Evening Star Newspaper, December 30, 1918, Page 1

-PRESDENTBAGK ~ TOSEN ALL BILS \ ¥ WEATHER. Fair, slightly warmer tonight, tem- perature about freesing; foes in- warmer. ‘Temperature for twenty-four hours creasing cloudiness ending 2 pm. Gay. Full report on page 14. Closing New York Stocks, Page 14. No. 27,277. BEFORE MARCH 3 Will Be in Washington Before Congress Adjourns to Legalize Legislation. DENIAL OF RUMORS OF EXTENDED ABSENCE Making Progress as Rapidly as Hoped for in Reaching Agree- ments on Peace Terms. PARIS, December 30.—From present indications President Wil- son will leave Europe on his re- turn to the United States Febra- ary 10. President Wilson will return to \Vashington in ample time to sign zl legislative measures passed by Congress in the last days of its present session, ending March 3. Reports from abroad that the Presi- | gent contemplates remaining in Eu- rope until April or May were declared to be without foundation. It was nointed out that his failure to sign bills prior to ten days before the ciosing of the present session of Con- gress would not interfere with their becoming laws, though he is signing them as they are transmitted to him from the White House. But the Constitution, in the same sentence which states that “If any bill shall not be returned by the President within ten days after, it shall have been presented to him™ shall take ef- Yect as if it had been approved, also states that “unless Congress by their adjournment prevent its return; in which case it saall not be a law.” Presence Required. If the President were not here to sign bills passed during the nine days preceding March 4 they would not be- come laws. Most of the appropriation bills generally are passed during the closing week of the congressional ses- sion. Friends of the President in Wash- ington believe that he is making prog- ress as rapidly as he hoped to in com- ing to agreements with allied rep- resentatives regarding the broad gen- cral terms of a peace settlement. Following upon the declarations of Lloyd George and other British states- men, fadorsing the principle of # league 6f nations, importatios-qweg at- tached to the statement of Stephen Pichon, French minister of foreign af- fairs, quoted in today’s dispatches, that’ the French government has adopted the principle of such a league and now is working toward its reali- zation. Last Obstacle Gone. This statement was construed as in- dicating that the last barrier against the acceptance of this pririciple had) been swept away, for France has een the least enthusiastic among the allied European nations about the league. Under the shadow of the Ger- man menace she was unwilling to irust to any instrument which could not be depended upon without fail to assure her against further invasion by Prussia. Therefore, the acquiescence of the French foreign minister was con- strued here as further proof that in conferences with allied officials President Wilson not only has im- pressed them with the wisdom of adopting the principle, but has dem- onstrated that a league of nations is x workable medium for preserving peace. Italy was smong the first of the leading European powers to accept in full President Wilson's fourteen peace principles, including the league of nations. the phrase, “freedom of needed to be more clearly defined. Now France, with her professed a¢- ceptance of the league plan, has pra¢- tically indorsed the entire Wilson program. Interest was exhibited here today in e@ statement of Henry Franklin- Houillon of the foreign affairs com- mittee of the French chamber that ihere must not be “a soldier or aj fort” remaining along the left bank of the Rhine. Taken in conjunction with M. Pi- chon's statement that France will ask tor territory. claiming Alsace-Lor- tine as her own, of course, the pro-! vosal for a sort of neutralization of the boundaries between the restored | Irench provinces and Germany is con- sidered significant. American Canadian Border. Such an arrangement, which may be | feriously considered at the peace con- | ference, it was ponited out, has a wrecedent of high success on the| American continent in the boundary relations of the United States and «auada. For a century net a gun has heen pointed north or south along the canadian border, Canadians and \mericans cross into each other's ter- tory at will, and there has been no ‘ispute between this country and her orthern neighbor which ! sottled amicably. pene ohsen Though the league of nations pro- cram iS only one of the questions » be settled at the peace conference, tain other perplexing problems ach as the freedom of the seas and ilitary and naval disarmament, are held to be dependent upon such a sgue. Formation of the league con- ies an international agr » these questions. SSeree ere remzin the Balkan and the an questions. including the set- ment of the differences between ‘aly and Jugoslavia over the