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PRESIDENT TO VISIT ENGLAND I
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19. A resolution asking thej
f state department to inform the senate whether the American '
peace commissioners are advocating destruction of German
j warships or other enemy property and, if so, by what author-1
J jty, was introduced today by Minority Leader Ledge and,
J without discussion, referred to the foreign relations com-
mittee.
; ('By the Associated Press
J PARIS, Wednesday, Dec. 18. The reason given for President
f Wilson's desire to make an early visit to England, it is understood,
is that he has found it might be necessary to return to Washington
i much sooner than he had expected, Whether this means a change in ,
jj the president's entire program, including his journey to Italy, is not
I known here.
jj An interesting feature of the president's intended visit begin-
ning next Thursday is that the present British cabinet is technically .
inot in a position to speak for the government until the result of the
recent elections are known December 28.
j There is little doubt, however, that Premier Lloyd George and !
if his assistants have been re-elected. ' j
,s !
LONDON, Wednesday, Dec! 18. If President Wilson arrives "in
j England Thursday of next week, as it is intimated he will, he will
:! find England holiday making, as the day after Christmas is "boxing I
i day." Throughout the United Kingdom-business will be iX a stand' j
j still December 26. I
' The president also will find that many people are away from I
if London because this year many business houses are giving their em- J
yployes a week's vacation to enable them to spend the holidays in the
I country
King George, it was announced today, has cancelled the arrange-,
'rinent which provided that he should go to Sandringham palace for
'Christmas, and he will remainin, London instead-towelcome President;
Wilson, rrfr v. yvV
f PARIS, Dec. 19. Premier Clemenceau and.Oolonel E. M. .House!
visited President Wilson this morning at his Paris residence, tho I
f Murat mansion. i
The French premier and the president were engaged for more
. than an hour in an intimate discussion.
s Colonel House also conferred with the president during the morn
iing. (j The president's engagements for the day caused him to postpone
. this plans for recreation, but he hoped to take a short drive with Mrs.
j Wilson. An invitation has been extended the president to visit Lon-
don at Christmas time, but it is improbable that he will accept as he
j has fully planned to dine Christmas day with the American forces in
j the field.
(By the Associated Press)
A PARIS, Dec. 19. King Victor Emmanuel of Italy arrived here
I jtoday and was welcomed by President Poincare, Premier Clemenceau
.and other ministers. The king was accompanied by his son, the prince
-of Piedmont.
;' The Italian ruler and his heir arrived at the Bois de Bologne sta
tion. Notwithstanding unsettled weather conditions and squalls of
.Yind, large crowds lined the streets.
. A .
! WASHINGTON, Dec. 19. The first
renoIutlon of congress requiring the
I president's signature adopted since
President Wilson sailed for the peace
conference has reached him in Paris
,uand word that It has been signed is
;;expected momentarily.
'! Secretary Tumulty was notified by
,- jcable today of the arrival of a state
department courier who had in his
i packet the Joint congressional resolu
: tlon authorizing the usual Christmas
time advance payment of December
I salaries of government employes,
if This procedure is to be followed in
:i the course of all acts of congress while
i the president Is abroad. State de-
.partment meioengers travel to and
j'from Europe at frequent intervals.
-(The president has ten days in which
iito sign or veto legislative documents
and unless he does one or the other
i.the legislation becomes effective wlth
ijjiout his signature.
4 The president, holding that he sur
:J tenders none of his powers by being
t! Jurrad' is saId t0 have no doubts about
jjne legality of the course mapped out.
i BELFAST, Wednesday, Dec. 18
; The lord-mayor of Dublin has called
j'ja mass meeting in Dublin for Sunday
Hjo extend an invitation to President
jWllson to visit Ireland. He has sug
gested that similar meetings be held
J'n other centers throughout the island.
!; PARIS, Dec. 19. Civilians seized
fay the Germans In occupied French
'I territory and sent to a hostage camp.
' at Holzmlnden, Germany, will appoint
a delegation to call upon President
;, Wileon to tell him something of what
I they suffered, morally and physical -
I y. while detained by the Germans, it
i b announced.
The plan was formed at the sug
.. fleatlon of Dr. Henry Van Dyke of
') Princeton university who met come
t ff.tnc People In Paris at a re-union
j "eld recently.
