PRESIDENT WILSON FRANCE'S GUEST Party Has Tumultuous Wel- come at Brest. MARKS HISTORIC ww EPOCH ore Imposing Sight As Warships In Pag- geant Pass Up Narrow Strait, With Cheers Ringing From Both Shores. Brest. —President Wilson landed France amid a demonstration of pop- ular enthusiasm and national sympathy such as rarely, if ever, has been ac- corded the head of a foreign govern- ment visiting France. The landing of the President was not only a iNmarkable spectacle, with a notable naval pageant for its back. ground, but it also marked the first entry of an American President into personal contact with Europe and its affairs. Although rived at Brest was not until President and on a harbor and set the soil of France. Vast H watched the trip ashore ant t} fleet ar. noon Ait that debarked on crowds the fleets last 1¢ Presidential after o'clock Wilson ghortly after three Mrs boat foot of warships roared a salute as the stage of the On the the President the and, States, walls city. As the boat French American guar presented arms and 16 accomplished ashore ir on ing Ww journey harbor boat going 2 seen “ Jules to the was stand deck with Ambas pointed upper Frencl wh sador out the monuments of tl touched and ana “StarSpangled Banner” the cheers of the great mul Mrs. Wilson ca plank with General carried a the large bouque American her passed they handed which she bore Wilson crowds or prou President cheering continuing way A to the interest Brest, terest in that of the town, but Germans in the Among those the station otic socisties route 10 were ations of patri- organizations and other and throngs of peoples from the neigh. boring localities, attired in gala Bre ton The first the French were costumes the P resident, be ministerial repre Andre Tardieu, to greet ides sentatives French High United States, Ambassador House, Genera General Tasker H. Bliss The an imposing naval hegan as dential ed outer Commissioner to the mavor of Brest, BR MM Pershing and the Sharp, Colonel 1 John J arrival was the ion of spectacle, wi ich the Presi fleet round. the capes, then entrance forts and moved ly | the harbor Washington a long do dreadnoughts unis of a French cruis oto wher Oo anchored a ¥ 1a "nm Wise column oO destroyers and er squadron. WASHINGTON. The Administration embarked upon a definite policy of government own- ership and operation of the wire lines of the country fve Moon, of Tennessee, introduced a Joi reso- lution to make permanent the exist. ing control and possession of the phone and telegraph systems Louis appeared before the Senate Committee and showed that the had written for the Cour in tone, and was assured of the committee of their Representat 1 nt t tale Garthe editorials he jer were loyal by members belief In his loyalty Shipe with aggregate carrying capac ity of 800,000 tons have been desig. nated to be turned over by the Army Quartermaster Department to the Phipping Board for return to trade routes. Resignation of the Cotton Distribu- tion Committee of the War Trade Board headed by Charles J. Brand, and revocation of all regulations estab lished by the committee, was an- nounced, Upon the recommendation eral Pershing and with the approval of President Wilson, Secretary Baker awarded the Distinguished Service medal to General Peyton C. March Newcomb Carlton, president of the Western Union Telegraph and Cable Company, has been placed in charge of all marine cable systems of the United Btates PEACE CURES SHELL SHOCK. More Than 2,000 Soldiers Recover At The News. Washington.—More than 2.000 Amer. ean soldiers In France, suffering from shell shock, were cured by the signing of the armistice, Surgeon. Genernl Ire'and told the Senate Mill. tary Committee, of 2500 shell.shock patients, the General sald, all except about 300 were well almost Immed jately. “It was the greatest expe rience in psycho-therapeutics known,” the committee was told. CONFIDENCE IN PRESIDENT WILSON French Press A Unit Kindly Praise. ITALY EAGER FOR HIS VISIT Heme Paper Sees In Him Hopes For Better World—Hour Of Jus- tice Here, Says Madrid Organ. | pome given President Wilson and the gordial tone of the speeches delivered | at the luncheon in the Palace of the | Blyse were dwelt upon by the newspa- { pers Sunday. "Homme Libre declares that Saturday's manifestation triumphant welcome to a great man. The presence of President Wilson in France, says the Petit Journal, is an assurance of the practical and assidu ous cooperation of two great racies in the world in the pursuit the same ldeals. “The care,” the Journal comments, only a magnificent