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Show polished Tommies and newly-uniformed pollua. Admirals Itenaon and Hlma, with their staffs, walked to ihe French admiralty building today, unrecognized by the crowds. Field Marshal llalg, accompanied by a Blngle aide, took a promenade on the Champs Elyseea and the Place de la Concorde, among the German trophies, where Bmall hoys play about the huge guns. He was not recognized by the crowds, hut was aaluted by every soldier wit h a Medal snap. General rill as, the ranking American officer, came In from Versailles, shook hands with the reporters and hud a Jovial rhal with them. NOTABLE LEADERS NOW IN PARIS FOR HISTORIC MEETING (By a Staff Correspondent of the Universal Uni-versal Service, Copyright.) PARIS, Oct. 30. Publication here today to-day of a list of the allied leaders conferring con-ferring In Parts permits a description of the most remarkable, most momentous gathering In hlBtory. In the corridors of one tourist hotel could be seen thia morning Field Marshal Sir Douglas Halg, able to hurl millions of men into battle; Admirals Itenaon and Slma, commanding thousands of warships, and, not far from these. Sir Eric Geddes, commanding other thousands. Then there was another group of men Georges Clcmenceau, the "tlster," France'a aged but ever youthful premier; David IToyd George, the British prime minister, who rose to that eminent position from very humble place In life; the staid and aristocratic Baron Honnln Italy's spokesman, and despite his blue blood aj true a spokesman of democracy's cause as any of his conferees; and. last, though by no means leaat, Colonel F.. M. ROttsei President Wilson's and America's representative. rep-resentative. Tho.'te Olympians, enmhlnlng in their persons the economic and dlPlomj tic power of the world except central Ku-rope, Ku-rope, move about unheralded. No pomp and circumstance ma rk their dnlnirw. About thern there Is nothing of the heroic-field doth and gold lace of Ihe fisrhtlng zone. They ride to their battlefield battle-field In red limousines, 0 1 1 ended by trim Amerlenn Jackles rind doughboys, hraan- |