Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-25
Formal Dinner With Pershing
and His Officers viii Take
Place At Headquarters Some
Time later
TALKS WITH HOOVER
ON FEEDING PROBLEM
Also Discuss Matte 3i Per-
hitting French to Ctat-aet
for Ships With Great Aner
lean Ship Yards,
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Paris, Dec. (Monday) -President
Wilson's plans for visiting army head
quarters at Chaumont and then pro-
ceeding to England are now complete,
He will leave Paris late tomorrow
night and will not return until New
Years day.
His movements while he is with the
army, which We're at first entirely in
the hands of General Pershing have
been changed in one respect. Mr.,
Wilson insisted upon taking Christmas
dinner with the troops ad eating from
mess kit with the soldiers about
him. He will have formal dinner with
General Pershing and his officers lat
er. After reviewing the troops, the
president will de ar address,
which he has alread. repaired,
Leaving Chaumont ate on Christ
mas day, the president will travel by
military train to Calais, where he will
arrive the rext morning He will
cross the channel by the shortest
route, landing at Dover and going di-
rectly to London to begin round of
engagements and conferences which
will occupy his time until the follow
ing Tuesday when he leaves for Paris
On his arrival at Chaumont to visit
the American army the president will
be met by General Pershing, the
French general commanding in that
district, the project and mayor Of
t'haumont, French aud American
t;ltards of honor, and an American
band After his reception al the city
han w president will lew feah0O
tio,Its = NsleJi % eyy. . tsssn4
talon from each of these divisions.
Sixth, Twenty ninth, Seventy-sey-
enth, Eightieth and Eighty-seeond.
There will be an artillery unit from
the Seventy-seventh division and two
troops of the Sixth cavalry After
luncheon at the headquarters of the
Twenty New England) division.
the president will return by automo-
bile to Chaumont. on the way he will
stop at several small towns, where
American troops are stationed, to in
spect the quarters and talk with the
men.
C0nsults With Hoover.
Herbert c. Hoover, American food
administrator, and Edward N. Hur-
ley, chairman of the, American ship
ping board, called on President Will
son by appointment late today. Mr..
Hoover's visit was in connection with
the great problem Of provisioning sec
tons of Europe where great food
shortage exists or is threatened as the
result of the overrunning of the
country by German troops or by eX-
haustion to the inability of the inhab-
liant to find labor to till the soil.
Suggestions that relief work in the
sections be placed in the hands of an
international committee have come
from some entente countries, but now
it seems assured that the original
plans of the administration in this
matter will be adhered to. 1t is prob
able the work of supplying food will
be retained under one head in the in
terest of rapidly of action and eff
cheney. This head, it seems certain. !
will be Mr.. Hoover, who has prepared
tentative plans for the extension of
the machinery he has already created |
for the relief of devastated portions
of Belgium and France.
Mr.. Hurley talked with Mr. Wilson
on shipping subjects. One feature of
the problem under consideration is the
application of the French government |
for permission to rehabilitate its mer-
chant marine through the use of great /
American shipbuilding plants which
were developed to meet war needs.
The French government has already,
through Captain Andre Tardieu when.
he was French high commissioner to
the United States reminded Mr.. Will
son that France was compelled in the
common interest of the entente to
suspend the construction
of merchant ships.