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Show FRENCH TO SELECT SITE Distinguished Delegation Delega-tion Leaves for San Francisco t o Investigate Investi-gate Conditions Regarding Re-garding Exhibits at the Panama - Pacific Fair Pans Aug. 23 The French government govern-ment todav sent a delegation to San Francisco to take possession of a site on the grounds of the Panama Pacific exposition for the French paalion. The delegation is composed of M. ' Tlrman director of expositions of the! ministry of commerce; G. Roger San dox, general secretary of the French foreign exposition association M. Pellerin de la Touche, administrator of the French-Trans-AUantic Steam-j Steam-j ship lines, and M Savy, one of the! government architects. The commission left Havre today ; for N'ew York on the Province and I will be Joined at San Francisco by j the French consul general .here, Henri A J, Merou. The members I will report to their government on a : ariety of questions relating to the ! exposition and especially wjth re- gard to the protectJon of designs among the Kreneh exhibits, and to I false labeling as French productions of Imitations made in the I'uited I States. While the French government has definitely decided to take part in the exposition, the extent of the exhibits i and their variety, beauy aud value ; will depend largely on the report of this delegation. The French ministry of commerce today issued a noto concerning tho I Panama Pacific exposition in which it is said that although France uas the first nation officially to accept the m vltation to participate at Ran Fran Cisco and that this was much appreciated appre-ciated in the United States, French Industrial and commercial houses feel they cannot participate on the large scaie they would desire without h.i ing udequale protection for their proprietary pro-prietary rights in mark6 and indica tions of the place of manufacture |