PEACE CONFERENCE.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16411, 3 January 1919, Page 7

PEACE CONFERENCE.

WILSON STANDS TO HIS PRINCIPLES. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Australian and X.Z. Cable Association.) (Received January 2nd, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, January 1. The Paris correspondent of the United Press Association says:—"l can state on the highest authority that President Wilsun, in conference with tho Allied Premiers, lias nob given up a single one of his fourteen principles. It is certain he will not abandon his interpretation of the freedom of the seas." (Received January 2nd, 10.10 p.m.) NEW YORK, January 2. The <f New York Herald's" Paris correspondent states: "I learn on indisputable authority that the United States will ho the trustee for Palestine, Arabia, Asiatic Turkey, and Syria, unless she rejects tho responsibility." PRESIDENT WILSON. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received January 2nd, 7.45 p.m.) NEW YORK, January 1. The Rome correspondent of tho United Press Association states that it is semi-officially announced that President Wilson will visit Naples, Florence, Venice, and probably Milan.

THE BRITISH DELEGATION. (Received January 2nd, 7.45 p.m.) VANCOUVER, January 1. It is announced that the following have been selected as part of the British delegation:—Lord Hardinge, permanent Under-secrotary to the Foreign Oifice; Sir William Tyrrell, one of the senior clerks in the Foroign Office; Sir Louis Mallet, ex-Ambassador to Turkey; Sir Esme Howard, British Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Sweden; Sir Ralph Paget, British Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Denmark; and Sir Eyre Crowe, assistant Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs.

A SATISFACTORY AGREEMENT. (Reuter, via Aneriot.) (Received January 3rd, 1.10 a.m.) LONDON, January 1. The "Evening News" says that President Wilson has sent a message to Vice-President Marshall assuring the people of the United States that he has arrived at a satisfactory agreement with France and Britain in the arrangement of tho preliminary peaco deliberations. CONFERENCE OPENS ON JANUARY 30. LONDON, January 1. Tho "Pall Mall Gazette" says that the Peace Conference opens on January 30th.