Headquarters 130^(th) Field Artillery,
American Expeditionary Forces,
14^(th) January, 1919.

French Communique: -Via Radio-

Monday morning there was a meeting of the military, naval and economic
experts. In the afternoon members of the supreme Inter-Allied council,
consisting of the Prime Ministers and Ministers of Foreign Affairs and
their associates in the Allied Powers also held a session. The official
communiques and the complimentary information published by the press
show that the decisions made give the following results:

The new conditions of the Armistice have been accepted. The council has
decided to provide food for Germany and also for the following
countries; Yougo-Slavs, Tchecho-Slavs, Poland, Magyars, Rumania,
providing that Germany is not too slow in utilizing her ships in her
ports and in neutral ports for the transportation of this food. The
allies also demand from Germany the restitution of all the material
taken by their troops from the factories of the evacuated regions that
it is possible to identify. This identification can be rendered possible
by the Etat-Major by many different methods. The financial clauses have
for their object the placing in reserve of the debt of the Reichetag.
The transporting of this reserve into a city or province will be
demanded. From a naval point of view on the new conditions of the
armistice, the Germans will be required to deliver submarine material
which has not yet been delivered. The Prime Ministers and Ministers of
Foreign Affairs have examined the program of the Peace Conference. They
have fixed the number of delegates from each state.

France, Great Britain, Italy and Japan have five plenipotentiaries each;
Brazil has three, two delegates represent Belgium, Servia, Greece,
Poland, Tcheco-Slavs, Rumania, Portugal and all other states who have
broken relations with the Central Empire. Canada, Australia, Southern
Africa and India have respectively two delegates. New Zealand has one.
The question of the representation of the Kingdom of Servia will be
taken up Wednesday. The council examined the methods of work of the
conference and the directing principles and regulations. The first
partial meeting of the conference will take place in the afternoon of
Saturday, the 18^(th) by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs.

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