New-York tribune., 1919-02-15
Wilson Starts
Home; Leaves
Brest To.da,
President Poincare sav.
Goodby at Station as
Americans Leave Pari.
Ships Ready for Trim
Returning Troops Will A..
company Executive On
Liner George Washington

PARIS. ~. 1a.-psesfaent wil..,
left the Mulst Mansion at 9:o5 o,cla'a isSa
this evening for the Invalidcs ststioa
on the first stage of his Journey bon.
The President was escorted by ds
tachment of the Republican Cusr.
Early in the evening the Presidor,
dined alone with Mrs. Wilson.
Prior to his departure Colon.
House and Secretary of State Ians;ra
called at the Murat Mansion to hid ~
Executive farewell.
President Poincare was at the s..
ton to bid him goodby.
Mr.. Wilson is being accompanied -
Brest by Georges Leygues, French Mn
ister of Marine; Capt. Andre Tardion
French High Commissioner to tb'
United States, and Jules j. Jusserana
French Ambassador to the United
States.
The President viii sail tomorrow an
the liner George Washington, on which
he came to France. This time the party
will be much reduced, she large stat
of State Department employees and M.
merous experts who came over win
Mr. Wilson remaining in Paris.
The party cimprises President and
Mrs. Wilson, David r. Francis. Am.
bassador to Russia; White House
employees, Secret Service men. the soa
soldiers who have formed the guar
around the Murat residence, Repre-.
sentativcs George White, of Ohio, and
P. d. Norton, Of North Dakota, and
representative of three news associs.
tions. 1t numbers 319 persons.
Fighters to Return
All the accommodations Of the liner
will be utilized, however. for, not ONLY
will every cabin and statcroom be
occupied, but the vast hold will be
filled with several thousand Ameri-
can soldiers who have seen service
in France and who are going home
to demoDilization camps.
The agreement on the constitution
for society of nations by the CON,
mission which has been training the
plan was effected on President Vii
sons lucky day-the thirteenth-and
there are just twice thirteen articles
IN the document.
President Wilson arrived at the
Hotel de Crillon at 10 o'clock this
morning and Immediately called a
meeting of the American Peace Dele
cation. He addressed the meeting and
went over with the other delegates the
ground already covered and discussed
their attitude during his absence in
the United States.
BREST, Feb. IA BY the Associsa3
Press Advancement were compaa
this evening for the departure Of
President Wilson Tomorrow
Vessels Ready fer Trip
The steamer George Washington
moved into the outer harbor this aft
ernoon and ali On board were awaiting
the arrival Of the President. The mem
bers of the 9th Engineers and the
10th Machine Gun Battalion looked
over the railing of the vessel all day
In the expectation that President W.
son might show up. A gift of china
presented by the city Of Brest and it.
environs, was received aboard the YES.
sci this afternoon. 1t is still un-
packed.
Admiral Wilson's flagship, the New
Mexico, lies ready for the voyage close
to the George Washington Both yes
sells are the last word in cleanliness
President Wilson's reception at Bresi
/ will be in the hands or the French
naval authorities, who viii receive hiT
at the Brest Arsenal The president
and his immediate party viii then o'
transported on gunboat 20 IN
George Washington amid a salute O.
twenty-one guns.
LONDON, Feb. IA British Wireles
Servlce). The commission dealing VIII
international control of ports, railway
and waterways has begun work on tn
basis of a draft prepared by Gres
Britain, according to The Daily Mall
THE commission on ports railway
and waterways" the newspaper say
has appointed two subcommittee on
VI "llCu SdI LOT tUe lilHt tilHe ~ -
to devise a scheme TO provide FOR ire
passage of foods via canals and raj
ways throughout one state TO anotne
which may have no access to the sea.
Before the war Austria had TO max
it condition of carrying emigrsn
traffic en- route TO the United State
that it should go by the Bamburg
American Line. The commission pr
poses to sweep away all restriction
of this nature. At first il was sag
gested that certain canals and railway
should be placed under irternaticne
control, but Great Britain regards I'M
plan as unworkable.
The second subcommittee VIII aes
with special aspects Of transit al
navigation"