WILSON HERALDS NEW ERA
IN THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION
Bm —————
Washington, November 17 President Wilson, in a proclamation
today, designated Thursday, November 28, as Thanksgiving Day, and said
this year the American people have special and moving cause to be
grateful and rejoice. Complete victory, he sald, has brought not only
peace, but the confident promise of a new day as well, in which “justice
shall replace force and jealous intrigue among the nations.”
The proclamation follows:
THANKSGIVING, 1918.
By the President of the United States of America.
A PROCLAMATION,
It has long been our custom to turn in the autumn of the vear in
praise and thanksgiving to Almighty God for His many blessings and
mercies to us as a nation. This year we have special and moving cause
to be grateful and to rejoice. God has in His good pleasure given us
peace. It has not come as a mere cessation of arms, a mere relief from
the strain and tragedy of war. It has come as a great triumph o!
right. Complete victory has brought us not peace alone, but the con
fident promise of a new day as well, in which justice shall replace force
and jealous intrigue among the nations. Our gallant armies have pa:
ticipated ir a triumph which is not marred or stained by any purpose of
selfish aggression. In a righteous cause they Have won immortal glory
and have nobly served their nation in serving mankind. God has
indeed been gracious. We have cause for such rejoicing ag revives and
strengthens in us all the best traditions of our national history A new
day about us in which our take new and look
forward with new hope to new and greater duties,
While thanks fo: let us
the Divine guidance in the these
mercy and forgiveness for all errors
in
respect hich
shines hearts
COUrage
we render things,
performance of
these not
duties,
forget seek
Divine
pray that
to
and
of act or purpose, and
all t we do we shall stengthen the ties of friendship and
build the
mutual
we must assist to new structure of peace
and good will among the nations
Wherefore, 1. Wilson, President of
America designate Thursday
be: of thanksgiving
throughout the Ignd to cease
tions and in their several homes and places of wors!
to God, the ruler :
In
Woodrow the
twenty.
States of
ighth day of Novem
the people
ir ordinary occupa
ip to thanks
United
do hereby the
next, 48 a day and prayer, and
upon that day from the
invite
render
of nations
witne whereof, 1 have hereunto
be affixed
of Colur
one
get my hand and caused the
geal of the
Done
in the
of the
States to
District November
Lord eighteen
war of our 3
year o I and
Independence of one hundred
f
and fort)
WOODROW WILSON
By the Pre
ROBER’]
“FLU” MORE DEADLY THAN WAR. SHE MAY LOSE HER THRONE.
10 SPEED UP THE
~ PEACE CONGRESS
President Wilson Likely to At-
tend Opening Session.
TO DEFEAT BOLSHEVISM
At Earliest Date—To Save Germany
And Neighboring States From
Anarchy And
Famine,
Eu
but
Washington
rope, not only in the military way,
in the fleld of
and the tendency
spirit manifested
clvillan population of the
pires to spread
Developments in
international
of the revoliutionar)
demoralized
by the
Cent
to neighboring
influenced the ]
government
have Allied and
meeting at an e
peace Congres
The Atlantic
with gove
be made
exchanges bet
Paris,
endeavor
nment
up for
where
{0 the Lin
conference, the
it shall be
£
prot
Two Months, Duchess Of Luxemburg.
bostilit
This
Bureau
mates
the overse
46 cities
of 23.000,00¢
deaths
whl
nflue
September §
from
from i
Normally
had
during this
ing
ber properi)
demic
“dhe he J
ean said
announcement, “hav recently been
unoff On
the basi
would
4.000 deaths from these
' CANADA DEMOBILIZING.
said
approxin
Civil Section Of Military Police To Be
Disbanded At Once.
the
Service act
ena
issued by the De
he
ate disbanding
section of the military
* EE
aeen u i Le
ilitary
iy toward that
of Militia
immedi
and
He
diseases !
' Ave
if
i
ty . A
B onrehend
ER Laan avi n
> 0 1 i ve rr. 1 » - ry
ere and deserters and perform
be
total ca .
Military Service act
. . 3 * ar
tion the loss of life in the American): fe act
Txpeditionary
ebout 40,00
more
special culls inn connection
STATUE OF PEACE TO U. 8.
Peru Takes Lead In Planning $500,000
Gift
The Peruvian
already adopted by
The total of
fluenza epidemic
not known, the
as only 46
figures were given
tics
thes
lima, Peru Senate
report
r roved
Bureau
he epi
a bill the
making November
November 17 legal holidays in
Allied
appropriating
of Deputies,
population was
hiladelnt
Philadelphia, : : i tm .
TALE
report
the edlebration of the
bill
great »
q ner thouss i was
lle n atue of
f 3 } timore
from Baltimor be presented tic
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WILSON TO LLOYD GEORGE.
South American
:
nat sidered by the
De pi
President Admiration Of
British Premier's Views,
Expresses
LOSS OF AUDACIOUS ADMITTED.
