The Daily Star-Mirror
Announcement comes from Peking, China, of a clash between American marines and Japanese at Tientsin, China, where the Americans raided the Japanese consulate and assaulted the consul. This may lead to an embarrassing situation, but it will probably be settled diplomatically.
This clash comes with the announcement from Berlin that the Spartacan lip-ising in Germany has been suppressed by the vigorous methods of the German government, which has executed captured Spartacans to the number of many hundreds. Yesterday forenoon 24 were executed by shooting off the forenoon and in the afternoon 125 were executed, one being a woman.
Some were mere boys and others were business and professional men. They were marched to a blank wall, if able to walk, and if wounded or sick were hauled in trucks to the place of execution and shot down by firing squad.
The supreme council of the peace conference has about finished preparation of the peace terms which will be submitted to Germany next week.
The terms are drastic and it is feared Germany may refuse to sign them, in which case war would be resumed and the allied countries state frankly that they are not prepared to place a large army of occupation in Germany now.
President Wilson reached Paris shortly after noon today and the meeting of the supreme council of the peace conference was fixed for 3 o'clock this afternoon.
Following are the cablegrams from Europe today:
Americans and Japanese Clash in China. 