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Show COLONEL MOUSE AGAINJN PUBIS Rumor Busy Explaining Sudden Shift in Texan's Return Plans. i BY HENRY WALES. j (Chieasro Tribune Cable. Copyright.) 1 PARIS. Sept. 11. Colonel House haB returned to Paris, but Undersecretary Polk continues to head the American peace commipslon. Colonel I buse expected ex-pected to leave England yesterday for America, but canceled his steamship passage several days ago following" re- celpt of caKed Instructions from President Presi-dent Wilson. ' The American commission here only just learned that Colonel House was or-df or-df red tr Paris and now the Hotei 1 e Crillon management is scurrying around rrylng" to Ret a suite for the colonel, ua Mr. Polk occupies the room he had before. be-fore. Mr. Polk explained today that the return re-turn of Mr. House had no special significance, sig-nificance, as he had finished the work i he has been doing" i:i Kngland and was unabl to proceed orfrar.ixing legations, i as uriemnliy planned. However. It Is we'! known here that Colonel House 1 -.-.'hed to pet back to the United Stares , in September and said so often during , the peflie conference. In certain quarters it is intimated Colonel House is coming back following Mr. Polk a friction with foreign powers. Darticu'arly regarding the Rumanian and i Hungarian affairs, and that Mr. Polk's acceptance of the deal granting east Thrace to Greece also caused a commotion commo-tion at "Washing-ton. resulting in the president cabling he stood pat on his orleinai position that all Thrace be Internationalized. Inter-nationalized. Thooe familiar with Colonel House's work in Paris believe he is best fitted to represent the United States, as he always al-ways worked smoothly with the foreign diplomats. In fact, during the president's presi-dent's visit to the United States last spring Colonel House managed to speed up the conference remarkably, although it slowed down when the president returned re-turned and peace making was transferred trans-ferred to the organizing of the league of nations. |