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Show President Leaves for New York'To- , - s night -?' MAY SAIL AT N00.N Big Ship Fitted Up for; Voyage; Band to : Make Trip. WASHINGTON, Dec. 3. President Wilcon is expected to leave Washing, ton this evening for New York from which port he and the other American representatives to the peace conference confer-ence will sail on the liner George Washington for Europe. The cabinet meeting today was ex-petced ex-petced to be the final meeting of the president with his advisers, either in a body or as individuals, with the exception ex-ception of Secretary Lansing who will accompany the president as one of the delegates to the peace conference. With the departure of Mr. Lansing, Counsellor Frank L. Polk will become acting secretary of state. NEW YORK, Dec. 3. The transport George Washington, newly painted a battleship gray and handsomely decorated, deco-rated, was steamed up today at her j I dock in Hoboken in readiness to car-1 ry President Wilson and tho peace delegates to France. The exact time UL UlU VUSbVl t UCJI11I IU1U UUS 11UL Willi mado public here but officers seemed expectant that the ship would get under un-der way about noon Wednesday. One qf the principal tasks of the special force of 300 workers was to enclose the promenade deck in glass to ward off the December gales. Deco-x rators and fitters gave particular attention at-tention to fitting up the sulle of ten rooms which the president will occupy. Mrs. Wilson's quarters will bo directly direct-ly opposite those of the president. Forty-nine state rooms have been prepared pre-pared for possible occupants. The dining hall, formerly the officers' offi-cers' mess hall, will accommodate forty for-ty persons. The ship's cuisine will be in cbargo of a well known New York hotel chef and fifty assistants and waiters. The navy yard band has been assigned to furnish music. PARIS. Dec. 3. U appears the Germans Ger-mans will be unable to hand over all tho 5000. locomotives stipulated in the armistice agreement by December 17, according to the Matin and it is possible pos-sible that the allies will grant more time to tho enemy. This will dolay peace negotiations since they cannot begin until the armistice conditions have all been fulfilled. Discussions between the allied delegations dele-gations to the peace conference will probably begin on December 20. LONDON. Dec. 2. (British Wireless Wire-less Service) Stirring scenes were witnessed in Downing street today when tho representatives of Great Dritnin, France and Italy, assembled to discuss the preliminaries of the peace conference. Ii was undertsood that the fate of the former German emperor and the question of making Germany pay the full bill were beforo the meeting. By the lime (he representatives ar-, rived Downing street was filled to, I overflowing with a great crowd of spectators. First to arrive was Marshal Mar-shal Foch and as his car, decked in tho French colors, wheeled up to the premier's residence, tho crowd instantly in-stantly recognizing the gallant figure of the commander-in-chief of tho allied al-lied armies, pressed around the car shouting "Bravo Foch!" Marshal Foch stepped quickly from tho car and disappeared into the house. M. Clemonceau, the French premier, followed almost immediately and the crowd surged around him on the pavement, pave-ment, cheering and shouting, with cries of "good old tiger!" and "Vive Clemenceau!" For two hours the mass of people ! remained singing the national anthem, B N the Marseillaise and, "Rule Briltania." -B ROME, Dec. 3 President Wilson. m during his stay at this capital, will pay a visit to Pope Benedict, It is an- 9 nounced by the newspapers here. Ho ffiyj will go to tho Vatican from the Amer- Unl lean embassy instead of from Quir- B inal where the president and Mrs. Vm Wilson will be the guests of the king: fllJ and queen while in Rome. Wm |