Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-12-20
WILSON cONFERS ON TAY'S
CLAIMS At CONFERENCE
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President wilson's pens for visit
Ing London. while = yet positive,
contemplate hat he VII leave for
England next Thursday. December
rs. He will probably remain in Eng
land foul days.
Details of the trip to London are
being worked out by tho President
In consultation with Col. House, capt.
Andre Tardieu. French high commits
sioner to the United States, and mem
bers of the American embassy stan
In London.
The President will start for on
don Immediately after he has Christ
mas dinner with the American troops
in the field. The President will start
for London and will not return d.
rectly to Paris but 1t is expected he
will visit the devastated regions OF
northern France and Belgium.
II is expected he Will be back in
Paris on January 4 on the eve of tho
first meeting OF the inter-allied SON
ference on January 8.
The London correspondent OF the
Manchester Guardina suggests that
President Wilson's sudden determine
ton to come to England Is due to his
desire to consult the British govern
ment regarding the Russian situation
before the preliminaries to the peace
conference. The correspondent points
TO the presence In London of former
Premier Kerensky and Paul N. Milu-
koff. former Russian foreign minister
and leader of the constitutional dem
ocrats. He also calls attention In this
connection to Wednesdays statement
by Viscount Miner. the secretary for
war on the Russian situation. which
he says was evidently intended to
prepare the public for events to
come"
Tho opening meeting of the inter-
allied conference Will be confined to
representatives of the allies n the
United States who Will arrange d
common basis of action for the for
NAL sessions of the peace congress
which will open toward the middle
or latter part of January. 1t is ex-
pccted that the German delegates
then will be present for the first time.
1t is pointed out that as this is moi a
negotiated peace N a victorious
peace based on virtual unconditional
surrender. In which the enemy has
been compelled to give up all de-
manded, the main purpose OF the pre-
liminary conference beginning early
in January Is to arrange q
front for the peace congress.
For that reason the conferences
going on between the President and
Premier Orlando OF Italy and later
with Premier Lloyd George in Lon
don have an important bearing on
this preliminary adjustment.
Rush Relief Plans
Plans for sending relief to famish-
ed Europe, which President Wilson
regards as the most Immediately
pressing question needing settlement.
are rapidly maturing in such a way
as to secure full cooperation by the
allies. The President has made II
known to the allies that he regards
the relief measures as of extreme I'M
portance both for the stricken popu-
lation and as a means of holding
back the wave of discomfort and re-
sentiment sweeping westward in the
train of the Bolshevik movement.
The relief plans that have matured
since the arrival of Herbert G. Hoov-
err, the food administrator. are under
stood to have gone before the su-
preme war council In London and
have been referred to q committee
upon which England. France and
Italy are represented. A number OF
changes have been going on In the
committee which Is gradually tending
toward agreement.
AS a great deal OF German tonnage
is lying idle In German ports the use
of this was contemplated. a passen-
ger ship to be employed In moving
American troops homeward n TIE
bulk of the freighters augmented
with American and allied freight tom
mage to be devoted to relief work.
Because of President Wilson's spe-
cial interest in the subject he has
made 1t known that he consider
highly desirable that cooperation by
all the allied interests be secured at
the earliest possible moment and 1t Is
now believed that the entire question
will be speedily adjusted.