GREAT WAR COUNCIL.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 666, 29 March 1916, Page 7

GREAT WAR COUNCIL.

AN HISTORIC GATHERING. PARIS, March 27. The great council of representai tivcs of all Ihe Allies has opened, and is arousing intense interest. It is expected thai the council will I evolve co-ordinated plans of supreme importance, governing future operations. Al Ihe conclusion of the Paris Conference. Mr Asquith will go to Home, where a' further conference will he hc4d next week. Possibly, Mr Lloyd George will accompany him. The Paris correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says the historic conference opened at Ihe Quai D'Orsay, in the room in which the Congress of Paris in 185fi was held. It is understood that the conference I will provisionally consider the quesj lion of an economic war, thus laying down the broad lines for the I purely Economic Conference, which I is to be held next month. Later. Thirty-seven delegates, representing eight nations, are participating in the War Conference. CRUSHING, COMBINED ACTION. AN IMPORTANT AGREEMENT. (Received March 29, 1(1.5 a.m.) MILAN, March 28. The "Stampa," discussing the Paris Conference, slates that the western commanders have agreed that Germany mast not be allowed any facility for accumulating forces against a single ally, but must be met by (rushing, combined action. The presence of Allied Premiers in Paris gives full weight to this.