Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1919 — WILL POLICE TURKEY [ARTICLE]

WILL POLICE TURKEY

CONFERENCE PLANS TO DISPOSE OF EMPIRE. War Council Decides on Measures to Maintain Order—Turk Cabinet Resigns. Paris, Jan. 31.—The sffpreme war council of the peace congress, It was officially announced, has reached satisfactory provisional arrangements dealing with the former German colonies and the occupied territories of Turkey In Asia. The council decided that the military representatives of the allied powers at Versailles shall meet and report on the most equitable distribution of the burden of supplying military forces for the purpose of maintaining order in Turkey, pending action by the council regarding the government of the Turkish territory. Constantinople, Jan. 31. —As a result of the protests of the allied powers against the spoliation of Greeks nnd Armenians the Turkish cabinet has resigned. Rome, Jan. 31. —A federal republic of the Balkans is the latest advanced plan for keeping the peace among these fire-brand natiops. The plan, according to reports received here, has been worked out by the Bulgarians, the draft proposing the, inclusion in the republic of Serbia, , Croatia, Bosnia, Herzegovnia, Montenegro and Slovenia. The Idea, it is said, grows out of the historic associations of the Coburg dynasty. . / _