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WEATHER
Cloudy to-day, with ?now by night;
rain or ?now Tp*sday; north
cast winds.
Full Report on Pftgt*
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New York Tribuno Ine.l
MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1918
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?nronvri"11 Greater ?w York avnd 1 TaBKECEiTTB
xww tfc',,TB( within commuting di?t^?r? ? K'.t* *amrs
Mauretania;
Arrives With
3,999 Troops
From Overseas
'When Do We Eat?' Re?
turning Soldier? Yell
in Greeting Mayor's
Committee
?
Land To-day, Then
Go to Camp Mills
Parade I? Unlikely, but
Hylan Asks Permis?
sion to Give Men
Reception
Ablaze with lights and with her
fecks crowded with figures in olive
drab who peered steadily ahead for the
first glimpse of the light that shines I
on Bedloe's Island, the stately Maure?
tania slipped through the Narrows last
night and came to anchor off Tomp
k:nsrille, bringing back the first de?
tachment of returning American troops
8 599 strong, most of whom are mem- !
bor? of aero squadrons.
All the way up the big ship had been
shouting hilarious gossip with her '?
wireless in response to messages of ;
welcome which Mayor Hylan and other i
city officials sent from the police boat ?
Patrol, with which#they were on their !
way to welcome tho soldiers home. I
But the soldiers were not in a mood j
for serious message.-.
They were thoroughly frivolous and i
replied with reiterated statements of I
their thirst and appetite arift queries
as to whether New York had gone dry
yet.
Won't Visit Manhattan
morning,; escorted again by city j
officials and by a welcoming committee ;
from the Aero Club of America, the !
Mauretania will move up t)ie Hudson
to her pier. But her passengers will
not set foot on Manhattan. Ferryboats
will transfer them from the Maure
tania to Long Island City, whence they
w il depart straightway for their de
tion point. Camp Mills.
York is proud of every one of
you," ran the message which Mayor
Ji. an sent by wireless to the soldiers,
welcomes you with its warmest
v.. c ? ': ? '. "
as the Patrol drew closet* to the
j. : ? hip and swept a searchlight
beam across tiie fretful black water up j
the lofty flanks of the Mauretania, still
?_: camouflaged, and squarely into
eyes of the olive drab throng
I ered at her rails, other messages
were shouted by those on the police
boat.
"Welcome home!" shouted Rodman
Wanamakei through a megaphone. "A
greater welcome awaits you later on!"
"New Yorkers welcome you; you are
the finest so'?'' ? i on earth!" was the
contribution of John A. Leach, Acting
Police Conn:, issioner.
"The ?Mayor's Committee welcomes
you home!" yelled (?rover Whalen, the
Mayor'.; secret a i '..
Want "Chow," Not Praise
And then the reply, the first message
of returning American troops to the
folks at home, came back in stentorian
tones: .
"When do we eat !"
.Almost coincident with the first was
the second answer of the troops, which
?was shouted by a dozen or more in
unison :
"Oh, how dry we are!"
And often and anxiously was the
query repeated: "Has New York gone
dry yet ?"
All the while the spotlight kept zig?
zagging up and down and from stem
to stern of the .Mauretania, as the
whistle of the Patrol blew greeting
blasts and the lines of khaki clad boys
: ( i'ed back their responses.
?\dmiral Mayo was taken off the
Mauretania on the Sectional Patrol 444.
He was met by Lieutenant Commander
Frost and Captain Sterling, of Admiral
1 her's staff.
There was a rousing welcome for the
.admiral when he walked down the
gplai k to go aboard the smaller
boat.
"i ome on board!" yelled some of
the boys as the Patrol neared the ship.
The demand was insistent, and mem?
bers of the committee waited no longer.
'I hrough the stream of the searchlight
playing on an open port, door a gang?
plank was pushed, and across it scram?
bled the committee, headed by Grover
Whalen, the Mayor's secretary; Mr.
Wanamaker and Acting Commissioner
Leach.
