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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-15
HEARD BUGLES ''SOUND OFF"
''CEASE FIRING" AT WAR SEND

How hostilities ceased with the
signing Of the armistice is described
in letter received by William Cole
man, messenger to District Commits
sioner Gardiner. from his brother,
First Lieut.. Frank Coleman of the
36Sth Infantry. who was on the firing
line when the war ended.
II guess the big war Is over,
writes Lieut.. Coleman, under date OF
November IL, but 1 don't know how
soon we will be home.
THE end of hostilities found me
with my company, with orders to
take a certain little town that after
noon. 1 was sincerely sorry that it
ended at that time. for did want to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-15

up. The boche was using sneeze gas
on US, and got good dose Of it.
1T isn't poison, but it just stings
and tickles your throat, SO that you
take off your gas mask, and then they
dose you with the fearful mustard
gas. l didn't get any mustard.
Ordered to Unload.
Company commanders call sound
ed on the bugle and we went to H. o.
We were told at 10:45 to have all
arms unloaded and report to a colo
mel on the front line, leaving our
companies in command of one officer,
taking our other officers with us.
1--WE reported in time to hear the
boche bugles sounding cease firing
and our bugles answering. Three
times they answered each other and
then the firing ceased. 1t was won
derfu1, probably the biggest event
that ever occurred in history"
Lieut. Coleman graduated at the Of
icers training camp, at Des Moines,
Iowa, and went overseas last June.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-15
Trepo3 Issues Denial.

STOCKHOLM, December 12.-A1ex-
ander Feodtrovich Trepoff. former
Russian premier, issued denial to-
day that he was taking part in the
movement to form a new Russian
government here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-15

take that place, and the boys all
wanted that last chance.
Beautiful Morning.
ut was a beautiful autumn morn
ing, and the shells had whistled all
night over the house (ruined by shell
flre) in which we, slept, and left a
sulphurous odor In the air.
Trucks were scurrying and bus
thing here and there. embulances
bringing wounded back. Occasion
ally. a German prisoner was brought
down the road.
1--WE were busy distributing ammu-
milton and getting ready to get into
it. I had the cooks make the coffee
extra strong, and I drank about a
quart of it without sugar.
1.-The road was being shelled and 1t
was difficult for wagon trains to come
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-15

Porto Rico Exceeds Bond Quota.
SAN JUAN. P. R., December Cor
respondence Of the Associated Press).
Porto Rico subscribed 34.723.ooo to
the last liberty loan. It's quota was
100000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-15
ADJUSTMENTS.
SUNDAY SCHEDULE:
40.MILE RIVER
TRIP

CHARLES xAcALEsTEn
Ieaytnx Washington, Seventh Street Wharf,
2:30 pm. and 7:S0 pm.
Leaving Camp Humphreys for
Washington pm. and $3.50 pm.
Arrives at Washington
7pm. and II pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-15
Beautiful Morning.

take that place, and the boys a
wanted that last chance.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-14
The Crime of Germany
Pertinent Citations of Ameri-
can Testimony

dcr cray vo IL '' svo pp 5oa ceSse os ne Il
Doran Company
The unnamed author of 81 Accused"
having hitherto disproved and dis
missed the impudent pretence that this
was defensive war; on Germany's part,
here takes up for similar disposal the
ventive war, thus leading inevitably
and remorselessly to the remaining
conclusion, that it WAS purely an i'm
perialist!c war of conquest. In this
demonstration he makes use of a great
wealth of unimpeachable information
from many sources, some of the most
convincing of which is American There
could be, for example, no higher au-
thority and none less likely to be
biassed against Germany than Andrew
d. White; yet he has put it on record
that at The Hague arbitration as an
international policy was opposed by
Germany because she was better pre-
pared for war than any other power
and could mobilize and enter war more
quickly than any other; wherefore any
thing that would cause deliberation and
delay before beginning war would be
10 her disadvantage, since it would pre-
vent her from taking France or Russia
by surprise. In view of this monstrous
avowal of German cynicism the author
we'll says that had the principles of
The Hague been respected and accept
ed there would have been no European
war. But Germany would have none
of them.
1t is recalled that while the Taft Ad-
ministration was able to negotiate
treaties submitting all questions with
out reservation to arbitration with
France and Great Britain, it made none
with Germany, for obvious reasons.
Again, Mr.. Bryan's treaties providing
for deliberation and delay before be-
ginning a war were signed by every
European government of Importance
save Germany, Austria Hungary and
Iurkey-significant exceptions. Com
ment would be superfuous
A pregnant and poignant passage is
given to the matter of the freedom of
the seas, in which the author points out
that there now is and long has been
absolute freedom in time of peace, that
the present demand must, therefore,
apply to time of war, that that is Ger
many's demand-he does not add, as
ne might, that it is also President Will
son n's-and that it is thus demand in
tended to serve not peace but war.
Much space is given to citations from
German and pro German authorities,
lncludlng the notorious Houston S.
Chamb mberlain, British renegade more
Hunnish than the Huns, proving the
warlke spirit and intent of the Ger
mans before the war, and not of the
German Kaiser, Hohenzollerns and
Junkers alone, but of the "men of light
and leading" and of the German peo-
pie; An admirable analytical index
makes readily available for reference
all the contents of notably timely
and authoritative volume.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-14

