Republican farmer., 1919-01-17
Representatives of Allied Nations Arriving Late
 Delay Meetings, EXPECT BRITISH
 ON SATURDAY Wilson Will Give Congress Full Report of What Has Been Accomplished.

Paris, Jan. 1O-After nearly a month of waiting and pre- paratiOn, conversations which will lay the foundation of the actual peace congress are about to start. American, dele gates feel that a great deal of progress might have been made before now if a full rep reseniation of the natiops al- lied against Germany had ar rived promptly.
 The British pIenipotentiaries now are expected to arrive Saturday. As many of the principal questionsfto' bs threshed out in preliminary confer ence concern most intimately the United States, Great Britain and France, there is some hope of fair headway being made while awaiting the official announcement of the full Italian delegation and the arrival of
  Belgians will arrive next week. The first few conferences between the Am orleans. French and British will probably develop tust how much progress may be expected before President Wilson goes home next month. It is settled that whsn he reaches America, one Of his first acts will be to address Congress and give | plished. Some American diplomats here agree that the most MT. Wilson can hope to report will probably be a general undertaking of the widest sort upon a set of principles which must be left to be applied by the 1 peace congress. Physical conditions alone will probably prevent the ac- l complishment of more than this dur | ing the remaining six weeks of his stay.
 Organization work has taken the Americans a month, and even now they are only partly ready. The, French, of cougse. have their organ ization on the @ot. The British have, brought over fBom England a highly developed machine which IS virtually ready to function. The Japanese will have to organize after reaching here, as will the Belgians and other minor belIigerents.
 These preliminaries will not neces- sarily delay the informal conversa- tions, but they win hamper the work ing of group plan" conferences by which the principal belligerents ex- pect to thresh out points with inter ested neutrals, non-,belligerents or minor nations engaged in the war, and reduce their results to memo randa which are to go to the peace icongres5 for inclusion in the final set clement.
 | President Wilson's feeling. on coming to Europe as early as he did. was that all the entente governments had made their preparations to get down to talking peace. He and the 1 American commissioners have been disappointed by the delays. The American delegates are understood to feel very strongly that unless plans are made to permit the activities of peace to be resumed in warning coun- tries, the dsmobilization of their armies may bring unwelcome pro- blems
 The return of Mir. Wilson to the United States will reduce the Ameri- can delegation to four. but 1t was ex- rlaiEed today that delegations will vote as units and that the Presiden. never had intended to sit continu- cusly at the peace table.
 All the progress that has been made is since President Wilson's con- ferences with French, British and Italian statesmen. These confer ences have approached only broad prinCi es In the conversations abou. 70 begin the progress that has been made with individual countries probably will be brought into the dis cussion and general agreements | sought.