"Why, hello. Bob Moran," shouted
Private John M. Singer, a bombing
squad instructor, who used to be a
'Mounted patrolman in the Westchester
station, as the acting President of the
Board of Aldermen reached the open
doorway.
"And hello, Inspector Daly," he cried,
?rasping the hand of the chief inspect
ov- "You used to he my old inspector."
^That was the first greeting given to
Continued on poyi: four
Six U-Boats Coming
To U. S, on Show Tour
Tribune London Bureau
LONDON, Dec. 1.?Six surren?
dered German submarines
soon will arrive in America for
show purpose?. Others are being
sent to France and Italy and the
rest to various ports of England.
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Police Aero Corps,
To Work Up Among
Clouds, Is Formed
Section Is First of Kind in
World; Col. Thompson
at Head
In anticipation of a day when it will
be necessary to deal with bandits of
the air, the New York Police Depart?
ment, through the efforts of Special
Deputy Commissioner Rodman Wana
maker, has organized an aviation sec?
tion. The announcement was made at
an Aero Club luncheon given yesterday
by members to Colonel Jefferson
Thompson, who is to be chief of the
new service.
Although the police do not expect
to be summoned immediately to chase
and fight criminals amone: the clouds,
officials pointed out a practical work
that may be carried out at once. The
services of aviators were found invalu?
able during the disaster at the Morgan
munitions plant near South Amboy,
N. J. Aviation detachments will be
held for such work and also will patrol
the rivers and bays of the greater city.
The new section was formed with
the approval of Commissioner Enright,
Inspector John F. Dwyer and other of?
ficials of the department. Special
Deputy Commissioner Allan A. Ryan, a
veteran in aeronautics, was associated
with Deputy Commissioner Wanamaker
in forming the new police branch.
Colonel Thompson, who will have
charge of the police fliers, was a
founder of the Aero Club of America
and has taken an active interest in air
affairs since the first 'planes took on
from the ground at the beginning oi
the century.
Rodman Wanamaker is another pio?
neer. He brought the first Bleriot
monoplane to the United States ir
1909, and at one time ? owned severa!
balloon?. He organized a transatlantic
flight in 1914, but the trip was pre?
vented by the outbreak of war.
Deputy Commissioner Ryan has beet
a life member of the Aero Club. Hi
had charge of the first internationa
aviation meet, held at Belmont Pari
in 1910, and contributtd a prize o;
$10,000 for a flight around the Statu?
of Liberty.
New York is the first city in tin
world to form an aviation branch o
the police.
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Chileans Would Annes
Peru's Lost Province?
SANTIAGO, Chile, Dec. 1: A grea
patriotic demonstration, directe?
i against Peru, was held here yesterda;
? and continued until midnight. It wa
; the largest ever seen in Santiago an
j included almost the entire populatioi
j between the ages of sixteen and sixtj
Resolutions to be .sent to the. na
\ tional government demanding the in
corparation into Chile of Tacna an
1 Arica and an immediate increase i
; the army and navy were everywher
1 greeted with cheers. A feature of th
demonstration was the presence of th
' veterans of '79 who captured thes
provinces from Peru.
The newspapers comment on th
fact that hundreds of small Argentir
flags were carried in the processions.
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Germane Admit Layinj
11 Mines Off Virgini;
ONANCOOK, Va., Dec. 1.?Sever
; mine sweepers arrived off the Virgin
i coast to-day to search for mines la
! by the German submarines in the
I raids on this side of the Atlantic la
i summer.
Three are said to have been found
the points designated by the Germi
officials in accordance with the armi
tice terms. The Germans reported th
! eleven mines had been laid in the v
cinity of Winter Water Shoal Light.
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Eight More U-Boats
Received by Allie
HARWICH, Dec. 1.?Eight more Ge
j man submarines surrendered to-da
; making a total of 122 which have be?
' taken over bv the Allies.
