Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-01-15
BAR FL|RTAT|0NS
BY BRITISH GIRLS
ON PEACE MISSION
Government Buys Their GAR
nentS, but Detectives Will
See That Paris Attractions
Do Not Keep Them Out Late
BY James VI. Tuohy.
Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publish
inc On

lHS W.
(The New York WORLDLY
Especial Gable Dispatch to the World
and Albuquerque Journal)
Paris, Jan. 14.--Premier Lloyd
Georges arrival in Paris, which was
arranged for today, is delayed be-
cause of the difficulties attending de-
motllization in England. Lloyd
George cannot attend the preliminary
meeting here until Sunday.
All the permanent chiefs OF the
British foreign office are at the Ho-
tel Majestic now, and Foreign Score
tary Balfour is expected today from
Cannes where he has been resting
The huge staff of secretaries, trans
lators, stenographers and other minor
attaches of the British peace mission
are already at work in the Majestic
and in the adjoining Hotel Astoria,
which is given up entirely to offices.
for the officials are living at the Ma
jestic.
Expect Long Stay.
That their residence here is expect
ed to be of considerable duration is
clearly indicated by the fact that the
women attached to the staff, before
leaving London, were provided by the
thoughtful government with a sub
stantiai bonus with which to buy
clothes the sums ranging from r25
to ESQ (Sl25 to 5000 each, according
TO the standing of the recipient in the
official hierarchy
The clothes were bought in London.
These women are under strict sur
veillance as to their goings and com
inUg in Ia yic Thnx, 4
leave their hotel only in parties f
three and to report again at fixed
hour. Seemingly the English idea is
that for them--and many of them are
exceedingly attractive--two is com
pany, but three is safety. They are
not permitted to visit friends here UNI
I'll the most exhaustive information as
to the standing associations and poll
tees of those friends has been OBJ
tanned by British secret service agents.
of whom the most experienced and
important are in charge of the Hotels
Majestic and Astoria. They are under
the direction of Basil Thompson as
sistant commissioner OF police of
London and chief of the British Sc
cret service.
Chief Spy in Charge.
Basil Thompson is a son of the late
Archbishop of York and is an ex-
treme!y able and versatile officer,
whose high reputation has been
greatly enhanced by his handling of
delicate espionage Inquiries during the
war
1t was stated in these dispatches a
week ago that the desire for quick
demobilization among the men of all
the allied armies would prove the
most powerful lever in quickening the
pace of the peace negotiations. The
results of the undue delay in beginn-
ing the negotiations are becoming in
creasingly apparent. and as they grow
more serious there is growing, too a
fierce demand, both in England and
France, that the responsibility for that
delay should be fixed. According to
one report Lord Curzon, now acting
as Balfour's deputy in the British
foreign office, turned down Premier
Clemenceau's request that the peace
conference be summoned soon after
the armistice was signed. According
to another report the delay was due
to the unreadiness of the French gov
eminent to begin the work of the con-
ference This indisposton it is sug-
gested was inspired by the expecta-.
tons that, after the lapse of few
weeks, the condition of Germany