The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-18

the delegates. 1t includes distinguished
 array of leading public figures from
 every section of the civilized globe. and
 sented it embraces probably one of the
 most notable gatherings of statesmen the
 world ever has seen.
 The final preparations were concluded
 today in tile beautiful Hall De La Paix,
 at the foreign office, where the congress
 will meet and the green table now awaits
 it's guests. The opening tomorrow of the
 congress will be ceremonial function,
 the leaders making their first bows, the
 delegates exchanging sasuIations and the republica guard. in gorgeous uniforms.
 lending color to the scene When the delegates are installed around
 the great horseshoe conference table,
 Raymond Poincare, President of France,
 will make his entry into the hall with
 an escort of premiers and take his place
 in the presiding officers chair at the head
 of the table.
 The opening address of NJ. Poincare in
 welcoming the congress to Paris will
 sound the gores of the war just won
 and tell of the momentous work of re-
 reconstruction entrusted to the congress
 MAY DELIVER ADDRESS
 It is probable that President Poin-
 cares greetings will call for some re- sponse on behalf of the foreign rep resentatives, in which case President Wilson may address the gathering for the United States and all the other countries represented. With the conclusion of NJ. Poincarc { address and the response to it. the ses- sion of the congress will be declared to be open and Premier Clemenceau will take the presiding officers chair as head of the French delegation. Such addresses as M. Clemenceau will make will be brief and mainly in the nature of an initiation of the procedure of the congress. such as the selection of of ficers--chairman. vice chairman and general secretary.
 The report of the supreme coundil on the rules governing the congress will then be presented. These were elaborated at the sessions concluded to- night. It is expected that they will be approved without discussion, and then made public. This and possibly some further adjustments in the represents tions of the smaller countries probably will embrace all the work to be un- { dertaken at the opening ceremony, and the main issues will await the business 1 sessions.
 i The announcement made tonight that 1 the supreme council had decided today 1 to admit representatives of the press of the allied and associated powers to 1 the full meetings of the conference was received as an suspicious augury on the I eve of the assembling of the congress. List of Delegates The official list of the delegates may not be given out tonight. but it's com position is known in the main. as fo- lows:
 France: Georges Clemcn ceau. primo minister: Stepho., F'tchoe. foreign rntn;-- | ter; Louis Klotz. finance minister: Andra Tardieu. French high commissioner to the United States. and Jules Cambon. l Great Britain: David Lloyd George. prime L.luis:el-: Arthur J. Balfour for eign secrctarr: Andrew Bonar-Law, lord privy seal; George Nicol Barnes. ths labor leader, and anothar alternate dele- gate.
 United States: woodrow Wilson, Pres- ident of the United States: Robert IAAs- sing, secretary of stAto: Henry Whl4aI Col Edward M. House. and Gen. Tasker Fl. Bliss.
 Italy vittorio Orlando. prime minister: , Baron Connino fcrrAgn ministrr. Antonio 1 Salandra, former preE1iAr: tho .Jarpuis Salvage Ragi. who has rssiKuod with other mem:.ers of the Italia, cabinet. Japan: The Marquis Saionji. former prime m.ntster: RAraa Makino. Baron Cninda, Baron Matsiit and Count Haya2hi
 Br.xii: Senator Epitacio Pessoa, Dr. f-andia Calorcras. and pnvcty Raoul IFernAndess t.H Belgium: Paul Hymans. minister of foreign affairs; Emile Vandervelde. and M. vanden Heuvel.
 Serbian Nikola Pachitch. foryner pF1uss minister, and M. TrumhltcA fsrmar president of the DAlmAftAn 1Hss. whs w0 alternate with pr. A- . vsa1l1at ~ bian minister to France. s~< 1 NahaA Greece: Eiipthsssos vaHsv~A~ 0uniso and M Politis. foreign mJntsk0 Rumania: NJ. BrstiAnA Drfsse minister. and M. M:shr.
 Czecho-Slovakia: Dr. Kass Kramaxx premier. and M. Benes. tss eigu ministsr. Poland: M. Dmowski. Polish represen- tative to the allied governments. and . second delegate representing General Pill sudski.
 China: Incheng- -Hsiang, foreign minis- ter. and one other.
 l Canada. Sir Robert Borden. prassAafy
 Sir George Foster. minister of essAs an1 commerce. with others of the dsasGnx1sn alternating.
 Australia: William Morris FIughss pre- mier. and one other.
 | South African Republic: GensFAl Louis Gotha and General Jan c. Smu1A I India: The Maharajah of Bikaner and i Sir S. P. SInha-
 Siam; M Charoon. minister to France. and one other.
 New Zealand: William F. Massey. prs-
 mier. S
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