but also set forth the problems of the Peace Conference, asserting that p demands justice and f President Wil public opinion him our democ- of speach of Poin. as not oratory, President “w piece of ace The son was tactful will be particu- for the security, reply O French larly grateful which he Justice le to tributes sufferings Wilson has ill know to long ident ma bow to safeguard th account President wth 1} ¢ aii Lae wants a peace Wilson, Alles, declar the agreement Matin, urity of justice and B64 The wel { Paris, It him for for the past. The Petit Wilson as mark to General Pershing “Il expected a cord never ' gis bh \ } : mae gly him by the people adds, voted confidence In the future, while thanking |} Journal President lowing TIO es quotes making the fol re ial welcome, bnt | 4 ff + stati lel Fost iy 5 \ COuMG Ae GiICaiaea oO & #in UViB gave Italy Eager To Welcome Wilson, Rome lian In huge headlines the It 108 Pre Sry e 18 loved tod those who i m and s fed at |} Say Hour Of Justice Has Struck. Mad All the newsj feild - v arid pi 4 o ETE : less of opi mane Herald means nresence i i hour © hour of that ” Diario Universal declares t} President world gitizen of Wilson is a of the citizen and that to Spaniards he Is a Spain CHRISTMAS WITH PERSHING. President Wilson Likely To Visit The American Army Of Occupation. Paris nr is likely that President Wilson, g his visit to American troops, will upon German as he is being urged by the American military officials to visit the Third Army of Occupation It is no secret that Mr. Wilson de gires in every possible way to show | his appreciation of what the American Expeditionary Forces have done | #8, therefore, sure to visit all units he can reach in the time allotted for the | Inspection | Upon being told that it would be hn. | possible to dispose of any diplomatic work during the Christmas holiday the entirely durin set foot anil S011 Christmas with the American forces, quarters BERLIN'S LABOR TROUELES. $60,000 Workmen Now Reported Out On Strike, London ‘he strike in Berlin has eached serious proportions, according i from Ams. Only two newspapers are be to a dispateh received here terdam lets. It is sald that workmen are out 350,000 FLU PATIENT KILLS DOCTOR. Physician Shot By Man Who Later Tried Suicide. | Chicago. Dr. Joseph 8S. Gentile died as the result of a bullet wound infilet. | ea by a patient, Charles Ganero, sup- | posed to have been delirious and ill of | influenza. The patient tried to shoot himself, but was rested. disarmed and ar SEAR CONTROL URGED BY WADOD Would Have U. S. Operate Rall- roads Until 1924. WOULD PERMIT FAIR TRIAL Bays Roads Must Be Operated In Unsettied Condition In Next Year Or Two Unless Status ls Materially Changed. - Washington, — Extension of the roads for five years, until January 1, by Director General McAdoo. Advan: tages of this, Mr. McAdoo sald, | tion out of politics for the present, sive program of Improvements, ent solution of the railroad problem, “The President has given mission to say that conclusion accords with his own the matter,” Mr. McAdoo concluded, The WAS r tor this view of letter addressed Smith, of South Carolina, Simms, chairman, spectively, and House rstate ( Committees McAdoo explained that rmment Representative ¢ of the Senate 5 4 nie Mr (IY § ommerce to continue of % 06 of pea on for mon un { moar i mean Gis ployes and ong en ng di33 and enable the ent to go ahead with er ments and irchase of equ rien dt pmen ’ $ GEO the p 11 1e¢ prompt other alt the railroads out legisiation of the old wasteful competitic be and to th sald, fmmediate legl manent solut “There only ernative to private cor to permit ry ypu? hurtful alike to the public themeelves,” of obilalning £ a raliroads difficulty siation on is apparent and t practicable " Mr + to ©" and the ir providin 0 pel is one, 0 my x Ana McAdoo extend one ternative, “and that Is Federal « Dine ntrol from the months provided by s years, or unt 1624 the railroad This exten question ou f pol reasonable period woul ure to railroad officers an It : t would admit of the § Ere nyt ren ’ » would immensely roads the during the the financing of could be affords the der pr conditions to red} five-year itliirse successfully c DOCOsSArY OD] test the value i e experiencs thus ndicate the SIX KILLED ON CRUISER. Thirty Also Injured By Explosion Of Coal Dust On The Brookiyn. Washingtc of the armor killed and 3 ously, aboard rohama, The informed in manding officer of the Asiatic fleet, of which the Brooklyn was flagship Six men of the Brooks srs Injured, som vosion dus! vease]l