Sultan to Lose Half of Empire

Big Three at San Remo Place Blame for Delay on United States

After the resolution on 25 April 1920, standing outside Villa Devachan, from left to right: Matsui, Lloyd George, Curzon, Berthelot, Millerand, Vittorio Scialoja, Nitti
After the resolution on 25 April 1920, standing outside Villa Devachan, from left to right: Matsui, Lloyd George, Curzon, Berthelot, Millerand, Vittorio Scialoja, Nitti

Await Note from WilsonTo Liberate Millions From Ottoman Yoke and Internationalize Constantinople

San Remo, April 19. — While the inter-allied supreme council here will unquestionably send a strong note to Germany, putting the allies on record as harmoniously demanding and insisting upon her disarmament and threaten a virtual blockade if the Versailles terms are not lived up to, this will be followed by a radical revision of the whole peace treaty, involvlng liberal concessions to Germany. A compromise will be finally drafted with regard to the Ruhr region, and both France and Germany will be satisfied.

At the end of the first day of its deliberations, the council drafted a reply to President Wilson’s recent note on the Turkish peace treaty to contain clauses of which tho President had objected.