The Allied Peace Conference in Paris held its first full
session last Saturday, which was the forty-eighth anniversary of the proclamation of the German Empire in the Hall of Mirrors et Versailles. Twenty.aeven nations were represented, including the Arab Kingdom of the Hedjae, to which two delegate.a have been assigned. M. Poinearb welcomed the Allies and thanked them for their help in the war. President Wilson proposed M. Clemenceau as Chairman, both because France had suffered most, and because " we have learnt to admire DI. Clemeneeau and to have a genuine affection for him." Mr. Lloyd George seconded the proposal, commenting on M. Clemencesu's un- conquerable energy, and saying that, though there would be inevitable delay in the Conference, his knowledge of H. Clemenceau told him that there would be no waste of time. M. Clemeneeau, on taking the Chair, went straight to the point. " Wo have come here as friends. We must pass through that door as brothers." Closer union between the Allies was the supreme object. He asked the Allies to exemine first of all the responsibility of the authors of the war, and especially of the Kaiser. In the name of justice, the Allies must punish those who had committed such abominable crimes. At its next BOWER the Conference will consider the League of Nations, which, it is understood, is taking shape at the hands of a Committee.
