CONDUCT OF THE WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 March 1916, Page 5

CONDUCT OF THE WAR.

if • '•*=——< GREAT ALLIES' CONFERENCE. v WORK OF SUPREME IMPORTANCE. / ECONOMIC WAB QUESTION. Received March 28, 9.35 p.m. Paris, March 27. .The great council of all the Allies Opened amidst intense interest. It is teipected the conference will evolve co-1 ordinated plans, supreme plans, and plans of supreme importance in respect of/the future operations. At the conclusion of "the Paris conference Mr. Asquith goes to Borne, where there will fie a further conference next week. Possibly Mr. XAoyd George will accompany .10m. " /, The Daily Telegraph Paris correspondent eiys the historic conference was opened nt the Quai d'Orsay, in the same room in which the Congress of Paris sat in 1856. It is understood the conferenfle provisionally considers an economic waf, thus laying down the hroad lines ipt a purely economic conference next month. Reecived March 28, 950 p.m. Paris, March 28. Thirty-seven delegates, representing eight nations, are participating in the J»ar congress.

MR. BONAR LAW TO ATTEND. London, March 27. It is understood that Mr. Bonar Law, i Secretary for the Colonies, will be a delegate to the Paris Conference, in view of the interest overseas in the complex questions to lie discussed.