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14 German Merchant Ships
Seized by Allies in Black Se
PARIS, Dec. I. The Allied nav
! squadron, which arrived off Sebaston
a few days ago, took possession of tl
Russian battleship Volga, one r
stroyer and live German submarines.
Fourteen German merchantmen w<
found in Black Sea ports, and will
used by the Allies as transports.
WHEN OUR BOYS RETUR
j
? Will Von Be Able to Speak to Thrm
French ?
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?AC j-U?-. AiivSm
Davison Sees
World Famine
Drawing Near
Declares Red Cross Faces
Combat With Winter of
Hunger and Disease
Says Governments
Must Bear Burden
Every American Worker Is
Expected to Continue Ef?
forts Long After Peace
Famine and disease will stalk
through the world this winter, in the
opinion of Henry P. Davison, chairman
of the War Work Council of the Ameri?
can Red Cross, who has just returned
from a three months' trip In Europe.
Mr. Davison predicted yesterday, in
a statement issued through the Red
Cross, that distress will be so wide?
spread that volunteer organizations
will be powerless to relieve It and the
chief burden must be borne by gov?
ernments.
Mr. Davison during his recent tour
! of inspection of Red Cross activities
abroad visited England, France, Bel
', gium, Italy and Switzerland.
"That there will be an appealing
' cry of humanity from all over the
world no one can doubt," said Mr.
Davison. "The needs of France, Bel?
gium, Italy, Russia and the Balkans
; will not terminate with the formal
declaration of p?.ace. A hard winter
is ahead. Exposure and the hardships
of war and the dislocated industrial
conditions of the world have produced
hunger, want and disease.
Economic Conditions Bad
"Politically the outlook for a new
and better world is bright, but the
economic conditions are ominous,
i There will be such distress in the
'? world that it cannot be met by volun
1 tary organizations. Governments
themselves must bear the chief bur?
den, and I am confident that co?pera
', lion between the governments may be
! relied upon in an endeavor to meet
j this wholesale work of relief which
? will be needed.
"In addition to this, there will, how?
ever, be the necessity and opportunity
for supplementary work, which Red
Cross organizations throughout the
world can do, should do and must do,
? Certainly, the women of America, work?
ing through the Red Cross chapters,
and the women in other countries able
? to do similar work, will find theii
hearts dictating more than their hands
! can do. I hope no woman will think
! of relaxing activity or her endeavor to
| meet the calls for suplies of whatever
character as issued from Red Cross
headquarters at. Washington until i
Continued or page seven
Congress, Still Vexed but Eager,
Awaits Wilson's Address To-day;
Britain Sees Plot Behind Abdication
Gen.Pershing
Is in Prussia
With Army
Establishes Headquarters at
Tr?ves and Americans
Patrol Villages
General Brown Made
Military Governor
| Gen. H. A. Smith in Charge
of Civil Affairs in Oldest
City of Germany
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY OF
j OCCUPATION, Dec. 1 (By The Asso
| ciated Press).-?American troops crossed
? the frontier into Prussia at daylight
I behind the German rearguards. Tr?ves
I is the most important city thus far oc?
cupied. American troops also are pe?
trolling scores of villages.
I General Pershing is in the immedi?
ate vicinity to observe the operations.
I His advance headquarters will be es?
tablished at Tr?ves, where General
Preston Brown will be military gov?
ernor and General Harry A. Smith In
charge of civil affairs.
The advance to-day averaged twelve
miles.
Oldest Town in Germany
Tr?ves is on the right bank of the
Moselle River, fifty-seven miles south?
west of Coblenz. It is perhaps the
I j oldest town in Germany, and is rich in
. | Roman relics. Among the main ob?
jects of interest in the town are the
cathedral, which is one of the oldest
, i in Germany, and the Provincial Mu?
seum, with a fine collection of an
. tiquities.
