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Had Never Before—War Work Homes-and Theaters Made the Day Jeyous For Soldiers and Sailors—Bountiful Supplics Were Provided For the ; Civilian Poor—At Night Chriztmas Trees Were Ablaze From the Battery to the Bronx—A Quiet But Joyous, Holiday in Bosten. - New York, Dec. day celebrated iis greatest Christmas since war clouds envelobed the world. cuwrch In every praise that mankind, whil were oflered ber giving for loved ones fiercest conflict of all spirit as never The abroad which the nation had endured in the ve Feen, into anxieN months before Germany wus conferences Leaten to her k apparentty hac varmly for purged the eity'’s Millions of peily ce- ti of the United es and had tauzht them the true I 1 car v .oy of giving. lrom the wery to|with me the recollec- iith avenue, New Yorkers joined ip | tions and in Tways say common celebration. 1s 1 now s Soldiers and saiors were teted at| cvery hand and while (he celebra m“ A QUIET BUT JGYCLS centered on the military, the civiien | HOLIDAY l‘\l BOSTO'\I] poor were ot neglected. Wettare or=| oo ) unizations entertained thou: O A trom dawn unul far into the ks bt and countless men and women S out formal lliance, ook b 3 i and biue mito Ui€ir homes 2 teir own Yuletide cheer. V¢ ( ol givia, pached even to § to a elc 1iet but joyous 1 wont, w vl the glaut LSS S o he rain w i and other ships, shous.inds cf orpl s SUREERaHCEs. ol GhE i i chudren were made (0 lecl thatl day. ;”,‘(} .l)n» Sania Claus was i 4 very real| erson in the Hudson, wher: me flect at ARl ihe wng from ov W saflors ute at noon in me. holly ated with wal ended, crews, I be nmany o re warships to aboard, Tonight abla iered thro Battery to the Dror men around each tree w Ban s or who, in giving or receiving, fou.d thero the reai spirit of « iy R0 PSS ry«wwrm—ra«! o and |-.m|om their men AL w hout were bencficiaries of 1 of naval officer nd food. At 1 A crs the men The Y. M. C, 1 Army and other war o t tions contributed sim ) m this a joyous one o do h Placeds in and tar. In eve S 1tion nd the men lic sick or_wo & Fenaivedy presents were plac om the At the battery . training. school Square outdoor Yul - # were held tonizht, men in uniform and civilians joining in festi round tall Christmas tree with col- Sheatl ored lights and Chil- aren of the guests of army and the ceremonies, transported from in amnibu: tare Individual diers included bearinz seription en of who have found their welcome at Church Institute, where - mas dinners we ved and useful yresents distribu The Salvation andoned its when customary programme of din for men “down and eyts,” but instead provided j 40,000 meals for needy families, and with presented safety razors fo army and 1d not ob- pavy men who visited the organiza- : tion’s headquarters. For men who cculd not come 158+ of their wounds, Christm, nd enter- tainment were pro hospitals. Sania Claus v stations and chiidren of the poor with candy, ing, fruit and toy lice St. Nicholas, To the wives and children of hun- dreds of men who are Volunteers of America sent packages containing ¢ articles within penal were provided with dinners, entertainmens "to make mas day a happier one to bear. churches of vices were held, sermons appropriate to the day, choral and orchestral music chiming in each edifice. 5 Marines, .xll of whom k PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS from Darmstedt, Thoy le m;r\y“ TO AMERICAN SOLDIERS | Americans tner They obtained food Chaumont, —In his address to the American sol- diers today Fresident Wilson said that he.did not find in the hearts ‘of the great leaders with whom he was co- operating any or of fundamcntal purpose. In response to an addre to him at the Hotel de Ville soon aft- er his arrival here today. Wilson said: “I feel that 1 have bac a peculiarly | wating for = teain tonicht. e had honored in the generous reception you | heen spending the day ng in have given me, and it is :he more de- £ lightful because it from the heart. lieve that it to the feeling that is breast, because 1 think thst e who feel contact with our cannot but realize the depth and sin- cerity of the feeling of the - United States for