. The first meeting with the Austrian delegates presented a sharp contrast tn the fl r st- in ee tin g wi t h the Ger man delegates because of its greater ease and friendliness. The Austrian delegation was headed by Karl Renner, the chancellor. He was the first to letjve the special car. Chancellor Renner appeared in the car doorway with hat in hand and with a contagious smile that put the reception conimittee quickly_at its ease. No Hand Shaking.

Doc; or Renner, a plump, round-faced man with a black beard and bald head and, with his eyes shining behind a pair of gold-rimmrd spectacles, bowed courteously to the reception committee. There was no hand shaking. The head of the Austrian delegation was followed by Dr. Franz Klein, Peter Eichoff and Dr. Richard Schuller. After them came the other members of the party, which numbered about sixty. Belief that the peace treaty with Austria would be handed to the delegates by the end of the present week was expressed. It develops that the allied powers to be represented -in the negotiations with the Austrians will be less numerous than those at Versailles. These powers will comprise the states which declared war upon or broke diplomatic relations with Austria-Hungary. I’he answers of the council of four to the German notes on prisoners of war and labor subjects were delivered. One of the later German notes, dealing with economic clauses of the freaty. says they mean the ruin of Germany if they are enforced. Protest on War Blame.

| A note on territorial questions proi tests against the Saar ; valley arrangexhent and transfer of the i Malmedy, Moresnel and Eupen dis- : tricts to Belgium, as well as the forced l evacuation of a part of Schleswig. A note on reparations does not protest against the payment by Germany for the devastation wrought in Berlin and northern France, Which, it says, Germany is ready to do willingly. It is added, however, that Germany will not pay reparation for this damage on the principle that she was responsible for the war. Huns Have Vast Military Stores. London, May 15. —Warren Dunham Foster, an American motion picture man, sailed on the Olympia after having narrowly escaped being shot by the Germans in Dusseldorf a week ago when his crippled airplane dropped. from the clouds on the fortress parade > ground filled with hostile soldiers. After completing a tom - of inspection of American camps in Germany, Foster planned to fly to Antwerp. ■Lieutenant McKaffecky of the S.econd brigade, Royal British air force, acted as his pilot. As their machine was passink over Dusseldorf the engine balked and a difficult and precarious landing was made on the parade ground. McKeffecky was brutally assaulted by German soldiers, and both he and Foster were locked up in a guardhouse for six hours before the German commander consented to hear their case. The commander raged against what he called a violation of the armistice and threatened to shoot both. Foster, after listening to the threat, promised that if it were carried out the American army on the Rhine would undertake speedy reprisals. Finally a guard of bayonets escorted them to Cologne, where they were released. Foster reported to the British and American commanders that he saw vast military stores at Dusseldorf, In contravention with the armistice. He saw thousands of shells and stacks ol cartridge cases, he says.