, | Tr?ves became an archi?piscopal see
; in the ninth century, and the arch
, bishops rose to the position of princes
. and occupied a place among the im
i perial electors. Near the close of the
i sixteenth century it was recognized as
Continued on page three
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Four U, S Generals
First Into Prussia
Tribune Cable Service
WITH THE AMERICAN
ARMY OF OCCUPATION,
GERMANY, Sunday, Dec. 1.?
Riding: at the head of their
troops, Generals Parker, La
Jeune, Howes and Laasiter, of
the 1st, 2d, 3d and 82d divisions,
were the first Americans to enter
Germany officially as the army of
occupation.
Entering Rhenish Prussia at
sunrise, the troops, en route to
the Rhine, with troop columns in
perfect order and American flags
waving conspicuously, made an
! inspiring spectacle.
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London Goes Wild
In Noisy Welcome
To Marshal" Foch
| "Good Old Tiger!" Shouted to
Clemenceau on Visit to
Discuss Peace
LONDON, Dec. 1. -Marshal Foch,
M. Clemenceau, the French Premier;
I Vittorio Orlando, the Italian Premier,
i and Baron Sonnino, the Italian For?
eign Minister, were received by Pre
, mier Lloyd George, the Duke of Con
i naught and other high officials on their
j arrival in London this afternoon.
I Troops lined the route to the French
? Embassy, where M. Clemenceau was
immediately taken, and to the hotels
? where the others are staying.
All the members of the. party were
? enthusiastically received, but Marshal
j Foch came in for particular attention.
Hundreds of Americans on leave aug?
mented the roar after roar of cheers
for Foch as he drove through the
streets. The marshal had his hand at
salute almost constantly. The cheer?
ing was punctuated frequently with
the cry of "Good old tiger!" for Clem?
enceau. Trafalgar Square, and other
vantage points were crowded with
i people.
The visit is purely for the. arrange
! ment of certain peace preliminaries.
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Jews in Vienna Ask
Wilson for Protection
AMSTERDAM, Dec. 1.?According to
the Jewish Correspondence Bureau at
The Hague, Entente officers have gone
? to Lemberg from Budapest to investi?
gate the recent attacks upon Jews.
The Jewish community at Vienna
) has made "an urgent appeal to Presi?
dent Wilson to protect them.
Wilhelm Is
Acting Only
For Himself
Personal Renunciation of
Throne Leaves Others of
Family Unhampered
Ex-Rulers Planning
To Regain Crowns
Conference in Switzerland
of Austro-German Agents
Viewed With Suspicion
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Tribune London Bureau
LONDON^ Dec. 1.?The ex-Kaiser's
j abdication is now a formal, definite
fact, but the form of his renunciation
1 does not satisfy requirements here un?
less the actual text differs from the
? cabled reports. The great objection lies
I in the fact that the document appears
| to concern the Kaiser only, and says
I nothing about the other members of
i the royal house, while its form indi
j cates that the previously expressed in
; tentlon of abdicating amounted to mere
? temporizing with the Allies.
Much significance attaches to the
simultaneous movements, apparently
? rapidly growing, aiming at the restora
i strict legality than to urgent political
! r?gime.
Crown Conference In Session
At present a conference going on in
| Switzerland between representatives of
the previously ruling groups in Austria
| and Germany, over which the Crown
! Prince of Bavaria is presiding, is
! viewed here with grave suspicion.
The altered status of the Kaiset
i makes no difference, however, in the
! question of extradition. It is under?
stood here, although it has not yet been
j stated officially, that all the principa:
I allied governments agree they are
S legally entitled to demand that he be
! given up.
Holland Expected to Consent
The War Cabinet here will confei
with French and Italian representatives
to-morrow on the memorandum sub?
mitted by British law officers, who
have taken the view that surrender
would be required from Holland, with
the usual formalities of international
law, but the request is based less on
legal arguments than upon carefully
formulated reasons pointing out the
I necessity of this course.
There is little reason to expect that
Holland will place serious obstacles
in the way. A representative Dutch
view is found in the "Haagsche Post,"
of Amsterdam.
