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VOL. LTIII.
FRENCH PEOPLE WARM
TO AMERICAN PRESIDENT
HUN SPY CAUGHT
NEAR WILSONS
German Suspected of Being a
Secret Agent Arrested Near
Murat Palace,
PRESIDENT ATTENDS CHURCH
Later Visits Lafayette’s Tomb—ls
Given a Reception at the City
Hall Surpeosing Even Satur
day’s Welcome Last
Formal Function.
Paris, Dec. 16. —A German suspect
ed of being a spy was arrested in the
neighborhood of President Wilson’s
Paris residence.
Paris, Dec. Iff. —President and Mrs.
Wilson left the Murat residence at
ten o’clock Sunday morning to attend
services at the American Presbyterian
church in the Rue de Beri.
When they left the residence drums
were beaten and a detachment of re
publican guards presented arms.
Crowds in the streets cheered the
president on his way to church.
Visits Lafayette’s Tomb.
After his return from church the
president ivsted for a few minutes
and then went to the Pic-pus ceme
tery, in the southeastern section of
Paris, to visit the tomb of Lafayette.
President Wilson placed a wreath
upon the tomb of Lafayette. Attached
to it was a card upon which was writ
ten :
“To the Memory of the Great La
fayette From a a Fellow-Servant of
Liberty.”
President Wilson at three o’clock
in the afternoon left the Murat resi
dence to call on President and Madame
Poincare at the Palace of the Elysee.
Later the president had a confer
ence with Premier Clemenceau and
Colonel House, after which he went
to afternoon services in an Episcopal
ian church.
Reception Unsurpassed in Paris.
Today’s reception for Mr. and Mrs.
Wilson in the historic city hall of
Paris surpassed in splendor even Sat
urday’s welcome of the American
executive. The reception, unsur
passed in the history of the capital,
was the last formal function tendered
the president on the occasion of his
arrival.
The streets were filled all day long
by tremendous crowds, hundreds of
thousands scrambling to get a glimpse
of the president and Mrs. Wilson.
In front of the Hotel Crillon, where
the American peace delegates are
quartered, thousands waited through
out the day watching Secretary of
State Lansing and his confreres pass
in and out.
v The evening papers publish detailed
accounts of President Wilson’s move
ments, two special articles dealing ex
clusively with the “Wilson smile.”
Premier Clemenceau is quoted as
saying:
“Paris never saw such a demonstra
tion. 1 doubt if it has ever been
equalled anywhere,”
Wilson Scouts Story.
All officialdom here is deeply Im
pressed with the influence President
Wilson is plainly having on the rank
and file of the French people. His
fellow delegates to the peace confer
ence are freely commenting on this.
Henry White, Republican member of
the peace mission, said Sunday:
“I know my French, and love them.
Yet even I am surprised at the depth
and warmth of rhe affection publicly
displayed toward Mr. Wilson. It Is
an excellent omen,”
The president’s plans are for the
moment rather haphazard, owing to
the failure of the British and Italian
premiers to reach Paris in time for
his arrival here. However, Mr. Wil
son is determined to utilize all his
available time in taking part in get
ting together meetings. He is confi
dent the sessions to he held within
the next seven days will result in a
common understanding.
Despite assertions that Great Brit
ain and France are aligned against
the United States, the president re
fuses absolutely to believe any such
thing.
Mr. Wilson is known to be confident
Premier Clemenceau is keenly sensing
public opinion and that the French
prime minister will not be a party to
any measure which would interfere
with the cordial rel; ♦ions of all the
allies,
ITALY’S WAR lOSSTNORMOUS
Declared 1,500,000 of Her Sons Fell
in Battle.
New* York, Dec. Iff.—ltaly, with a
population of only 36,000,000 and witn
5,500.000 men called to the colors, suf
fered approximately 1,500.000 casual
ties in the war, Gen. Emillio Gugliemet
ti, military attache of the Italian war
mission, announced in an address at a
Red Cross rally here. Of the 1,500.01X1
casualties. General Gugliemetti said,
approximately 500,000 were killed or
died of wounds and 500,000 were per*
ynnnenrlv disabled.
THE WATERTOWN NEWS
MARINES LOSE 4,068
Only 25 Men Captured by the
Enemy.
General . Barnett’s . Official. Report
Shows 1.160 Killed and 2.098
Wounded—23 Per Cent of Force.
