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Show COLON! HBU3E NOW IN FRANCE : President's Personal Adviser , and Admiral Benson to Represent Rep-resent United States. CONSIDER GERMAN PLEA I Chief of Naval Operations to Represent United States' Navy in War Council. . WASHINGTON. Oct. 25 Colonel E. II M. House, personal representative of President Wilson and spokesman of 19 the state department, and Admiral m'M William S. Benson, chief of naval op- tM orations, have arrived in France tc IM represent the United States in the con- IS sideration of Germany's pica for an ! armistice and peaco negotiations. I'H Colonel House is accompanied by Iflj Gordon Auchincloss, his son-in-law; Ifl Joseph G. Grew, chief of tho stato de- M partment's division of western Euro- IS pean affairs and former secretary of IK the American embassy at Berlin, and IM Frank I. Cobb of New York. M Tho party sailed from an Atlantic IB c the wireless version of the last German hi r- note had been sent out, and were '11 nearing the other sido when President I K Wilson received the note and answered e it. , It is understood Colonel House is s propared to speak for the president in i any negotiations that may be con-? con-? ducted considering questions to be do- tormined before the military men give f the terms on which an armistice would - bo possible, or for the formulation of - concrete terms upon which peace could 5 bo made whenever tho Germans are - ready to surrender. Admiral Benson is expected to rop- rosent the United States navy In the discussion of naval questions as Gen-; Gen-; oral Tasker H. Bliss represents the 3 army on tho supreme war council LONDON, OcL 25 Colonel R. M. House, personal friend and adviser oi President Wilson, has arrived u France, according to a Paris dispalcn to tho Times. House On Official Mission The fact that Colonol House le for Europe soveral days ago before President Wilson's reply to Gcrnian) was dispatched Is further proof ttiat every step of the president's negotiations negotia-tions with Germany has been taken in full accord with the Entcnto govern- : m ments. , CL |