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Show oo PEACEDELEGATES MEET IN BERNE Large Number Expected From United States- Subscriptions Sent to Defray Expenses. Berne, Nov. 12, via Paris, 1:05 a. m. The committee which Is meeting hero to organize, a committoe to study bases of durable peace announces that it is receiving considerable support sup-port form neutral countries, especially the United States. It is stated expressions ex-pressions of interest have been re-ceived re-ceived from Former President Taft, Professor Lowell of Harvard, Professor Pro-fessor d. J. Hull of Swarthmore, Pa., and John Barrett. A large delegation is expected from i America to attend the congress which will open December 14 .and it is said subscriptions totalling 51800 havo been ' received from the United States to help defray the expenses, 'Jordan Inform Wilson. Washington, Nov. 12. David Starr Jordan, chancellor of Leland Stanford university, and head of tho International Interna-tional Peace Conference, recently held In San Francisco, told President Wilson Wil-son today that a quasi-official meeting meet-ing of neutral nations probably will bo held somo time before Christmas, either at Tho Hague, Berne or Copenhagen, Copen-hagen, to attempt to bring about peace In Europe. Dr. Jordan conveyed to the president presi-dent a resolution from tho peace congress con-gress urging him to co-operate with othor neutrals' in calling such a conference. con-ference. In a statement laid before the president pres-ident by Dr. Jordan it was declared that as a result of recent missions to tho governments of the warring nations, na-tions, it could be Btatod that while tho nations at war were not willing themselves them-selves to begin negotiations for peace, "there Is positive evidence that those charged with tho administration of tho foreign policies ot these nations would welcome or least not oppose affirmative af-firmative action by a neutral agency to bring about a peace based on international in-ternational justice." Dr. Jordan said that while no official offi-cial Information was available, peace advocates had learned from unofficial sources In Holland, Sweden, Switzerland, Switzer-land, Denmark and Spain that those countries would be glad to take part In any movement to further the cause ot peace. Dr. Jordan was accompanied accom-panied by Louis P. Lochnor, secretary of the Chicago Peace society, and who acted as secretary to Miss Jane Addams of Hull House, Chicago, when she visited Europe as a representative of the Women's Peace Congress, and much of tho Information communicated communica-ted to tho president today was rath-ered rath-ered by Miss Addams and her com-panlona. com-panlona. Dr. Jordan, took tha position that 'i"iayaBrBJiNinii 1 1 n i ! It would be more natural for the European Euro-pean neutrals to invito the United States to participate In tho peace conference than for tho United States to issue tho Invitation. He said that an unofficial meeting of peace advocates advo-cates at Berne, December 14, at which plans for bringing about peace will be discussed, would be attended by people from tho United States. Court of Mediation. The idea of the quasi-official peace conference suggested to President Wilson on behalf of the International Peace Congress by Dr. Jordan was that it would constitute a voluntary court of continuous mediation, would ilnvite suggestions for settlement from each of the warring nations, and In any case would submit simultaneously simultane-ously to all of them reasonable proposals pro-posals as a basis for peace. Dr. Jordan did not reveal what President Wilson said to him, but tho president several times has taken the position that he will be glad to do anything of a practical nature to end the war. Dr. Jordan refused to predict pre-dict whother the poace efforts would bo successful in the near future Dr. Jordan told the president peace advocates constantly were In touch with people-in the warring countries and that thero were organizations actively ac-tively at work in all parts of the civ- illzed world, bringing pressure to bear to end the war. Ultimately, i he said, those efforts were certain to f , be successful. j Tho Christmas season is the nat- ural time to talk peace, Dr. Jordan i declared and therefore he Is expect- ! ing the plans of the peace advocates ' to take definite form about that time. i nn |