extent the latter nation’s territory, and| e boundaries of the new Czecho-| ovak state and the independence of eng. But these are problems for + settlement of which future events | modify considerably. Jugoslav and Italian problem| be the subject_of considerable | nd research. The independence | and, pointed to by President) son as'one of the certainties of a| jay not be consum- until the present investigation | alleged pogroms and mistreat- t of Jews is concluded. | ffairs are still in a cha- d many things may hap-: h will have a bearing allied agreement | | | | wh ultimate 1 to her. 1 significance, it is pointed out, a to the pronouncements of | rge and Clemenceau for a {nations by the overwhelm- mt Sstry re-! ols’ and the! IoD shang Highs 3 lowest, 25, at 6 am. to- | that the industrial life of the country | the government, except the Congress est, 37, at INFLUENZA DECREASE IS REPORTED TODAY Records Show 150 New Cases in Washington—Nine Deaths In- cluded in Overnight List. ‘There was a decrease of thirty-five in the number of new cases of influ- enza reported to the health’ depart- ment up to noon today as compared with yesterday, today’s record showing 150 new cases, while the record of yesterday was 185. A decrease of six deaths was shown in today’s report, when the number of fatalities reported was nine, as com- pared with fifteen for yesterday. For the month of December there have bedm officially reperted to the health department 6,782 cases of in- fiyenza, with 267 deaths from the dis- ease. Forty-five patients suffering from influenza are under treatment at the influenza emergency hospital, 612 F street northwest. There have been six deaths there from the disease. The last two occurred yesterday, when Miss Mary L. Wilber, twenty-seven years old, rooming at 1306 Rhode Is- land avenue, a war worker coming here from West Pembroke, Me., and Mrs. Ada Howard, twenty-nine years old, 918 15th street southeast, died. ASSERTS AMERICA ISUNPREPARED 10 CAREFOR WOUNDED Senator Chamberlain Crit- icises the War Department for Inadequate Provision. “America is unprepared today to take | care of the wounded soldiers who are flooding back to this country from France, just as America was unpre- pared to conduct the war a year ago,” Senator Chamberlain, chairman of the military affairs committee, told the} Senate today. Failure on the part of the War De- partment to make adequate provision for the care of the wounded and con- valescent who are being shipped to| the United States caused the Oregon | Senator to level criticism at the de- partment and to make suggestions for | the improvement of conditions. “Conditions today, after the armis- tice has been signed, are not much different from those that existed be- fore Conéress convened in December, 1917,” said’ Senator Chamberlain. “Congress is flooded with letters of complaint from men of practical af- fairs and good mothers and wives whose sons and husbands were on the way to France or in camp here. The complaint was that the industrial life ef the country, which should have been mobilized under the War Depart- ment, was not doing its duty to aid in carrying on the war. Holds Country Unprepared. “Complaints are coming in now, not is falling down, but now that the wa-! is won and our sons are coming home armless, legless and eyeless, the coun- | try is unprepared to care for them. “The Lord only knows how many lives were sacrificed because of the| lack of preparation in this country, even up to the time of the signing of the armistice.” Senator Chamberlain declared that he would not be deterred from his | duty as he saw it, though the role of | critic was never a pleasant one. He spoke immediately following a de- fense of the administration by Sena- tor Shafroth of Colorado, who re- ferred to the critics of the past and praised the record of the War De- partment. Cites Recent Investigation, Senator Chamberlain referred to the investigation by the military affairs committee into every branch of the military establishment, and while no formal report was made, except as to the aircraft production, he said, yet the investigations of the committee led to the introduction of two bills, one providing for a minister of mu- nitions and the second for a war cabi- net. “On January 11 the commander-in- chief of the Army and Navy disap- proved of the minister of munitions bill,” said Senator Chamberlain. lembers of the Senate recall the un- pleasant controversy which arose at the time. It got to be almost treason for anybody to criticise any branch of of the United States, and it has been criticised by officials from the highest to the lowest. I, myself, passed under the yoke, but if my efforts saved the life of one young man in France, I am willing to resign my seat today.” Senator Chamberlain said that when the munitions bill was disapproved, an administration bill was presented which confessed that inefficiency