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| on Mt eee, ; ¥ lowering clouds and a drizzling rain, Prince Murat 10.45 o'clock. , The vantage points along the route to be traversed by the party were taken up by the crowds in the early hours. The favorite posts of observa- tion were the captured German can- non lining the road from the Place de LiBtotle to the Place de La Con- corde, which afforded advantageous seats for the long wait in prospect. The people, crowded thickly upon the grassy slope of the old Paris fortifications, could be heard crying in English, “Welcome, Wilson! Long live Wilson!” or in great choruses, like a college yell, shouting “Wilson! Wil- sont Wilson!” | U, 8 FLAG RAISED OVER WIL-| SON'S TEMPORARY HOME. President Wilron reached Prince Murat’s residence at 1045 o'clock. His arrival was the signal for the hoisting of the American flag, amid Jour cheers from the crowd, Presi- dent Poincare and Premier Clemen- | eau took leave of the Presidential | party here, and the escorting troops returned to their barracks, acclaimed by the crowds on the boulevards. Groups of American soldiers seen on | the streets were warmly hailed by the people, and in general the en- thuslasm of the occasion ran high, In the procession from the railway station the first carriage was ocou- pied by President Wilson and Presi- dent Poincare, and the second car- riage by Mrs, Wilson, Mme, Poin- care, Mme. Jusserand and Miss Mar- garet Wilson, Those in other car- riages were: Third, American Am- bassador Sharp, Premier Clemenceau and Gens, Mordacq and Desparge; fourth, Secretary of State Lansing and Foreign Minister Pichon; fifth, Gen. Bliss and Mr. Henry White; sixth, Gen, Pershing and Ambassa- The above is one of the first | exclusive photos to reach this ~ REVOLWWTION IN BERL! country showing the revolution in Berlin following the signing of A) 1ESROROOOOEG LOC OO the armistice, It shows the scene before the Reichstag Build- mle ar voon| eT BEFORE GERMAN REICHSTAG DURING REVOLUTION OCT O OC OOO COOOL | ing when the proclamation of the republic was read, dor Jusserand; seventh, Admiral Benson and Capt. Tardieu, French High Commissioner to the United States, and, eighth, Admiral Grayson, Gea. Harts and Lieut.-Col. Lobes. AMERICANS ACROSS THE RHINE HOLD A 37-NILE FRONT ——— Eighteenth Infantry of First Division Reached East Bank First. WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—Formal announcement of the crossing of the Rivine by the American army in Get- many reached the War Department to-day in Gen. Pershing’s report for Friday. It follows: “The Third American Army crossed the Rhine to-day and occupied the PRESIDENTS OF TWO (Continued from First Page.) do, sir, the necessity of such ac- tion in the final settlement of the issues of the war as will not only rebuke such acts of terror and epoliation, but make men every- where aware that they cannot be ventured upon without the cer- tainty of just punishment. AMERICAN IDEALS ARE ACCE ABLE TO ALL FREE PEOPLE! “I know with what ardor and en- thusiasm the sdidiers and sailors of the United States have given the best that was in them to this war of redemption. And they have ex- Pressed the true spirit of America. “They believe their ideals to be ac- ceptable to free peoples everywhere and are rejoiced to have played the part they have piayed in giving real- ity to those ideals in co-operation CoMenz bridgehead.” with the armies of the Allies. We WITH THE AMERICANS ACROSS |4re proud of the part they have ‘THE RHINE, Dec, 13 (By Courier to a ERROR Naney).—American troops crossed the Rhine about 8 o'clock this morning in @ balf-light, which resulted from Four bridges and two ferries were utilized along the front of %0 kilo- meters (371-4 miles) on which the crossing was made. ‘The first division went over at Coblenz on a German pontoon bridge. Brig. Gen, Parker was at the head of his own brigade. A company of the Eighteenth Infantry was the first to reach the east bank. The Americans occupied Ehren- breltstein, one of the strongest for- tregses ip the world. German guards remained to surrender huge stores of munitions, ‘Two French divisions hurried up in Says U. S. Soldiers, Fi Into Combat With Danger—Work of PARIS, Dec, 14.