The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-11-15
j. s. MISSION
LEAVES FOR
CONFERENCE
WITH ENEMY
German Council Issued Com
mand to Soldiers to Make
Orderly Retreat -Macken-
sen Men Join Revolt.
CARRY OUT NAVY TERMS
(By Associated Press)

SBy ASSOCIATED PreSS1
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15-American
delegates to the great peace confer
ence are understood to have been Sc
lected by President Wilson although
there probably will be no announce
ment until the place and date Of meet
ing has been decided upon forma lily
by the inter allied council which re-
assemblies today in France.
Discussion in well informed quar-
ters of the probable personnel of the
delegation centered upon four men.
They are: Robert Lansing, secretary
OF state, to head the mission; Col. Z.
NJ. House, Elihu Root, Louis D, Bran
dies, associate justice of the supreme
court
The belief is growing here that
President Wilson himself will attend
the opening session Of the conference
though not to sit as a delegate around
the peace table.
LONDON. Nov 15.-An American
mission commanded by Major General
Rhodes will leave Saturday for Spa,
German headquarters, Marshal Foch
announces in wireless message to
the German high command
The commission will consist of six
officers and nineteen soldiers. The
German command is asked to give in
structions to allow the mission to
pass.
PARIS, Nov. 15.-The naval terms
OF the German and Austrian armistices
are being carried out rapidly.
LONDON, Nov. 15.-(2:3S P. NJ
The German cruiser which is carry
ing the the German delegates to ar
range the naval terms of the armis-
tice, it is understood here, will be met
by British war ships this afternoon
and will be escorted to a point al
sea where the German delegates will
meet Sir Admiral Beatty, commander
of the British grand fleet.
LONDON, Nov 15.-The crews Of
German U-boats at a mass meeting at
Brunsbuttel, according to a Copenha-
gen dispatch to the Daily Express, re-
solved to oppose the revolution and
reinstate the officers. They decided
to fly the national flag instead of the
red flag.
A0h uul quay. NOV.
The new soldiers council in Brussels,
the Nieuwe Courant of Rotterdam
says. has published a number of proc
lamations arranging for the orderly
withdrawal OF German troops, appeal
ing to the soldiers not to illtreat their
officers and sending a brotherly greet
ing to the Belgian population.
LONDON, Nov. 15.-The greater
part of the forces under Field Mar
shall Won Mackensen lin command in
Rumania) has Joined the revolution,
the Budapest Az Est says, according
to a Copenhagen dispatch to the ex-
change telegraph company.
PARIS, Nov. 15-The French army
will make an official entry of Strass-
burg on Nov. 25, according to an Of
fetal announcement. High officials
will go to that city eight days later
for the ceremonies incident to the re-
taking of. Alsace and Lorraine by
France
LONDON, Thursday, Nov. II
More than 100 men. mostly German
officers, have been willed In disorders
in Brussels, and soldiers councils have
been formed in that city and at Ant
werp, according to an Amsterdam dis
patch to the Exchange Telegraph COM
pany, quoting the Telegraaf
LONDON, Nov. 15-The German
army has begun a general evacuation
of Poland. according to an Exchange
Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen,
quoting returns from Berlin. German
troops in Warsaw have been disarmed
and arrested, as have all German civ
ilians in the Polish capital