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Show Expect Conference to. Last Three Months to Consider Phases. TREATY IN APRIli j Belief Deliberations Will Be Guided by Reports j From the Conferees. PARIS, Nov. 28. (Havas) At a. meeting preliminary to "the sitting of j the delegates at the peace conference, it is announced committees will bci 1 appointed to study different phases of the problems which will be involved' and present reports to the conferences, whose deliberations will by this means be of a more definite character. Tho conference, it is believed, will last fori j three months and it is not expected j 1 that a treaty will be signed before April. j David Lloyd George, British prcm-l ier, will arrive in Paris at the same time as President Wilson. i ! WASHINGTON, Nov. 2S The fed-j fed-j oral trade commission probably will be represented among the advisers of the ! American delegates to the coming peace conference, it was learned today. to-day. Such a representative is desirable, desir-able, officials say, in order that the conferences may have tho benefit of the committee's information on foreign for-eign trade. John Walsh, attorney for the commission, com-mission, has been mentioned as the probable selection of the commission to handle this work. j MADRID. Friday, Nov. 22. Both chambers of the Spanish parliament have approved in principle the proposition propo-sition for the formation of a league I of nations and will name a Spanish ! representation in that organization. The government will soon introduce a bill repatriating Spanish subjects who have fought under Allied flags. BUFFALO. N. Y.. Nov. 2S. Deliberation Delib-eration of the coming -peace conference should be guided by principle and justice, jus-tice, touched with mercy to the weak i and not by passion or emotion, said! Secretary of the Navy Daniels speak-1 ing at Buffalo's community Thanksgiving Thanks-giving service. The Allies and the United States having won the war, Mr. Daniels said, "tho theory that every man-in tho world, high or low, rich or poor, shall have a chance to make the most of himself is now the fixed philosophy of all nations." ; "It now remains,'' he continued "to make democracy safe for tho world by dofining its ends, clarifying its purposes pur-poses and enacting into law its. essential es-sential ideals. And herein lies the path to just, honorable and enduring peace. Wo havo won the great war. Let us now proceed to win tho greater peace." . Germany must be dealth with firmly! at the peace conference, said Mr. Dan -1 iels, 'because the sins of her rulers and all who followed their spirit are black and bitter and her crimes do-I do-I servo such treatment and such punishment pun-ishment as will protect the future." "But no policy of hatred," he said, "no spirit of vengeance should guide this world .renewal. The protection of women and children knows no friends and no enemies. The re-bjrth of modern civilization should not go j forward undor any spell of mere revenge re-venge or malice to millious of men. j ,' mercy to tho weak, should guide this j congress, not passion or emotion." |