—President Poin- care, in his address of welcome to President Wilson said: “Mr. President: camions to ald in occupying the] awaited you with impatience. They bridgehead. This was an interna-| were eager to acclaim in you the tional exchange of courtesies, 88 80 | iHustrious democrat whose words American division was sent to Mainz to co-operate with tne French in oc- cupying the bridgehead there. ‘The Americans entered Cobi nz with colors flying and bands play- ing “Hail to the Presiden.” ‘The 28th Infantry, bed by Maj. Stack, entered the outskirts and tuen ewung along a boulevard to the huge and deeds were inspired by exalted thought, the philosophy delighting in the particular events, the eminent states- man who had found a way to ex- Press the highest political and moral truths in formulas which bear the stamp of immortality, “They had vlso a passionate desire panera parce Se dare Kalacs’s | to offer thanks, in your person, for Palace, = they stacked arms. the invaluable assistance which had At the same time the 18h entered |teen given spontaneously, during the other side of the city, on both | ini, war, to the defendens of right and sides of the Moselle, Lieut. Col. |ijerty Roosevelt's 2th and the 16th followed "Even before America had re All day coldmns poured through the | solved to intervene in the struggle treme and crammed their way into | she nad shown to the wounc and every public square, Many of the lowhapeople Kept iliduore und peered |%® Widows and orphans of France through the windows, but seve: a solicitude and a generosity the hundred lined the curbs and stared | memory of which will always be en- Eeetenry S06 without hostility. Only | shrined in our hearts. Mh entieonte Miuablitg canteain “The liberality of your Red Cross, cheering the bands and begging for | the countless gifts of your fellow cit {004. izens, the inspiring initiatve of Amer- By evening the city was swarming |ican women, anticipated your mili over with 30,000 troops. tary and naval action and showed the world to which side your sym Yi ill es pathies inclined. And on the day OU WIL CN)OY ABW | rien you tung yourseives into th battle, with what determination your great people and yourself prepared for united success! STEADY STREAM OF AMERICAN SOLDIERS TO FRANCE. “Bome months ago you cabled to me I EA that the United States would send ever increas! forces until the day should be reached on which the Al- Tea Before the enemy under un overwhelming |flow of new divisions And, ef- Sold only in metal packets [()"°), "0" "\"8lens And: in of NEVER IN BULK j stream of youth and energy bas been Paris and France | olution of universal laws from | NATIONS DENOUNCE GERMAN CRIMES, CALL FOR PUNISHMENT played and we. are happy that they should ‘have been associated with such comrades in a common cause. “It ts with peculiar feelings, Mr. President, that I find myself in France, joining with you in rejoicing er the victory that has been won. ‘The ties that bind France and the United States are peculiarly close. “I do not know in what other com- radeship we could have fought with more sest or enthusiasm. It will daily be a matter of pleasure with mo to be brought into consultation with the statesmen of France and her allies in concerting the measures by which we may secure permanence for these happy relations of friendship and co-operation, and secure for the world at large such safety and trec- dom in its life as can be secured only by the constant association and co- operation of friends. “I raise my glass to the health of the President of the French Republic and to Madame Poincare and the prosperity of France.” POINCARE PAYS HIGH TRIBUTE TO AMERICA AND HER TROOPS IN HIS WELCOME TO WILSON red by Pershing, Wen Manly Contempt of Red Cross Praised. poured out upon the shores of France. “No sooner had they landed than your gallant _ battalions. fired by their chief, Gen. Per- shing, flung themselves into the combat with such a manly con- tempt of danger, such a smiling disregard of th, that our longer experience of this terrible | war often moved us to counsel prudence, “They brought with them, in arriving here, the enthusiasm of crusaders leaving for the Holy Land. It is their right to-day to look with pride upon the work accomplished, and to tell them- selves that they have powerfully aided by their courage and their faith, “Ea they were to meet the enemy, they did not know when they arrived the enormity of his crimes, That they might know how the German armies make war, it has been necessary that they towns systematio- ally burned down, mines flooded, facto reduced to ashes, or- chards devastated, cathedrals shelled and fired—all that deliber- ate savagery aimed to destroy national wealth, nature and beauty, which the imagination could not conceive at a distance from the men and things that have endured it and to-day bear witness to it, “In your turn, Mr, President, you will be able to mea with your