Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-17
 BROKEN BY
 PRESIDENT
Makes Public Address in Paris City Hall and Calls on Officials.
WILSON OVATION CONTINUES
Chief Executive of American Recipent Oi Signal HOnOrs From all Quart CTS.

Paris. Dec. 16.-President Wilson
 began breaking traditions today when. in addition to paying formal visit to the City Hall for the appointed ceremonies there. he planned to make
 a call at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon
 at the ministry of war for a talk
 with Premier Clemenceau, who also
 is minister of war. He decided also
 to accept the dinner invitations Of
 foreign ambassadors. his first ac-
 ceptance being to the invitation eN-
 tended by the Earl of Derby, the British ambassador to France.
 The visit of the head of foreign
 nation to the ministry of war and
 his acceptance of the hospitality of
 foreign ambassadors are not strictly
 in accordance with custom, but Presf-
 dent Wilson felt that the opportuni-
 ties thus afforded of geeting into per-
 sonal contact justified him ,n disre-
 garding he traditions.
 The visit with Premier Clemen-
 ceau paid President Wilson yesterday
 was not only the occasion of all
 agreeable personal meeting, but it
 resulted in a fairly full understand ing as to the plans for the Presidents visit throughout the next fortnight. The meeting was described as exra-
 mely cordial, both the President and the French Premier later voicing
 their highly favorable impressons of each other As the call lasted full hour, it permitted of a conference
 over the plans for the meeting of the inter-allied conference and of the peace congress and of at least the preliminary discussion of some of the great international problems about to be taken up
 Concerning the plans, it now is ap- parent that the Presidents visit to Italy will be posponed unil the mid dle or the latter part of January, as his time meanwhile will te fully occupied in meeting the political lead CTS coming from various points, in attending the opening sessions of the inter-allied conference and the peace congress, in visits to the American front and the French and Belgium devastated regions and probably a visit to Brussels and King Albert of Belgium.
 The President will be back in Paris in the early days of January, when '. the preliminaries are likely to be so far advanced as< to permit of the opening of the peace congress about January 6.
 Paris, Dec. 16.-President Wilson delivered all address today at the
 city hall, where ceremonies had been arranged for. The President replied to the greetings extened him.
 Your greetings has raised many
 emotions in me-" the President be- gan
 Tt is with no ordinary sympathy that the people of the United States, for whom I have the privilege of speaking, have viewed the sufferings
 of the people of France. Many of
 our own people have been themselv- es witnesses of these sufferings. We were the more deeply moved by the wrongs of the war because we knew the manner in which they were per- petrated. I beg that you will not suppose that because a wide ocean separated us in space we were not
 in effect eye witnesses of the shame full ruin that was wrought, and the cruel and unnecessary sufferings that were brought upon us. These sufferings have filled our hearts with indignation. We know what they were, not only. but we know what they signified, and our hearts were touched to the quick by them, our imaginations filled with the whole picture of what France and Belgium | in particular. had experienced "When the United Staates entered the war, they entered it not only because they were moved by a con- viction that tn purposes of the Gen. tral Empires were wrong and must
 be resisted by men everywhere who
 loved liberty and the right, but also by the illicit ambitions which they
 were entertaining and attempting to
 realize had led to the practices which
 shocked our hearts as much as they
 offended our, principles.
 i Our resolution was formed be-
 cause we knew how profoundly great
 principles of right wers affected. but
 our hearts moved also without reso-
 lution
 ! You have been exceedingly geper- l ours in what you hay been gracious
 enough to say about me. generous far
 beyond my personal deserts, but you,
 have interpreted with real insight tho
 motives and resolutions of tho pao-s lle of the United states. Whatever Continued on page fourl