The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-12-17
WILSON, RECEIVES
new hUNOKS
Pays a Formal Visit to Paris
City Hall.
VOICES HIS SYMPATHY
Pays Tribute to Heroic Nation and
Again Brands Outraees of Germans
in Frame.

in France.
Paris, Dec. 11.-rr,,iG"nt Wilson
broke more traditions When, in addi-
ton to paying ii formal visit to the
city hall for the appointed ceremonies
there, he planned 10 make Il call at
the ministry of war for 4 talk with
the premier.
NJ Clemenceau is also minister of
war. He decided also to accept the
dinner invitations of foreign amhaS-
sailors. His first acceptance WAS #
the invitation extended by the Earl
of Derby, British ambassador to
France.
The visit of the head of foreign
nation to the ministry of war and his
acceptance of the hospitality of for
eign ambassadors are not strictly in
accordance with custom, but President
Wilson felt that the opportunities thus
afforded of getting into personal con-
tact justified him in disregarding the
traditions.
The ceremonies at the city hall
(Hotel de Ville) occurred in the gravel
covered court yard which had been
covered for the occasion and decorat-
ed with flags and bunting.
In addressing the president, Adrien
Mithouard, president of the municipal
council Of Paris, said:
~ have the honor, in the presence
of the president of the republic, to
present to you the municipal council
of Paris, whose interpreter l am in
welcoming the chief of the great ma
ly, brought US victory, and the up
right man whose conscience fashion
ed his policy and whose diplomacy
was made of loyalty"
Replying to the greeting extended
him, President Wilson said:
Your greeting has raised many emo
tons within me. It is with no ordin-
airy sympathy that the people of the
United States, for whom | have the
privilege of speaking, have viewed
the sufferings of the people of France.
Many of our own people have been
themselves witnesses of those Suf-
ferings. We were the more deeply
moved by the wrongs of the war be-
cause we knew the manner in which
they were perpetrated.
l beg that you will not suppose that
because a wide ocean separated us
in space we were not in effect eye
witnesses of the shameful ruin that
was wrought and the cruel and I'M
necessary sufferings that were brought
upon you. These SufferingS have fill
ed our hearts with indignation. We
know what they were, not only, but
we know what they signitied, and our
hearts We're touched to the quick by
them, our imagination filled with the
whole picture of what France and Bel
GUM in particular had experienced.
When the United States entered the
war, therefore. they entered it nor
only because they were moved by a
conviction that the purposes of the
central empires were wrong and must
be resisted by men everywhere who
-&yed liberty and the right. but also
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Il Ney were entertaining and attempt
Mg to realize had led TO the practices
which shocked our hearts as much as
they offended our principles.
Our resolution was formed because
we knew how profoundly great prin-
cipleS of right were affected but our
hearts moved also with our resolution.
You have been exceedingly gener-
Gus in what you have been gracious
enough 10 say about me, gracious far
beyond my personal deserts, but you
have interpreted with real insight the
motives and resolutions of the people
Of the United States.
Whatever influence l exercise, what
ever authority 1 speak with, 1 derive
rom them know what they have