own eyes the extent of thi disasters, and the French Govern ment will make known to you the authentic documerts in which the German General Staff developed with astounding cynicism its pro- gramme of pillage and industrial annihilation. Your neble con science will pronounce a verdict on these facts, Should this guilt remain unpunished, could it be renewed, the most splendid vic- tories would bi vain? FRANCE YEARNS FOR PEACE OF JUSTICE AND SECURITY. °Mr. President, France has strug ai has endured and has suffered during four long years; she has bled at every vein; she has lost the best of her children; she mourns for her youths, She yearns now, even as you do, for a peace of justice and secur- ity. “It waa not that she might be ex- posed once again to aggression that | she submitted to such eacrifices. Nor was it in order that criminals should go unpunished, that they might lift their heads again to make ready for new crimes, that, under your strong leadership, America armed herself and crossed the ocean. “Faithful to the memory of Lafay- ette and Rochambeau, she came to the ald of France, because France herself was faithful to her traditions. Our common ideal has triumphed. Together we have defended the vital principles of free nations, “Now we must build together such a peace as will forbid the and hypocritical renewing of an or- deliberate pression, “Peace must make amends for the misery and sadness of y terday, and it must be a guaran- tee against the dangers of to- | morrow, The association which has been formed for the purpos of war between the United States and the Allies, and which con- tains the seed of the permanent institutions of which you have spoken so eloquently, will find, from this day forward, a clear and profitable employment in the concerted search for equitable decisions, and in the mutual sup- port which we need if we are to make our rights prevail, “Whatever safeguards we may erect for the future, no one, alas, can assert that we shall forever spare to mankind the horrors of new wars. Five years ago the progress of science, and the state of civilization might have permitted the hope that no gov- ernment, however autocratic, would have succeded in hurling armed na- tions upon Belgium and Serbia, “Without lending ourselves to the illusion that posterity will be forever more safe from these collective fol les, we must introduce into the peace we are going to build all the condi- tions of justice and all the safe- guards of civilization that can embody in it, “To such a vast and magnificent task, Mr. President, you have chosen to come and apply yourself in concert we with France, France offers you her thanks, She knows the friendship of America, She knows your rectitude and elevation of spirit, It is in the fullest confidence that she is ready Mr. President, in your honor, and in honor of Mrs. Wil- son. 1! drink to the prosperity of the Republic of the United States, our great friend of yesterday and of other days, of to-morrow and of all tim _ DECLARED | LEGALLY SANE. Sanity Comm Reports in the Cane of ries Hi. Chapin, Charles E. Chapin, awaiting trial for the killing of his wife in the Cumber- land Hotel, was legally sane at the time he shot her, and is still legally sane, according to the findings of the sanity commission whose report was received and approved to-day by Judge Malone in the Court of General Sessions, The indictment will now be placed on the trial calendar Along with th ommission timony to the \ | down in history as @ great engineer, ganism aiming at conquest and op- |" EX-KAISER BORES HOST BY LECTURES; WILL MOVE SOON ‘Soiekadapeipaubs Delivers So Many Egotistical Harangues Count Bentinck Is “All In.” AMSTERDAM, Dec. 14.—It is an- nounced the ex-Kaixer soon is to leave Count von Bentinck'’s Amer ongen castle and go to Belmonte cas- tle, and that Count von Bentinck will be pleased to be rid of his guest, whose latest folly is to want to drain the Zuyder Zee and go The Count describes the former as ‘charming, but somewhat trying.” He discusses war strategy for hoars, then art, and becomes greatly excited. He draws sketches to show his ideas about draining Zuyder Zee, and talks untiringly for hours on thelr merits, Often his orations last far into the night, and when he retires it is to say in @ commanding tone that he will expect his bost at 7 o'clock in the morning. If William Hohenzollern stays much longer the Count will be “all in” and ready for the rest cure, some of his friends say. PARIS IN MAKING WILSON A CITIZEN REVIVES OLD CUSTOM This Honor Was Conferred Upon George Washington