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GOING TO BREST TO GREET WILSON From There He’ Will Be E: corted to Paris and Be Re- ceived by French President. PARIS, Dec. 10.—Stephen Pichon, Foreign Minister; Georges Leygue Minister of Marine; Capt. Andre Tar- leu, head of the Franco-American General Commission for War Mat- ters; Armand Gauthier, former Minister of Marine; Gen, John J, Pershing, Col, EB. M. House and a Number of Americans associated in the work of the American Peace Commission, will leave Paris Thurs- day night at 10 o'clock for Brest to meet President Wilson Mr, Wilson's ship, the George Washington, will enter the roads at Brest carly in the afternoon, escorted by American and Allied warships. The welcoming party will go on board at once to extend greetings. The President will land at 3 o'clock. An hour later his train will leave for Paris, It will arrive here at 10 o'clock and be met by President Poincare, Premier Clemenceau and a large of- ficial’ delegation. The President will be taken td the Elysee Palace where Juncheon will be served. On Monday afternoon Mr. Wilson will be accorded solemn reception at the Hotel de ‘Ville. During the ensuing days President Wilson will take a Jong trip through the devastated districts and citicn of Eastern ¥ There seems to be Do change in the plan to begin the Peace Conference on Dec. 17, ae, train arriving at Paris these ys brings in large numbers of of- wials attached to the various deloga- tions to the Peace Conference, A the larger Allied Nations age continu- ously sending parts of their working Personnel and by the timo the dele- gates assemble the number of officials The first photagra armistice envoys shows crossing the French line h ree the on the sived hh Germa Pe THE EVE NING WORLD, TUESDAY, DECEMBE Fi irst Photograph of German Envoys on Their Way To Meet Marshal Foch to Sign Armistice Terms Sob teleeebviebisteleiviciieelebeleleleleinteeisteleleteleivieinieieleieteteteteleteetei shbesbelelelelebelebeieleletelelefelefeleleleielet eleeleleieleieletelebelefeleteleleteteleteed of all nationalities will number be- tween 4,000 and 6,000, Kach one will Wave some special work to do, Many of them are alteady busy. The French delegates will have ol! their assistants near at hand, for the large staffs of the Admiralty and War and Foreign Ministries will be con- stantly available, The United States office force will be large. Great brt- tain will have a large number of cs- perts and axsistants in Paris and, in dition, staffs in the London Ck ernmental offices will be available for work which is not particularly urgent HEARST INSTRUCTIONS TO EDITORS SHOWN AT SENATE HEARING. (Continue | m Firgt Page.) great leaders of men and bullders of Moreover, there will undoubtedly be | FMM)! ' in Paris representatives of Great [ri- | The course of my newspapers tain's dominions and colonies, with | | ASrtaesic sy: Got ' their respective statts, Peel 0 MERE RAS wore Great Britain will alao have in| cust am Pro-German any mic Paris experts of various sorts, includ-|than 1 am pro-Ally, I am merely ing men who have made a life study| patriotically interested in the wel of such subjects as the navy, colonie%,| rare of my own © . 1 *lfare of my own country and altru the Far Bast and the Near Kast, } Tho United States, because of its re-|'stically interested In the progress moteness, will be obliged to have|of the world, probably the largest and most com ‘plete staff, and for this reason the American authorities have been com- led to take over larger accommoda- | GERMANY'S PROGRESS CALLED SIMILAR TO OUR OWN. “Tam sure that the United, States f ns than any other delegation. Italy| will value in the future the consist | ' eee wee Dave 8 Sone oe working/ent friendship of Germany as it has ‘ 0 ere, ne delegates, as in the case of Great Britain, will be able| Yue’ tt in ‘the past, and T think to depend on much of their work be-!that most Americans realize that ing done in ¢heir owi country. Germany, like France, represents in No Need to Coax Young or Old to eat WARD’ MOTHER HUBBARD BREAD And there are no more crusts, ha!f-eaten slices, fragments or crumbs left oa piates when you serve this quality loaf, Its fine flavor is an appetite arouser and its firm, smooth texture is the kind you can slice and butter without breaking or crumbling. Make Mother Hubbard your daily bread choice and you are assured of QUALITY bread—!"URK bread--CLEAN bread, Made with wheat flour only (no substitutes). Wrapped by machine at the ovens to keep it fresh and clean. 