war. The present task is to readjust
them on basis of equity and all
around benefcence.
1t is to the solution of the complex
and momentous problems thus pre-
sented that Mr.. Mackenzie King ad-
dresses himself in the volume before
us. His qualifications for the task,
and also his inclinations Of mind and
Judgment, are suggested by the fact
OF his service as Canadian Minister Of
Labor, as conciliator in a number of
great industrial disputes, and as an
investigator Of industrial relations for
the Rockefeller Foundation Neither
radical nor conservative, he discusses
the questions before him from the
point of view of humanity, and Of the
interests not merely of the employer
or the employed, but of the community.
Such discussions, offered in a spirit of
sanity and practicality. must be of
great value to legislators and admins
traitors in effecting the needed changes
in laws and methods, and to the gen
e1al public in the shaping and direct
ing of that popular opinion and will
upon which in the last analysis all
else must rest
New-York tribune., 1918-12-14

Damned upon pinnacle--or gibbet
OF infamy from which he will not
easily be taken down.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-14
William the Damned
Pictured i'm His Own Acts and
Words by DIR. ID. ]. Hill

IMPRESSIONS OF THE KAISER. BY David Jayne
Nm. Crown Svo. pp. SOS. Harper X Bros
We have had various porrrayals of
the late Kaiser by all sorts of au
thorities, from diplomats to dentists,
but we have had none outranking the
present in authenticity, or, we may
add, in the unsparng disclosure Of
every essentiN detail of mis- complex
features, on the strength not of hear
say nor yet of personal observation,
but rather of Wilhelm Won Hohenzol-
lern's own recorded and undisputed
words and deeds. 1t was DR.. Hills
fortune to be in Germany and very
close to the heart of things during
some of the most important years in
the history of that empire preceding
the war, and it has been the work OF
his life to study international affairs.
With these qualifications, it was to be
expected that his study of the char
acter and career of Wilhelm Won Hob
enzollern would be the commanding
masterpiece that it is.
DR.. Hill reviews his career from be-
fore his accession to the beginning Of
the great war, powerfully presenting
such episodes as the dismissal of Bis
marck, the enslavement of the profess
sors, etc, not only in their outward
form. but also in their inward spirit.
He dwells upon his achievements as
a political stage manager. his atti-
tude toward war and peace, his final
and ominous "reversion to type"-the
criminal Hohenzollern type-and his
New-York tribune., 1918-12-14
Anglo-Saxondom