Washington, Dec, iff. —The first com
plete list of marine corps units serving
with the American army in Prance
wits made public by Major General
Barnett, commandant of the n -trine
corps, in bis annual report to the sec
retary of the navy.
With the list of organization num
bers. General Barnett gives some of
ibe congratulatory messages from
French and American officers, praising
the gretit work of the marines, .and
commenting warmly upon the magnifi
cent courage and morale of the men
among whom the casualty rate was
tremendous.
Between April I and September 1
1918, the marine casualties totaled 23
per cent of their gross strength. For
ty-four officers and 1,1 iff enlisted men
were killed in action and 7ff officers
and 2,882 men were wounded.
“Only 25 men tire known to he in
rhe hands of the enemy,” General Bar
nett said “It is i.msidered that tins
constitutes a most remarkable testi
monial to the magnificent morale and
individual courage of the men.”
Attention also is called to the re
markable records made by fresh
troops who were thrown into action
against veteran enemy forces after
ynly seven weeks of training. Their
steadiness under tire, the report said,
‘is eloquent of the fine material from
which the corns is drawing its men.”
COLOGNE FEELS WAR RIGOR
Must Doff Hats and Stay in Homes Af
ter 7 P. M.
Cologne, Dec. Iff. —Cologne is now
inder rigid martial law for the first
:ime since British troops arrived here
Mid the people have begun to realize
what formal occupation is going to
mean. Contained in the list of rules
are two which the residents appear to
dislike particularly. One provides that
all males must greet British officers
and the playing of the British national
anthem, civilians by removing their
hats and men in uniform lay the usual
military salute. The other forbids res
idents to leave their homes between
the hours of seven at night and six
o’clock in the morning, with the ex
ceptions, such as clergymen and phy
sicians.
STEAMER BRINGS 9.000 MEN
Leviathan Feels Way Into New York
After Being Fog Bound.
New York. Dec. Iff. —The Leviathan,
formerly the Vaterland. first ship of
the German fleet, arrived here with
9,000 officers and men of the American
army, many of them veterans of
Pershing’s army. The Leviathan had
been fog-bound almost within sight of
the city. She was given a noisy wel
come as she felt her way slowly up the
harbor to her pier. The veterans of
the fighting forces in France were tak
en aboard at Brest and the other
troops most of them members of the
•aero squadrons that had been in train
ing in England, were taken aboard at
Liverpool.
PROTEST BY HERR KUCKHOFF
Doesn’t Want Foch’s Army in Ger
many East of Rhine.
Amsterdam, Dec. 16. —Herr Kuck
hoff, writing in the Koelnische Volks
| zeitung, protests against the “illegal
I and arbitrary action” of the Albert
government in making impossible the
assembling of the reichstag, which he
says has not been dissolved. The Ber
liner Tageblatt says:
‘‘All possible measures must be
taken to prevent Foch’s armies
marching into Germany east of the
Rhine. The reichstag is the only as
sembly with mandate to speak in the
name of the people.”
WARNING BY MMES PERSHING
Be Firm With Germans, Says Brother
of General.
I
Chicago, Dec. Iff. —“I believe the
| president was right in going to the
; peace conference,” said James Persh
i ing, brother of Gen. John .7. Pershing,
| at a meeting of the One Hundred and
Forty-ninth field artillery auxiliary
I here.
“Germany must he made to pay,”
1 continued the speaker. “Any show of
! generosity toward her would be taken
!as a sign of weakness. I want to see
i every German newspaper in America
i confiscated and every German text
I book burned.”
—
German Transport Sinks.
i Copenhagen. Dec. 16.—Sixteen hun
; dred German soldiers were rescued
when the Germ- . transport Worms
was sunk between Sweden and Bern
holm island, according to a Stockholm
i dispatch. The cause of the sinking is
j not given
The Work of the Red Cross must go on
Distress calls ! Now, the Red Cross
The misery and sick- calls!
ness and destitution The annual Christmas
throughout the world Roll Call of members
make relief work echoes throughout the
necessary, on a scale land this week.
never before dreamed When your name is
jp; °** called, you are going
CT When distress calls, to answer “Here!” — /Mf H
a the Greatest Mother because you know U
"m in the \World answers your duty, and you’ll
i d ° l '- c/
| out the Red Cross
fl *4tod ur O - all you need is a heart dnd a dollar
THIS SPACE CONTRIBUTED BY
WATERTOWN NEWS PUBLISHING CO.
