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Show PRESIDENT BEGINS JOURNEHO FRANCE EXPECTS TO BE ABROAD NOT MORE THAN 8IX WEEKS, ACCORDING TO PLANS. ..r- Party Sailed From New York onTue-. day and Expects to Reach -Brest In About Seven Days. Washington. President Wilson on Tuesday, December ii, began his trip to Buropo to attend tho peuco conferi encc. Tho president left Washington' on a special train for New York, whoro ho and his party boarded tho transport Gcorgo Washington, on which tho voy-ago voy-ago acro&a tho Atlantic Is being mado. About seven days will bo required for the trip und tho dilp' will dock at a French port, presumably Brest. Tho president does not expect to' bo abroad for more than six weeks, which would give him Just n month, on European soli, Ucforu the peuco conference con-ference meets ho will confer with Premiers Pre-miers Lloyd Gcorgo of Great -Urltuln, Clcmonceuu of Fnuico nnd Orlando of Ituly, and probably wIUi King Albert of Belgium, us to tho salient points of tho penco trcuty. While lu Europe, Mr. Wilson plans to visit England and Ituly ns well' ns France, and ho may go.tol)russcls.--IIo also Is understood to Intend to make it pilgrimage to somo of tho battlefields In Franco. Joseph P. Tumult', thp president's sccrctury, accompanied Mr. Wilson to New York, but did not go aboard. Ho lias returned to Washington to conduct tlio business of tho Whlto House and will bo thu eyes' nnd ears of tho president presi-dent In this country. Mr. Tumulty win bo In frequent communication with the president by cable and will keep him Cully advised of events at home. Only threo of tho flvo American representatives rep-resentatives to tho penco conference lis announced lit tho Whlto House will cross with the president They uro tlio president himself, Secrctnry of Stato Jlobcrt Lansing und Henry White, former for-mer ambassador to Franco nnd Italy, Colonel E. M. nouse and General Tanker Tan-ker IL Illlss, tho other two members, nru In Franco und will Join tho president presi-dent thore. |
