PEACE CONFERENCE.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16398, 18 December 1918, Page 7

PEACE CONFERENCE.

THE FREXCH REPRESENTATIVES. (By Cable.—Prers Association.—Copyright.) (Australian and 2C.Z. C«blo Association.) PAlilS. December 15. Tho "Echo de Pariis" states that M. Clemenceau. Prime Minister, M. Piehon, Minister of Foreign Affairs. M. Leon Bourgeois, and possibly M. Tardieu, a well-known French journalist, will be the French peace plenipotentiaries. (Australian and N. 2. Association.) (Ttcuicrs Telegrams.) PARIS, D-ecember 16. it. Marcel Hutin forecasts that the French plenipotentiaries to tho Peace Conference will be M. Clemenceau, M. Piehon. Marshal Foch, and M. I.eon Bourgeois (who is a specialist- regarding tho League or Nations), also M. Tarclieu (Commissioner for French and American relations). THE JAPANESE DELEGATES. | TOKIO. December 16. t The Japanese, delegates to the_ Peace Conference have started for Paris, via ! San Francisco. THREE IMPORTANT POINTS. (Australian and X.Z. Cab;© Association.) NEW YORK, December 16. The "New York World's" Paris correspondent states: —It is pointed out that at a recent meeting between S-ignor Orlando, Premier of Italy. M. Clemenceau, Premier of France, and Mr Lloyd George, at London, tho Entente decided to demand three points at the Penco Conference, namely, punishment of the Kaiser and other controllers of evil-doers, an indemnity to Germany's limit of capacity to pay, and tie German colonies not to be returned. PRELIMINARY PROPOSALS. (Australian and X.Z. Cabta Association.) NEW YORK. December 16. The United Press Paris correspondent Gays: —It is understood tnat the American peace delegation favour a preliminary discussion, in which President Wilson and a single delegate from France, England, and Italy will formulate a series of proposals which would bo submitted to debate by tho full dfllegationr. of the Allies. It is reported that some of tho Entente delogates propose that the full delegations from the Unit-ed States, Britain, France, and Italy, and one representative of Japan, should draw up the treaty, which would be submitted to the other Allicjl nations for signature. LEAGUE OF NATIONS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) WASHINGTON, December 16. In the American House of Representatives. Mr J. W. Hasted introduced a resolution that tho United States ought not to enter any League of Nations, otherwise the whole of the American fleet would bo required in order to settle European disputes. BRITISH REPRESENTATIVES. 1 (Australian and TC.Z. Cable Association.) j (Outer's TelegTamo.) (Received December 17th, 7.25 p.m.) LONDON, December 16. It is expected that the Premier, Mr Lloyd George, Mr Bonar Law, Chancellor of tho Exchequer, Mr Balfour, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and other Ministers will depart for Paris on December 21st. The Peace Conference will probably open at Versailles on January Ist.' MUTUAL TRUSTAN ESSENTIAL. I

(Australian and N.Z. Cabla Association.) NEW YORK, December 15. Sir H. Babington Smith, in a speech, reviewed tho activities of the British missions to tho United States. He said tho most powerful instrument and the surest guarantee for tho vast and just reconstruction of the world, which will be effected by the treaty of peace, will be found in the maintenance of tho con 7 fidoDce and trust existing botween the British Empire, the United' States, France, and tho other Allies. PRESIDENT WILSON IN PARIS. (Australian and N.Z. Cabl« Association.) PARIS, December 14. On President Wilson's arrival he was greeted by President Poincare and Madame Poincare. He drove to the Maison Mural, and was loudly cheered as ho proceeded along the decorated streets. Speaking to his toast at the Elysee Palace dinner, President Wilson said that it was delightful to find himself in France, whose sympathy and friendship for the United States was quickened by the present contact. His (President Wilson's) task was to speak the thoughts of the people of the United States, and to translate those thoughts into action. The Amerioan people thought more of what followed the war than even the winning of it. The eternal principles of right and -justice must bo realised. Never before had war borne so terrible a visage or'exhibited more grossly debasing and illicit ambitions. He would look uron the ruin wrought by the Central Empires' armies with the same repulsion and indignation as that which stirred the hearts of the Belgians and the French. He fully appreciated the necessity for action, not only to rebnko such deeds of terror and spoliation, but to prevent their recurrence by means of deterrent punishments. The United States' soldiers fought with the utmost pleasure side by side with the soldiers of France.

President Poincare, in proposing President Wilson's health, referred to the liberality of tho United States before it entered tho war, its sympathy -with the Allies' cause, and the value of American help at a critical moment in the war's history.