"Let there be no juridical subtleties.
i Expel the Kaiser from the country im?
mediately without more ado. We must
not make the country an asylum for
criminals. After the Bavarian revela?
tions, it is certain that the Kaiser is
one of the worst criminals."
When surrendered the Allies will
place the Kaiser in a place of safety
pending trial by an international court.
Kaiser Now Trying
To Fasten Blame for
The War on Hollweg
COPENHAGEN, Nov. 30 (By The As?
sociated Press.).?Further revelations
showing that former Emperor William
of Germany is seeking to escape re?
sponsibility for bringing on the war are
contained in an article by Dr. Georg
Wegener appearing in the Cologne "Ga?
zette," recounting a conversation the
wr.ter had with the Emperor just be?
fore he fled. In this interview the Em?
peror attempted to shift the blame for
the world conflict to the shoulders of
Dr. Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg.
former Imperial Chancellor, and Gott?
lieb von Jagow, former Minister of For?
eign Affairs.
"Against my will they sent me to
Norway." William is quoted as having
said. "I did not wish to undertake the
voyage, because the gra ity of the situ?
ation after the murder of Archduke
Franeis Ferdinand was clear at first
sight.
No Reporte From Home
"But the Chancellor said to me:
" 'Your majesty must take this voy?
age in order to maintain peace. If your
majesty remains here it. undoubtedly
means war, and the world will lay to
your charge responsibility for this
war.'
"Well, I then undertook the vojage.
During all this time I received no re?
ports from my government concerning
current events. Strictly speaking, I
only learned from Norwegian news?
papers of what was occurring in the
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Wilson's Plans Kept
Secret to the Last
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (By
The Associated Press).?
No information regarding Presi?
dent Wile-n's departure for
France had been permitted to be?
come public up to to-night.
Unofficially it was said the
President plans to leave Washing
] ton Tuesday night for New York, j
! where he would board the liner ?
| George Washington. It was said i
the liner would put to sea Wednes- \
day.
There were other reports, how
i ever, that the President expected
to go to New York on the yacht
Mayflower, leaving Washington
. immediately after he addresses
Congress to-morrow at 1 o'clock, |
but generally little credence was
given these reports.
jlnter-Allied
Board Urged
For All Time
-
! | Commission Would Act on
Maritime, Financial and
J Food Problems
PARIS, 3)ec. 1 (By Th? Associated
Press).?One of the larger projects be
I ing matured as a preliminary to the
I Peace Congress is the creation of a
j permanent Inter-Allied Commission, on
? | which Great Britain, France, Italy and
4 the United States will be represented
Jon all maritime, financial and food
i j questions.
The project has been fully outlined,
? I and it will be among1 the main subjects
i before the supreme council of pre
. miers which is about to assemble in
, London.
I Such a commission would take the.
. place of the three temporary commit
! i tees now in operation. These tem
! porary committees are the inter-Allied
j maritime committee, on which Ray
\ mond R, Stevens and George Rublee,
i of the United States Shipping Board,
'?are the American members; the inter
' ! Allied financial committee, on which
1 '- Oscar to Crosby, Assistant Secretary
: of the Treasury, represents America,
, and the food committee, on which Louis
P. Sheldon, representative of the Amer
i ican Food Administrative Board in the
? United Kingdom, is the American mem
: ber.
The functions of all three of these
; committees would be merged into a
; permanent inter-Allied commission, ac?
cording to the proposal now being con?
sidered. While practical advantages in
a permanent inter-Allied commission
I generally are admitted by diplomats
here, opposition has developed to some
j of its features.
One objection urged by experts is
that a permanent inter-Allied commis?
sion ?would be the creation of a body
which might be represented as making
unnecessary a league of nations.
Advocates of a league of nations
urge that it should bo broad enough to
include representatives from all na?
tions, whereas the proposed permanent
j commission would be confined to four
I great powers.