ex- isted in the War Department and every department of the government. This was the Overman bill. He said that it placed in the hands of the Chief Executive power to change everything in connection with the de- partments. Charges Inefficiency Exists. “Why grant this power if there was no need?” said Senator Chamberlain. “It was true then as it is now that there was inefficiency in the War De- partment and other departments and I voted for the President's bill.” Senator Chamberlain quoted from reports of Gen. Pershing of the as- sistance given the American Army in the furnishing of artillery, airplanes and tanks. The French had provided 2,676 airplanes and artillery in abund- ance. The first American airplanes reached France in May and the first American squadron fully equipped under home production crossed the German line August 7, with eighteen airplanes, although as far back as February it has been Claimed that| thousands had been turned out. Senator Chamberlain dwelt upon Gen. Pershing’s report that at the time of the signing of the armistice there was good prospect of being furnished with airplanes and artillery from home. Thus, he sarcastically observed, eight- een months after entering the war the Army abroad could look forward to getting adequate supplies. He criti- cised the War Department for experi- menting in trying to improve the French 7-millimeter gun, recognized as the best artillery on earth, having finally to give up its efforts to improve it and going into the manufaeture of it_in quantittes. from Gen. Pershing’s: | whelmin: CLEMENCEAU WILL “SUPPORT ENGLAND ~ONSEAS FREEDOM Attitude Approved by Presi- dent Wilson, French Premier Tells the Deputies. VOTE OF CONFIDENCE IS GIVEN, 380 TO 134 League of Nations May Be Organ- ized at Time Peace Treaty Is Completed, Frenchman Believes. By the Associated Press. PARIS, December 30.—In addressing the chamber of deputies last night Premier Clemenceau made it plain that it was his intention to support Great Britain in the peace negotia- tions on the question of the freedom of the seas, and he declared that his attitude in this matter was approved by President Wilson. ; The premier told the chamber that if pilots were to be changed now was the time to change pilots, but the deputies gave him a vote of confidence by 380 to 134. Premier Clemenceau explained the peace sit- uation as it concerned France, Great Britain and the United States, and his explanations appeared fully to sat- isfy all except the unified socialists, who repeatedly interrupted him in a manner which President Deschanel characterized as “indecent.” Premier Clemenceau said that his conversations with President Wilson had been profitable, although, he add- ed, “I. should not be telling the truth if I said I had always been in agree- ment with him on all points.” Says France Must Give and Take. In summing up his argument for full confidence and the exercise of pa- tience by the chamber, the premier declared: “There will be claims to be set forth, and others which wifl have to pe given up. If I mounted the ros- trum to elaborate the subject, I would be the worst premier in Europe. That |does not mean we are not working| hard to prepare a line of action for the peace congress. tThe premier, earlier had expressed the belief in the efficiency of the old system of alliances, called “the bal- ance of power,” but was not opposed to a league of na- tions. Such a league, he said, might be organized at about the time the treaty of peace was completed. Papers Approve Speech. The morning newspapers generally approve the premier’s speech with the exception of the unified socialists and some radical organs. The Figaro says that the premier told the chamber and the country what they should be told and “his words should be read and meditated upon by the whole land.” “This debate was not useless,” says the Journal, “since it assured to the old patriot who has known so well how to make war the necessary au- thority to conclude a good peace.” It is understood that the text of the premier’s speech will be telegraphed | to President Wilson. The chamber completed its consid- eration of the budget at 9 o'clock this morning, adopting it by an over- ing majority after twenty-four hours of virtually continyous sitting. The deputies will meet again at 9 o'clock Tuesday morning to discuss the revision of the electoral lists pre- paratory to a general election. Vote After Story Debate. PARIS, Sunday, December 29.