FORMAL MOB
KILLS SLAYER OF
THE FRES 003 T
Leader of Revolt of Year Ago
Shot at Railway
Station.
STRUCK BY T iREE BULLETS
Doctor Paes, After Serving as Pro
visional President, Was Formally
Elected to That Office by Di
rect Universal Suffrage.
London, Dec. 16 —Dr. Sidonio Paes
president of Portugal, was shot and
killed by an assassin shortly before
midnight while he was in a railway
station at Lisbon.
Advices from Lisbon reporting tin
assassination say that he was struck
by three bullets.
The president’s assailant, named
Jeetne, was killed by the crowd.
Led Revolution Year Ago.
Dr. Sidonio Paes, reported assas
sinated in Lisbon, had wielded a tre
mendous political power in Portugal
for years.
It was under his leadership that a
revolutionary force a year ago this
month overthrew the government of
Dr, Alfonso Costa and confiscated con
trol.
Doctor Paes was named provisional
president and last April was formally
lected to that office by direct univer
sal suffrage.
Life Constantly Menaced.
While his regime moved under fair
ly normal conditiens, the president’s
life was constantly menaced by agents
of political factious opposing him.
He was fired on December 6 by an
unidentified man, but tlie shot missed
Its mark. Other [ lots against bis life
were reported um-n rifled frequently.
On one occasion t lie police of
Oporto raided a house and seized a
score of political conspirators, together
with 63 bombs.
Ex-Minister to Germany.
Prior to his assumption of the pres
idency of Portugal, Doctor Paes was
Portuguese minister to Germany. It
was reported, but without substantia
tion, that the following revolutionary
uprising was the result of German
propaganda to prevent Portugal from
rendering assistance to the allies.
Doctor Paes’ first official action as
president was to decree religions and
political toleration and grant am
nesty to all political offenders, except
<*brtain members of the old republican
government.
WATERTOWN, WISCONSIN, MONDAY DECEMBER 16, 1918.
A. BRUCE BIELASKI
if '
New photograph of A. Bruce Blel
aski, chief of the bureau of investiga
tion of the department of justice, who
has been telling much of the doings of
German agents and their friends in
this country.
eir; Hdowi bate
Postmaster General Burleson
Cuts Night Tariff,
Charges to Be Made for Long-Distance
Calls When Party Desired
Not Reached.
__ Washington, Dec. 10. —Postmaster
General Burleson announced a reduc
tion in night long-distance telephone
rates, and a charge for all long-dis
tance calls whether the individual
called is reached or not.
The new rates tire effective Janu
ary 21.
Between 8:30 and 12 p. rn. the rate
is to be one-half of the day rate, and
between 12 p. m. and 4:00 a. m. one
fourth the day rate.
All rates apply where connection Is
established, hut 25 per cent additional
is to he charged when a particular
person is demanded to answer a call
and does answer. Under present
practice no charge is made unless the
party demanded answers. This has
led to abuse, the committee reports.
Similarly when a call is made for a
particular person and the operator re
port* that the nelson called la. not u. I
the telephone or refuses to talk 25 per
cent of the regular rate is charged.
A “station-to-station” service is es
tablished. Rates are based on this
service.
PEACE MEET IN TWO STAGES
First Brief, Second Period May Last
Two Years.
London, Dec. 10. —The second stage
of the peace negotiations probably will
last two years.
This forecast conies to the corre
spondent from a diplomatic source
well informed about the work ahead
of the negotiators. Indeed, most diplo
mats agree that everything points to
the peace negotiations having to be di
vided into two stages. The first will
be brief. It will concern Itself primar
ily with the concluding of a pact by
which demobilization and reconstruc
tion in all war zones can be promptly
undertaken.
The second stage, however, will nec
esarily take up a long period of time,
since it will be devoted to the wider
issues of the European settlement and
the formation of a league of nations,
MANY YANKEES ARE MAIMED
190.000 War Heroes to Be Cared for
by Government.
New York, Dec. 16. —General Per
shing’s announcement that more than
58.000 of the expeditionary forces had
given their lives in the nation’s cause
and that 14,000 others, exclusive of
prisoners, were missing, has created a
profound impression. But the human
touch of almost 190,000 wounded, 16,-
000 of whom already have been re
turned in various stages of helpless
ness to their native shores, promises
to give the country its first real ap
preciation of the sacrifices of its sons
who followed the flag on foreign soil.
