Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-11-27
WAR COUNCIL
MEETS IN LONDON
Col. House and Gen. Bliss Of
ficiaIIy Delegated to At
tend the Meeting.
ALLIES FOR GREATER UNITY
Lord Reading Presides at Session, but
Secretary Represents Col. House
-conferees to Sum Up Re-
sources of Both Countries.

London. Nov. 21.-Chancellor Bonar
Law, answering a query in the mousse
of commons, said he had information,
"quite officially" that President VIII
son had sent instructions to Colonel
House and General Bliss to attend the
allies first war council.
The question asked Mr.. Bonar Law
was whether President Wilson had re-
ouested Colonel House and General
Bliss to attend the first meeting or the
supreme war council and had cabled
that the American government cOnsid-
cred unity of plan and control to be es-
sential for the allies. The chancellor
replied:
president Wilson selected Colonel
House to take part not only in the in
terallied conference, but in the SUI
preme war council, with General Bliss
as his military advisor. There ought
to be no misunderstanding We have
that information quite officially
War Council Meets in London.
None of the numerous allies war
councils in the last three years has oc-
casiOned the same interest as the his
tOric meeting of the American war mis-
sion and the British war cabinet for
tightening the links that chain the
Anglo-American war efforts.
The scene is the dingy old residence
in Downing street which has served
the prime ministers of many genera
tons as both home and office, and the
room is the council chamber where the
cabinets meet and where the destinies
of the empire have been shaped since
the days of the American Revolution.
Premier Opens Conference.
Premier LlOyd-GeOrge opened the
allied war conference here with a
speech which the cOnferees described
as being an important statement, but
which, like the rest of the proceedings,
is being kept secret in it's essentials,
although some passages have been
given out. One cOnferee said spirit
of greatest earnestness and unity per-
meated the meeting and that the most
important practical results were
achieved.
The American representatives were (:
Gen. Tasker II. Bliss, chief of staff !;
Admiral William S. Benson, chief of
naval operations; Thomas Nelson Per-
kins, member of the priority board !;
DR.. AlOnzO Taylor, representing the
food controller; cambridge Colby of
the United States shipping board; Os-
car II. Crosby, assistant secretary of
the treasury; Vance Mccormick, chair
man of the war trade board.
Col. E. M. House, head of the Ameri-
can mission, did not attend the meet
Ing but was represented by his secre-
tary, Gordon AuchinclOss.
Depend on U. S. Shipping.
In the course of his speech, Mr..
Lloyd-George said:
Assuming that the submarine stu
alton does not get worse, the easing of
the position of the allies depends en-
tirely upon the dates on which the
American program of launching 6000,-
900 tons of shipping, promised for 1918,
comes into practical effect"
The premier said he wished to recOg-
lnize the eager earnestness with which
the people of the United States are
throwing themselves in the great task.
He expressed absolute confidence that
the great democracies now marching
shoulder to shoulder would utterly
overthrow the menace which threat
ened the liberty of the world.
He thanked the mission for "the
invaluable services which the United
States navy has already rendered, not
only in protecting commerce, but in
dealing with the submarine, for vital
assistance in financing the war and for
effective help in many other ways"
Stricter Food Law in Britain.
With reference to the question of
supplies, Mr.. LlOyd-GeOrge assured the
mission that the most drastic food re-
strictiOnS were about to be imposed
upon the people of the British Isles.
The British representatives were:
Premier Lloyd George, Foreign Min
lister Balfour, Viscount Miner, George
NicOl Barnes and Earl CurzOn of Ked
lesion, constituting the war cabinet
Lord Reading and Lord Northcliffe
the earl of Derby, Gen. Sir William r
Robertson and Lieut.. Gen. Jan c
SHUTS, representing the army; Sir Eric
.Geddes and Admiral Sir John r. Jel
licoe, representing the navy; Maj. Johr
J.. Baird, Baron Rhondda, Lord Rob
lert Cecil, Walter Hume Long and DR.
Christopher Addison, representing re
spectively aviation. food, blockade, De
troleum and munitions.
The conference lasted an hour and .