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Show ! AMERICANS TAKE I OVER PARIS HOTELS FOR CONFERENCE ' By CAROLYN WILSON. : (New York TImes-Chi;v-:o Tribune Cable. Copyright. i PARTS, Nov, Considerable surprise 1 is beinc manifestri at the length of time , f-T whieh the Americans have requisitioned requisi-tioned Paris hotels and houses for t're pca.-e conference. lintel i'rii:on, which i is o:ie of tiie t!':r'e most impnrtant ho: els in Far'?, has been taken by the American Government for ;l !e:t?e of one '-.u at a i rental of J piii.ti 'fi. which cert.timv takes I t lie st in it out of the word "rei 1 1 i is it ion." 1 Nevertheless, the hotel is extreme. y np-j np-j set a t t h c tended lenc t h o:" time, hav-' hav-' ing in i..d the loss of clientele as wed as of pollu employees they have promised to find work for after the war. The hotel can accommodate 400 guests, but evidently evi-dently the American peace delegates will outnumber that, as other arrangements are being made. The bureau of public information is taking an enormous, furnished mansion at Versailles and enlarging its quarter's in Paris. It is understood that hundreds of employees of this bureau are soon slated to arrive in Europe, and that, working with an entente propaganda bureau bu-reau to be placed in all the cities of Europe, Eu-rope, will form enormous press bureaus for American newspapers. Mrs. Whitehouso, head of the Swiss bureau, bu-reau, has resigned and will return shortly to America. |