I I
1 PARIS, Dec. 19 President Wilson
jjva today handed an address of wel
ycome by the French Union of Agri
cultural association on behalf of Its
j 2500 affiliated organizations,
j The address sets forth the peculiar
ll conditions under which French agri
culture is operating and calls the at-
tention of the peace conference to the
fact that protection Is necessary for
its normal development and for the
resumption of agricultural effort in
regions devastated by the war.
MADRID, Dec. 19. Count Roman
onege, the Spanish premier, Is on his
way to Paris for a conference with
President Wilson and representatives
of the Allies. He left Madrid for the
French capital last night. The party
arranged to accompany him included
Robert M. Scotten, secretary of the
American ermbassy.
PARIS, Dec. 18 Plans -were perfect
ed today for the meeting of President
Wilson and King Victor Emmanuel
who will arrive in Paris tomorrow. On
Friday the king will have luncheon at
the foreign office. Later he will give
a dinner to President Wilson at the
Italian embassy and depart the same
night for the front.
President Wilson's disregard of con
vention in going about the streets un
attended and in using only army auto
mobiles continues to cause surprise
among the French people. In most In
stances the president travels incognito,
but the populace has no trouble in
identifying him.
One of the matters discussed by the
president was his proposed visit to
tho devastated regions and battlefields.
The president is aaid to be viewing
the trip with much expectancy.
LONDON. Wednesday. Dec. IS
Alter presenting his credentials to
King Georgo today, John W. Davis,
the now American ambassndor to
Great Britain, and Mrs. Davis, had
luncheon with King George and Quefen
Mary and other members of the royal
household at Buckingham palace.
' LONDON. Wednesday. Dec. IS
News that President Wilson considers
going to London next week was re
ceived by the British government
through un official channel today. It
necessitated a hurried re-consideration
of plans by Premier Lloyd George
who had intended to meet the presi
dent for a' brief conforenco in Paris
and then proceed to Monte Carlo for
a few days rest
The president, will be welcomed
JAP "STATESMEN
WATCH UNITED STATES
JO
VISCOUNT KOSA1 (JCHD
Kel Hara Is prime minister ot
tfapan. Uchlda is minister of for
eign affairs and former-. ara.ssa- ,
".dor tor'Rus8laT "These are the'ined
who are . watchingfor Japan.
tho course of tho United States in
Russia and Siberia When the
United States forco in Siberia had
excoeded. accidentally, the limits
sc by international agreement,
Japdn at. once sent more soldiers
Into Siberia too. Siberia Is u
fruitful field,, at the door oC
Japan, for commercial conquest
and for occupation should the ore
text offer.
whenever ho arrives, but tho date now
proposed December 26 has handi
caps as far as the public and the of
officials are concerned. December
26 is a lioliday and is known as "box
ing day," an occasion pecular to Eng
land. All who have countiy homes
and live in London, from the king
downward, spend the day in the coun
try. No arrangements for. the visit of the
president had been made up to today
because the government wishes to
consult John W. Davis, the new Amer
ican ambassador.
The change in Uio president's ar
rangement is held to explain the has
tening of the formal reception of Am
bassador Davis by King Georgo today.
This was done so that the ambassador
could be properly accredited in read
iness for the formalities in connection
with the president's visit.
Premier Lloyd George held - hurried
conferences tonight with Sir Brie
Geddes, first lord of the admiralty, and
other ministers.
PARIS, Dec. 19 The American
peace commissioners conferred with
American newspaper correspondents
for the first time today. All other cor
respondents were excluded. It was
stipulated that none of the announce
ments to be made was for purposes
of publication, being only for-the guid
ance of the correspondents.
DUBLIN, Wednesday, Dec. 18. A
statement published in London that
the Irish party was to send delegates
to Paris to discuss home rule with
President Wilson is declared in au
thoritative circles to be untrue.
It is impossible lo learn whether the
Sinn Feiners will send delegates but
this is not believed to be likely in
view of the fact that the lord -mayor
of Dublin, who iB a Sinn Feiner, is or
ganizing mcotings to invite President
Wilson to Ireland.
