Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-31
KING GEORGES DINNER TO PRESIDENT
After Reaching Paris Presi- dent Goes to Rome Wed- nesday as Italy's Guest.

II son arrived in London at 7.15 D. III. and immediately went to Bucking- ham Palace. He was cheered by large numbers of persons who were proceeding homeward from business. Otherwise there was no demonstra- ton, as the time of the arrival of the presidential special train was not known to the public.
 President Wilson will go direct ly to Italy from Paris. He will leave Paris for Rome Wednesday night. arriving in the italian capi- tai Friday. Rome is to be the only city in Italy the president will vis- it. He expects to be away from Paris week, returning there a week from next Tuesday.
 While ill Rome, the president vii! be the guest of the Italian govern ment. It seems certain now that he will visit Pope Benedict and also call at the Methodist college.
 By the time the president returns to Paris from Italy, the British del egates to the peace conference will
 
 preliminary conferences may be in ton work of the American Peace mission will have been completed.
 The farewell dinner given in the state dining room at Buckingham Palace today by King. George and Queen Mary in honor of President Wilson and Mrs. Wilson, was a pri- vata function. There was no process sion into the dining room, which was decorated with yellow, and there were no speeches or tOasts. The Grenadier guards band played during the dinner. but no national athens were rendered.
 Those who sat down to dinner were the King and Queen, President and Mrs. Wilson. Princess Mary, Prince Henry, Prince George, the Duke of Connaught, John w. Davis, the American ambassador; the Duke and Duchess of Abercorn. Lord and Lady Cavendish, Viscount and Wis, countess Acheson, Viscount Astor Admiral Sir Stanley Colville and Lady Colville. Sir Ronald Graham and Lady Graham, Miss Edith Ben- ham, Mrs. Wilson's secretary; Rear Admiral Grayson, U. s. N, Brigadier General William H. Harts, U. s. A., the Duchess of Sutherland, the Dow ager Countess of Airlie, Viscount Farquhar, Lord Steward to the King, and Lord Starifordham, Private Sec retary to the King. 9Tli
 President Wilson and Mrs Wilson will leave Buckingham Palace Tues day morning at g o'clock on the first stage of their return journey to France. baf
 In the procession to the Victoria Sta tion Semi-state Landaus will be used. King George and President Wilson will occupy the first; Queen Mary, Mrs. Wilson and Princess Mary the second, and members of the presidents party and court offi-s cials, the third, fourth and fifth. No troops will be stationed along the streets, but the party will have a guard of honor to the station. Sir Charles Gust, Kings equerry. will accompany President Wilson to Calais.
 Paris, Dec. 3O.-.(By the Associated Press. )-President Wilson plans to- l spend New Years day in Paris and leave for Italy New Years night He will return from Italy about Janu- | ary 10, when the inter-allied confer ence wiss assemble.
 It is generally understood now that the President will remain in Europe for about month after his return from Italy and that he will take passage for America about Feb ruary 10.
 1 This has been the most active days discussion in peace conference ! circles since the American dalega- tion arrived, as the declarations of Premier Clemenceau sIld Foreign Minister 1Pichon in the Chamber of Deputies last night gave rallying point in the form of the first offi- cial announcement om the plans of the French government.
 | The statements disclosed that France had determined upon it's line of action on practically all the questions involved, including so- ciety of nations on which M. Pichon said the details now were being formulated.
 4, Premier Clemencsau's statement
 on the freedom of the seas, was the first announcement from high
 authoritative source Mir. Clemen-
 ceau's reference to his talks with President Wilson indicated that they had tended to bring out the signi- ficance of the French premisr's pre- vious conversations with tue British Prime minister regartiing tho action of the British fleet during the var without which. he admitted. Trance , could not have continued the war. az 5, well as his favorahle aftif7!de toward