i5mo. pp g III" % Macman t ny colnpany OH M Powers
This is a tiny volume, but it's contents
are worthy to be written on plates Of
gold. Nowhere have we seen in com
pass great or small a more accurate. y
more sane or more lucid setting forth
OF the salient features Of Anclo-Ameri-
can relationship. The attitude of Eng
land in the Revolution, in the Mana
leonc wars and in the War OF 1912 in
the tn Oregon dispute and in the Civil
war, is described with candor and a
courage that are as refreshing and in
spring as they are-sad to relate
unusual IN American historical wit
lngs. In the later complications of tho
powers, particularly those directly load-
ing TO the worlds greatest war tho
narrative is supremely valuable. Rriof
as 1t IS, the account of the American
Herman- British embodiment at Man;la
IN 1888 is one of the most connlete
correct and perfect that we have eve,
seen especially in its reminder of tho
real anlmus of Germany's hostilitv to
Us aI that time. We did not know then
pua we nave no excuse for not knowing
now' 'nst IT was Germany's design. bv
rluer OF the Emperor. to take over for
nerseI1 the sovereignty of the Philin-
pplne lSlands before we could seize them
a1Un SPAN, and 1T was chagrin and re-
sientment si at the failure of that schemo
that inspired the Outrageous condnnt ne
the German commander. VI
1T would be an uncommonlv 49,,
thing # every American citizen u,o,,1'i sUId
carefully read this little book and 49, oa,o
,he truths which it contains nart .t' oe ne
MS mental furniture f"i0 VI
New-York tribune., 1918-12-14
The Penguin Series
Presenting Excellent Literature
i'm Attractive Form

GABRIELLE DE BERCERAC. BY Henry James.
Small l2mo ID 1873 Boni & Liveright
KARNlA BY Lafcadio Hcarn. Small II mo. PIP.
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IoLANTHE's WEDDING. by Hermann sudcrmann.
Small l2mo pp. lJ9. Boni & Liverigh
This is said to be the first issue in
separate book form of one of Henry
James's earlier novels, or novelettes,
in the jargon of the day. AS such IL
will appeal to many interested readers,
who will find it capital example OF
that authors first style, before he be-
came so over-refined and sophisticated
as to cause the protests of many read
ers who were otherwise charmed with
his genius.
The second of these volumes is also
the first such presentation of its con-
tents, collection of tales and essays
partly autobiographical What Hearn
had to say about China and Japan and
their place in the economy of civiliza-
ton is of timely and illuminating in
forest. He OWNED the Far East as
few westcrners have done, and his OBJ
scrvations are thus marked with au-
thority.
The second Hearn volume contains
his version Ct four Japanese fairy
tales. and other writer's versions of
sixteen more. 1t is delightful COM
pilation which will entertain children
and which will not be devoid of in
tcrest to adults who care to enter into
the lore and imagery of the japanese.
The fourth volume contains four
short stories, translated by Adele S.
Seltzer. They are in Sudermann's
CHARACTERISTIC style, but are COM
paratively free from those qualities
which have caused unfavorable criti-
cism of some OF his dramatic compo-
sitions.
These four books are the opening
numbers of "1he Penguin Series, .
which Messrs. Boni & Liveright have
just begun, and are, therefore, uniform
in style. They are tastefully bollnd
and beautifully printed on fine paper.
The size fits them to be held easily in
the hand or carried in the pocket. All
that should be necessary, therefore
to make the series highly popular is
to maintain good standard of ex~
cellence in the literary contents.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-14
William the Damned:
The Grimes of the Huns
BY Willis Fletcher Johnson

responsibility for the war. At the
time of the Russo-Japanesc War, he
says. "Missing every chance to be a
peacemakcr, Kaiser Wilhelm was using
every secret means of tanning the
flames of war" At the last peace con-
gress at The Hague he opposed the
American proposals for arbitraton be-
cause, while he "earnestly desired to
maintain friendship with the United
States. he did not wish the American
system to gain a foothold in Europe,
or that international relations should
be made to rest upon a body of we'll
defined law and tribunal with au-
thorty to interpret and apply it,
Finally:
No one in 1914 was disposed to
disturb the peace of Germany. Few
understood her designs and am
bitions But the brutal assault upon
an innocent and peaceful neighbor.
trusting in the honor of great and
powerful nations to afford her pro-
lection, suddenly disclosed the lust
for power, the predatory designs, the
espionage and the worldwide net
work of conspiracy with which the
imperial German government has en-
veloped the earth. 1t was the
morally inevitable elimination of the
ambitions, the fantasies and the i'm
petuosity of Kaiser Wilhelm II, un-
restrained by responsible govern
ment representing the permanent in
terests of the German people. He
promised them gain and glory. He
has covered them with sackcloth and
ashes.
The memorable words of Maculay
in his essay on Barere might we'll be
adapted to this book and to its subjec
DR.. Hill, with an unsurpassed weight
of authority and with an amplitude of
facts and an inexorable power of logic
in using them, has placed William the
New-York tribune., 1918-12-14
Redeemed Provinces