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DOVER READY
TQ WELCOME
HAIGAND STAFF
LONDON, Dec. 19 London hung out
Its flags and the old seaport of Dover
flung its gates wide open today to
greet Field Marshal Haig and the
commanders of the five British armies
which fought in Belgium and Franco,
Generals Plumer, Rawlinson, BIrdwood,
Byng and Home.
; It waa merely an informal welcome
KILLED
I Lieutenant Coheny Misr
I dered at Prison Camp
' by Germans.
ioCCURRED DEC. 5
i
British Officers Refused
! Permission to Remove
American s Body.
COPENHAGEN, Wed. Dec. 18.
(By the Associated Press) The
killing of Lieutenant Coheny, an
American airman, in the German
prison camp at Stralsund Decem
ber 5 fs reported by three British
officers who have arrived here.
The American lieutenant, the of
ficers say, went outside the barbed
wire for a moment and the Ger
man guards fired three times at
him.
Lieutenant Coheny was killed by
a bullet through the chest. A
British officer was seriously
wounded by the shots.
.--o-.The. guardsF(ifuse1l - -to allow'
Coheny'B comrades to remove his
body.
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Coming of Peace In
creases Work of Hu
manity Organization.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 The com
ing of peace has served to increase
rather than diminish the work of the
American Red Cross, said Provost
Marshal General Crowder in a state
ment issued today In connection with
the Red Cross Christmas membership
campaign.
"The need for the Red Cross," said
General Crowder, "does not terminate
with the cessation of hostilities ra
ther are its usefulness and its scope
increased. With the war at an end
the Red Cros3 must turn its hand to
the rehabilitation of devastated Eur
ope, not only in the immediate the
aters of operation, but In all those
fields just delivered from hostile oc
cupation and among all those people
who for more than four years have felt
the heel of German oppression. To
embarass its activities at this time is
to add misery to suffering."
on the par of London hut Dover made
of it a great celebration. The real
celebration in London comes later
late in January or early In February.
The field marshal will then, according
to time-honored precedents, be raised
to a high rank in tho peerage. How
high is a point of speculation, and giv
en a money grant by parliament. This
is the procedure that has been fol
lowed from the days of "Wellington and
Nelson down to Kitchcnpr and Rob
erts and the occasion will ho celebrat
ed witli civic and military formalities
such as no other nation, except pos
sibly France, can carry out as impres
sively as Great Britain.
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PERUVIAN LEGATION.
PARIS, Dec. 19. (Havas) Francis
co Garcia Calderon, who has bnen f jrat
secretary of tho Peruvian legation
here, has been named minister for his
government to Belgium. II was the
guest of diplomatic represeutatives'of
Latin -America at a banquet last night.
. -I
Obligation to Save Czec-j
ho-Slovaks and Coun- I
try Caused Move,
i BOLSHEVIK! CONTROL;
lord MiSner Issues Reply I
I to Criticism of the
British Policy. !
LONDON, Dec. 19. (British Wireless
Service) Reports that the Russian
Bolshevists have raised an army of
3,000,000 men are discredited by spe
cial correspondence to the Daily
Chronicle. It is said that the most re
liable information puts the number of,
Bolshevist troops at about 180,000,1
scattered over most of the former Rus-
sian empire. j
I
LONDON. Wednesday, Dec. 18 In
reply to a letter from a correspondent,
Viscount fMilner. the secretary for
war. give's the reasons why British
troops were sent to Russia. The cab
inet membt;r:ijgoesVLoY,cr the situation
'cr"e1vfcTT'tlVe auccess-of the Bolshe
vik! in gaining control of Russian af
fairs and points out how their acts
were adversely affecting the cause of
the Allies in the west and otherwise
hampernlg the winning of the war by
the Allied nations.
"You ask me," says Viscount Mllner
in his letter, "what right we over had
lo send British troops to Russia to
meddle with tho internal affairs of
that country and how long we moan
lo keep them there now that tho war
Is over.
"The question itself shows that
you misapprehend the facts of the
caso as well as the motives of the
government. The reason why Allied,
not merely British forces Indeed the
British are only a small proportion of
the total Allied troops were sent to
Russia is that the Bolsheviki, what
ever their ultimate object, were in
fact assisting our enemies in every
possible way. It. was owing lo their
action that hundreds of thousands of
German troops were let loose to hurl
themselves against our men on the
western front. It was owing to their
betrayal that Rumania with all ils rich
resources in grain and oil, fell into
the hands of the Germans.