—Pre- mier Clemenceau was given a vote of confidence, 380 to 134, in the chamber of deputies today after a stormy de- bate, during which the war aims of France were outlined by Stephen Pichon, foreign minister, and the premier had indicated his adherence to the “old system of alliances called ‘the balance of power.’” It was indicated by the premier that the formation of a league of nations might be carried out coincidentally with the drafting of the treaty of peace. M. Renaudel, socialist, brought about this statement by expressing his regret that the allies had decided not to organize the league until after peace had been declared. Denies Postponing League. “Nothing of the sort,” was the answer of M. Clemenceau. “whether this chamber gives me a vote of confidence or not, I am ready to resign office,” he continued. “If you have a minute's hesitation, now js the time to change your pilot. You cannot do it when we are under way.” Replying to charges made by Albert ‘Thomas, socialist leader, that he had kept the chamber without informa- tion, Premier Clemenceau said: “The question of peace is a ‘tremen- dous problem. It is a question which is one of the most difficult.ever sub- mitted to the nation at any time. In a few days a conferece of delegates will meet at Paris which will settle the fate of nations in all parts of the world. [People say ‘Premier Lloyd George has spoken, President Wilson has spoken, but’ you have said nothing.’ I have given explanations whenever you have asked me. But it isn’t be- cause Mr. Lloyd George has spoken, Gz because Mr. Wilson has arrived from America with elevated thoughts that I am obliged to explain myself and keep running to the speaker's rostrum. “France was in an especially diffi- cult situatiow It was the country nearest Germany. America was far away and took her time to come into the war. England came at once at the call of Mr. Asquith. We suffered and fought; our men were mowed down 4nd our towns and villages were de- stroyed. Stands for Balance of Power. “There is an old system of alliances called the ‘balance of power.’ It seems be condemned nowadays, but if to na balance had preceded the war; ir England, the United States, France and Italy had agreed, say, that who- ever attacked one of them attacked the whole world, the war would not have occurred. This system of alli- anoes, which I do not renounce, will $o°my guiding thought at the peace conference if your confidence, sends me there. “J have been reproached with de- ceiving President Wilson. I do not un Gerstand why. I have made it a rul not to question him, but to let him de. Yelop his views. That is what he did. President Wilson, to whom’ certain persons, in the interest of their par- ties, attribute intentions which, per- ae “(Continued on Second Page) indicated that he | POSTAL RECEIPTS ~ NDC. 3MILLIONS Local Business for Year Greater Than in Any One of Twenty States. GLEANINGS FROM REPORT The Washington city post office did |more business during the fiscal year |ended June 30, 1918. than all the post offices in any one of twenty states of | the Union, according to the report of | Postmaster M. O. Chance to the first assistant postmaster general. The re- port became public today..in. Postal Information, ® publication of the local post office. -THe report shows that the receipts of the local post office for the fiscal |year ended June, 1918, were $3,085,- 1098.49. Mr. Chance names the follow- ing states which, he said, produced a ismaller amount of postal revenue: | Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, |Idaho, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, |New Hampshire, New Mexico, Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, outh Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia and Wyom- ling. | Four States’ Total Passed. | “In fact, it shows,” Mr. Chance con- |tinues, “that the total receipts of all | post offices in Delaware, Nevada, New |Mexico and Wyoming amounted to lonly $2,987,047.05, which is less than the receipts of the Washington post office. In these four states there were 1,307 postmasters whose compensation amounted to $536,294.60 and the cost of the city delivery service was $186,- 864.17, making a total cost of $723,- 158,77, as compared with a total cost of smiilar items at this office of $523,- 281.69." Friends of the movement to secure representation in Congress for the District looked upon these figures to- day as another argument t odemon- strate that the National Capital is as much entitled as many states are to have such representation. In the introduction of his report Postmaster Chance statés that the jbusiness of the local post office has increased at a monthly rate, which, he believes, has been greater than any cther post office in the country. ‘Although the bulk of the increase in the business of the office dates from the entrance of this country into the war, Postmaster Chance submits comparative figures for the fiscal years 1916 and 1918 to show how rapid the rise has been. Receipts in 1916 and 1918. Total receipts, exclusive of money orders, for 1916 were $2,020,355.44, and for 1918, $3,085,098.49. This is an in- crease of 53.05 per cent, the total ex- pense chargeable to the Washington post office was $426,315.12, or only 37.18 per cent greater than 1916. ‘Money order fees for 1918 amounted 