ALSACE LORRAINE By George Wharton Edwards
Iusraleu naiv i,lt by the author Folio, pp. 344. The
Aehh Fuhishing Company
Timely beyond all praise is this
superb memorial Of a great event
Comparable only with the return of
Albert of Belgium to Brussels and of
the gallant remnant of the martyred
Serbs to Belgrade is the reoccupation
or Alsace and Lorraine by the French
Esto perpntua! And here is a volume
IN commemoration Of it, though writ
ten and drawn prophetically before the
consummation of that achievement. We
nave hitherto had from Mr.. Edwards's
accomplished pen and pencil fine works
about those towers and halls and fanes
of Northern France and Belgium which
the internal Hun has wantonly de-
stroyed, memorials of the grandeur and
the glory that have vanished where the
Blond Beast set his unclean, cloven
hoof. Here is such memorial of like
shrines of riety and patriotism and art
which happily have not been destroyed
cleanse from the foulness OF nearly
half a century of Hunnish wallowing.
The text of the volume comprises de-
tached sketches of some of the most in
teresting places, popular customs, etc,
OF the two provinces, imbued with SYM
pathy and with a passionate champion
ship Of the right of the provinces to
restoration to France; and it is illus
trated with numerous plates, in mono
chrome and in full color, appropriate
to the text and executed with exquisite
skill and taste. Paper and print of the
most sumptuous quality add their not
unimportant share toward making one
of the most beautiful and przeworthy
volumes of the year. To just two de-
tails must we specially call attention.
One is the picture which Mr. Edwards
gives Of the statue of William the
Damned as the Prophet Daniel in the
Cathedral ef Metz, which transports us
with wonder in Part at the unspeakable
and insuferable presumption of the
Prussian beast in thus causing himself
to be eXploted; but why merely as
Daniel? Why not as the "od German
Gott" himself? And in part at the
exquisite irony, at which grim Nemesis
must have chuckled, Of the Kaisers
thus identifying himself with the seer
who read and interpreted the dread
New-York tribune., 1918-12-14
Historical Estimates

THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE UNITED STATES
BY Max Farrand l2mo, pp. BOB Houghtoh
Miin Company
This is not history, but series OF
critical lectures on history. The lect-
ures were delivered before the Lowell
Institute, and have here been collected
and connected into coherent whole, IN
which, without any attempt at detailed
narrative, the salient features Of Amer
lean history from Colonial times to the
present are discussed and estimated
according to the studious and coura-
geous Judgment of the author. Such a
work is obviously of much value; IN
deed, of more value than the ordinary
detailed by uncritical history. 1t does
not greatly matter to the average read
er to know how many miles an army
marched on a given day or how many
men were killed and wounded in the
War of 1912, but it does matter for
him to know why the war was fought
and what were its net results.
We have said that Professor Far
rand's judgment is courageous. At times
it seems almost rich, particularly in a
certain nil admirari attitude. To say
that jefferson based the Declaration of
independence upon patent mlScon-
ception of historical facts, and that
the Ordinance Of 1887 had a sordid orl-
gin in graft and Congressional bribery
is certainly to go far in national idol
smashing Else where there are what
we must consider grave errors OF judg-
ment and even misstatements OF TACT
In discussing the Alaska Purchase, fol
example, it was below the dignity of s
serious historian to revamp that eyre
gious old. flake" about the Russian fee
at New York in war time, and it was
regrettable for him altogether to miss
the real point Of the transaction, which
was, Of course, the vindioation of the
Monroe-Polk Doctrine. In an made
quate discussion of the Philippine con,
quest he gives misleading view OF
the Presidents attitude toward annex
alton. and repeats the stale error about
our having paid $40, 100000 for the
islands. Despite such blemishes, how
ever, it is an exceptionally Informing
and inspiring work, which will do much
to inculcate Just understanding of
our place among the nations and of the
elements of our national growth.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-14
ARare Literary AssembIage