France. ‘It i8 an ancient friendship, but it has been rerewed and has taken on a pew youth. Jt is a friendship which is not only tentative, but ore based upon a communion of principle. spoken very generously and beautifully of the relations which have “You have up_ sprung Bulletin Service Flag MTI[]N WAS INBUED WITH " THE SPIRT OF CHRISTMAS In New York Every Church Poured Forth Praise That Peace : nehor arols aud men were however, only skeleton crews great ¢ with electric war workers. silver Amer e allied m survived lothing and other useful STRASBO! s (ne Tombs amd other . Tuesiay BQURG HOSPITALS institutions men and women L “che wound ifts and S AvRre for T :hvh"g (‘hr:\.\“{‘ ' 113 by the Y. LIX—NO. 310 POPULATION 29,919 , DECEMBER 26, 1918 EIGHT PAGES—56 COLS, PRICE TWO CENTS. bV P Come to Mankind—Genercsity Was Rampant as Organizations, Private libe affectd of 235 ampion of personal he pegple New York to- was poured -forth peace had come again to in homes without nunmi- s in B ¥ prayers of thanks- with them something that red in the ‘cel#it home the moment Have or at Dreast in of uns betore. moved by be- An rseas, their s 1o . blue, the daned bands org given shoj ranyers in tu main Hoird cutte janding stage, Christmas bulbs, wery city res 1 the ha poor outh’ End rininment ror 4. and o o SHRISTMAS TREE IN THE homes (o \VAL HOSPITAL AT NEWPORT who w , wport, I tmas da This merry | rocamp co cit Nied natio dand and n 5 from one vided mu the city wel- i comma leercd by 73D R Red Cross swagger git E sticks each with the in toss 1915." hant marine n Red « ited many of the po- ministered to the cloth- , and told stories of 1l of the carhy there we of many Chr nments v of supplied by ¢ Kl in prison the WOUNDED AMERICANS N mber also foun In deaominations, ser- tha cleriy preachin: 1: ail Edward street, Ne "““'an ival !. Dec. 25—(By The A. P.)|and clothing rom the Red Cross and athletic equipryent, co and mon- ey from a ¥. M. ..man in Ber- lin. DIED WHILE WAITING PRINCETON different of principle FOR TRAIN AT Princeton, N. Addison Hervey, at Columbia univers platform at Princeton s presented of K‘erman Fresident died on the Junction while Princetan and left tows. zpparently in good health. He was about 60 years old. obviously comes And T zannof but be- Is an instinciive response i own | AN ARREST IN WATERBURY 80;’:"{"?; FOR HIGHWAY ROBBERY WaterLury. Conn.,, Dec, 25.—~Willlam Kafuskis, 16 vears old, was arrested here today for the Meriden police. Kawsls, it alleged, 15 ona of the men who robbed Kusti Tichor of §110 last Tuesday night In hls store at 185 Sherman averue, Meriden. at the point of'a revalver, Kaluskls was taken to Meriden tonliut, yourselves and our | The feathers do net maks the seng hal is beeause (hey camo|bird, but many men hayve made a gooee heracebena it Al lmasll_pibh A slniapill Western Siberiais Famine Stricken In Semips;lfinsk the Dead Lying in the Streets With None to Bury Them. Viadivostok, (By The A. Saturdav. —{(eneral the anti-Bolshevik leader who refused lo recogrize Admiral Kclehak as di- rector, in th~ Omsk efforts have bheen Iy has agrecd to rec Kolchalk General D ed Admi tire in favot o of the Liop thdras in lnmm.-.vq o f‘u~ the lat reated by . the out .1 the in the s his neutrality iu t a hat he had recomm n of Admi conditions ut cop: y unfavorable. There is I train. a day between Murnch Irin g the last ten only rough from Manchu o Tack of Jocomotives. ves twelve condition to use are lyin ops because of lack of fu of their crews. General Semenoff denios the ¢! that he s au oyt of ys the and to w 10 worl uation t e me 1 no vh the Y ther « .vm‘»l.. The azency atial tor sex need ton rnestly ¢ to the p atemen tion. of tary he decision of the mmittee to ecem Slst the n = bus: exner hould restrain s {o pr req traffic sing no the may it or e FIVE PERSONS KILLED IN-A TRAIN WRE 8 of the Louis and &: train crashed into Ok ight train at Norge, today. cerger train had been il for some time ho frozen pipes when the freight telescoping three of the’ flagman, sent to the re: senger train to flag th freight train, tion agent to himself. Among the dead was Sccond tenant J. H. McLauren, known. stand: have stopped to PRESIDENT