Another objection raised in some
; quartern is that the European powers
i would hold three-fourths of the influ?
ence in the determination of questions
i >
coming before the permanent commis
j sion.
These objections, however, are con
i sidered to be matters of detail, and the
j prevailing view in the highest quarters
; is that a permanent commission has a
good chance of being reali/.-.-d.
$110,000,000 Missed
After Enver Departs
GENEVA, Nov. 28. Coincident with
! the departure from Constantinople of
j Enver Pacha, the former Turkish Min
! ister of War, and his colleagues, the
disappearance of $110,000,000 of pub
; lie funds placed in various banks was
noticed, according to the "Tribune," of
Geneva.
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City Council of Paris
Will Welcome Wilson
PARIS, Dee. 1. -The Municipal Coun?
cil of Paris has decided to go in a body,
on the arrivrjl of President Wilson, to
i present to him the good wishes and
I welcome of the people of Paris
Th" council express-ed a wish that
?ie day be made a national holiday*.
Taft Against
Heckling of
President on
Peace Plans
Advises Republicans
Any Questioning of
Motives Would Re?
flect on Party
Hot Debate Will
Follow Address
Both Houses to Start
Airing Grievances Im?
mediately Executive
Has Departed
By Carter Field
! WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.?Not since
! the message urging a declaration of
; war against Germany has there been
\ such interest in an approaching address
? of the President to Congress as there
is in the one he will deliver at 1 o'clock
; to-morrow afternoon. As the Chief
j Executive has consulted virtually no
j body, there is no information in usu
I ally well informed quarters as to just
, what the President's peace ideas are.
I and hence the eagerness to hear what
explanation he may make of them to
I morrow. 4
j It is regarded to-njght as virtually
certain that in addition to whatever
the President may say about recon?
struction legislation, he will outline
! 1 is ideas about the p : ?There
; is a very earnest desire th;.' he shall
tell the country just how far he wishes
1 to go on the league of nations idea,
about which there are many theories,
' and just what he means by the free?
dom of tne seas.
Unlikely to Question Him
While then? lias been sonic taik of
' members of the Senate or House rising
in their places and interrogating the
President about these and other peace
questions if he is not specific enough
to please them, it is not believed to?
night that any one will actually make
; this move. Parliamentary authorities
j in both houses say that such a
j procedure would be absolutely out of
: order, as the President is not a mem?
ber of either house, but merely comes
into the House chamber as a guest for
, the purpose of delivering- his message.
There are many members in both
houses, however, who wish heartily
that the English custom of being per?
mitted to cross-question the Adminis
I tratior, through its ministers, ob?
tained, so that they could force ex?
planations from the President in
public that they have not been able
to obtain in any other mariner.
This is especially true of those Sena?
tors and Representatives who do not
believe that the President is planning
to tell Congress any details of his
peace plans at all, but will keen the
country in suspense until he has act?
ually presented his views to the peace
conference.
Congress Anxious for Facts
Some of the President's friends
think he will pursue the policy of
silence as to peace aims to-morrow,
point out that it might not be diplo?
matic to set forth his views in this
country in advance of telling them to
the peace conference at Versailles.
This view rinds little favor in most
Congressional circles, however, where
the criticism of the President for hav
ing kept silent so long that it will be
a'n.o-t impossible, even if he speaks
clearly on this subject '.??-morrow, to
get the reaction of the country before
he starts across th? ocean
In the Tuesday morning papers, how?
ever, it is confidently predicted, the
Presid? nt will be al ! a lot
of opinions about h:s peace pians, or
of his failure to talk about them,
whichever may be the cas. \
as the joint session of Congres
vened to rear him adjourns, the Senate
is expected to plunge into a fiery dis
cushion of peace plans, the League of
Nations, the failure to appoint any rep
resentatives of the Senate on the peace
commission and half a dozen other
questions about which sorenes exists.
Taft Against Interrogation
Before the President haa got far
down the Potomac on the Mayflower
1 with the official party the wireless e*n