Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1917 — SEEKS PEACE PARLEY DATA [ARTICLE]

SEEKS PEACE PARLEY DATA

Col. E. M. House Admits President Ordered Data for Conference When War Ends. New York, Sept. 28.—C01. E: M. House, who has represented President Wilson unofficially on several missions, admitted that he had been requested by the president to aid in collecting data to be presented at the peace conference, at the close of tile war. “This announcement that the president has asked me to aid him in his J* . ... . work carries with it.no immediate, significance,” Colonel House said. “For more than two years all of the European belligerents liqve been gathering data to be laid on the table at the pCttce conference. The United States is belated in taking up its activities along this line.”