Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-01-18
HORSE SHOE TABLE WILL
 FORM TODAY
Scene Is Set For Opening of Peace Conference at Three O'Clock Today.

Paris, Jan. 17.-(By The Associate. Press. )-Scene is set for the opening of the peace conference at 3 .o'clocl tomorrow afternoon with the 1r1pres sye ceremony befitting such an event full occasion. The final details were concluded tonight at meeting o1 the supreme council, which completed it's labors and adjourned for the in auguration of the larger body tomor. row.
 The Secretariat of the congress dur ling the evening completed the officia Hist of the delegates. It includes 6 distinguished array of leading public figures from every section of the civ ilized globe and in personnel and ii the interests represented it embraces probably one of the most notable gatherings of statesmen the worla has ever seen.
 The final preparations were con- cluded today in the beautiful Hall de La Paix, at the foreign office, where the congress will meet, and the greer table now awaits it's guests. The open ling tomorrow of the congress will be Ia ceremonial function, the leaders making their first bows, the delegates exchanging salutations, and the re- publican guard, in gorgeous uniforms. Lending color to the scene.
 When the delegates are installed around the great horseshoe confer ence table, Raymond oPincare, Presi- dent of France, will make his entry in- to the hall with an escort of Premiers, land take his place in the presiding of ficers' chair at the head of the table
 The opening address of M. Poin- care in welcoming the conference to Paris will sound the glories of the war just won and tell of the momen- tous work of reconstruction entrusted to the' congress.
 It is probable that President Poin- carels greetings will call for some res ponse on behalf of the federation representatives in which case Presi- dent Wilson may address the gather ing for the United States ~and al lthe other countries represented.
 With the conclusion of M Poincair' s address and the response to it, the session of the congress viii be de- clared to be open and Premier Clem- enceau will take the presiding off gers chair as head of the French delegation. Such address as M Cemenceau will make will be brief ana mainly in the nature of an initia- ton of the procedure of the con- gress, such as the selc1tion of off. cers-chair, vice-chairman and gen eral secretary. o
 The report of the supreme council on the rules governing the congress wliI then be presented. These were elaDorated at the sessions concluded tomght. It is expected that they wlii be approved without discussion ana then made public. This and possibly some further adjustments ir tne representations of the smaller countries probably will embrace all ane work to be undertaken at the openlng ceremony, and the main is. sues @ Will await the business sessions.
 me announcement made tonight tnat the supreme council had decided sosuay to admit three representatives M 1ne press of each of the allied and associated powers to the full meet ngs of the conference was received as I an suspicious augury.
 me following official communica. s,on dealing with the peace conferen. ce .w was issued this evening:
 oe the President of the United States america, the Prime Ministers and neg nvlelgn Ministers of the allied great bos", bbowers, assisted by the Japanese Am oessaoors oe sS in Paris and London, met as me Quai Dorsey today, in the morning from 10: 30 a. m, to 12:3O D to n' s ana aa Tn the afternoon from 3 D. m o;, The French President of the Coun. os of read out the terms of the renewal VI .M the armistice.
 cr. me meeting decided to give Bel. st sui. ana Serbia three delegates eacl sls. 'ne conference. It was decided shov,5h stsv 5hat the King of the Hedjas es DTia TI De represented by two delegat eatas DO ane question of the number of dele. was f;nnu ,or the various powers thus "ss 1rl lLlnally established.
 confon fme programme for the opening o' the f.ence, foe, which will take place al o,cloaalD alDrelgn office tomorrow at wsSS SA Tn the afternoon was after "aars ..Ms arranged. to tba ine meeting finally examined in giyen +a question of the publicity to bs ence so the discussion of the confer followa;nnao ana unanimously approved th' press text to be handed to thu powara'h III the name of the five grea ->~e.He ->~.HSsrrep representatives of the allied cohtinued on page five) N0TINN