and Other Americans. PARIS, Dec. 14,—In unanimously voting, as it did yesterday, to confer upon President Wilson the title of a citizen of Paris the Municipal Council was reviving a medieval tradition, declared Councillor Gent, who moved the resolution, It was formerly the custom to confer honorary citizenship of the city upon those who had rendered distinguished services not only to Paris but to the entire coun- try. ‘He said that at the time of the French Revolution the title had been conferred on British, Italian and American personages, “But what the President will par- ticularly appreciate,” said M, Gent, “is that one of those to whom Paris paid the same tribute that it is to-day paying him was the great George Washington. “The thought that moved me make this proposal arose from a de- sire to pay a tribute of gratitude and admiration of the great statesman who has framed in unperishable language the conditions of the future peace and of the fe | of nations,” WANTS BRITAIN TC TO BE DRY. Seoretary for on tue Weuld Prob: ie of LONDON, Dec, 14.—Walter Hume Long, Secretary for the Colonies, in « ape at Holloway last night said he would advise the Government to pro- hibit the sale of liquor in the United Kingdom, although it would mean loss of £1,500,000 in revenue, to November Cotton Report. WASHINGTON, Deo. 14,—Corton od during November amounted 76 running bales of lint and bales of linters, the censug |consu ray, Dr, Smith asd bly Jellitre. wu to-day apnounced. DAY, DECEMBER ie, tga FRANCE TO GIVE WILSON PROOF OF GERMANY S CRIMES | Bank. | affair,” 10,000 POLICE RUNT WHO KILLED 2 IN (Continued from First Page) olished the ola Branch Detective Bur- | eau System and returned to the pre- |cinet system. District Attorney Lewis this after- |moon questioned George H. McCul- lough, the taxi driver who drove the two robbers from the Hotel | Navarre tn Manhattan to within one block of the Bast Brooklyn Savings McCullough t# being held on a homicide charge, “I do not believe that McCuMough in telling al) that he knows of the sald Mr, Lewis later. “I can- not understand why McCullough steered such a zig-zag course through | the streets of Brooklyn after the hold- up, He says he did so because he was afraid of being shot. “MoCullough's car is not equipped wit) a self-starter and while standing at th corner near the bank he kept the motor runni T think it a suspicious circumstance that, when he saw the two men coming toward him with smoking pistols and the crowd seat- teriffg in all directions, he qpeeded up his motor and held the taxicab door open when he might easily made his own escape without them. WOUNDED DETECTIVE TELLS STORY OF ROBBERY. There was no revolver pointed at McCullough when the automobile with the two bandits drove away after the robbery, according to Detective Al- bert C. Doody, who was wounded im the running fight between the bank and the car, There are bullet wounds in Doody’s left side ang in his left arm, which {s fractured, “Iwas standing at Myrtle and Franklin Avenues when I heard the burglar alarm outside the bank,” said the detective to-day in the Williams- burg Hospital, “Then I heard a woman scream that the bank had been robbed and that the robbers were running toward Kent Avenue. “I drew my gun and chased the two men, closing in on them near Kent Avenue. They fired at me and I felt a hot sting in the left side I returned the fire just as the short man climbed into the taxi. He was carrying the money bag. Close behind bim was the tall man. Just as the tall man stepped on the running board he turned and fired at me again. I continued to return the fire and closed in on the machine, shouting to the chauffeur to throw up his hands, He did not do it and before I had a chance to say any~- thing more the tall mat fired again and I got a bullet in my left arm. “I continued to fire as the car drove off and I am almost sure that one o my shots went through the back of the car and bit the man inside, “The last thing I remembered was trying to reload my gun, After that I lost consciousness, falling into the arms of a passing man, When I re- gained consciousness another man ran up to me and asked me for my gun, saying: ‘I'll finish tt for you." “I didn’t know him and refused. I think I fired about twenty shots al- together.” BARTENDER TELLS OF SEEING MEN IN SALOON, ‘The bandits were in a saloon at the corner of 37th Street and Seventh Avenue, Manhattan, an hour before the raid on the bank, according to statements made to-day to Capt. Coughlan, by @ bartender employed in the place, The bartender, according to Capt