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Two hun- Gred and twenty persons have been killed and a thousand wounded in the | recent skirmishes in the German cap\- ; tal between Bolshevik forces and Gov- | jernment troops. | folelotetebelalatnieintetetetetetet | Government | BERLIN, Dec, 10 (Associated |Press).—A dramatic sequel to Fri- day's attempted arrest of the Execu- |tive Committee of the Soldiers’ and Workmen's Council occurred Monday | .|when the Hotel Bristol, one of the | | more fashionable places on Unter Den | |Linden, was raided by order of the Ebert-Haase Cabinet. . ; All exita of the hotel were guarded by | |searched on the strength of rumors! |that plotters wore concealed there. In| one ofthe Iaras apartments the raid-| ers found twenty-two men suspected | of complicity in Friday’s raid, Among them were Baron Rhein- |baden, former Prussian Minister of }! man and the younger Prince) Hohenlohe, A number of students! was found in the room. The entire party is under detention, Three hun- dred guns which were found in an ad- joining chambers were seized, Count! Matuschka, one of those alleged to have been involved in Friday's dis- orders, has not yet been arrested, COPE IN, Dec. 10.—The Ger- SNHAG) man Majority Socialists held thirteen They feleleleieielelelnlnfofeleleleielnfeleieleteleteie 7, on their way to mect Marshal led leaders to end hostilities, ere of the German] Capelle Guise, 3 an representatives | Foch and other All ad to Fourmies-La} Hurope a political, social and eco- numic progresg, similar to our own. “Americans from childhood have been taught to regard both Germany and France as thelr proven friends. |We therefore deg deplore the war} |vetween these great nations which| have gontribut¢d so ‘much to the progress and ebvilization of the world, wevarnestly desire to employ the ‘influence of our country not for the extension and protraction of the war, and but for the promotion of a just and lasting peace. | ‘The message of March 2, signed “Doctor,” said in 3 | “Agree with Francis (editorial | writer for the New York Evening Journal), Zimmermann note all prob- | ability absolute f and forge prepared by very ‘unscrupulous At- torney General's very unscrupulous |departn Everybody knows that the se police are tae most | sclenceless evidi manufacturers of forged ce in the world, iregory's whole Francis showed in recent editorial, has been a spy sent here and plot conceiter, He has not been bound by facts or the Constitution, He mployed ‘the Secret Service to inferce England's unlawful orders He has attempted to put a bill through Congress to makg any criti- m of his acts or of the President's acts or of any political move or m ure treasonable and punishable such, morals, has as | “He is possibly violently pro-Brit- ish, He is surely violently pro-cor- |poration, He is located where he can the corporations the most good land he has been unwilling to be re- moved or they have been unwilling to have him removed, even for a posi- tion on the Supreme bench, He and Burleson’ aré House's apointments, arta’ Most tias been a corporation lobbylat‘al his lite, * + + | “Phe object lof the Zimmerman for- gory was to frighten Congress into | siving the President the powers that jhe demanded, and perhaps also into passing the Espionage Bill, When Wilson wanted to give away the rights of the United States .in® the | Panama Canal he p [had private inform j uum tended that he jon of a danger- om sufficient s never re- pituat Inlermationsal }to justify hi } vealed his privath information, and ho one now believes that he ever had any “He could not repeat this false {claim on this oceasion, so @ com- plaisant Cabinet officer this time un dertook to manufacture sufficient fals jevidence to enable Wilson to have It is possible that the Brit secret service co-operated in these plans, The only serious consequence jis that the whole people of this coun |try, 90 per cent, of whom do not want war, May be projected into war be cause of these misrepresentations and these forged documents, if they are Jorged. “If we do not want to say all this j oditorially, we can say part of it edi- torlally interview to stand for ule used to do to bring nt poinis out, wlally those la@bout the probable forgery of the note, We should develop the forgery Phage of the note forthe Sunday and get som as} esp con-} er in office, as) meetings in Berlin on Sunday. were addressed by the principal loac- ers, The Independent Socialists held | three open air meetings, while Dr. Liebknecht, the radical leader, spoke at a Spartacus meeting of 3,000 per- sons at Treptow Park, MUNICH, Dec. 10 (Associated Press).