492.05 in 1916. Delays in Mail Service. service, Mr. Chance writes, in part, as follows: “Some instances of serious delays to mail and other irregularities occur, which, upon investigation, are found attributable mainly tothe: necessity of the accomplishment of technical post office work with unskilled and untrained employes. The loss of a large number of expert distributers necessitated radical changes in state and city distribution. Old methods had to be modified to conform to the new state of affairs.” Mr. Chance points to the fact that tons of government mail passed through the local post office during the war: This included all of the pamphlets and other literature of the draft system, carloads of liberty loan material, thousands of soldiers’ checks from theswar risk insurance bureau and core jess quantities of mail from such,@ _Acies as the food and fuel ad- mire eons War Industries Board, ), frade Board and American Red £ 3 ya Increase in Parcel Post. Congestion on the railroads, the postmaster recalls, caused a heavy in- crease in parcel post busine: To show this increase Mr. Chance /points out in December, 1916, 67,253 parcel post packages were handied; peTSecember, 1917, 128,565, and in Getober of this year, 137,828. It will be observed that there is over 100 per cent increase in 6 number of delivered in Octo- ber, 1918, over those delivered in De- cember, 1916, and about 7 per cent in- crease in the number of parcels de- ‘ivered in October, 1918, over those governess in Decem! 1917. data las been compared with the December (Continued on Eleventh Page) i ALL STOCKED UP AND NOWHERE TO GO. TRANSPORT TENADORES - IS STRANDED ON ROCKS Officers and Crew Being Rescued Near Isle d’Yeu, in Bay of Biscay. - LONDON, Deceniber 30.—The Amer- ican transport Tenadores, which left New York for Brest December 18, was stranded on the rocks near the Isle @’Yeu, in the Bay of Biscay, Satur- day. Advices state that those on board are being rescued. NEW YORK, December 30.—Isle @’Yeu, where the American transport Tenadores stranded, is ten miles from the French coast, and about twenty- eight miles northwest of Les Sables d'Olonne. The island is a mass of granite, and has one town, Yeu, with @ population of about 3,000. The Tenadores is a passenger ves- sel of 7,783 tons gross register, owned by ‘the United Fruit Company, and prior to being =red fone ‘War Department as a troop transpd! was in service between New York Cental America and Cuban ports. She last arrived here December 11, with a large consignment of wdunded off- cers and men. In addition to officers and crew, the Tenadores had on board six officers and sixty-one men of the Italian army. ‘The ship was in charge of Commander J. D. Gilman, U. S. N. and carried a crew of 305 men, all from the Navy Department. Cable advices received by Navy au- thorties here from qfficers of the Ten- adores were that the ship may be sal- vaged. PERSONAL VICTORY FOR LLOYD GEORGE So Say London Papers in Comment Upon the British Elections. BIG MAJORITIES FEATURE LONDON, Sunday, December 29 (British Wireless Service).—Premier Lloyd George and the coalition gov- ernment won a more sweeping vic- tory in the general election than had been expected. Not only was H. H. Asquith, former premier, defeated, but his personal following from the house of commons has been reduced to 37. It is believed that'a new seat will be found for him by one of his followers resigning in his favor as soon as parliament meets.” In the defeat of Reginald McKenna, Walter Runciman, Sir John Simon, to $35,353.96 as compared with $18,-| Herbert Samuel and Thomas McKin- non Wood the front of the opposition bench is deprived of all its principal occupants. There have been suggés- Commenting upon delays in mail tions that Mr. Asquith might retire from politics as a result of his de- feat, but this view is not encouraged by his personal friends. Should he re- tire, however, he probably would be succeeded inthe. liberal leadership y Mr. McKenna or Sir John Simon. ‘While the labor party as a whole has strengthened its numerical fbl- lowing in parlimanet, some of its more prominent members have lost their seats. The most notable defeat was that of Arthur Henderson, the de facto leader of the “old guard” ot the labor party. The fact that James Ramsay MacDonald and Philip Snow- den lost also ts striking. The defea’ ed woman candidates include Miss Christabel Pankhurst, Mrs. rd, sister of Field Marshal French, Mrs. Pethick Lawrence, Miss Violet Mark- ham and Miss Mary MacArthur. In Ireland the success of the Sinn Fein party was sweeping, only seven members of the old nationalist party succeeding in escaping defeat. John Dillon, chairman of the nationalist party, lost his seat for East Mayo, to Edward de Valera. Complete Returns. LONDON, December 29 (by the As- sociated Press).