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Show LEADING STATESMEN COIIKGMfflQL EYES OF THE WORLD ARE TURN- ED ON WASHINGTON TO 8EE WHO WILL DE DELEGATES Great Britain, France and Italy Havo Announced Their Delegation to ParUy on Limitation to bo Held In Washington l'rom Great Urltaln, France and Italy Thursday came either offlclal or authoritative au-thoritative announcements regarding their delegations to the limitation of armaments conference In Washington next month. KWdence of Increased European Interest In-terest hi the conference nnd of the Importance attuched to Its discussions was seen In the decision of Lloyd Cieorge to attend personally, contrary to expectations, and hi tho ofllclal announcement that Premier Hrlnnd would head France's delegation. Italy named three of Its most prominent statesmen, and announced plans for the sending cf army, navy and aerial advisers. Urltaln wns cheered by the report thnt Lloyd George was going to Washington. Wash-ington. It was reported King George had Influenced the pTemler to rench this decision. Tho uppolntmcnt of Lord Lee as another of the Urltlsh delegates was also continued. Following Is a list of the delegations, certain or tentative: Great Britain (probablo David Lloyd George, premier, probable; Arthur Ar-thur James Ilalfour, appointed; Lord Lee, appointed; Geoerge I'enrce, Aus. tralla, appointed; W. F. Massey, premier prem-ier of New Zealand, nnd Sir Itohert Itorden, Cnuada. One of tho latter will probably be appointed. The Urltlsh delegation will have six members. France (oftlclul) Premier Arlstlde Hrlnnd, lleno Vivian!, former premier; Admiral Sarrnut, Ambassador Jusser-nnd. Jusser-nnd. Italy (probable) Dr. Schnnor, Uo-null Uo-null Iilccl, ambassador to Washington; Washing-ton; Aluertlnl Jleda, delegate to league of nations, Jupan has appointed her delegates as follows: Ambassador Sludehara, Huron Admiral Kato, Prlnco Togunwa, president of tho Japanese house of peers. Others may he appointed. China's delegation : Dr. W. W. Yen, chief; Chow Tsetshl, former minister of finance; Wang Tn Slileh, loader of the Progressive party; Dr. M.T. Liang, former foreign minister. London Great Urltnln's represeiita tlve at the approaching Washington conforenco was given considerable proinlnenco by Thursday morning's now -papers here, some of thorn manifesting mani-festing belief that Prime Minister Llojd George, nfter all. might go to tho meeting. meet-ing. One newspaper went so far ns to pay It was probablo he would sail on November 5, and would he absent from Lngland for six weeks. Tho Dally Mall reasserted Mr. Lloyd George would cross the Atlantic if the negotiations with Ireland weie suf-!irlpntl suf-!irlpntl advanced. 'IK majority of the Urltlsh delega-i.jii delega-i.jii will leave "or America on Novom t.er ,r,, It was declared by the 'Iinios, which said that In well Informed quur-er quur-er there were fears thnt such n late sailing dale might prevent the delegation delega-tion from nltemllng tho oponlng sitting if the conference. |