Sultan to Lose Half of Empire
Big Three at San Remo Place Blame for Delay on United States
Await Note from Wilson—To 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.