davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-12-06
PRESIDENT TO
HEAD PEACE PARTY.
Other ENJOYS Lansing, Mhits,
House and Bliss.
HOUSE WILSON'S ADVISER
Other Delegates AZ Ambassadors
Announcement 10 Delayed Until
6eliiserents Agreed Upon
Number To Be Named.

Washington.-The representatives
Of the United States at the peace
conference will be:
President Wilson.
Robert Lansing, Secretary OF State.
Henry White, former Ambassador to
France and Italy.
E. M. House.
General Tasker H. Bliss, representa-.
tive CT the American Army with the
Supreme War Council at Versailles.
This announcement was made at
the White House. In the absence Of
any official explanation, it was as
sumed that the President goes as Pres
tdent of the United States, and that
Secretary Lansing, Mr., White and
Colonel House and, possibly also, Gen
eral Bliss. will be delegates with am,
basGadorial rank.
1t was recalled that the Presidents
announcement that he would go to
France for the purpose of taking part
in the discussion and settlement OF the
main features of the treaty OF peace"
said that it was not likely that he
could remain throughout the sessions
of the peace conference, and that he
would be accompanied by delegates
who will sit as the representatives of
the United States throughout the con-
ference"
The White House announcement
follows:
ut was announced at the Executive
offices that the representatives of the
United States at the Peace Conference
would be: The President himself, the
Secretary Of State, the Hon. Henry
White, recently Ambassador to-
France; Edward NJ. House and General
Taslier H. Bliss.
at was explained that it had not
been possible to announce these ap-
pointments before because the number
Of representatives each of the chief bel-
ligerents was to send had until a day
or two ago been under discussion"
The Premiers of Great Britain.
France and Italy are expected to att
tend the Peace Conference as repre7
sentatives of the government, but, like1
the President, may not remai1M
throughout the conferences. The g
eral understanding, here is that pre-
ent plans are to have the conferred
agree to the broad principles of t
treaty and leave the working out Of
details to further sittings.
This would enable the President and
the Entente Premiers speedily to return
to the capitals of their respective coun-
tention to affairs of state.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-12-06
ONE MORE GREAT
LOAN IN APRIL
The Issue VIII Be Around
$4,000, 900, 600.
CONTINUOUS SALE GIVEN UP
Expenses will Run To New High
Record OF $4,000, ooo, 900, Due To
Adjustment OF Con
tracts.

Washington.-Notice that the coun-
cry must prepare for another intensive
war loan campaign, probably in the
latter part OF April, was given by Sec
rotary McAdoo in letter to bankers
explaining the Treasury's program for
floating certificates of Indebtedness
and bonds during the next six months.
The Secretary stated that plans for
continuous sale of Government bonds,
recently discussed as strong POSSIBLE
tty, had been abandoned, and that
plans should be made for zone more
great popular campaign" Previously
he had announced that the bonds to be
offered then would be Of short ma
turity, less than 10 years, and it has
been indicated that the amount would
be around OO0,000,000. Although
Mr.. McAdoo did not state the time OF
the campaign, 1t was learned the
Treasury plans tentatively to hold it
the last three weeks In April.
Blocks Of Treasury certificates Of in
debtedness, ranging in amount between
100000, 900 and $750,000,00O, w1K be
marketed every two weeks, to provide
funds for running the Government I'M
til payments from the fifth war loan
begin to come in, and these payments
then will be used to pay off the certi-
1icates. Every bank will be expected
to subscribe per cent. of its gross
resources monthly to these certificates.
The first issue of $4,000, 100000, mini
mum, just announced, may be sub
scribed between December 5 and De-
cember 10, will mature next May 6
and will bear Az per cent. This rate
Is not considered as affording any in
dication of the interest to be borne by
the fifth war loan bonds.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-12-06
DEATHS IN THE NAVY.
Surgeon General BREASTED Reports A
Total Of 1888.