last Monday Yo was coal was Crew cruiser n were © gel in an of coal the at Japan, where she Navy Department a dispatch from the com ne ng BO 2600 YANK PRISONERS FREED. Leave Camp Restatt For Switzer. land. Berlin. — Twenty-six hundred Amer fcan prisoners of war interned at {| Camp Restatt left there for Switger. lsnd. Two hundred other Americans | who have been scattered in various | camps in Germany are leaving Ger | many by way of Holland and Den | mark. It is expected that the last of | the Americans will be out of German eamps by the middie of this week NAVY TO RELEASE 174,000 MEN. ships Next Year, Washington. —Three hundred and fifty thousand men will be needed to man the navy during the coming year In giving this estimate to 524.000 men in the navy, leaving a surplus of 174.000 to be released by July 1. The Secretary sald the process of reduction would be carried through as rapidly as possible, with considera. tion for the convenience of the service, U. 8. SHIPS TO ADRIATIC. Admiral Benson Sends More De stroyers, Paris Admiral Benson has ordered three more American destroyers to the Bastern Adriatic. They will join the American naval forces, including the scout cruiser Birmingham and 36 sub- marine chasers, already there under Admiral Bullard. ar rr TL iin ith It ond CN ~ Ey x AGN ARETE - CRNA ‘y ERODES BAGK FROM biG WAR ONES Six Transports Bring 7,740 Men of Valor Home. The Calamares Arrives At New York With Large Detachment Of Over. scas Naval Forces Since The Signing Of The Armistice Welcomed the marines home 7.740 Av.s New York heroic sons . Giers, naUiops and ana iy every stale i New trans por Union, entere fog-bound jarbor on six large European ports. high « on of American battlefields the open seas, the alr above France and Eng ‘awd land. 119 » 4 oF LT - v foe i f > Hundreds of the men maimed {oz i in somne of ing, were hur by wounds receive war's heaviest fight to hospi the others went will b ] camps, e dr mobilized Some had afl America as more than t but as men, either wounded or sound who scarcely they back The had crutches when their ships HOY 8, came wounded Included solders walked wi salled from Europe amd sls Fa 5 > *y Fy exultant by their homeo th h who, made tossed min min thelr props asid declared them ves of their retu a jaw shot se! ured” a by th miracie t Bt Wl HGS rej ining here was a man with both expectation of children. T feet gone, amputated by surgeons aft had been bs in e bloody mne 1 nes splintered Arg 3 a ae Dac +h he sal that A and of himself flag regardless Other a different misfor these which above trans dMscern the to the Statue of Liberty held the busy harbor and And there wers could not hear the port's whistles and alr rald sirens which shrieked their welcoming demonstration. Many Do seem bs! : were UbDadie 10 moving ports others who “% he of giving dinners on shipboard and were glad they were back in time to have thelr Christmas dinners In homes All who returned were not tary or naval There in mill service as actual fight. Young Christian Association girls had suffered gas poisoning Young Men's Christian Association workers were who from under fire and chaplains who had risked their lives and alded Amer. fean contingents In destroying Ger man machinegun nests. Of these stories without number were told by the war's dangers and spoke modestly of that fact. KRUPPS TO ARTS OF PEACE. Amsterdam The directors of the munition works have an nounced their intention to transform the plant into a factory devoted to the workers there to make proposals for the manufacture of peace materials according to the Cologne Gazelle. TO AVERT WAR. Pressure To Be Brought On Chile And Peru, Washington. --All South American countries have been asked by the Unit. ed States to join in its suggestion to Chile and Peru that the interests of Pan-American unity demand an amle- able settiement of their controversy over the provinces of Tacna and Arica, Acting Secretary Polk, of the State Department, announced this, explain. ing that it had been erroneously re- ported that Argentina alone had been approsched on the subject. KAISER WILHELM TRIES SUICIDE Attempt Is Made Following Mental Depression. ATTENDANT IS WOUNDED German Writes Autobiography To Be Used in Defense At Trial, { Former Emperor emperor's retinue vented Herr Hohenzollern ! intention, sald ier German Emperor } intlery Amerongen inlerna ews al two German experts on tional Iaw, whi ussed M1 ¥ ¥ 1 * tlm his personal position, with m he dis ng ar Uxpress ft Amer anner + tie accord! to Amsterdam lepatch to the | These experts arrived