REVIEWED THE AMERICAN TROOPS Chaumont, Dee, -(Hav: Presldent Wilson reviewod {he Ameri- can troops nt Langres, southeast Chaumont, ance with tha gramme, the Langres ylateau, Accompanied by Mrs, Wilsen, pre-arruaged government, mading to puition pro- Semenoff as a al Semen” temenoff’s command Kolchak. sle to the faulty raiiwa on and the lick of funds, A from Omsk dated Decembe: the Rusian goveraiaent there £ ppor Pxtes on of one END ACTIVITIES caplital urity oncoming is reported ky the address un- thiy afternoon, in accord- Tha review took place on Are and give w his is not | Jap ispute ended are v one and da come se of fifl V- har: o ne | S| from ot im- rench ald be t to] com at a sta- wafm Lieu- as.)— of pro- the i the Condensed T President Wilson old Saturday. Governor McCal] The Bristol corporated and ‘l,i)a‘:]l stock from $1,000,000 to $2,000,- Company has in- over loss of his wifs by edath cently. As work on the cra vanced quite to the the wWooden steame re- aft _had not ad- | nticipated poin n Connecticutl ved from about S increased its cap- Michael Derhett, €2, a retired junk | dealer of Stamford, attempted to kil | himself by shooting, being despondent Hiedical Relief For Physicians and Nurses Are to i Sail Next MonthFrom New York With Supplies. New York, Dec. 25 n American relief expedition carryinz phrsicians, ‘o5 and supplies will sail' next ath for *he Near East, s an- the Ameri uyes was 1o - Armenian and S launched at the Noank plant of th Groton Iron Works Tuesday. | d States government,” Hiram D. Wellington, asgociate t said, “has loaned to the i of the district court for cen-| 7.000 ton Tt “hl(“‘ at_Pitisfield, M The lard mayor of Dublin has sum- moned a special meeting of the poration to conier ¥ ik would | S o 3 nt setting forth the needs of German bank people in the r 12ast and des- note ng the war from! .. sy at Rl e condtlons of starvation and 000 ma ¢ Ono mes b Chnsles P Henry chell MacGracken, 78,{ . One e b e b chancellor riths of New: YOrk uhi-| gniq the minoor Lt G e Hoeitay Fagald thersiuation v rerate” and . Spitd # annealed {or gold and cozl. One from ev. Dr. George Kenneth Mor- e BT - Geort, tute an fo e it Boston Un is deud. Co: The Germans have not completeiy | complied with the clause of the > idi mistice proy - sul delive: all_the Au\ lan royul family ould pr 190,000, rkshire County since 1889, died | cor-| re fredom of, tne! Friends of Speaker Clark in congress | the | Ir nurses, rae m'|] sup- at numbers of modern lements which will ing next yvear's i de public a series 1 v it by J. P. and by the\state to | and ®.at | {only 10,01 10 of T “syrviver| without jmn only one- | anarter of heaith authorities treat influenz Boston cided to pat have de- -pneumo; who have been disease. d of ¢ tie The arrangements for the visit to | Man ot President Wilsou have been altered (o enable the president to visit the sier Royal Exchs of the cotlon ind Heavy rains and s have sw headq ting snow ilea the ithor The Sinn Fein scored by the election of Pr n Univer epresentative marked vic in derewszki, the f; rehab on bouar ion, arrive a Britis , widovs of one )‘lul indu Illinois d co in the by ¢ tota Jort fied The ERMANY WILL KE TO WILSON’ 1 of what (Geneva corr: ermany, that th rahd becaus two-thirds 1ta- thi enators and repres: not by a_ two- 1 membe! tives voting vote of the t gress. nis with biood serum taken trom or John | will | than 200 000 we ally un- . and cloth-} from al the c: the we annhuncer nf thn to i5 YEAR CLD BOY KILLED HIS FATHER IN PAWTUCP\ET awtucket, viin, 15 and’ According to to the police, s faler came of his d \\ hen hi ed mon; he srasped ed her (o man 2 throat and h Joseph declared Be: could not her od lonzer, 1o a bureau drawer, he secure pping info the kitchen front of his #nd fired five shofs into the la s _Lody... Deslin dicd aimost-in- s antly, TR Tus ovel the heart ested and wili 1 the Tenth D charge of manslaugh be ened tomorrow ot court on a AIMS VICLATION OF ARMISTICE TERMS todag were not armistic ln t si told the e lo Pr dent W to the pre OBITUARY Rev. Dr. J."Wilkur Chapmasn. The Rev. an’s opera was on, perfor) i im; for ;rovemen Dr d by s ot sy widow and a , Mrs. Fred EE E E e s thi: THREE