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r ane cnet Maden (minty fopenter Sow Var. and Nd TO CENTS cleewhore (opr PRICE); —— REE ERE Compriaht, WONT, by ROME, Deo, 24 More especially, he calls upon little children to whom this Day of Days belongs, to pray with sarts to the Babe of that He may protect oved ones and give back te world that peace which He to bring upon “sd he their bh Bethle FLED DT ED OOCTESa SCO00O0906000009 008 aN ee Pope’s Xmas Message to America $$$ the Cnited Preeey Hope Henedict to-day rent to the people of Am: Jecrelary of State Unie Ch i riatmas mennage Tee IH ft The Holy Father sends to the people of America his cordial greetings and prays they may take to heart in this time of strife and suffering the true lessons of the Christmastide—the lessons of God's unceasing love for mankind, and the lesson of unfaltering courage and sacrifice of self “Circulation Books Open to All.’’ 17, by The Pree Fubtiehing ne New York World). Nato BATTLES ERMANS| Paris Rais Tha That Eighteen NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER IRON FIST AND SHINING SWORD TO WIN, 24, FEE ed end be bed bode o- GERMANS HURLED 20,000 SHELLS AT | AMERICAN TROOPS Recently Captured Prisoner Describes the First Attack Against U. S, Soldiers. By W WITT THE TIIB FIELD, De S. Forrest. NCI ARMIES IN . 24 (United Press). y ta. ‘Twenty thousand German shells in O09900d00 Enemy Planes Were roa ses all were hurled at t an Brought I Down troops In front line tren 3 am before the German raid which PATUS, Dee, 4.—Tntense aerial ac-) sought America’a firat dead in ac- tivity is reported by the War Office. ‘or , pin the course of 100 combats in the| ai, United Press is able to-day U . alr during the last, fow days sho| for the first time to describe exactly . French brought down dies seth what occurred on this night when TY ARCANE Phe announcement! ine west American soldiers shed thelr sollows , blood on France's soll. OR LUNE TEENS ne of the Meuse) An American company was holding (Verdun front) the Germans made}. soint of resistance which jutted tmo'palds aneisat wae ees near! into No Man's Land in the form of a HORAN BHT CONE i Wood.) mall salient. The Germans had dis —-— ¢—$$—$———— P ehorye rma uised by Our) ovorod that American helmets—the "in fire, The artillery fighting was rather ra Ceo i Many Entertainments and Din-| WILSON SUMMONS CHIEFS. CHIEFS | vieorous om tno tort mami of the lhe, They mgured out acheme for mais of Bethincourt. | ¢ : ' American : MA ri 1 he gathering of tho ft ners Arranged for Men LROAD UNIONS , erage) in the Service ‘1 was cil |” xooordiie tow Garman’ prisoner Ju ‘On Deo. 2 and 23 our pursuit “ re anata’ Sa on akon by the French, the enemy sp President Expected to Outline ara ve, Our pilotal Fee iciecin a cat Perhaps what most impré Viinnesoiigeebe : page ethers | o_peine (0 ms nr ; Cour My SPO! d ‘00- | On) The merican pos lion Was min y {day crowds to-day w t | : in Highteen | a Toutons. i t t lem Thursds hex "Ml studied by the methodical mas New York las had 1 ] WASHINGTON, De Presiden cen fell in} out the wire where the attack was to century. The soldier 1 bi =) Ison has sum ed the chiefs and fas the ground and] ig made are here in thousands, and the + jie ative a f the four railroad | J I ¥ + Senne Two compantes—at } Ge 7 herhos o w conference at the} 0 . yard | soldier «re brought from anothe ardent young admirer of Santa Claus | bro iy t nferen t : is 18.000 Lina: | soldiers—were br ‘ ‘ * - White House Thursday ng squad ‘4 * part of the front for the actual assau Bee meeien than th it xpected that tho sident | krams (nearly two Ns) Of DrO-lPhese: men were “stosstruppen On every hand are eto the vepeuamatatlvas of (0% n railway at sni"Tmany's best fed, v hock Fether Knickerbocker | i workors whatever action |" wire “ FEC" | troops, used solely for king foy himself. In fact, healed eee poses. le : ; cd Is necessary to obtain German guns were concentrated on begun. This time ' | an lent transportation tn the ne Ainerica 5 gotig to ook’ afer DE SAULLES'S FATHER DIESs |"ssn" a he 1s going to givo tho grown-ur , | Nov. 3 ud 12.0 nase the soldiers, and The new conte came as a sur HEART BROKEN, IT I$ SAID and at the grou ih there is, Festivit road situation, Pres! ; utely off from outside ald under way and will cor u Withon has been studying alt cut absolutely off from outs ; New Year's. have the question and ft has been Failed A e Under cove a us 1 AU Soar thet ‘old : | that he intended: to addre Lat enemy oops came } captured by tt ci a ihe aubisess Adler the. Wal Wit | Man's Land, afmed with k by the police of New Y y S i | \ j gers ier arbed ‘ik He appeared in ten Mille wentlingat (tn faror of ‘ I , Traversing the wire enti