Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-27
CONF FERENCE |S TAKING SHAPE
United States, Great Brit ain, France and Italy Each Allotted Five Delegates.

Paris, Dec. 26.-The personnel of the peace congress gradually is taking form, so that the American delegates express the hope that the various countries delegates will be announced and the delegates arrive for the actual commencement of the negotiations soon after the opening of the new year
 A number Of the main details of the composition of the congress are now fairly we'll settled as a result of recent conferences. These indicate that the total membership of the congress will be between 100 and 120 Twenty seven countries will be represented by deia- gations, including those which oe- clared war and number wAich have come into existence as a result of the war
 The great powers, notably Great Britain, France, The United States and Italy, each have allotted five dele gates, while the other delegations will vary from one to four members, &C., cording to the size of the country and the interests involved.
 Word has been received that the Bel gian and Portugese delegations soon will join the representatives of the United States, who thus far are the only members of the peace congress 1 to arrive. The non-arrival of the oth- I CTS has been the subject of consider able surprise, and adverse comment, the Americans taking the ground that they are here ready to proceed to busi- ness but with the personnel of the congress not yet announced It is un- derstood that President Wilson's visit 1 to England is likely to result in con- veying quite definitely the view that it is highly desirable that the con- gress should be put into motion with the least possible delay.
 While the personnel, of few delega- tions have been announced, unofficial advices indicate that most of them will be fored substantially as follows: l Belgiu-Paul Hyans, foreign minis ter; Emile Vandervelde, minister of justice; Baron Van Den Heuvel, min- ister to the Vatican.
 Portugal-Senhor sEgas Moniz For eirng minister Espirito Santp Lima :; Senhor E. Rriere De Andrade, Senhor Santos Viga and Augusta Vasconcellos, minister of the colonies.
 Brazil-Nilo Pecanha, foreign min. ister; Ruy Barbosa, Admiral Huet Ba- cellar, and General Thompowsky.
 Japan-Viscount Chinda, Ambassa- dor to Great Britain; Baron Matsui, Ambassador to France and two other delegates now on their way to Paris.
 Serbia-Nikola Patchitch, Premier Dr. M. R. Vesnitch, and Dr. Cumbitch. l Greece-Premier Venizelos, and M
 Politis, foreign minister.
 Italy-Premier Orlando, Barton
 Sonnino, foreign minister; Leonida solati-Bergamaschi, minister of
 military aid and war pensions; Gen.
 eral Diaz, commander in chief of the
 Italian army, Admiral Paolo Thaon Di
 Reevl, former chief of the naval staff
 Great Britain-David Lloyd George
 Prime minister; Arthur J. Balfour foreign secretary; Andrew Bonar Law
 chancellor of the eXchequer, and
 George iNicoll Barnes, labor member of the war cabinet, and one other } delegate who has not yet been desig- } mated. Lieutenant General J. G. Smuts and General Botha, representing Soutl Africa, are expected to accompany the British delegation, in which probabH:
 also will be representatives of Canada , Australia and India.
 France-M Clemenceau, Premier Stephen Pichon, foreign minister. ant
 three others who have not yet beer announced, although the names O. those mentioned as probable member, linclude Leon Bourgeois, former Prem