"It was they who handed over the
Black sea fleet lo the .Germans and
who treacherously attacked the
Czecho-Slovaks when the latter only
desired lo get out ol Russia In order t
lo fight for tho freedom of their own
country in Europe. The Allies, every .
ono of them, were most anxious to
avoid interference in Russia, but it
was an obligation of honor to save the
Czecho-Slovaks and it was military
necessity of the most urgent kind to
prevent those vast portions of Russia
which were struggling to escape the
tyranny of the Bolsheviki from being
overrun by them and so throw open
as a source of supply to the enomy.
"I say nothting of the enormous
quantities of military' stores, the prop
erty of the Allies which were still ly
ing at -Archangel and Vladivostok and
which were In course of being appro
priated by the Bolsheviki and trans
ferred to the Germans until the Allied
occupation put an end to the process,
... I say nothing of the fact that
a vast portion of the earth's surface
Inhabited by people friendly to the
Allies have been spared the un
speakable terror of Bolshevik rule
"You may be quite sure that the last
thting the government desires is to
leave any British soldiers in Russia a
day longer than is necessary to dis
charge tho moral obligations we have
incurred, and that, I believe is the
guiding principle of all the Allies. Nor
do I myself think that the time when
we can withdraw without disastrous
consequences is necessarily distant
But this is a case In which more
haste be less speed.
"If the Allies were all to scramble
out of Russia at once the result would
almost certainly be that the barbarism
which at present reigns in a part only
of that country would spread over the
whole of it, including the vast regions
of northern and Central Asia which
were included in the dominion of tho
C2ar. Tho ultimate consequences of
auch a disaster cannot be foreseen but
Ihev would assuredly involve a far
greater strain on the resources of the
British empire than our present com
mitments." oo
A word to the 'fooligh is always re
sented. 00 r ,
Despair lsv'th'c. undertaker thai carries
off our lead, hopes. ' . . v.
SSoF I
RECENT EVENTS 1
(By the Associated Press? ; r,'-M
PARIS, Dec. 19. The German government headed by Freiderich ;H
Ebert has resigned as a result of events of Tuesday, according to a 1 :fl
dispatch received at Zurich from Stuttgart, says the Journal's corres-
pondent there. ' :
Freiderich Ebert, who was named as minister of the interior in 1
the cabinet of Prince Maximilian of Baden, November 3, and became ; :H
imperial chancellor on November 8, took command of the situation in ' H
Berlin following the revolutionary uprising there. On November 13 ' !H
it was announced that he had become premier and had chosen his
cabinet, naming Hugo Haase, Phillipp Scheidemann, Wilhelm Ditt- H
ma", Herr Landsebrg and Richard Barth as the secretaries in charge H
of the departments created by the revolutionary government- H
t !H
AMSTERDAM, Dec. 19. Three of the principal directors of the
Krupp munitions works at Essen, including Dr. Bransenberger, in- ; H
ventor of the "big Berthas," have been arrested by the revolutionary , ; (H
committee in that city, according to advices received here. j H
ZURICH, Dec. 19. Serious disorders have broken out at Danzig, H
West Prussia, according to dispatches received here. Civil and mili- , H
tary prisons have been opened and the inmates set at liberty, it is said, I 'H
and street fighting is reported. j H
'I
PARIS, Dec. 19. Bishop Maglione of Berne has received from '
Cardinal Hartmann, archbishop of Cologne, twenty cases containing 'jH
religious ornaments which were taken from the diocese of Rheims by I ' !H
German soldiers. They will be sent to France. , jjH
PARIS, Dec. 19. A German mine, which had been planted in a II
bridge at Guise, has exploded, killing fifteen persons and injuring ';! H
twenty-fiye, according to a Guise dispatch, to the Matin. The dis l
patch says the explosion, occurred more than a month after- the-armis; $ !H
-ticer' . '
PARIS, Dec. 19. Austro-German soldiers who have been rounded 1 :
up in European and Asiatic Turkey by the allies will be transported '
to France for internment lintil peace is declared. Admiral J. F. C j
Amet, French high commissioner at Constantinople, has requisitioned J
all German vessels in Turkish ports and will use them in transporting ' S
the Austro-German prisoners to France. i
AMERONGEN, Holland, Wednesday, Dec. 18. Former Emperor ,:
William has been confined to bis bed since Sunday with a severe chill. J
His indisposition has brought about a renewal of his old ear trouble, I
necessitating the calling in of a specialist, a professor from Utrecht, j
to assist tile local doctor.