MRS. Ward has been privileged
10 know intimately most of the
great men and women of her
time. DR.. Arnold, of Rugby, was
her grandfather. Matthew Ar
mold was her uncle. All her life
she has lived in all atmosphere
OF intellectual greatness.
Ut her friendship with such men
as Browning, Walter Pater, Lord
Morley, Andrew Lang, and,
notably, Henry JamesEof her,
trst dinner party with GEORGE
Eliot and Mr.. Lewes-of her
dellghtful evening spent with
Gladstone Huxley, Burne
Jones, Jusserand, Disrael;-of
all these she tells in big. ab-
Sorbing book, written with char-
acterlstlc charm and literary
s.,tyle-infusmg spirit of vital
,,y-of original greatness into
the people of whom it tells
1t is delight for the real book
loVer--a fascinating story of the
personal, human side of gaiaxv
of famous people.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-14
Reconstruction
The Sane Principles ON Which
1t Must BE Conducted

INDUSTRY AND HUMANITY By w H. Mac
kenzio King. Svo. pp. 567 Houghton. MlfflIn
Company.
The realization has come to us that
the tasks of reconstruction after the
war will be no less arduous, and in
some respects actually more perplexing,
than the conduct of the war itself
In each nation reconstruction will have
its own special characteristics In
America it will doubtless be far more
economic than political. The relations
cf government to business and the re-
lations between employers and en-
rloyed have been profoundly affected
by the war, and will probably never
again be what they were before the
New-York tribune., 1918-12-14
Economics of Progress

THE ECONOMICS OF PROGRESS BY ]. NJ.
Robertson. svo. PIP 2oS. t. p. Dutton a. Co
This versatile Member of Parliament,
having recently written important
works of Shakespeare, and Chapman,
and militarism, now discusses the re-
lations of education, labor. land, cap
ital, commerce and population to hu-
man progress, the substance of the
book being taken from his lectures be-
fore a section of the National Liberal
Club of Great Britain. Directed pri-
marily at conditions and problems in
the United Kingdom, the work is filled
with profitable suggestion for Amer
leans as we'll, particularly in the transi-
tion age through which we are now
passing and in which our interests are
more than ordinarily correlated with
those OF other lands
New-York tribune., 1918-12-14
Americanism
Expressed by Many Speakers on
Many Themes

ONE HUNDRED PER CfNT AMERICAN. Fore
word by Theodore Roosevelt. Svo pp 3OS. George
ii. Doran Company.
During che year now closing the Re-
publican Club OF New York conducted
a series Of Saturday Discussions, at
which men and women of moral and
intellectual authority spoke pertinent
ly on the salient topics of the great
war and Americas relations thereto.
The speakers wer not all members OF
the club; indeed. few of them were.
They were not all Republicans in poll
tics. They were not all American citi-
zens. But they wer all men and women
of high ideals and of patriotic and
humanitarian vision, who had some
thing to say that was worth saying
on the most vital themes of the day.
The orderly compilation of these
addresses makes volume of almost
unique interest and value. 1t is of in
terest. even to the casual and pleasure
seeking reader. for it is filled with
eloquence sparkling with wit, and is
largely as fascinating reading as a
best-selling novel. II is of Importance,
New-York tribune., 1918-12-14

sentence which has now been pro-
nounced against William the Damned
himself: Meme, Meme, Tekel Uphar-
sin" The other point is Mr.. EdWardss
spelling of the name or
the Alsatian capital. Between "Strass-
burg" and "Strasbourg" there is all the
difference in the world, and Strasbourg
II is now and shall be forever more!
New-York tribune., 1918-12-14

because it presents thoughtful discus
sions of tran3cendcnt themes from
varied but Invariably patriotic points
OF view. Men left the club" says the
Hon. G. T. White in an Introductory
note, "stauncher God-fearing and Cod
battling Americans, after heaying the
addresses" 1t is not too much to ex-
pect that multitudes elsewhere will be
similarly influenced by the reading Of
New-York tribune., 1918-12-14
American Patriotism:
Home and Foreign Issues

The author has hitherto been known
for his fine books about birds and
beasts in the forest, but he shows
himself equally fit to tell of the con-
fict of men with Huns that are worse
than the beasts of the African wilds.
(8vo, illustrated; George II. Doran
Company)
New-York tribune., 1918-12-14

ONE HUNDRED PER CfNT AMERICAN Fore
word by Theodore Roosevelt. Svo. pp S0S George
II. Doran Company.
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