SOME INTER-ALLIES CONFERENCES........................... 222
The Conference with the Italians in Paris in April-May 1915 --
Its constitution -- Italians anxious that Allies should deliver
big offensive simultaneously with advance of Italian army --
Impossibility of giving a guarantee -- Difficulties over the
naval proposals -- Banquet given by M. Millerand at the War
Office -- A visit to the front -- Impressions -- Mr. Churchill
turns up unexpectedly -- A conference with General Joffre at
Chantilly on Salonika -- Its unsatisfactory character -- Admiral
Gamble races "Grandpère" and suffers discomfiture -- A
distinguished party proceed to Paris -- A formal conference with
the French Government -- Messrs. Asquith, Grey and Lloyd George
as linguists -- The French attitude over Salonika -- Sir W.
Robertson gives his views -- The decision -- Dinner at the Élysée
-- Return to London -- Mr. Lloyd George and the soldiers on the
Boulogne jetty -- Points of the destroyer as a yacht -- Mr.
Balfour and Sir W. Robertson afloat -- A chatty dinner on our
side of the Channel -- Difficulty over Russian munitions owing to
a Chantilly conference -- A conference at the War Office -- Mr.
Lloyd George as chairman -- M. Mantoux.