The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-01-14
OF
NATIONS TO
COME FIRST
AT MEETING
Russia May be Represented at
First Formal Session of
Peace Conference to be
Held Wednesday.
ARMISTICE EXTENSION
tBy Associated rress,

PARIS. Jan. 14.-Russia may be
represented. together with all the ma
tions that were engaged in the war
against Germany, at the first formal
meeting of the peace conference.
Whether Russia will have present at
that time a delegation Of prominent
Russians. irrespective of party, or
other spokesman. II any, probably will
be decided at the next meeting pre-
liminary to the congress. This will
be held tomorrow because of the open
ing of the session of the French par
Lament today.
All the delegations with the excep-
tion of the French, which will be oc-
cupied with parliamentary affairs,
will employ their time in preparations
for Wednesdays meeting. President
Wilson planned to engage in series
of informal conferences with British
and French representatives.
The first question to come up be-
fore the actual peace conference will
be that of the proposed league of ma
tions and it was made know today that
it had been planned for the confer
ees to devote twelve hours daily to
this work if necessary, until it is Oh
| reason for believing that the first
plans for the structure OF league of
nations to be laid before the confer
ence probably will be somewhat COM
| posite. representatives of a concensus
of opinion on the part of the Ameri-
can, British and French statesmen
who have been discussing the sub
ject. 1t will not purport to be fin
ished1 product, but is intended to serve
as starting point for development.
Foeh Meets Delegates.
Marshal Foch. the allied comman-
der-in-chief, is today on the way to his
headquarters at Treves to meet the
German delegates and lay down terms
for ahe eItention of the armistice.
There was some disposition during
1 iyesaerdays conferences to make the
4 terms OF the extensions more drS&d
than had at first been proposed, but
this was not carried out.
The extension. however. provides
for the turning over of the German
commercial fleet to transport troops,
in exchange for food; for the restitu-
tion of material taken from France and
Belgium and for full compliance with
4 the terms Of the original armistice.
A start has been made on the ma
lCuluCIy lulOu6u thC <AmClISdh
republic will learn of the doings OF
the peace conference. Hitherto the
French and the British press had ac-
cess to much more informa tion than
the press representatives from the
United States. The British and
French had also been issuing their
own official communiques regarding
the meeting. 1t now has been decided
to issue joint communique, prepared
by a committee representing all the
nations, this to be the sole official
outgiving. President Wilson has also
decided to communicate with the rep.
resentatives of the American news.
papers, of which there are more than
100 in Paris, through the medium of a
publicity agent. Ray Stannard Baker
a former magazine writer, has been
selected as the agent.
Baker to Give News.
The plan as announced today is
for President Wilson or some member
, Of the American mission to cQmmuni
, cate to Mr.. Baker such details of the
proceedings as were not embraced in
J the communicates and which the presi
, dent desires to make public. Mr.. Bak
er conveying the information to the
correspondents. The correspondents
: will not have original contact with the
source of information.
The faction in Luxembourg which
proclaimed the establishment of a re
!. public there has decided to send ar
> official delegation to Paris, according
to the Journal Des Debats. The news
. paper adds that the movement favor
able to the annexation of Luxembourg
to France is growing stronger anG
ha dol 70 hA h4r
will be entrusted with propose
), along that line to the French govern
ment.