COPENHAGEN, Wednesday, Dec. 18. The German government ;
has decided to convoke a conference of representatives of all tho
states of the former empire on December 29 to elect a president of the I
German republic, according to a Berlin report. This step is said to J
have been taken in order to avoid fresh outbreaks. ' f
j
COPENHAGEN, Dec. 18. Former Emperor Charles of Austria- I ;j
Hungary and four of his children are suffering from influenza, ac- J j
cording to a telegram from Vienna. The former emperor has a very
high fever. '
(By the Associated Press) ; j
ODESSA, Sunday, Dec. 15. Troops under command of the anti- j
German Ukranian leader, Petlura, today are occupying Odessa. j
BASEL, Switzerland, Dec. 19. The executive committee of the
soldiers' and workmen's council for Berlin and its suburbs intend to '
resign, according to messages received from the German capital. It
is said that it will be replaced by an executive committee elected by j, f,
the general assembly and the soldiers' and workmen's councils of the !' f;
empire. 1 j,-
LONDON, Wednesday, Dec. 18. The Esthonian provisional gov- ' E
ernment, controlling the territory covered by the former Russian Bal- : J
tic province of Esthonia, has placed the republic "under the common fj
protection of the entente powers pending the decision of the peace J
conference."
The Esthonian premier announced this in a telegram tonight in , !.;
which, he called attention to the difficulty the Esthonian troops were
experiencing in withstanding the Bolsheviki, who are attacking the k
territory of the republic from the east. k
i
BERLIN", Tuesday, Dec 17. (By4 the
Associated Press) The second day's
session of the congress of the soldiers'
and workmen's council of Germany
was marked by stormy scenes. Herr
Laudsberg. majority Socialist, de
nounced tho Bolshevist methods and
dictatorial attitude of the soldiers' and
workmen's council of Berlin. He de
clared that tho executivo committee of
the council had presented a chaotic
budget statement.
The manner in which the congress
received the statements indicated that
a new executive committee, more in
harmony with the government might
bb elected.
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SALT LAKE S01.DIER
HAS MANY SOUVENIRS
SALT LAKE, Dec. 19 Bundles of
war souvenirs to bring homo after
having been taken from Germans in
fierce fighting are in possession of
Homer Ewin of 666 East Second South
street, writing from "somewhere in
France," according to a letter recently
received from tho young man. He is
with the 105th field signal battalion
of the "Wildcat division "
As to a request which he, received
f rom 'frie"nds here to "bring home the
Jiaiser's scalu," the young soldier says
he will do the best he can, but ad v,
monlshes his acquaintances that he will H .
have some difficulty, because there are
a couple of million other Americans 1
entered in that competition. 4 y
"The other day," tho letter says, "I
got a whole armload of souvenirs. I
have three belts with 'Gitt mlt uns'
In brass on the buckles, three fine ,
daggers, three small pistolB, three j ;
pairs of eyeglasses, papers nnd let- ,j
ters. I got them In a tunnel where we ;
found a room in which the Germans "
boiled up their dead for fats and such
like. After tho battle was over we 'J j j
went back and marched around and ! j :
hit the line again and again. The Ger- j
mans hit the dust It was fierce the i ?
way they -would 'fire those machine i jfli
'guns, but when we wore upon then ; Mi
they would cry 'Morel, Kamerad!' We ' ,J
have found a way now so that we , ,$
have few prisoners to deal with." , 1 1
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MAY CALL STRIKE iH
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 Harbor la- j j H
bor in nil ports of the United States tH
will bo called on to strike, if neces- UH
sary, to enforce the demands of tho 1
New York Longshoremen and Harbor 'IH
Boatmen's Union, T. V. O'Connor, rep- I H
resenting the men, (old the national
war lohnr board today. f
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