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*, LONDON, Jan. 10. Owing to the inability of Mr. Lloyd George to reach Paris befors the end of the week, there was no oficial gathering of the prominent representat Ives already arrived, but a number of informal conversations took place (Hayas).

FIRST BUSINESS OF CON." FERENCE***

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GKYO, January] 5th.; The newspapers está Libani_the_War] President and Mrs. Wilson, arrived an Cabinet has appointed the following sight o'clock this morning, and was wel- British Delegation the Trace Conter-comed at the station by the Mayor, the ence G. Barnes, Aldermen, Senatore, Deputies Law, Mr Balfour G

tive to serve Oficers with a Dominich Konto

(comprising A large crowd enthusiastically cheered from the Bomisión bang

Robert Berdan the President, en route ta the Piazza Mr. W.-M. Haghes General Sir-Louie Båt! Mr W. Lorvertog where he laid a wreath before Masser when business affects the the statue of Mazzini, dia ak interest of the impatienler Domition.*

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The Daily bruger adds that an im Eresident Wilson aubsequently visited LONDON, Jan 10, portant decision that the Dominions, the house where Columbus was born and The first business of the Paris will also appear the Conference na attended a reception at the Town Hall. New Yoas, January 3rd Conference will be the settlement small nations

Loxdur, January 10th. Speaking at the Italian Parliamens in of the principles for the foundation of An official meage aristes that Mr. Rome on January 3rd, President Wilson the League of Nations. Then will come Lloyd George and Mr Bonar Law, a mid the questions of cost findemnities 1), and campanied by the Prime Ministers of Your Majesty. Mr. Pr after that the settling of Russian affairs Canada, Australia South Africa and of the Chamber, you are besposting

honour thich coincidentally with the Polish situation Newfoundland, and the Maharajah of Of equal urgency are questions relating Bikanir, leave for Paris to-morrow moro me an unprecedented to the Adriatic and the Ottoman aming for preliminary conversations with accept because I believe that it is ex

Allied And Asacciated tended to me as a representative of the ] the, beads of pie-[Havas]

great people for whom I speak and I am States.

PARIS, January 9th going to take this first opportunity to The Cabinet has approved the appoint say bow entirely the heart of the Ameri ment of the following plenipotentiaries can people has been with the great people to the Peace Conference Clemen of Italy an ceau, M. Pichor. M. Klotz, Minister of We have seemed, no doubt, indif Finaner, M. Tardieu, and Jules ferent at times to look from a great dis Cambon, ex-Ambassador as Berlin.

tance but our heart, have never been far away. All sorts of ties have long bound the people of the United States with the people of Italy. The people of the United States Enowing this people, are witnessed its sufferings, its sacri fices, its heroic action upon the battle feld, and have been, bound by new

Two vital questions to be discussed next week arn the measures to be taken with the Bolsheviks in Ressa, and the lifting of the German blockade su ciently so slow the feeding of the peo ple in the eastern provinces =[Hatas]:

LONDON, Jan. 11. Viscount Chinda, the Japanese Ambassador from London, arrives to-morrow in Paris to take part in the Conference-Havas] "

ALLIES RUSSIAN PLANS.

LONDON, Jan. Ii.

Marshal Foch vill, naturally, bet elated as the Allied Commander-in-Chief

Signor Orlando, and Baron Sonning have arrived

ye PARIS, January 5th.

A delegation of the new Serbian-Cron- tian-Slavena State to the Peace Conference has arrived. The delegation is headed by M. Pasitch.

LONDON, January 7th.. Reuters Agecey learns that a Centrol Committee composed of leading Bussions

The Committee is made up.

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of profound admiration. Then back of it all and through it all, running like together. the golden thread that wors

was our Hedge at the people of

At this moment the Allies have no intention to increase the number of troops in Russia, their cola object being shs been formed to watch Russian inter- laly had gone into this war for the same. defeat Gorana proceedings there.ests at the Peace Conference of the that moved our own people. And so I exalted principles of right and justice But they have incurred obligations to

Russian population of Welcome this of conveying districts which they occupied Hares]pported by the Ambassadors in London. to you the heartfelt greeting of the

Paris Rome Madrid and Washington.

M. Bazonaff is expected shortly and will people of the United States. join the Committee as representing the But we cannot stand in the shadow of Governments sitting in the South Cau- this war without knowing there are caans and General Koltehak's Government things awaiting us which are in some Fat Omsk

senses more diffiehlt than those we have The well-known

for right and justice it is some been invited to join the Committee tico and.

CHINESE BOLSHEVIKS,

- A FUNNY STORY.

LONDON, JGD. 10.

revolutionary

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字 Representatives of Chinese workmen anti-Bolshevist, MTchaikowski, the Andertaken because while it is easy to of the Archangel Government has also times dificult to work them out.in prac

they will require purity Well informed uters here regard the motives and disinterestedness of object Committee as a National Confition, which whin the world has never witnessed will seek to arrives at a comuton. pro- before in the Cotneil of Nations. It is gramme for subminos to the lies, for for that rease that it seems to me that 機 the latter's decisiodic a

lay: some of the tion before

and soldiers residing ia Russia summon ed a plenary ssembly at Moscow with the help of the Bolsheviks, and passed a resolution to sand revolutionary emissar ies to India and China, headed by "Vogessenski", a Chinese "ioussou dian-Havas.]