—Complete returns for the election of the new parliament give the following results: Coalition unionists 334, coalition lib- erals 127, coalition laborites 10, union- ists 46, Asquithian liberals 37, laborites 65, national party 2, independents 5, so- cialists 1, Sinn Feiners 73, Irish nation- alists 7. All coalition with the unionists and national party may be regarded roughly as_ supporting Lloyd George. The only ‘(Continued og Fourteenth Page.) d~by tne ere ‘Wissell, member of the reichstag, and CABINET CHANGES NDE: BERL QUET Scheidemann Becomes Head of Foreign Affairs as - Haase’s Successor. HUGE PROCESSIONS HELD By the Associated Press. COPENHAGEN, December 30.—The jcentral council. of soldiers and work- men of Germany has appointed Herr !Noske, Governor of Kiel; Herr Loebe, editor of the Breslau Volkswacht, and ‘as cabinet members to replace Foreign Minister Haase, fF GPS Becta Policy. Barth and Demobilization Min- ister Dittmann, who retired Saturday night, according to Berlin advices re- ceived here. The new cabinet held its first sit- ting Sunday afternoon. -It was agreed, according to reports from Berlin, that Philipp Scheidemann would take over the secretaryship of foreign affairs in succession to Hugo Haase. Herr Noske will become head of the military de- partment and Herr Wissell will become \minister of socialist policy. | |! Rain Disperses Sunday Crowds. No disturbances had occurred in Berlin up to late Sunday afternoon. Rain began to fall at that time and | the crowds in the streets dispersed. | Huge processions and demonstra- tions were held Sunday by all par- ties.. The independent socialists, mem- bers of the Spartacus fagtion and sailors held a big demonstration in connection with the burial of the vic- tims of Tuesday's fighting. It is reported from Berlin that sev-4 eral hundred thousand persons par- ticipated in a demonstration under the auspices of the majority socialists. Leaderg of the majority socialists made speeches in the streets and in the Tiergarten. Faction Quits. Prussian Ministry. AMSTERDAM, December 30.—The independent socialists in the Prussian ministry and officials of the Prussian government who belong to that party have resigned, according to a Berlin dispatch to the Handelsblad. é War Threat on Eastern Front. AMSTERDAM, December 30.—The German army command, according to a dispatch from Berlin, has informed the commanders on the eastern front that there is a most strict prohibition against the giving up of arms and war material by the Germans to the bol- sheviki. The commanders in the-east were informed that such action was a violation of. the armistice agreement and might result in a resumption of hostilities. Striking miners in the Dusseldorf district have fought a pitched battle with the soldiers protecting the mine, according to advices received here. The encounter resulted in several per- sons being killed and wounded before 1 the troops finally surrounded and ar- {rested the miners. Statement by Dittmann. |, BERLIN, Sunday, Dedember 29 (by the Associated Press).—Reviewing the situation leading. to his -resignatipn mfn- rt, llast night, Wilhelm Dittmann, ister of demobilization, transpo: ; justice and health in the Ebert gov- ‘ernment, said today that 2 crisis had {been impending since November 9, owing to constant differences as to internal and foreign polities between the two sections of the cabinet, the socialists and independent socialists. He said that the matters which {caused the principal trouble were pressing economic problems and _ques- tions of demobilization and military reorganization. Richard Barth, who also resigned as minister of social policy, was present |when Herr Dittmann was talking and le a most gloomy view of the im- mediate economic future of Germany. Both the food situation and the prob- lem of raw products present great difficulties. He declared that he was in favor of sending a peace commis- sion to President Wilson immediately with the request that Mr. Wilson dic- tate peace to Germany d on demo- cratic principles. Leading independent socialists in- dicated tonight that their party rep- resenatives would retire from the po- sitions they now occupy in state and government departments. Sailors Declare Loyalty. AMSTERDAM, December 29.—The sailors’ council of the German ad- miralty and the marine general staff have issued a declaration that they ‘will be faithful to government in ——(Continued on ) “PARTNERSHIP OF ALL” FOR WORLD PEACE, U. S. GOAL, SAYS PRESIDENT Holds Keen International Conscientiousness Will Make Easy the “Genuine Concert of Mind and Purpose” Essential. |MANDATE OF HUMANITY BEING OBEYED, HE ASSERTS IN MANCHESTER ADDRESS Executive Hailed by Lord Mayor as Foremost of All Americans Who Have Ever Visited England—Leaves for London After Almost Continuous Ovation During Sojourn. By the Associated Press. MANCHESTER, December 30.