The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-12-26
Washington

Washington
Signs point to the conclusion that the
present pope will refuse, ere long, tc
consider himself a "prisoner OF
Rome Some foreign papers say he
may attend the peace conference
President Wilson will take Christ.
mas dinner with the American troops
in France. He will make a speech,
which, it is declared, will deal with
international questions, and will place
the United States position clearly be-
fore the world.
Church unity may not be so far
away as it may seem. It is limited that
the pope may request President Wilson
to act as mediator between the quiri-
nal and the vatican. The pope as head
of the Roman Christians represents
the theocratic idea Of government in
church; while President Wilson, who
is a rigid Presbyterian, whose Prot
estant orthodoxy cannot be question
ed, represents the democratic idea of
church government. We may be iv-
ing in more wonderful times than we
appreciate. 1t is perfectly apparent
that if Wilson should be successful in
umpiring a dispute as long standing
as that between the quirinal and the
vatican that theologians could dis
pense with some of their hobbies and
get closer together
In a report to the war department
General Pershing reports the unre-
ported casualties as follows: Killed in
action, $50; died of wounds, 275; died
of disease, 353; accidentally killed, 81;
severely wounded in action, 39,731. To-
tai 40,440 unreported.
DR.. Sidonio Paes, president of Por-
tugal, was shot and killed by an as
sassin shortly before midnight Deem
Der Is, while he in a railway station
at Lisbon waiting for a train to Opor-
to. Advices from Lisbon reporting the
assassination say that he was struck
by three bullets, ar d died within few
minutes after he was shot. According
to Havas dispatch the assassin was
lynched by the crowd.
The assassinated president of Portu-
gal, Doctor Paes, was a professor Of
in the University of Coin
cabinet in 1911 as minister of public
work. At the outbreak of the war
he was Portuguese minister to Ber-
in and remained in Berlin until early
IN 1916, when he returned to Lisbon.
One of his first acts after being pro-
claimed president was to take active
steps for great participation in the
war by Portugal.
In clash on November % between
he army navy guard of the American
steamship Monterey and Mexican Gus
oms guards at Tampico, one Mexican,
said to have been captured, was killed;
/ Mexican soldier morta1ly wounded,
md a chief gunner's mate, named Ber-
", in charge of the American guard,
ess seriously hurt. This was learned
With the steamers arrival in New
FORK from Havana and Nassau, where
he touched after leaving Tampico.
The UNITED States stands ready to
ender alone, or in conjunction with
ther countries of their hemisphere,
III possible assistance to bring about
n equitable solution of the difficult
les presented in the Chile-Peru sit
alton, says Acting Secretary of State
'olk.
All South American countries have
cen asked by the United States to
Din in the suggestion to Chile and
'eru that the interests of pan-Amer-
ian unity demand an amicable settle
lent of their controversy over the
rovinces of Tacna and africa. Acting
ecretary Polk of the state depart
lent announced this, explaining that
had been enormously reported that
rgentine alone had been approached
n the subject.
Cablegrams announce that President
Vilson reached the harbor of Brest on
GARD the steamer George Washington
nd stepped on shore-the first time
q American executive had ever trod-
en- European soil. The arrival was
he elimination of an imposing naval
0ectacle which began as the presi-
entail fleet rounded the outer capes,
len passed the entrance forts and
owed majestically into the harbor,
here the George Washington anchor
at the head of a long double column
American dreadnaughts and de-
rogers and the units of a French cruz
Or squadron.