ashington.-Deaths in the Navy
from war causes" totaled 1888, Sur
geon General BREASTED told the House
Naval Committee, which is framing
the 1920 Naval Appropriation Bill No
figures were given as to deaths from
disease. The bodies of practically all
navy men dying in foreign service, the
Surgeon General said, have been re-
turned home.
The Surgeon General said there were
$4,000 patients in naval hospitals, and
that institutions at New York, Phi1a-
delphia, Boston and Norfolk were
crowded. Appropriations for the Navy
Medical Department amounting to $751;
900, 900, asked for under plans for con-
tinuing the war, were reduced to 3d.
100000 by the Surgeon General.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-12-06
WASHINGTON.

Theodore N. Vail, president of the
American Telegraph and Telephone
Company, is to become the personal
adviser of Postmaster General Burle-
son in the organization of the tele-
graph, telephone and cable systems
under government control.
That German ships other than
those taken over by the United States
during the war may help TO bring
back to this country the soldiers who
conquered them is probability, ac-
cording to Secretary of War Baker.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-12-06
American Casualties.
The Statement Analysed.

While the total losses suffered by
the American army in France at first
glance appeared ito be almost double
the total estimated by officers here as
probable, analysis of the table it was
pointed out, shows that among the 49,
900 wounded are included the names
of thousands of men whose injuries
were so trivial that they never were
admitted to hospitals.
The seriously wounded and the pris-
oners and missing, officers believe, will
work out not in excess of $4,000.
The official figures show also nearly
double the number of deaths from
disease that have been made public
to date. No explanation has been for
warded by General Pershing, but it is
assumed that the unclassified cases are
due to the wide distribution of Amer
lean and Allied hospitals to which the
men were sent, making it slow proc
ess to assemble the date.
The number of Americans taken
prisoners by the Germans-little more
than two thousands strikingly low
in view Of General March announce
ment that total Gin round numbers"
of $4,000 Germans had been captured
by the Americans. The fact that the
American armies have been forwarded
continuously since it entered the bat
tie doubtless accounts for the great
differences.
Bringing the Boys Home.
The LOO men reported as missing
probably include others who will be
found to have been captured, some
whose bodies will never be recovered
and others who may have become lost
in the ranks Of the French or British
forces. The classification also covers
the unidentified dead always to be ex-
pected when great bodies of troops are
engaged.
General March said no report on the
organization of the Army of Occupa-
ton had been received, but that the
divisions designated by General Perish
ing for return were among those he
could spare Immediately. The order in
which they will return has not yet
been established, but the Chief of Staff
pointed out that it would take con-
siderable time to bring that number
Of men home. He also gave assur-
ances that the War Department had
no intention of allowing the veterans
of the battlefields OF France and Bel
GUM "to sneak into the country" I'M
noticed, but that timely announcement
would be made so that adequate recep-
tions could be planned.
Thirty Divisions to Stay.
Secretary Baker supplemented Gen
eral March's outline of rehabilitation
plans later by stating that General
pArshing was reducing his army to
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-12-06