—In a statement Sunday Premier Eisner called on the people of Bavaria to maintain strict order, pare r be right lATTACK ON ESPIONAGE BILL URGED IN MESSAGE. A message dated Feb, 21, 1917, ad- dressed to Phillip Francis of the New \York Journal advocated “a vigorous ‘attagg on the Espionage Bill.” Another message to Francis, dated if Francis and I seen to Feb, 25, 1917, read: He sald that the disturbanc such “Pease . Ai deen as those that occurred Friday night lease make editorial advocating |@innot be tolerated, and that the embargo for America along your own | troops assigned to ipreserve order lines, Also kindly make one for,Eve- |have been instructed to use their |ning Journal amplifying and improv- |¥aPons ruthlessly if necessary, The Premier adds that he is confi- ing following suggestions: dent that the trouble which led to “America is not only being ved attack on Herr Auer, ny menieter, : in: thes Kahane) 2 * }jurope,|the Interior, arose’ through press for the benefit of warring Europe, |i iccerings aver himself and Auer, but is being plundered out of its|QEhengs aovited for the Premiere wealth as well, © © “Uncle Sam is being gold-bricked. He is being sold a satchelful of gr goods in return for his genuine and hard earned property “We are reveling in mock prosper- ity and will all wake up some ‘ine morning 4nd find the sheriff at our doors, And why are we wasting our |wealth? If it were for some noble purposo we could afford to go poor for a generation and find comfort and consolation in a worthy deed, ship by Bisner, Nevertheless, the Premier refuses to curtail the ‘free- dom of the press. letter was written to some unnamed excellency.” “If his alleged excellency of Reis. witz himself had any intelligence, olther or both of them must have known that I was myself the author of the bill to prohibit the export of arms and ammunition, and that I bad introduced it in the Senate more than eight_months before the Reiswitz iet- “But no; we are wasting our x wealth to continue a carnival of |'e? was written,” sald Senator Hitoh~ murder, to prolong an era of over- [CCK “The part I took during 1914 and whelmin, disaster to ¢ ‘ourage the destruction of the white race, to t 1915 In fayor of prohibiting the ex- down the achievements of civiliza- | POTt of arms and ammunition during tion which have taken ages to con- | Ur neutrality hag never been a sub- struct, to repudiate reliigon and yio- | Ject of concealment or apology on late all established standards of de-| my part. It became a campaign is- cency, morality and righteousness; | sue in 1916 when Ivran for re-election, to prostitute the progress of the}and the fact that I was re-elected world to the meanest and basest and] by a comfortable majority indicates vilest of purposes.” On Febreary 1917, Hearst sent & message, addressed to F, W. Kel- logg, Washington, Bureau of New York American, saying, “When I ine scribed the watchword, ‘An Ameri paper for the American people, over the titles of my newspapers, | meant just what that motto sald,” and de- would not supplicate that my course and my motives were understood and approved by the peo- plo of Nebraska. “My stand was taken In 1914 as an American for neutrality. The Ger- mans in America took theirs by form- ing the embargo conference in 1915 as partisans of Germany. They were supporting my bill but I declined to zo to their conferences, conventions | claring he land for news or for print paper or|or meetings, though I was often in- for permission to issue nor allow his|Vited to appear as a speaker, I made pers to be edited in the smallest|™my only speeches here in the Senate ee by any foreign power or in defending my course later be- A message on the same day to Car- | fore my constituents, valho asked that the verses of “The}| “My attitude naturally changed Star-Spangled Banner" be keptstand- | With changing conditions, ing across the American's edi “Like other Americans I have page, and that the evening pay passed from one phase of the situa- keep standing verses reproduced f tion to another-peaceful neutrality, | Harper's Weekly during the Civil ¥ armed neutrality, war. German con-| and referring to shipment of arms duct forced those changes, not only England to the