Manhattan, Bronx, brooklyn t aruental Operation of) he, roade| j ‘ De Saul hot |glement which had already beon Queens and gluddened the heat FO ee hat” thle Detect ween (ane wed ner wife, Mra./the Germans swarmed more than 10,000 younye\« 1 : Anas béen given and pending | Bans *, died to-| Americans—outnumt he ig to entertain at foriy othe Nt meumTiMoueNiae tere ae AES pachienay to on tion houses and to-morrow tr Me ntomalacea ' Je a But the untried Tho police never did anythlr eakees falli leath offing Uncle Sain f thoroughly or enthusia WAVE 0 # son, fight. Uodles of t they have looked after the popr ie coLD A N THE WAY. seid 4 1 both jn {dead bore hori wound : 1 dies of their preci t your tl ocpaoiad 40 Nene sre Geant Fotteswa y snd wast desperate hand to nang was not long ago that the My Dactoneae. eigitend ah Lox, at Wests | There could be no doubt of the ult street looked on | ‘ 1s} WASHINGTON, Gaudecenc anielourye ot secur-| Mate German victory, becau n mortal enemy, He now A: » haw caused a drop ater a, } athe | BRaMy.A) Vaats well he wants to 1 4 5 Sbe:dbaraus i eit 1 ehem|the Ar Christmas celebrations £ \ wentyef : ‘ thougt dren were the idea of ( the Wea PRu.| nnoce ; aullex|the A War Woods, who can go ou V < 1 and is ¢ ; | German 4 1 the knowledge th n “ ‘be i MF huet wat : success that p * an , Trades: ad 1 hea as New York ha . ; the # children, UREA, . Phe Commissioner W 1 A Ialltse 3, lesser officials of s all Rall t toured all ghe stations w r at ‘ © day and night. Traveller’ hs end money (Continued on Fourth Page.) crdacs WS alt, ‘Telepbous Jesknan ‘4 MWiradry, * Lhe musdes owo lines, pbasepesgbendecensseonsereecesensconsbeebeeeeee Obebeboseensseobbaeenteeeeessoneseess: Germaity Only Re Repeats Offer! Made in Christmas Season of Last Year. Dec, 14, —Ger- Christmas peace propaganda “should not for a moment Induce us to slacken our preparations Secretary of War Baker's weekly war summary votced this warnlig to-day, pointing out that Germany now {s trying to knock Italy out of the fight, while at tho same time sho is testing out the west front preliminary to what thas been herald- WASLINGTON, many’s insidious for war.” ed a8 @ big offensive, He warned too that America's por- tion of the struggle Is vast and that “our armies constitute the reserves of victory.” the subject of feclors and America’s task the On Teuton peace retary sald 1 fore-| | runner to the German offensive her-| alded to be launched in the west, an Intensive peace propaganda is under way. Offictuls het we in the Russ { German gathering at’ Brest-Litovsk| an effort by Germany to effect sep. trate peace with Ru during the holidays for the paychologival effect on other nations. ‘uveful examination “It would appear that ax F veals that the enemy | pr ing to sue for ‘peace before viete “The various reports of im- mediate peace proposals by the Germans on seemingly favorable terms should not for a moment Jand Domestic Commerce Ne on Miens {“Cirentation Bookn Open to All.’’| 10 PAGES 1917, Pa ee KASER'S PEACE PLE NOT NEW: WAR WORK NOT 10 SLACKEN U. 5. SIDE, SAYS BAKER $3,000,000 000 o ++ 206 toSteeeeso: _—— WEATHER Grow Marries to night and te marrem o S KAISER’S XMAS SPEECH TO HIS ARMY KAISER CLAIMS VICTORES ~ON EVERY BATTLE FRONT: _ SAYS BRITISH ARE ARROGANT Tells Second Army the Old, Offensive Spirit Rules, and Asserts That the Creator Is the Unconditional and Avowed Ally of German Cause. AMSTERDAM, Dec. 24.—“If the enemy does not want * Peace, then we must bring peace to the world by the battering of our iron fist and our shining sword,” Kaiser Wilhelm declared in a speech last Saturday to the Second Army somewhere on the western front. “Despite three yeors of war and suffering; the Kaiser con- ** TRADE BALANCE I FAVOR OF THEU.S. Increase of $140,000,000 Shown Over Period End- ing at Close of November, WASHINGTON, Dec. 24,—Amer- fea’s balance of trade approximated $3,000,000,000 the close of No- vember, at according to figures issued Forelgn It was an to-day by the Bureau of Increase of $141,000,000 over the same Period last year, During November export restric- tlons caused a substantial decrease In foreign trade, During the eleven months ended with gold Imports AMounted to $535,000,000 and exports November to $367,000,000, leaving an excess of imports of — $168,000,000 1917, against $299,000,000 in 1918 Silver imports during the eleven months against amounted — to $29,000,000 axo, the exports were valued at $74,000,000 n 1917 and $6: $7,000,000, a yeny and 100,000 in 1916, |shall be your reward and at the tinued, “our off offensive spirit ¥# still effective. “This is shown,” the German Emperor added, ‘ ‘by our recent great victories in Flanders and at Cambrai, where the arrogant British first felt the crushing power of our offensive blow. “The year 1917,” the Kalser said, “has proved that the Ger- man people have in the Lord of Creation Above an unconditional owed ally, on whom they can absolutely rely. Without Him 4 have been Im vain.