—America is not interested in European politics, but she is interested in a partnership of right between America and Europe, declared President Wilson in receiving the freedom of the city of Manchester at the Free Trade Hall here today. America is not interested merely in the peace of Europe, but in the peace of the world, he added. “If the future had nothing for us but a new attempt to keep the world at the right point by a balance of power,” the President added, “the United States would take no interest in it, because she will join no combination of power which is not a combination of us all.” Cites International Friendship. There was a feeling of cordial fra- ternity and friendship between Amer- | ica and Great Britain, declared the President, which was based on the} principle of friendship and patriotism that led men to give more than was demanded. ‘The partnership of inter- ests which had attempted the gov- ernment of the world had broken| down, he said, as interest did not bind men together, but separated; them. Common devotion to the right was the only thing, he insisted, that could bind men together. In the settlement which is just ahead ; something more difficult than was ever attempted before had to be accom- plished—a genuine concert of min { and purpose, the President said, but! a Keen international conscientious- ness would make it easy. There isa great voice of humanity abroad in| the world “which he who cannot hear Goat,” he 20d : ied. s“We'aré not obeying the mandate of, parties or politics,” the President continued; “we are obeying the man- date of humanity.” If the world is to remain a body of friends, he said, there must be an easy and constant method of conference, so that trou- bles could be taken when they were little and not allowed to grow until they were big. President Voices Hope. “{ wish we could, for the whole world, enter league and covenant and declare ourselves the friends of man- kind,” the President added. The President said he was not hope- + ful that the individual items of the settlement which was about to be at- tempted would be altogether satis- facory. a “One only has to apply hig mind,” | he continued, “to any one of the questions of boundary, of altered sov- ereignty, of racial aspiration to do something more than conjecture this. There is no man, no body of men who knows just how they ought to be settled: and yet, if we are to make satisfactory settlements we must see to it that they are rendered more and more satisfactory by subse- quent adjustment which is made pos- sible. We must provide the ma- chinery for readjustments in order that we may have the machinery of good will and friendship.” Given Freedom of City. In presenting the freedom of the city to President Wilson, the lord mayor said it afforded the city of Manchester supreme satisfaction to have on its roll the chief citizen of the American republic, “foremost of all Americans who have ever visited England,” and one whose clear utter- ances and earnest acts had been a proof of the real union of sentiment. This man, said the lord mayor, now stood before the audience as a liv- ing type and symbol of the friend- ship of the English-speaking races. The bonds between England and America, the lord mayor added, had early hours. The President was the first to leave the building, wearing a long yellow fur coat. As soon as the people saw him they began to shout ‘Wilson” and “Hurrah for Wilson!” The President, with the lord mayor, entered an open landau. The re- mainder of the party were in similar vehicles, Mrs. Wjlson in the second one. She wore a purple hat, which was the one dash of color in the whole Procession. The square and the statues in the center of it were cov- ered with people, and the windows surrounding were black with them. It seemed as if all Manchester was ‘aking the morning off ti President. A OTe The presidential carriage proceeded to the end of the square, the other vehicles followjng closely. The crowd tiring of cheering, contented itself with fluttering handkerchiefs as the carriages halted momentaril: about the same time the American and British flags strung across the front of the town hall and from the poles along the curbing began to stand ollt in the freshening breeze. Ovations Are Renewed. ‘When, after the brief halt, the Presi- dent’s carriage started again the crowds once more began cheering and shouting, the cheers continuing as thi Presidential carriage, with Taounted efore an polls behind it, passed The President looked refreshed after his night's rest. Mrs. Wilsor nae radiant with her thanks when several Persons threw big bouquets of flowers into her carriage, in which she was riding with the lady mayoress. She picked up the floral tributes and smil- ingly bowed her acknowledgments. Finds Democratic Atmosphere. Manchester is in the great manu- facturing midlands of England. Pres- ident Wilson, who arrived here last { evening, found in this city a different atmosphere from that of London. There his time was absorbed, and