Washington, January 3. — According to the receipt here today of confidential advices, the broad outlines of the entente reply to President Wilson proposing a discussion of peace terms, Colonel M. House, the President's friend and advisor, arrived at the White House. The colonel's last visit was followed by the dispatch of the President's note. At the same time, press dispatches from London told of a speech by Count Julius Andrassy, former Premier of Hungary, stating that the central powers had given, or would give, President Wilson a statement of their peace terms, and that the entente allies could obtain them from him. Officials at the White House and the State Department would not discuss these developments, further than to say definitely that no further move on the part of the American government would be determined until the entente reply was received. It was not disclosed whether the administration considers that the unfavorable action of the entente has left the way open for the confidential exchange of terms between the opposing groups or nations. Both in German and entente circles pessimism over the outlook was expected. The President, however, was understood to think that the moves already made will be helpful ultimately, regardless of the immediate consequences. Will, however, move at the conference to discuss the situation.  Preliminary information received here indicates that the entente note will pay more attention to the President's suggestion that means be found for preserving peace in the future than in the reply of the central powers, which suggested the postponement of this question until after the present war. 