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Show I PEACE PARLEY IN j PARIS GLORIOUS ! PARTY IT SEEMS! j LONDON, March 26. I Charges that the government j had indulged in ruthless extrav-1 extrav-1 agance at the peace conference ' in Paris have been made in con- nection with its bill of 503,388 ' pounds for the expenses of the j 1 British delegation. When the bill was jDresented i in the housp of commons re-' cently, Sir Alfred Mond, the ' first commissioner of works, i was sharply questioned as to ' whether his bill for hotels in j Paris covered the cost of cham-I cham-I pagne, food and dances. He replied'that his department was not responsible for the payment of bills for food, clothing, for j typists, dances or bands, 1 One member of the. house m-I m-I dignantly declared that it ' would have been better for the British delegates to have gone to bed to think over the peace ! ! conference instead of indulging , in such relaxation ,f The government represents tip,5a4mittdi that Mis. -British flad'i&tolsaTra three other" ! premises, While the Americans r j had only one hotel, but, he de-1 clared the Americans spent : I more money. The house in-1 dulged in ironic cheers when j j Sir Alfred Mond said the gov- j I eminent "did the thing welL,' i The total staff of the British j I delegation numbered 524. ! |