strength of 80 divisions, and would
further reduce 1t as conditions justify.
At an average strength Of 10000 men
to a division, which would cover all
necessary auxiliary forces, this would
mean that General Pershing would re-
tain 100000 in France from which
the actual army of occupation and its
reserves would be organized to provide
against any possible emergency.
General March showed that virtually
all of the supplementary army corpa
and army troops are to be withdrawn.
He said he already had authorized Gen.
eral Pershing to send back railway
artillery, army artillery, gas troops and
tank corps units, in addition to the
divisional organizations. Some Of the
divisions designated by General Perish.
ing are replacement units, which have
been skeletonized by withdrawal Of
drafts to recruit divisions In the line.
Yankees Brilliant Record.
The brilliant record of the 26th Di-
vision, New England troops, was re-
viewed by General March. In April,
May and June this division was on the
line in the Woevre. On July Is it was
engaged at Chateau-Thierry and at
Torcy and Boureshes. 1t was then
shifted to ST. Mihiel and after the
wiping out of that salient was in action
north of Verdun.
The division was in the final drive
in the Verdun sector and was engaged
up to the minute .hostilities ceased.
Christmas Gifts For All.
Every soldier in the A. e. F. will get
a Christmas package, General March
authorized to make up $4,000 to 10000
extra packages to be given to men
who fail to get theirs from home: The
first Christmas ship sailed yesterday.
The Manchuria, carrying 100000 Christ.
mas packages, will be the first of the
Christmas ships to arrive in France.
Other vessels will leave at five-day in
tervals
General March stated that reports
that troops were about to sail for Rus.
STA from the Pacific Coast are untrue.
He referred to President Wilson's
statement sometime ago that the
troops then being sent to Russia were
the maximum number that would so.
This was taken to mean that no more
troops will be sent to Russia unless
the situation is radically altered.
Several reports ce units having been
annihiliated in the last days OF the
fighting in France were without con
firmation, General March said.
No reports have been received from
General Pershing as to any such dis
asters and the casualty list does not
reveal any such misfortune. General
March denied emphatically rumors
that officers have been degraded be
cause Of these alleged heavy losses.
About 10000 so-called "seven-year"
enlisted men in the Army will serve
out their terms, but the 100000 volun.
teers who enlisted for the period of the
emergency will be released in the near
future If they so desire.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-12-06
100000 PRISONERS FREED.
Approximately 100000 Will Pass
Through American Lines.

American Army Of Occupation
More than 100000 prisoners of vari-
Ousmationalities have been released by
the Germans, according to estimates
based upon reports received by the
American Third Army. OF this num-
Der approximately 100000 will pass
through the American lines and will be
fed by the Americans. Most of the
quarter Of million prisoners are
French, English, Italian and American
soldiers. The army, assisted by the
Salvation Army, the Young Mems
Christian Association and the Knights
OF Columbus, is shouldering the bulk
OF the task.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-12-06
se,572,ooo,ooo SPENT LAST YEAR
The Public Debt On June 80 Was
$12,396, O0o, 900.

Washington.-It cost $5,645, 100000
to run the American Army during the
year ending June 80 last; $1,368, 000r
900 for the navy and $1,516,0 00,000 for
the civil Government proper The
Shipping Board spent $862,000,000 and
$181, 100000 was paid out in pensions.
These figures are shown by the annual
report of John Burke, Treasurer OF
the United States, to Secretary Nc
Adoo. The report showed the public
debt on June so was $12,396,000,0 1000.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-12-06
JOHN w. DAVIS BACK IN U. S.
Ambassador To Great Britain To Re
turn To London This Month.

New York.-John w. Davis, newly
appointed American Ambassador to
Great Britain, was a passenger on the
French line steamer Espagne, which
arrived here Wednesday from Bor'
deaux. He was recently in Berne,
attending the conference of American
and German delegates on the exchange
of war prisoners. It was announces
before he sailed that he expected to
return to London in December to take
I'D his new post
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-12-06
10000 DEAD AND
10000 WOUNDED
March Gives Figures on Amer
lean Casualties.
ARMY GOING ON PEACE BASIS
Chief of staff Gives Figures for the
Losses Sustained by the Amer
leans in the War-Where Var
ious Units Are Located.