and le ongen in a rather mysterious It is 44 "a ¥ aispatch, und tood, according to that Herr H ing his sutoblography reign He before and during the was The book, which intended for publication, or before ohenzoliern is and a a will explain be ’ {it le sald will | long its author is is tried an interna tional tribunal, may be read of his as a part dele nee Gives Up His Uniform. Amerongen, Hollana abdication Wililam learn has shed his unif his #33 Hohenzol In ALG appears Since forma) in ciothes about h as do the of his suite The entourage has been re duced in number to 18 for himself and the former Empress The family life of the roval palr appears 0 flow as as that of any middleag might be enjoying a holiday. Their ns { floor of the castle view of the landscape regular civilia; y retreat here, members erstwhile evenly e e wWiho oupi el ed qui country on the first command a wide They dine with ; thelr host, Count von Bentinck, being {often joined at the meal by Count's brother, a noble residing In a ! neighboring castle, and spend of their time together strolling through the castle grounds The quiet of the village here is oc casionally startled wild rumors of plots upon the former Emperor's life, but the “suspicious person found lurk- ing about the castle” generally turns out to be a harmiess newspaper man in search of copy. Another rumor, of which no confirmation can be had, le that Herr Hohenzollern has bought = villa Im the neighborhood root the much by HE WANTS AMERICAN FOOD. Pershing Asks For American Hotel Man In Paris. Paris. The Hotel Du Louvre on the Place du Palals Royal, will be used | as an American officers’ hotel. Gen- ' eral Pershing has requested the Amer. fcan Red Cross to make arrangements to take over the hotel and run it on the American plan with American food served, The increased number of of. | ficers visiting Paris and the lack of quarters made this action necessary | An experienced American hotel man | now In Paris is advising the Red Cross concerning the arrangement, And Ballantine Tender Res Ignatione. Washington. — A. Bruce Bielaski, chief of the bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice, has of. fered his resignation to Attorney-Gen- eral Gregory. A. A. Ballantine has resigned as so- Heitor of the Internal Revenues Bureau, effective January 1, and will resume the practice of law in Boston, it was announced, Blelaski AMERICAN TROOPS ARRIVE N COBLENZ cs— French General Reaches Berlin fo Direct Prisoners. { Haig's Men Being Cordially Treated By Germans—Few Signs Of Revolution In Border Territory. Leneral Army, has arriy lin, according to advices recely ‘and has established his headquarters in Palace formerly by {the French Embass; | du Pont eC Wilh the 1 the occupied ust sport end repatriation sOner lan) in Germany. General FPershing's ine d ol occupation ‘Units of the Third Huns Announce Yanks’ Progress. Amsterdar The cording with the army windows have tha Fr bh tunes British Nearing Cologne. German population west of the Rhine becomes n dial in its h as Field e eastward, re cor attitude toward the Br Marshal Haig's troog { according {to an the itis 8 mov A undated disp » the DD COTTes pon lent of with the British Army SPAIN BREAKS WITH BERLIN, | Ambassador At German Capital Re. lieved Of Functions, A decree relieving Polo de Bernabe, Ambassador at | Berlin, from functions of his of- {fice, is published in the Oficial | Gazette, I A Madrid dispatch printed by la ! Liberte, of Paris, Sunday reported that ! the Spanish Premier intended to expel | the German Ambassador, Prince Von Ratibor and members of his staff who have been engaged in spying and sup porting agitation against the Spanish i royal family. | POLISH ARMY GOES TO DANZIG. | Madrid the S|panish the | Division From America Will Occupy Posen And Silesia. Amsterdam. ——Polish-American divi {sions, according to a well-informed source, says the Warsaw correspond jent of the Weser Zeltung have em. "barked at Havre for Dantzig, In West | Prussia with the intention of occupy ing the provinces of Posen and Silesia. The headquarters of the Polish-Ameri. can troops, according to this Informa. tion, will be at the town of Posen. TO EXTEND ARMISTICE. Plenipotentiaries Will Meet In Treves December 12. Berlin Mathias Erzberger, head of the German srmistice delegation, an- nounced that the French Government has requested the German army com- mand to designate plenipotentiaries to confer regarding the prolongation eof the armistice. The delegates will meet at Treves.
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