Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-12-21 | Page 13 | America-Allies Only at Opening of Conference

AMERICA-ALLIES ONLY AT OPENING OF CONFERENCE : j PARIS, Dee. 20. The opening meeting of the interallied conference will be confined con-fined to representatives of the allies and ; the United Stales, who will arrange Pr: I the formal sessions of the peace congress. , which will open toward tho middle or lat- : ter part of January. U is expected that 1 the German delegates will then be present pres-ent for the first time. Tt is pointed out Una this is-not a negotiated peace, but a. victorious pence based on virtual unconditional un-conditional surrender. The main purpose of the preliminary conference beginning early in January is to arrange a common j front for the peace congress. i For that reason the conference going on between the president and Premier Orlando Or-lando of Italy, and Inter with Premier. I.lovd George in London, have an important im-portant bearing on this preliminary adjustment. ad-justment. president Wilson In addition to the conferences con-ferences lie had today with Italian statesmen, states-men, also conferred with C'aptain Andre Tardieu, French high commissioner to the United States, with whom he discussed relief work in France and economic questions, ques-tions, including shipping. It Is known that the French government is eager to place largo shipbuilding contracts in American yards.