Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-13

pected that formal notices will be
issued convoking the conference, as.
signing delegations for each country
and fixing of the hours of meeting
Yesterdays council ushered in the
long awaited meeting of the peace
delegates.
The Wilson's Go to Church
President Wilson, Mrs. Wilson and
Miss Margaret Wilson yesterday at
tended services in Holy Trinity Epis.
copal Church in the Avenue George
V. The Rev. Charles III. Brent, for
mer bishop of the Philippine Islands
officiated. A large crowd outside the
church cheered President Wilson as
he was leaving the edifice.
President Wilson went to the head
quarters of the American mission al
o'clock on Saturday afternoon and
remained in conference with the
American peace delegates for nearly
two hours.
President Wilson also had a con-
ference on Saturday with II. P. Da-
vison, of the American Red Cross, 10
discuss plan for the internationally
zation of the Red Cross. Numerous
questions relating to the proposal to
put the organization under one head
for reasons of efficiency were dis
cussed.
Premier Orlando. of Italy. left for
Rome yesterday. He will return
Thursday or Friday.
Ready to Help Poland
America has informed the allied
governments, according to the
Temps, that 1t is ready to send an
American expeditionary corps to
Poland. This force, the newspaper
states would be able to "at least
double the support given by two Po-
lish divisions to be sent from the
western front and enable the Poles
to VIGOROUSLY resist the Bolshe-
visits"
The newspaper says it is "indis-
pensable that the two Polish divisions
now In France should be sent to Po-
land and be supported by a certain
number of allied detachments which
would be able to occupy the railroad
from Danzig to Thorn, thus MAIN
tanning communications with the
west"
To Link Africa and Arabia
In outlining some of the chief ter
ritorial problems before the peace
conference the Matin says that Great
Britain, in addition to her colonial
claims, will seek to link up her
African colonies with India by pro-
tectorate over consenting Arab
states.
After the principle of the League
of Nations has been discussed, ac-
cording to the Echo de Paris, the
future internationalization of the
Rhine will be taken up.
Wilson Selects Experts
President Wilson has selected FIVE
men connected with the American
mission recognized experts in inter-
national law, to draw up a tentative
plan for a league of nations which
he could compare with his own ideas.
Out of the whole, it was hoped to
frame some concrete proposition rep
resenting the best ideas of the
American delegation. These men
have not finished their work.
Bryan Plan Figures in Peace
When the present peace congress
gets under way, it probably will be
found that much of the structure of
the second Hague conference will
be utilized, and that with this will
be coupled the plan of William ].
Bryan calling for years investiga-
tion of disputes before q declaration
of war. This latter feature is one of
the definite things that Mr. Wilson
is understood to have in mind. Amer
lean international lawyers are con-
vinced that the great battle of wits
will come in the discussion of what
ever machinery is proposed to lessen
the probability of war. Not all of
them believe the result of this peace
congress will make war impossible,
but they are sanguine that it will
make armed conflicts more difficult.
1t is still unsettled what nations will
be represented or how many dele
gates will be allotted to each. 1t has
developed, however, that China will
not be represented by Japan, but will
have her own delegation.
Efforts of the French press to
bring to the fore the question OF the
status of Entente and American
troops in Russia and the advisa bility
of sending such troops into Poland
to check the Bolshevik advance, it is
have been without sue
cess so far. The United States, it is
said, will not consent to accept in
principle or as a military policy the
task of using American forces in
Poland at all or in Russia in larger
than already are employed.
Geneva, Jan. 13.-The necessity
that Germany and Austria, for their
own sakes, maintain order while the
peace conference is in session, is
by Gustave Ador, presi-