WEEKS B“FORE auE services will ba held PEACE CONGRESS ASSEMELES oY AtORRENT L T Prey) Tar R, rch here, where Dr. than ed the pulpit. fr 1 eneral pence body will be buried )] is unlikely Jawn, N. Y. cial statement ; Edward Day Pave. meantime] concern number o : 1. Oakland, N. J., Dec. —Edward governments to be represerted or the 23 < ,' 13 Sei E § toLbe Shpucd o Ao te the|Day Pase, 62 years old, scientist and rights of an:licants #) pariicipate. £ Technical experts atioched to the o ““dfl‘““f 'r” delegations of the princivzal nowers al- ety ready have miven much - to this Shelollogine subject. If aegotiations to reach an P vlois agreement on this point have not been undertaken alveady it i3 ccrtain that ill be immediately after Presi- n's return from London. Ambassador Sharp Called Home. Paris, Dec. 25.—William G. Suarp, the American ambassador.” who hs been called to America by the severe lflness of o brother, leit Iaris last president returned here und took @ |/might for the horesvard trip. Ambassa- special train for the noith whanea ba sl esabanlc foa coast, @or Sharp went to Breast to , saill thanaa ,Qn' Naw Yorlk an a transnart ! cute hear a graduate chool, ¥ the firm of § d Company of New r of the Century, Nerchants’ Assoc Cosmos Club, -two_scientific wsghter, ) sson, Lee Page. on, His w Teitch, him. Mr. Page owned and edfted the Sussex, N. L. Raeister. a newspaner. and survive Armenia and Syrial l\m.-.l' favas.)—Count | Dr. | NEW YORK HARBOR TODAY Ten Great Battleships, Which Have Been in European ' ‘Waters For 18 Monihs, Are at Anchor Off Sandy Hook —They Will Enter New York Harbor Teday in Trinmphal Procession and Pass in Review Before Sec- retary Daniels—The Warships Will Be Escorted by an Aerial Fleet of Six Secaplanss and Two Dirigibles— Destroyers and Smaller Craft Have Not Arrived. New Y -Ten great bat-|ficers of the various <hips, who will tleship: rd of America's alongside in U\(‘Ar launches.. l oversea armada, retu g (o home zents irom each shores after eighteen month ervice ileet, numbering ies {in European waters. dropp cho , will de for New this afternoon off Sandy Hock Thl‘\ ade. wiil enter the Harber tomo: T decorated urhpk procession ilors will shadow of Libe: Br to Fifty- review lwro re Secretary cross to Fifth Avenue, Thes of the tha historic scores of smally eraft in . Arch of Vi the homeland. rached the AL Twenty channel «liZhts] 2 11 turn to- noon. Th re 'w ded 'n‘.rukinv for r-dreadnought Peni 10} L c lights. | By and mast ¢ light, and about to enter h Wil be spell- liere shc ved v, when hosi 1 ‘lagship will of Dblux bulbs, with designations in ~ silver the now flies the fia W. Grant, pic > from their i sta correct A‘\flf' {DAMAGE IN BELGIUM mir: the commander-in-chief, i G atis; commanoct Su T BY THE GERMAN ARMIES ,.),o ‘home flect the Christmas -groetings| Washinfton, Dec, 25.—Physical dam- of thousands of sailor age wrought in Belgium by the Ger- Ao = [ man armies s deseribed in & cablo- A few minutes later thé.radio ap-| ed by the food administra- atus on the Despateh crackled out| ne e commander of hattle force N ion from_Herhert Hoover, who, with | William 1 Poland, European director ,m the committee Zor relief in Delgium, 1, and the officers and men of hattle | | just completed a shrvey of con- force 1, sincerely appreciate the ses \d tions in this liberated country. sonal greetings received from the| On the basis of Mr. Hoover's report, commander-in-c commander In return the|the food administration announced to- of battle force 1 and the ¥ a: ¥ that hereafter 180,600 tons of sup- includ clothing, would be m')p(‘d to Belgium each month. As | this program will require 160,000 dead- { weight tons of shipping in addition to destroyers and | the 240,000 tons now on_charter to the ft for home with | relief commission, application for ad- ps reported by |ditional tonnage has been made to the ago that they could | Shipping board. York on Christm The cost of the entire relief program . ordered, however, will be borne by the Belgian and ¢ reception French governments from loans made by the American government. France's part of the expense will be for supply- ing the people of Northern France as well as several