Britain Announces Sinking Which Oc.
curred October 27, 1914,
London. President Wilson has
the following message to David
George, the prime minister
“May | sincere admira |
tion of the temper and pur- |
pose of your address of the 12th, just | first
reproduced in part in our papers {t|of the battleship Audacious,
is delightful to be made aware of such | sank after striking a mine off the
community of thought and counsel North Irish Coast on October 27, 1614
in approaching the high and difficult | The loss of the battleship officially
task now awaiting us.” was kept a secret at the urgent request
The speech of Mr. Lloyd George re of the commander-in-chief of the Grand
ferred to was the one he Fleet.
week in which the Prime
said there must be no vind. 2 peact
but a just peace. In his speech Mr
Lloyd George emphasized the added They Will Be Sent To U. 8. For Food
importance of a League of Nations For Central Powers.
and declared that victory should be an |
impetus to reform.
gent
Lioyd
ritish
express my :
makes iis
the loss
which
London The Admiralty
official announcement
admirable
of
made last
Minister
TO USE GERMAN VESSELS.
lL.ondon The British Government is
EUROPEAN SITUATION.
There is considerable confusion In
Germany over the power to be given |
the various councils, committees and |
officials, A new political party has |
been formed which reduces the
strength of the Independent Socialists.
At a meeting of the Soldiers’ Coun
eil in Berlin Premier Bbert stated Copenhagen. Admiral von Tirpits,
that the United States would help former minister of the German Navy
feed the Germans, but that order must ' and the man who was chiefly responsi.
be maintained. ble for Germany's Intensive subma-
Israelites, Zioniste and Greeks In| rine camprign, fled to Switzerland im.
Saloniki, under the auspices of the | mediately the revolution in Germany
Zionist Federation, rendered homage | broke out, says the Frankfort Ga
to the Allies ) wette.
| vessels for the purpose of bringing to
| Germany foodstuffs which the Allies
will permit Germany to receive,
VON TIRPITZ FLED.
Man Responsible For U.Boat Warfare
A ‘Fugitive.
present
wment
ys participant In
at The Hague, is
deration
Anieric
iN COMIMIKKION
CAMPS ABOUT FREE OF FLU
Epidemic Wearing Itself Out In West
ern Cantonments,
For the
influenza booames
camps at home,
weekly
first
Washington
Spanish
demic in army
Surgeon - General's
shows the dizease effe ctually
indications of further
Figures made public
about one-third in
mnrone
with mProy
ments
4
the
led
4d with the
1 was 6.887,
November §, as COmMpPAars
previous week, The tot
$7,000,000 Camp Near Columbia, 8. C,
Will Be Abandoned,
Columbia, 8. C.~~Construction on
the North Columbia cantonment here,
which was planned as a duplication
of Camp Jackson, has been stopped by
orders from the War Department.
Eight million feet of jumber is esti-
mated to have been used when the
work was stopped. The contract for
the cantonment called for an expendi
FIGHTING STOPS
GREAT WAR OVER
Germany Signs Armistice Which
Is Unconditional Surrender.
KAISER WILHELM ABDICATES
Dream of World Conquest Ends in
Defeat and Revolut.on—Flight
From Justice of Criminal
Against Civilization.
By J. D. SHERMAN,
Peace! The greatest war of
tory is over,
nil his
The armistice asked for by Germany
This ennus no less
“unconditions! bor
terms of that
of the
inst
terms the allles dictate
Fhe
tor
than
the
surrender
armistice deprive
Germany menns of resistance
Germany uccept whatever peace
Vie
He
kaniser—Frederich Willielin
Albert, Emperor Wilh
f Holl
fugitive in and fro
i own Im
War of Frightfuiness,
the
driven
So, posing before an
wdvocate of peace
futherls
y war in de
the kaiser
secret,
tania
children ;
‘nes which { a1 we more than
and the expend
hiltiong of money
iehtfuln y tend of fright
the world into submission has
‘ her
ns frightfulness
LANE (EX) asgaities
of Liillior
ess which ins
ening
arms against Ie civi
which
the name of Germany =
hnusehold execration among most of
the peoples of earth
At
along
kniser's program went
pruse
first the
without
declared
check or July
Serbia.
The
line,
war on
fell
came
nations promptly into
of
August 4 the stage
fighting. August
fell to
German
and
was all
5 the
on the
march
war thick
By
actual
fast
for
The
Belgian frontier.
Wilhelm
triumph
little
But. ae everybody Knows,
I} did not enter Paris in
September 2. Why? Becnuse
She fought. Her brave littie army
did not last long. But it lasted long
enough to give the French time to “dig
in.” The Germans thereupon found
the road to Paris a series of trenches
that must be taken one by one. The
schedule was soon hopelessly behind
time,
Likewise the heroic resistance of
Belgium brought Great Britain forth.
with into the war. And though the
British standing army was not large, it
went to the front, died in the last ditch
and still further delayed the German
march to Paris. Moreover, Great Brit
ain's colonies from all the seven Seas
went hurrying to the front. And Great
Britain's fleet promptly forced the Ger
man fleet Into cover at Kiel and swept
the oceans clear of German merchant
shipping, thus carrying to Germany the
war of starvation that Germany had
planned for her.