South. in the case of public men as indi- Senator Hitchcock, Senate nd Prof Chairman of th ‘oreign Relations Committe Albert Bushnell Hart of Har- eiguels but in the case of our coun- tty.as a whole.” Prof. Hart in his statement pointed 1 University, to-day branded as |to his record and to his published | false and unwarranted the efforts of | “ticles on the war as evidence that German propagandists to connect | his name had no place on the German then with German intrigue in the |"list of important names.” He de- United States before this country |feribed his acquaintance with pro- |Sntered the war. Germans and declared hé had not | Hitchcock's denial was delivered to |Shared thelr views at any time, He the Senate, while Prof. Hart's was |8ald he refused to join the German | \f made before the Senate committe | University Alliance at tho invitation investigating propaganda, of Otto Merkel of New York, because Hitcheoe red to the letter he did not wish to become identified dated July 5, read into the | With such an organization, | record by A. Bruce Bielaski of the | Prof, Hart said he had spent a year Department of Justice, in which Ger- |and a half in German schools, yan Consul Relswitz at Chicago said! “I never could stand the Prussian |by Dr. Charles Lewis Slattery, rector {country place of Thomas Farrell, ad- troops and the premises were\in the mine in the hope her parents | I love you. R 10, 1918, FRAN CE PREPARES ROYAL WELCOME FOR PRESIDENT | ‘GERMANS TRY TO PASS WORN OUT CARS ON ALLIES JULIET BREITUNG, DIVORCED IN MARCH, Allied Commission Accepis Only IN lwo or Three Out ef Every Ten Offered, PARIS, Dec, 10 (Havas) from Sarrebruck, Rhenish Pru (Continurd from First Page.) j@icate that the delivery, of ( ‘ | railway material is ng carried out very slowly but living with her parents at the S| by the Ge rmans. Regis, and Max Kleist, twenty-three,| They tried at firat Ne 626 Lexington Avenue, obtained 4! out French railw marriage licenseand they were married | mission which was to pass off worn- care, but the Com- rece. ‘ving mi- terial was strict in its examinations and lof Grac@ Church. In March news- Accepted only two or three cars of papers printed the first accounts. | ten, Mr. Breitung, part owner of the) oe French authorities are all the Congress Hotel in Chicago, grhen on es een crnoeaion: as kis seen there stated: “My daughter IS | mang during the war had bulit quan not married to this Kleist. I navel of cars which they held in. prep- employed a law firm to unravel the! aration for a proposed economic in- mystery of the marriage ceremony |vasion to follow up the then expected jthat never took place."* Ten day§ | German victory. {later he admitted reports were cor- | AMSTERDAM, Monday, Dec. 9.—The leu |Lokel Anzelger of Berlin says it ns Kleist, it was reported, was em-|from competent sources that Marshal ployed as a horse handier on the {Foch has agreed to postpone the date jfor the surrender of all German locomo- tives untiPFeb, 1 > UNIDENTIFIED GIRL KILLED, joining the summer home of the Breitungs in Marquette, Michigan When Misé Breitung returned to New York he followed, first rooming on Lexington Avenue and then going to Auto Driver Held for Homicide After Accident Near School, n hote e was wo! f in a silve: a hotel. He was working in a silver} Ay unidentified git! about ten years mine in Arizona in which Mr. Brel-|o1q, pelieved to be a pupil of Public tung was interested when the facts of | school, No. 159, was struck and {nstantly the marriage became public. killed by an automobile at Third Ave- Following this separation, when the! nue and 119th Street, this morning hustand, ae he later testitied, George Gremel, No. 545 Second Ave- “ ” e, Island City, driver of the “ a carrying dynamite |ue, Long mucking” and | automobile, which was owned by Guck- t enheimer & Hess, No. 8 Third Avenue, would forgive,” Kleist sudd hiS| was locked up in the Enst 126th Street father-in-law for $250,000 for aliena- | Station on @ technical charge of homi- tion of affections, Letters from | cide, Kleist’s wif@ were read, including | The body of the girl was taken to the extracts: “Max Dear, I miss |Suydenham | Hos pital, where it ie ember that |®Waiting — identification. ‘The you terribly, Always remember that | yor ssout eighty pounds, and fad If I losé the Aight I will) ond hair and brown eyes. ‘She wore leave tho family or shoot myself. I|@ green velvet coat, hlue calico dress could not stop loving you more | ck shoes and stockings. 