Show COL HOUSE CREATES FINE IMPRESSION ABROAD i. i J PARIS Feb 2 Colonel Colonel House called at the foreign office and had a long talk with Jules Cambon general undersecretary to the foreign mi ministry JC ity The Paris press comments upon the discretion of Col E E. E M. M House which which is described as being impenetrable and admirable The Excelsior pub publishes an article on Colonel House and uses as as an illustration illustration illustration illus illus- for It t a composite photograph of the colon colonel l and the sphinx It heads the article A Sphinx in hi a Soft Hat It says that the most experienced in interviewers interviewers in- in tei admit t that at Mr ir Wilsons envoy envoy envoy en en- voy has baffled them as as y had never nev er j before been baffled All AU of them had asked him to confirm or deny the phrase attributed attributed to him by the BerlIner Berliner Ber Ber- I liner Uner to the et effect ct that his his love Jove for Germany grows grow grea greater er every time he visits dt The questioners ob- ob tamed no satisfaction but brt b t that view yiew yiew of their own experience th they y do not b believe for a moment that h he committed commit commit- ted himself to that extent i A A. ic the foreign editor of ot the Figaro says Colonel lIou House e. e is certainly not and does not seem to care for useless discourses Urs s. s This short slender unsmiling man is a lover loyer of silence He answers by Jy y monosyllables and I doubt whether he Ire pronounced to any German journalist a phrase so long as es s that attributed to him by the Berliner Colonel House has too high highan an idea of ot the confidential mission in in- in trusted to him by his friend President Wilson to take the trouble to deny such idle talk tan As he has only visited the capitals of the belligerent nations most directly interested in the questions questions questions ques ques- of the blockade and submarine I warfare one would not be far wrong in In- believing that those questions form the principal objects of his Journey That he did not go to Vienna and that he is in a hurry to return to America may be due dua to the fact tact that the Lust Lusi- tania situation has been growing more acute |