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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1919
Page
7
Allied leaders study options to curb German military strength after armistice. The plan includes occupying the Ruhr district including Essen, reducing the army to a police force, and enforcing unconditional peace terms even as Berlin resists demobilization.
Paris dispatch reports the supreme war council and League of Nations panel debating renewal terms for the German armistice. Foch and other commanders press for drastic safeguards to prevent rearming as the commission nears a final draft for presentation later in the week.
Paris February 10 President Wilson has been chosen to issue the formal call to all nations to join the League of Nations after the peace conference establishes its machinery. The commission drafting the society's constitution is reported to have approved this plan for the president to act in this role.
The article outlines divisions over postwar terms with calls to limit field and heavy guns and reorganize military policing. Some commanders favor hard military restraints while others push economic measures to curb renewed aggression. French Finance Minister Klotz presented German staff plans to destroy French industry to aid German interests, prompting referral to the economic conference. The armistice discussion is set to resume tomorrow.
Paris reports clarify passages in the Society of Nations plan. The special commission nearly completes the plan and prepares for plenary discussion before President Wilson's departure. The permanent international court will follow the society's formation and the constitution will be drafted by the major powers. Credit for the plan is given to the United States.
A Reuters dispatch from Pekin dated February 3 says Japan notified China to work with Japan at the peace conference and to refrain from revealing China Japanese secret agreements. Chinese sources are cited though Reuters notes the report should be treated with caution. The despatch claims Japan warned that China’s failure to assure confidentiality could trigger effective Japanese financial pressure.
Paris February 10 An official communication says the committee on reparation began this morning discussing the principles underlying rights to reparation and the memoranda submitted by the delegations William M Hughes premier Australia outlined the British memorandum basis
The Missouri-Episcopal Ministers Alliance of Greater Kansas City protests President Wilson's nomination of George D. Herron as envoy to Princes Islands for the Russian situation. The group endorses William Allen White of Kansas for the post.
The Hamburg Nachrichten quoted Prince Henry of Prussia urging a return to the pre war monarchy and old dynasty leadership under Prussia. He called for abolishing workers and soldiers councils and rebuilding land and sea forces in the old style, with Jewish influence curbed, to revive Germany's strength and the anthem Deutschland Uber Alles.
Reports from Omsk say the Russian government accepted Japan's offer of men money and arms to settle the Bolshevik issue. Japan would gain an iron and coal concession in the Priamur district in return amid fears of Allied withdrawal and possible Bolshevik recognition at the Princes' Islands conference.
Roy D. Hulls 21, with Navy service, confessed to a Dec 14 holdup in Charlestown. He pulled a gun on a taxi driver and a bystander officer, but was felled by Patrolman James Martin. Hulls pled guilty and received five years and one month at the Concord Reformatory. He claimed Mississippi as home.
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