- SAYS POWERFUL BLOWS WERE STRUCK. “It has been a year full of events for the German army and the German Fatherland. Powerful blows have been delivered and your comrades in the East have been able to bring about great decisions “There has been no man, no officer and no General onthe whole East- ern front, wherever I have spoken to them, who has not frankly admitted that they could not have accomplished what they have if their comrades in the west had not stood to a man, “The tactical and strategical connection between the battles on the Aisne, in the Champagne, Artois and Flanders and at Canbrai and the events in the East and in Italy is so manifest that it is useless t words on it, waste “With a centralized direction the German army works in a centrale ized manner, In order that we should be able to deliver these offensive blows one portion of the army had to remain on the defensive, hard as this is for the German soldier, Such a defensive battle, however, as has been fought in 1917 is without parallel. A fraction of the German army accepted the heavy task, covering its comrades in the East unconditionally and it had the entire Anglo-French army against itself. THINKS ALLIES AIMED AT BRUSSELS. “In long preparation the enemy had collected unheard of technical means and masses of ammunition and guns in order to make his entry into Brussels over your front, as he proudly announced, has achieved nothing “The st gigantic feat ever accomplished by an army and one without parallel in history was accomplished by the German army, I don’t boast. It is a fact and nothing else. The adm u have earned The enemy me induce us to slacken our prep: rations for war. It is only ne TWO KILLED IN SKIDDING CAR sary for us to recall that during = ; a a leas ma, Lawyer, the Shristinas “seneen: fe Dealer Meet Dew year the Germans put forth very = ae : similar peace rumors. ralm Williams, for more “In considering the general mill-| fifteen years a New ¥ awyer a tary situation In its true light 1t]27 Cedar Street, member of fier must be understood that the Ger-[of Wilseley,! Wiliam Eva * jmans realize that iin A short) killed this morning n automobile |time our armies will form the prin-laccident at Hopkinton, R. . Harry ¢.| cipal body of fresh strategic reserves! tarber un automod Ven available f tion on] oi was. ales es re fields of Furor ye cut that BY nd Fing-|Snnouncing the death+ sald the ca © done a mighty task, Baker|*#idded on an icy road and ¢ tis our duty in looking tothe | At Mr. Willtar ft ‘ ait! future to realize that if we are | that he had probubi> way | to fulfill the pledge we made on | to tioston in conne entering the war, if we are to |mobile purchase fen fight this war to a successful |oceurred. He and ntly | conclusion, we must assume the | ¥°M* to Stonington. | 4 t | spend the holida Mrs, Williams $s full responsibility that rests up- | "pind the Roldays ssl on us We are the freshest inthe Jisins home in New York t No. na struggle; we have the ve | Kast 84th Street man power and the reserve me - -> - chanical power, Our armies ccon stitute the reserves of victor k the addit Yeu | the Hun t A the war and if Ww r y tun I jpeopie THE EVENING WORLD| Will Not Be Published f= To-Monow, Tuesday, December 25th Js (Christmas Day) | ee same time your pride. Nothing can in any way place in the shade or surpass what you have accomplished, vever great and overwhelming it may be he year 1917 with its great battles ha has in the Lord of Creation above an With proved that the German nditional and avowed have been whom it can absolutely rely ( Him all would jin vain “Every one of you had to exert every nerve to the utm that every one of you in the unparelleled drumfire did super 1 know iman deeds, The feeling may have been frequently with you: ‘If we only had some. thing behind us; if we only had some relief.’ It came as the result of 1¢ blow in the east, where it is seen that the storms of war there are present silenced. God grant that it may be foreve Emperor William visited the front north of Yerdun on Friday, ace riding to a Berlin despatch, and in an address tthe troops thanked 1 warmly for their efforts, “But for the calm and heroic warriors on the Western front,” he enormous eployment of German forces in the East and in | er would have been possible. The { in the West has ex- 08 ad] nerojcally his body so that his brothers onthe Dvina and the Isonzo might storm from victory to victory. The fearful battles om the