The war department has arranged
for medical, recreational and educa
tional attention, whose aim is to re
store these maimed heroes, as fully as
possible, to physical comfort and finan
cial independence.
ADVANCE YANKS AT POST
Spread Out Like Great Fan East of
Rhine Crossings.
With the American Army of Occu
pation, Dec. 16. —The objectives of
the American army of occupation were
reached Sunday at various points.
Spreading out like a great fan, the
advanced units of the Americans took
up their positions along the boundary
of a 30-kilometer semicircle pivoting
on Coblenz.
The Thirty-second division is occu
pying the bridgehead on the left, the
Second division comes next, while the
First division is on the right of the
Second division. Two French divisions
are occupying a part of the bridgehead,
their position being on the extreme
right of the Americans.
NAVY GUNNERS AVENGE
ASSAULT BY MEXICANS
FINANCE GERMAN REDS
Russians Furnish Money to Buy
Arms for Civil War.
Traveler Says Every One In Berlin
Has Firearms—Used on Slight
est Provocation.
The Hague, Dec. 16. —The following
special telegram from Berlin has been
received :
“Germania asserts Herr Barth and
Herr Haase apparently received
money from a Russian source to buy
arms for civil war,
“A traveler, who returned from Ber
lin Tuesday and saw last Friday’s
disturbances, described conditions as
dangerous. Every one has firearms
and discharges them on the slightest
provocation.
“Many families have their own ma
chine guns. Berlin shelters two hos
tile armies, one following Llebknecht,
the other the government.
“Llebknecht recently lost ground.
Those who support him today, how
ever, go over to the government to
morrow, and vice versa. Christian
workers, comprising Catholics and
others, are striving with the moderate
socialists to defeat him.
“Anything like transquillity cannot
be expected for months. Only last
week, while Llebknecht’s followers
were holding a meeting, his enemies
attempted to burn down the hall. A
few arrests were made, but the gov
ernment was cautious lest It let Lieb
knecht accuse It of desiring a counter
revolution.
“I do not think a counter-revolution
can succeed, but frequently I hear
people say things are worse now than
when the kaiser reigned, because they
had more food.”
ANOTHER HOWL FROM HUNS
Doctor Erzberger Again Complains of
Severity of Armistice.
London, Dec. Iff. —Dr. Mathias Erz
berger, civilian head of the German
armistice commission, has again com
plained of the severity of the armis
tice conditions, according to a number
of messages received from Amsterdam
and other places relating to the Ger
man situation.
Erzberger asks for the raising of
the blockade, the liberation of German
prisoners of war and the immediate
opening of peace negotiations.
Marshal Foch is declared to have re
fused recognition of the soldiers’ and
workmen’s councils.
The Berlin strike has reached seri
ous proportions, according to an Am
sterdam telegram. Only two papers
have appeared, reduced to the size of
small leaflets, and 850,tXX) workmen
have stopped work.
AIRPLANE’ - STAMPS^ARE OUT
New Issue Rectangular in Shape aid
Orange Color.
Washington, Dec. 16. —Anew 6-cent
postage stamp, intended primarily for
airplane mail service but valid for all
purposes for which stamps of the reg
ular issue are used, has just been an
nounced by the post office department.
It is rectangular in shape and of Gr
ange color. The central design is a
mail airplane in flight. Triangular oiv
naments appear in the two upper cor
ners. It will cover the single rate of
postage on airplane letter mail.
The new IG-cent stamp for special
delivery and the 24-cent stamp for let
ters weighing in excess of three and
not more than four ounces for airplane
transmission, are now available.
SMILING WAITRESSES TO STAY
All New York Waiters to Be Gone in
60 Days.
New York, Dec. 16.—The smiling girt
waitress has come to stay and the
waiter is doomed on America’s great
“White Way” and its byways.
Oscar, of the Waldorf-Astoria, whose
word is usually accepted as flmil in
such matters, says so. In fact, he In
formed those gathered at a meeting of
hotelmen that there would not be a
waiter in a leading New York hotel La
60 days.
The expressed satisfaction of pa-.
Irons with the change In the estab
lished order of things is set forth as
one of the reasons for the .women’s in
vasions of the palaces of food, spend
thrifts and tips.
SEND 11,400 MEN TO DEATH
Austrian Military Tribunal Announcee
Number of Executions.
