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PROBLEMS OF THE PEACE
CONFERENCE.
TKRAINE AND POLAND.
FROM DR. X. DILLON.]
Underneath the growth of the delegates acquaintanceship with the geucial pro bleius confronting them and the startling variations of the Solutions propused, one 'perceives their earnest endeavour to establish a get rai prare even, at a edat which ve mths ago Mould have been dcemat rumus to the cause they cham- pioned. To history of the tentative set tlements of tim Polish questions advocat od is the enference, or of the oscillating judgments on the rights, and wrengs of the Adriatic Rispute, offers an impressiv illustration of this tendency. Whether arrangements obtained at such a cost can cerat a rent and lasting, prary is open to question. Persondly, I ani apprehen- BV that Europe, and especially the Eastern wertion, almut to enter period of anguilary tends and violent social upheavals, and that the results of the traits which the Germans will son be summoned to accept or reject will be unavailing to avert them. The decision arrive itly last work concerning Danzie was again changed esterday into a brand-new nad, highly original scheme. converting that nty, and a stretch of territory extending to and including Marienwerder, into an independent" State under the "Bengt. of Nations. Comments are being jussid on this solution by experienced statemen, who' think they can clearly discern its conse. qeners in genewed bledshed and de "structia mess. They interpret the verdict
In Euring militarism upon
Eastern Europe,
As Treaty bag approaches. the dele
gates thestrims of discharging theihardu
ans selfoxet miksion, are making great exertions to straighten things out, if possible, in Russia, but at the very least and without fail in Russia's borderlands. Hener their plan to bring about some kind of paper accord between the Ukraine and Poland which an American general was recently sent to arrange, but failed. 1 a disposed to believe that the dre gates, who at first destined to recognise the sensation" of the Ekraine from! Russia arrow inclined to make this sacrifier in return for an undertaking by the Ukrainians to bestow paper con cessions, upon the Poles, and thus contri. bute to extend the Conference's pence to a portion of Eastern Europe. The new krainian presentative, a man of Jewish Tac named Margolin, has arrived in Paris to urge their suit, which will prob able be successful. Táthuchin also i pressing for her recognition as an"inde pendent State to consist of approximate- yeht million inhabitants. The Ens- sians object that only two millions are Lithuanians, one and a half million Jews, two and a half million Tales, and the remainder White Russians; conse quently a viable independent State. they say, is impossible.
"One main questich now being fought. out in the Conclave of Four turns upon guarantees, or to express it more clearly, it is a contest between the Wilsonian League of Nations and the equilibrium sustained by traditional alliances which are anathematised by President Wilson. The entire Freach Press unanimously considers the scheme of the League. elaborated by the Conference, na a pleas ing, but dangerous delusion. The most respectful among the critics generously admit that the League may be an effici ent agency" twenty or thirty years hence, but demand a forma) alliance of the
Governments meanwhile.. victorious Daily Telegraph.
A WAR PICTURE MYSTERY.
ROYAL ACADEMY CLOSED TO GRIM FLANDERS SCENE,
The sensation of the Royal Academy this year will be a picture which will not be there. If it were shown, says a Home journal, all London would soon be talking about it. The reason of the non-exhibition of the picture is that the Government has refused to allow it to be shown. The picture has been painted by Mr. C. W. R. Nevinson, and it is con-
bis finest sidered to be not only
painting, the most wonderful of
war pic it represents the early morning of a great battle in the flat, erntered country round about Passchendaele, and it shows, not the cheering line of the attackers, but A procession of wounded men, British and German, coming back across the quagmire between the innumerable pools formed by
the shell-holes.
but tures.
grey light, breaking through a loaded with layers of heavy clouds, sa almost ghostly effect to the groups of moving figures, which are so well done that you can feel the effort it
in along takes the men to mud.
shades wearily look uggle They
- purgatory. Nevinson was out as a soldier for
gging through
the
two years before he was set to painting war scenes, and be has put the dismal soul of the real thing into this picture. of the Deluge, It-suggests a combination
Sea Giving up its Dead Jorno, and the
the Last Day, Dante's
There are no horrors in it, apart from dead men lying about, but
One or two
the desolation of aud and water, the disant tongues of demes, the stumbling. Buggen plodding figures, and the general tion of misery and squalor make it one of the most fascinating and dreadful pic tures of a battlefield ever imagined.
It is believed that the Government with to keep the picture for a special show of Government war pictures next winter, but while Mr. Nevinson is forbidden to send it to the Academy, it is understood that Mr. Sargent, R.A., has received per mission to show his war picture at the Academy, although it was also painted for the Government collection
The official refusal to allow Mr. Nevin eon to exhibit his work at the Academy has roused some indignation among paint- ers, and the attitude of the Government will rob the Academy of one of its greatest "drawWL"
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