Coughlan, declares that about 1,15 o'clock yesterday afternoon two men entered the saloon and walked dircet- ly to a telephone booth, The fact th». both wedged their way into the booth at the same time aroused his suspi- cions and he walked back to see what they were doing. The two strangers exchanged guns in the booth, the bartender states. When he saw them do this he thought it was their intention to rob the loon and he hurried out the side en- trance to look for a policeman. While he was still on the sidewalk the two men came out and walked toward Eighth Avenue, The description of the men given by the bartender fits that given the police by McCullough, His stand is in front of the Hotel Navarre, 38th Street and Seventh Avenue, and Capt. Coughlan believes the men walked directly from the saloon to the taxicab. E. J, Carroll, manager of the Hotel Navarre, told Inspector Cray to-day that two men answering the descrip-~ tion of the two bandits had been guests at the hotel since last Tues- day night, They checked out yes- terday about noon, The men were strangers to Manager Carroll and there was nothing about them to at- tract attention, They registered from Delaware Water Fap and had little baggage with them, Inspector Cray and a squad of de- tectives covered every inch of ground to-day that was traversed yesterday by the bighwaymen in their descent upon the bank. All hotels along the route were visited and a description of all unknown guests obtained. De- tectives are also investigating board- ing houses and checking up those who are stopping in them. One clue on which the police BANK BURGLARS BROOKLYN HOLD-UP are working is an army raincoat left in the taxicab by one of the robbers. It is covered with oil, believed to have been smeared on it to prevent) election to - finger prints, and the police believe! Great Britain has witne it was discarded becauz> the de- scriptions sent out would call for a man wearing an army raincoat. DESCRIPTION OF THE TWO MEN) about thirty-two years old, 5 feet 8 inches tall, erect, military bear- ing, 140 pounds, clean shaven, ruddy complexion and blue eyes; the other, short, thirty-five or thirty-six, dark hair and com: plexien, clean shaven and wear- ing @ black fedora hat and a dark bi belted overcoat. The tall man wore an army seft hat and a silk muffler almest to his mduth, McCullough said that early in the afternoon the two men got in his cab in front of the hotel an@ told him to take them to Brooklyn. They would | Bive further directions on the way, they added, After crossing Manhat- tan Bridge they stopped in a maloon| for a drink. The chauffeur got the t impression the bartender knew them) piaces except at Ladybank where bh and called them by name, The stp are trying to lochte the saloon, whi the chauffeur didn't know sacaued he is not familiar with Brooklyn. After that he drove slowly accord): to their directions through Brooklyn. At Kent Avenue they told him to stop and got out. In @ few minutes he heard pistol shots, shouting and screaming. His two fares came calmly toward him, the short one carrying « bag. The tall one pushed a pistol against him and said: “I have just killed two men for not doing what [ told them to do. You'd better take a hint. Get in and drive— not too fast—until we tell you to stop.” LEFT TAX! AND MADE ESCAPE BY “L.” They forced him to drive to the Ridgewood district, ordered him to stop at the stairway of an elevated station, told him his fare and tip was in the taxi, and to hurry back to Manhattan and keep his mouth shut, Then they went up to the elevated station. McCullough concluded: “They said I would find my pay in- side. I looked inside and there was a roll of bills—$170. I asked a mount- ed policeman where the nearest po- lice station was and he told me. “I went to the Hamburg Avenue station, and told my story and turned over the $170. That is all I know about it, I never saw the men before.” The body of Mr. Coons, has been taken to the home of his wife's sis- ter, Mrs. Wilbur T. Hawkes, No. 19,Covert Street, Brooklyn. Arrange- ments for the funeral have not yet been completed. Mr, Coons, who was a dog fancier, was a member of the Bulldog Club of America and the Long Island Kennel Club. He lived with his wife, Isabel Duryea Coons, at No, 422 Fenimore Street, Brooklyn, for many years. The couple were married twenty-two years ago and had no children. He had been connected with the Hast Brooklyn Savings Bank for nearly thirty yea Mrs. Coons said she had frequently visited the bank to see her husband and on more than one occasion had remarked: “It would