2 ould s®p belioving in God.” | pe a Gist Sele He Ta ct ls abn axe | @10a;164, 460 NAVY BILL, plained how he met the girl, He said) —— the was a horse handler and was in the habit of riding past her, he said, and she often noticed him. In the evenings he used to go out on “marsh- these any Expenditures on Yaods, Docks, &., Shown tn Annual Report, WASHINGTON, Dec, 10.—Pre: war work, necessitating enlargem: existing yards, drydocks and other mallow toast parties.” The girl’8| structures of the navy and erection of maid told him one day Miss Jullet|new, structures, resulted tn an ex- x yy ure ©} 193,164,458 durin thi wanted to meet him, he added, but he.) een year 19th sald the “Burtau at refused until she persisted, so they Yards and Docks’ annual report to-day. were introduced. - x dred and eighty-two public ; ontracts were executed. bi ‘A nott from Miss Breitung asked him uring the yearn end Sth7were ; " hi id, and ruted between July "1 and Oct. 1, to meet her one evening, he said, a) Much work was executed in enlarge- they went walking. On one of these ents at Ne Yo Norfolk, Charles- occasions, he testified, she said to|to Ai. i Bhiladelphia, Puget him: “You shagldn’t be so cold, You |"°Un% +urtsmouth and Boston. —— ae ought to kiss m: “Well,” dhe averred, “I was sort, of NEWS BREVITIES. a greenhorn, you know, but I really had come to love Juliet by that time and so I did hug and kiss her.” Failure to care destined for se: 8 prop vice in France Company a horses the fine of + to-day by United State: One day at the trial the youthful! | ' Metab Wi tide Reaseited States bride rose and stated flatly that sho |Newark, after a plea of guilty for. vio- never wound consent to live with her | ‘ation of the Twenty-eight Hour Law Otto Pay pion of Nassau Coun died this mornin his home in Baldwin of pneumc A motor truck owned by th Mill Company and driven py. Geor Renz, broke through the planking nes the centre of Brooklyn Bridge at 11 to-day and delayed all cars and other traffic on @he north roadway for an hour. Nobody was injured, With gas escaping from x Randall found ¢ 4 roonfing house at No. otereye husband. Her father also testified r motorcycle offi that he had collaborated with her in writing love letters to her husband. The $250,000 alienation sult was dismissed and the United States Cir cult Court of Appeals in April, 191 held Kleist had no basis for adgion. Me dropped from sight, after declar “[ have been vindicated, anyhow.’ “Raward Breitung {a « banker na | Aventis married to Thomas if ship owner. He bought the Dacia eunner on th from the Hamburg-American ‘ine in| 1915, when efforts were made by State Department to induce Great | Britain to allow it across with a cargo | of cotton, It was captured by the | French and held as a war prize. REGULATION OF PACKERS DEMANDED IN CONGRESS Sims Offers Bill Proposing Federal Control of Refrigerating and Other Facilities. WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—A bill pro- posing drastic regulation of the Amert- can meat packing industry was tntro- duced in the House to-day by Chair- man Sims of the Interstate Commerce Committee. It embraces the plan for Federal con- trol of refrigerator cars, refrigerating plants and other facilities recently sug- gested by the Federal Trade Commis- sion Hudson | a CLOSING STOCK QUOTATIONS. Christm: Xe sar dana es when they wore kilts. 48: EARLY. 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Allied flags were flown in the Frederick William Place where the Allied Generals sembled to take the salute of the troops, . . The Franco-American forces were commanded by Gen. Degoutte, In ad- dressing the troops, Degoutte re- called that Charlemagne had made Aix-La Chapelle t capital of the bor- derland destined to stem the tide of Teutonic invasion magne was flags. Gen. Degoutte declared that the former German Emperor was the fo- mentor of the war and that be was now awaiting unavoldable punishment The tomb of Charle- decorated with ss French Guaranteed All Wool Svit Reduced from $40.00 FeemryA Ritchi Tasiors to Men 30 Church St., Cor. Dey Hudson Terminal Bwiding OUR @NLY STORE DIED. ANDREWS.—On Dec. 9, ADDIE @., be- loved wife of Joseph+®. Andrews. aged fifty-four, Funeral SHUROH, Campbell's), nphis pi services THE FUNBRAI, Proadway and 66th St. (Frank Wednesday, 2 P. M. rs coy. M VALLE.—PABLO VALLE, at CAMP! Broadway, 10 A. M, Services CHURCH, day. 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