GERMANY

LONDON, Jan. 10..

A telegram from Berlin says an. official German demobilization order bas been published-Hevas.]

FRENCH FLOODS STOP.

LONDON, Jab. 10.

The French Ministry of Public Works has issued a note on the Seine flood, to, the effect that it would probably reach its aximum on Friday morning, and that the river would then sabside.

LONDON, Jan. 11:

The Seine has already commenced to fall. The weather continuing dry, the dange: of a serious inundation is for the moment averted.

The flood affected the Paris supplies of flour, some of the large mille having to close. It is cfficially stated that Paris has more than two meaths' supply [in stora.[Havas).

YARIOUS FRENCH ITEMS.

LONDON, Jan-11.

President Wilson has affinity inform

ed the French Government that, he wishes

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Conference, not the

the chief of a State, Theangalam goes of this war is but as his own Prine e indatar

LUNAR ERRE CAPAN are gone to pieces

Ledacteristics of those Empires: A BITES message states

Held differens people re The French Press statee that the luctantly together under the coercion of excessive mystery surounding everything force and the guidance of intrigue. The concerning the Conference is quita, in great difficulty among such states as those accordance with diplomatic tradition.

SHIPPING POSITION.

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of the Balkans has been that they were accessible to unscrupulons influence, that they were always being penetrated by intrigue of acme sort and another and that north of them lay disturbed popu

held together not by lations which were sympathy and friendship but by th LONDON, January 5th..

coercive force of a military power. Now Sir Joseph F. Maclay, Minister of the intrigue is checked and the bands are Shipping interviewed, said that the broken and what are we going to provide termination of hostilities had eased, snew: to cement, to hold these people. chormously, the shipping position.

The tonnage available for bringing, im together 1 They have not been accustomed

independent ports to the United Kingdom had in to being independent, they must not be creased by an equivalent of ten million. tons of goods yearly. It would shortly. I am sure that you recognize the grip- be possible to release, substantially, top ciple as I do that it is not our privilegu nage which had been requisitioned, to say what sort of Government ther thereby creating a free market in tonnage should set up, but we are friends of thesa and freight."

exports, on which the whole of our ship is thrown around them; something sp

The great need of the moment wa

was coal people and it is our duty as their friends to see to it that some kind of protection ping and financial position depends. He plied which will hold them together. hoped that with the release of the miners

is only one thing from the Army, the ships which are now

holds

compelled to go in ballast will shortly nations together if your fatce

be able to take outward cargoes, thereby and that is friendship and good-will; the easing the financial situation and reduc- only thing that binds men together is M. Eticors Lamy, the permanenting the cost of imported supplies. friendship and by the same token the only secratary of the French Academy, in

thing that binds nations together is deed.

WHAT A GERMAN JOURNALIST friendship.N President Wilson's plan to look over

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BERLIN, January 6th. see to it that all the moral forces that Mde France, the Minister to writing in the kunft about Germaca for right and justice and liberty Brussels, has been appointed Highmany's policy of Alliances, M. Maxi- are united and ors given a vital organi Commissioner to Constantinople. His milinn Harden declares that Germany's sation to which the peoples of the world successor at Brussels will be M. Margerie, rulers, madly squandered the strength of will readily and gladly respond. In our task, is no less colossal the Director of Political Affairs at the the nation in an attempt to maintain an "other. Foreign Ministry, which place in turn, radically transform on had to be either than this, to set up a new International

or perish psychology, to have a new real la taken by M. Barthelot.

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that desire to make peace rest which Germany suffered for mszy years, right and, with this common par- LOvGON, Jan. 11. through her attempted rivalry with pore no obstacles need be formidable, British naval supremacy, through the. The only use of an obstacle is to be over- At. Buenos Aires, General Delleplane geophantic courting of the Caliph's comes to 1001 his assumed a military diétatorship favour, and through planning a land all that any obstacles does with brave against strikers who have unsuccessful route to India.

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LONDON, Jan. 11 The Colonial Office Announces that Sir Frederick Lugard is resigning the Governorship of Nigeria.

LIEBENECHT KILLED

LONDON, Jan 11

be another balance of power. That has AN UNIMPORTANT DECLARATION. been tried and found wanting for the best of all ressons that it does not stay does not hold together cannot constitats Count Banten, the new German a make-eight in the affairs of menit) a Forsign Minister, has published a decrefore there must be something Sub- claration, of his policy which has not yet,

been received, but comment in the der stituted for the balance of power and biner Tagehatt shows that Count Rantzau um happy to find everywhere in the air. emphasises that Germany must not yield of those great nations the conception that united to every peace condition which her op that thing must be a thoroughly ponents wish to dictate League of

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idealistic turní and DooGalery!! We

TheTageblati Frays it is urgent aidered DONOR hat men once/un-

that Germany should convince the out to bo world of her determination loyally to stand at the opening of a new are in CITY out President Wilson's pance, but which a new statesmanship will, I are refuse to accept any other, Clemenceau's perco con especially M confident, lift mankind to new levels. qf Jendeavour gad achievement-Imperiu The journal adds that Count Ranting Servcentral de An unconfirmed report saya that Faald this with a plainnema and frankness (Continued on Page 5.) Herz Liebknecht has been killed. long lacking in" Germon" policy.

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