18 JANUARY 1919, page 1

The Allied Delegates Have Assembled In Paris And Have Begun

to prepare for the work of the Allied Peace Conference. Tho first delicate question to arise was that of the representation of the various nations allied against Germany. Tho......

News Of The Week.

I R. LLOYD GEORGE completed the rearrangement of In, his Ministry on Friday week. He shifted several of his colleagues from one post another, and replaced the Labour men who had......

Mr. Shortt, As His Reward For A Brief Exile In

Ireland, has been appointed Home Secretary. The new Chief Secretary, under Lord French as Viceroy, is Mr. Ian Macpherson, who has worked hard as Under-Secretary for War, and......

The Heads Of The Allied Governments, Now In Paris, Have

been reminded that, though they are preparing for peace, the war Is not over. President Wilson, Mr. Lloyd George, M. Clemeneeau, and Signor Orlando, with their Foreign......

The Numbers Of The Delegates To Be Cent By Each

Ally to the Peace Conference were fixed on Wednesday. The five Powera will have five delegates apiece. Australia, Canada, South Africa, and India, as distinct from the Imperial......

It Is Stated Officially That The Existing War Cabinet Will

be continued " until there has been more time to make permanent peace arrangements." It may be inferred, therefore, that General Smuts, who was not mentioned in the list of the......

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