hundred thousand refu- gees who were forced from that sec- tion into Delgium during the retreat tery park. At once two oci tugs, | of the German forces. loaded fo the rail with Christmas let- | Mr. Hoovers report on his survey ters, raced down to Ambrose ehanmel| 0f Belgium- said i part: {and, delivering their cargo, added a| “Prior to the armistice ,the German e accoming . ove ),( {1 the the ten b ess two days to | was | as ta planned for Thursday. But “loaf’ as they might, craft could not fovever moment when they shores, and this toeanchor about the great put off the would reach these afternoon they came forty miles from Bat- v |real touch of home to Christmas | army had completely destroyed a zone spent on. the sea, with New York al- | of failroads and canals somé twenty ‘mnq : miles wide—extending 2ntirely across ennsvivania, the fleet ! Belgium. MAfter the armistice, there ew York, flagship of | was comparatively little destruction Admiral Mugh | of transporiation o the rear of this and W zZone i the rapid rehabilitation {sas, Florida and tion facilities across this i the Utah zone of destruction the problem of Vice Admi distribution of food, and of recon- and the Of | struction, can be .undertaken with e A much less difficulty than at present. To New Yor the honor of ac- | he Germans in their final retreat ming for hole nation the|removed but little of the relief sup- mecaming and it is predicted | % the revie and land parade to- >tion towards the native 0 down in histor will the tile in their with- e of its kind this half cly in different of the world has ever known. Thiy ted to take all re- When the lons columm ct fightin ininz hogs from the western part ships. led by the Ariz enters the | ©f ium, except those hidden by 7 tomorrow m d moves | the peasants in ynderground caves. aches ter the armistice, however, and with - it will the demoralization of = the ~Germap t of twenn army in its final retreat, many of these gibles, tion at Ro Pesides it be abandoned or sold by sol- diers the further back, and in practical results there appears ve Been “no widespread cattle ing in the retreat, although dur- < of occupation there t diminution, probably n the total number of It can be said almost ses have disappeared ere pro bly not be- inal animals over one-half, cattle and hog rv factory whistle for d ion in Belgium B i fnal inspec in different localities, fferent in s. Tor in- out of the naces in ium=35 or 40 havi esiroyed by the Ge ion to end the Belgia Many of the textile mills puat out of commissi iberate destruction > or by re- . bat- | moval and’ brass parts many | and. e . : S havel] rTh industry pas been but S St trol -duty | Httle. d with, and the stern anbritan the was, | promise tribution by President is hon t nchored in | Wilson seems to have saved the coal the Huds ept for very few mines, At the Stamme of the west ual explosives and wires e number of the mines. The warning seems to have \mflwn change of heart. ce hundred in Belgium, driven o nce by the rmans. ut of m.\mp s and by.the commis: Belgiumf They are. however. D their resolve to native villages. As nsportation, the roads ince are a continu- hese pitiful groups of hildyen, pulling their through the cold thei destroyed <= heing done that hut in the present 1, with moving of using every. which to feed plight is heart- velt, the nd house, official Adm an ral sitv with thir yilower the popt iral Mayo' ng. €y use : H.Dersx_xasian B il b e in the crowded Belgian villages the Arizoma, by i n he oreanized. Lnd Uthnh. 1 of thie relief com- ight and day stations, clothing 1@ food for them, but Ia ~any nthar ations in Rurope “today, olution to the suffering RED CROSS FNr.OLLME”T RcACH: EARLY 17.630.670 ining the 1 pennants iloat 0 the masth - will e th ivat 1 be repeated a th the men o N e from th will come call .receive:d tonight *at national Spangled Banner dquarters here iy divisions shin's . . | veporied that thus - had be-n Mayfower will thea anchor at | able 1o return e foot of 3 yd street and | from many ct s and this Jed offi- Secretary Dauiels will 1cceive Ad- cials to believe that ‘he ultimate to-' miral Mavo and the comisanding of- . tal will exceed 20.000.000.