be easy to hold you men up, the way you're all bunched in one corner.” Her husband had once shown her an old revolver and said: “No dan- ger of us being id up. You see we're well protected.” COMMENT ON ROBBERIES REFUSED AT CITY HALL Mayor Reported to Believe That Police Are Doing Their Duty in Rounding Up Crooks, Neither Mayor Hylan nor any one in authority at City Hall would con- ment to-day on the East Brooklyr Savings Bank hold-up, following the many similar raids recently. It was believed that the Mayor might iseve some statement on the number of hold-ups reported here and in other large cities, and instruct the polic to begin a clean-up of questionable resorts frequented by irresponsible, gun-carrying youths, many of whom are drug fiends, Mayor Hylan will not issue any in- structions to the police because he believes they are doing their duty. He feels that the Police Commis- sioner has the situation wel! in hand Any instructions to the Police Com- missioner at this time might be‘ con- strued 4s interference on the Mayor's part—unnecessary interference, it was said. $$» —_-—_ MONTREAL STRIKE OVER. MONTREAL, Dec. 14,—All of the striking police, firemen and other city employes have returned to work to-day after the City Council agreed to dismias Joseph Tremblay, Director of Public his assistant and Chief of De- Will Advance Dee. measures must be taken to prevent Foch's armies from marching east of COPENHAGEN, 14." Berliner declared, supporting the demand for quick summoning of the Reichstag. Tageblatt BRITISH ELECTION QUIET; LLOYD GEORGE ATTACKS LABOR PARTY LEADERS Premier Déclares Pacifist$ and Bol- sheviki Are in Control and Stirs Up Storm: LONDON, Dec. 14.—The general day isone ofthe qui ssed In years Premier Lioyd George wound tp his specchmaking campaign last Aight at Camberwell by attacking tho name “Labor Party,” because it Git not represent all the labor of the United Kingdom. The Labor Pat tho Premier continued, was not run by real laboring men, but Pacifist’ and pore and simple sheviki. It would not be safe truat the destinies of a great empin to the Labor Party until it was abi to overthrow’ this clique. The Premier's challenge to the Labor Pafty was taken up promptly ‘by the Laborites. John R. Clyne= former Food Minister, speaking at Nottingham, declared t the Labor Party was the same party which h. decided two years ago to suppast M Lies Geosee. The onlp didupeic was that it was larger Former Premier Asquith addressed eight meetings in heckled at all of t votes of confiden He was giv however, votes wer ual ALASKA BONE DRY, SOBER AND NOT SORRY, SAYS LANE Reserve Liquor All Gone, “Boot- legging” Decreases and “Moon- shine” Plants Few. WASHING UN, Dec. 14.—Alaska likes being “bone dry,” according to the an- nual report of Franklin K. Lane, Secre- tary of the Interior, made public to-day. An introductory surhmary of the repors Was given out on Wednesday, but to- ete document ad. veral pters of interesting data. Prohibition in Alaska has been pro- ductiv> of highly benefolal effects,” says the report. “The Governor doubts that qven those formerly opposed to. Prohibi- tion vould now be willing 1o return .s the old regime. It is probably true that immediately before the shipment of liquor to Alaska was prohibited, large quantities of distilled nd fermented iquors were imported for future illicit sales, but these caches have largely bee either consumed or seized. Bootlegging continues, but ip becoming steadil: less and. leas noticeable. But the distillation of ‘hootch’ is not yet @ lost and undoubtedly there are a few illicit’ stil's and breweries scattered about in secrec places.” Give the Boy a Good Time And an Education cated tn, electricity lroadiak. ‘These view fun aud Time: @ on battery or house m on display throughout the ‘oy Department and Electrical 50 Kast 21st Bt. N. ¥. City —_——E eee AUCTION SALES. * NOTICE OF SALE, 30th day of December. he forenoon, oF On t o'clock convenient, the, fowing. hotels 1918, at tL thereniter as pective proprietor of th ‘aldor{-Astoria Hotel, Ho , Wet: Hinton adie foraier operator othe I fom Hotel: ald’ hotels bring” torated In the of Manhattan New York Cig, will sei Bt "public auction: by Harry J. ePavinaiton. Uoneer, gt 8 Kast Sist Street,” Borah of Mat ork City, a quantity” of trunk he sgt and Manhattan, —————— Mew York City oleED. ROSENFELD.—MONROWB ROSENFEL\. at CAMPBELL FUNK Browdway, 66th st., Sund 9 A.M. eeriious NOTICES. ACE 7.80- aE DAVIS, t “THE KAISER A: The Case of IRELAND Before the WORLD’S PEACE CONGRESS Summed Up by John W. Goff Justice of the Supreme Court