United States Neutral.
The United States lu the meantime
had proclaimed its neutrziity. Italy,
though a member of the triple alliance,
wis holding off on the ground that its
alliance with Germany and Austria
were for defense and not of of
fense. It was not until May of 1015
that she got into the war and then on
the side of the allies. By the end of
1914 Jppan was in with the allles and
Turkey with (he central powers, Fight
and France; on the
und Russian-Austrian
government of France had been re
moved Bordeaux. But the Ger
frouties,
to
mans were still 60 miles from Paris,
May 7, 1915, the passenger liner
ing and sunk by a German submarine
This outrage
against humanity horrified civilization
Germany, however « the
«inking To the
defend her action by asset
elebruated
world sl sought to
ig that
Lusitania was armed and ut she
ried munitions
armed and she
of war Mansy
after that the
the
alex into
February 22
prince s arms
in which w
September 14 the British
submarine
arian
Peoria
less tractor
war engine
Englishman
ine surpri
part in the
and faster
The
tanks, but
i
Germans
apparen }
en able 10 hold thel
ine
of the
Amer
thon pw
‘
of the anllies
ing exploits
ploit of an
rode into ad
American ta
Collapse of Russia.
¢
i Anh ng
close of he
The
od bs
year 1916 was mar
of Premier
Britain
the resi
Asquith ff Great
acceptance of tl
David Lloyd George
gEnation
bert
nliles through
eats
got
hings were 2
and she wanted pes
making
The
tussin
spring of
of
brought about by Germany 1
trigue purposes
hegan
trograd
dicated
and for her own
March 11 with dation in
Mareh 15 Nicholas
March 22 America recogni
the Russian a repub
HT Rince then Russia has heen a
chao. Russia is one of the big prob
lems confronting the allies. They can
presumably put an end to the reign of
murder and pillage; the re
rev
Czar
new government
anarchy,
dous undertaking.
October of 1817 was marked by the
collapse of the Italinn Isonzo front.
This collapse was alwo due to German
Taken alto
¢
cheer for the allies,
America Goes In,
And yet the turning point of the war
was reached In 1017. For the United
States had entered the great world
Germany stands convicted
before the world of incredible stupid
jty ms well as unbelievable frightful
ness. For Germany practically Yorced
the United States into the war. En
tirely contemptuous of America as a
possible belligerent, Germany an
pounced unrestricted submarine war
fare January 31, 1017, Moreover, Ger
many had the unbridied arrogance and
the colossal presumption to inform the
United States of America that permis
ston would be given te continue to sall
regular American passenger ships after
February 1 if these ships went to and
from Falmouth and followed a pre
seribed course going and returning;
the steamers were painted In a spect
fied way and carried specified flags;
if one steamer a ench way were
sailed, and If the United States govern.
ment guaranteed that
was carried
week
no coutraband
The linmedinte answer of the United
States was given February 3the sev.
erance of with
Germany, April 6 the president signed
a Joint of the houres
of congress declaring 8 state of war
to exist with Germany
CeRsiOn
thie
diplomatic relations
resolution two
In quirk suc.
came the selective net
raleing of an army: a war
of $4,000 000,000: the
sending of an expeditionary force of
service
for
rance under
registration
for
General
Pershing :
16.0000 (6)
the
Len
of
military
nearly
ROrvice
first Liberty
oversahsceription
ionn
with ¢ the
inrge
drafting of the state militia
the
federal service Octobe
nouncement was
troops
shot ir
They Hold.
Belleat
What They Have
Next they took the Boi
It wes §
’
y took
themselves
for
constantly
tacks
meal
the
the
Great War Is
likely
of the
wne he
10
into
AN
Ameri
1 driven
And
supreme command
front, soon
General Foch
of the ee on the western
afterward launched the allied offensive
followed victory all along
of 250 miles from the
was the be
and victor
the fighting line
to Verdun, It
{ end.
By early October de Ton was heat.
on to his knees and asking for peace.
October 31 the Italians utterly routed
Austrians, The same day Turkey
November 3 Aunstria
the
ing to unconditional surrender. No
vember 9 Kaiser Wilhelm abdicated
and Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm
renounced the throne, both fleeing to
Holland to escape a people in revolo-
tion.
Sa the mad ambition of Emperor
William 11 of Germany to conquer the
world and his 30 years of debauching
his people end In defeat, revolution,
abdieation and flight from justice.
This arch criminal against civiliza-
tion will be lucky If he fares no
WOrse,
Whatever his fate it is of no impor
tance compared with the fact that this
enrth i& pow safe from a monstrosity
who would pillage a world under pre
text of patriotic Jove for country.