necessarily, by formalities and of- ficial functions. Here there have bee formal events, but with a more dem- ccratic air and on a more democratic scale. Here he found a hospitality which could not be warmer than that of London, but which brought him closer to the people. There is a strong civic pride in this metropolis. Its people feel that their city was signally honored in being chosen from among other English cities for the President's visit. The lord mayor is a self-made man. His home, where Mr. and Mrs. Wilson were guests, is in a section of the city hall. where the mayors live dur- ing their term of office. It is # typical English home. The rest 0” the President's party was quartered at a nearby hotel. Feels Physical Strain. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson sat down to an early dinner last evening, and soon afterward retired to their apartment on the fourth floor, where they could rest, with nothing more disturbin; than the gongs of passing nade: / The President's days in England have involved great physical strain, which been riveted with-great strength and‘ was apparent to those near him last made indestructible. “When the complete history of the war is written,” he declared, evening. The most important feature of to- “the | day was the presentation of the free- World will comprehend more fully|dom of the city to Mr. Wilson, with than it can today the stupendous! an address by the President. “What character of the effort which the| Manchester expected in the way of # United States made to insure a right|speech is shown by the fact that decision. The President has come | thirty-five minutes was allotted to it. Smong us equally resolved that the|It was at first planned to hild the World shall. henceforth be better|ceremony in the municipal chamber. znd happier for a well ordered peace.” | which is the customary theater for ‘The President, the lord mayor went (civic events, but in_ response to public on, was not a vain dreamer, as his|opinion. the old Free Trade Hall, Greams had been fulfilled. This was | which accommodates nearly 4,000 per- a fact which needed no further argu- | Sons, Was selected. sent to support it, he declared, when| Every one wished to hear the chief it was remembered how President | executive of the United States, ant Wilson's fourteen points had becorme | the pressure for invitations from of- within twelve months the rea? basis; ficials of nearby cities as well as for a peace settlement and had been|from the people of Manchester was accepted by the enemy lor the allies| sistent. at the preliminary for the permanent Big Hall Proves Inad a peace. “We welcome him,” the speaker = eate, “Ee President ofthe «United |The members of the sae aes States, as a helper in the battles and|that the President would be glad te States Worker in the business of | address a popular, rather than a se- peace.” lect, audience such as the municipai “The lord mayor brought forth loud | chamber would accommodate. If Free appleuse when he applied to President | prade Hall, however, had been three Wilson these words: “What he times as large it could not have dream of that he dared to do- sheltered all who were anxious to se- When the lord mayor completed his! Shelters® St X) oration the town clerk offered the Presi ‘e most notable engineering works sident the moroccan bound volume in| i; Manchester are the ship canal and which he was to sign his name sa free | docks. The first activity of the day man of the city of Manchester. The | was an inspection of these and the President sat down at a small table and | party proceeded from the city hall inscribed his name with a gold pen made | i; automobiles. There were eight cars especially for the occasion. In the mean-/ in the procession, three of them bein time the assemblage which was standing : occupied by city officials. Mr. Wilson began to sing: “For He's a Jolly Good | wag received by Capt. Bacon, chair- The aldermen, city officials | man of the directors of the ship cena guests joined in the cheers which! Sn¥ spent an hour on board a smal! | steamer, and followed this civic ritual, which cruised among the docks. After his return to the city Yresident Wilson and Mrs. Wilson hall Ross E. Holaday, American con- then stood for flashlight photographs. The lord mayor then announced that the | ,ul, presented Americans residing 10 3 the city. President would spe: His announce- ment brought cheers from the assem- Entertained at Luncheon. From there it was a short drive to blage which resumed their seats as the President faced them. Cheered by Crowds in Street. | the Free Trade Hall. After the cere- the the official urs before the time set for the Se ES ate ot at 1 o'clock, the Presi- it was potident's departure for th : rd eoeres yal: ‘cntertained at luncheon By «Continued on Sec Page.) began to assembl. square in front of the building, al- thowsh the das was fossy im the