Amsterdam, Dec. 16. —The supreme
military tribunal at Vienna has an
nounced that 11,400 persuns were sen
tenced to death by Austrian military
tribunals during the war and executed,
according to a Berlin dispatch to the
Handelsblad.
The state council of German Aus
tria, according to a dispatch from
Vienna, has decided to send a note to
all foreign governments demanding a
plebiscite for the self-determination of
the populations of Bohemia, Moravia
and Silesia.
U.S.BLUEJACKETS
FIGHT IN MEXICO
Navy Gunners of Armed Guard
Kill Mexican Soldiers at
Tampico.
YANKS SAIL AFTER BATTLE
Captain of Ship Refused Mexico's De
mand for Surrender of the Men—
State Department and U. 8.
Ambassador Start Quiz.
New York, Dec. 16.—1n a brief bat
tle between American navy gunners
and a party of Mexican custom guards
at Tampico on November 28 the Amer
i ans shot aud killed the captain of
the Mexicans and mortally wounded
another Mexican, It was learned upon
the arrival here of the Ward line
steamer Monterey, upon which the
navy gvancrs are stationed.
U. S. Commanders in Probe.
The Mexican authorities at Tampico
demanded the surrender of the Amer
ican gunners. The Monterey’s captain
refused.
Two American gunboats were In
the harbor and their commanders
conducted an inquiry.
Twenty-four hours later the Mon
terey sailed, carrying the American
gunners, and, according to the ship’s
passengers, the Mexican authorities
had agreed that the Incident was one
which required diplomatic settlement.
The navy gunners on their arrival
refused to discuss the fight and went
Immediately to the New York navy
yard to make a report.
The Monterey’s passengers said a
dozen Mexican soldiers had attacked
the chief gunner’s mate, Berry, while
he was returning to the vessel after
going ashore at 5 a, tn.
Berry called on his crew for help af
ter the soldiers had Inflicted a scalp
wound which later required 22 stitches.
The crew went ashore unarmed, and,
according to the passengers, was fired
upon by the soldiers.
They hurried back to the Monterey,
seized their stacked arms and returned
the fire of the Mexicans, all of whom
fled except the captain, named Her
nandez, who was killed, and a soldier
who was shot and died of his wound.
State Department in Quiz.
Washington, Dec. 16. —The Incident
resulting from the clash between the
armed guard of the American steamer
Monterey and Mexican soldiers at
Tampico Is being settled through dip
lomatic negotiations between the Mex
ican government and the American
ambassador at Mexico City, the state
department announced.
Department's Statement.
“The department of state la inves
tigating a clash that occurred between
Mexican soldiers and a number of
armed guards of the American steam
er Monterey, which occurred at Tam
pico on November 28. The Mexicans
started the disturbance.
“Department of state advices are to
the effect that the affair occurred early
in the morning, that the American In
charge of the guard had gone ashore,
was attacked by the Mexican soldiers,
and that he was Injured by the Mexi
cans. One of the Mexican soldiers
was killed and another Injured In the
disturbance.
Left to Diplomats.
“The Tampico authorities sought to
have the armed guard aboard the ship
surrendered to them. The whole sub
ject, howover, w’as left to diplomatic
settlement and Is being taken up be
tween the state department and the
Mexican government through the
American embassy at Mexico City.”
IRISH IN APPEALED WILSON
Chicago Convention Cables Resolu
tions in Ireland’s Behalf.
Chicago, Dec. 16. —At a mass con
vention held under auspices of the
committee of one hundred, acting for
all Irish societies In Chicago, resolu
tions were adopted and ordered cabled
to President Wilson in Paris, urging
him to Intercede In behalf of Ireland at
the coming peace conference. Ad
dresses were delivered by Archbishop
George W. Mundelein, former Gov. Ed
ward F. Dunn, Mayor Thompson and
Congressman Gallagher, the latter au
thor of the congressional resolution
now In the hands of the committee on
forlegn relations, calls on Great
Britain to grant self-determination to
Ireland.
“RED FUG” OFFICES RAIDED
Ebert Government Shows First Signs
of Real Stability.
London, Dec. 16.—The Ebert govern
ment, according to information reach
ing here, has raided the offices of the
newspaper, Die Rote Fahne (Red
Flag), Berlin’s principal radical organ.
This action Is regared by diplomats
here as the first signs of real stability
on the part of the German government
and as Indicating that Ebert has de
cided upon sterner measures against
tbe Spartacus group.
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