decentralization of the
American expeditionary forces, al
ready in progress with the movement
homeward of sick and wounded, will
be fastened by the return at an early
date of eight divisions of National
Guard and National Army troops, eight
regiments of Coast Artillery and two
brigades of Field Artillery. This an
nouncement was made by General
March, chief of staff, on receipt of
dispatches from General Pershing.
Total American casualties to No
vember IL, when hostilities ceased,
were 236,117. This includes, General
March said, killed and died of wounds,
died of disease, unclassified deaths,
wounded, prisoners and missing.
The divisions which Gen. March
said have been designated by General
Pershing to return as soon as the sick
and wounded have been moved to the
United States, are:
National Guard: 31st Georgia, Ala
bama and Florida); 34th (Nebraskan,
Iowa, South Dakota and Minnesota)
38th Indiana, Kentucky and West
Virginia) and 39th (Arkansas, Mississ-
ippi and Louisiana).
National Army: 10th (New Eng
land); Saith (Kentucky, Indiana and
Southern Illinois,; seth (Northern
Illinois, including Chicago) and S7th
ARKANSAS, Louisiana, Mississippi an6
Southern Alabama).
The coast artillery regiments to be
returned as soon as possible were an
nounced as the 46th, 47th, 48th, 49th,
50th, 73d, 74th and 18th. The two
field artillery brigades to be brought
home are the 65th and the 163d.
Eighty-two aero sQudrons, seventeen
construction companies and several
special units from England, will be
brought home as soon as transporta-
tiaon facilities can be secured, General
March said.
American Casualties.
Casualties sustained by the Ameri-
cans were given by General March as
folIo,ryc.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-12-06
1915 SOLDIERS COMING HOME.

teven Ships Will Leave England With
Troops In Next Week.
London.-Numerous steamers will
leave Liverpool during the coming
- with American troops aboard,
Americans will carry 1880 off,
pnd men of the American Air
s. The Canopic 1860; the Adri-
Its; the Cedric 5000; the En-
IS of Britain $3.50, including 400
the Leviathan 1900 sick, and
saxonia 1900 sick.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-12-06
NY. REDS MOBBEO
BY MEN IN UNIFORM
Soldiers, Sailors and Marines
Attack Socialists.
POLICE ARE overwhelmed
Police Powerless To Withstand Rush
-BoIshevik Adherents Pursued
For Half Mile BY Enraged
Fighting Men.

New York.-Hundreds of soldiers,
sailors and marines broke through a
Gordon of police surrounding Madison
Square Garden and attacked Interna-
tional Socialists, who had attended a
mass-meeting at which Bolshevik doc
trines were expounded. The men and
women leaving the hall broke and
fled as the men in uniform charged
past the police, but were pursued into
the side streets in all directions.
The attack on the Socialists came
at the close of meeting which threat
ened from the moment it began to
break into riot. 1t was called ostens-
IDLY to protest against the execution
OF Thomas j. Mooney, but Scott Near
ing, who presided, and the other
speakers devoted most of their atten-
ton to pleas for the release of "po-
litical" offenders.
Several men and women were ar
rested for displaying red flags SNUG
gled into the garden in defiance of
an edict by Mayor Hylan. Large num-
bers of men in uniform entered the
with the avowed determination of pre-
venting attacks upon the Government.
They were restrained with difficulty
by police and detectives from making
an assault on the stage. Scores of
fist fights were interrupted by officers.
Soldiers and sailors who were unable
to get into the meeting sent out pa
trolls to round UP all the men in uni
form who could be found to join in
the charge on the Socialists which
had been planned to take place when
the oratory was ended and the Inter
nationalist started for their homes.
Madison Square was the rallying
point for the military. They quickly
staged an impro- ptu mass-meeting at
which speakers denounced the Bolshe-
Wiki. They were cheered not only by
the men in uniform but by civilian
sympathizers. When some one called
upon loyal Americans" to charge the
garden and attack the International
lists, several hundred responded. They
were driven back, however, by mount
ed police and men on foot who had
surrounded the building.
Realizing that they had failed in the
first attack, the soldiers and sailors re-
sumed their meeting and awaited the
arrival of reinforcements. Probably
1000 men of both branches of the
service had assembled by the time
the meeting adjourned.
Almost instantly the Square was
filled with yelling, running, fighting
men. The screams of women, most
of them wearing red roses or carna-
tons in lieu of the forbidden flags,
rose above the din as they clawed and
scratched the soldiers and sailors who
were pummeling the male Socialists.
Mounted police, reinforced by auto,
mobile loads of reserves, rushed from
every station house within radium of
miles, struggled valiently to clear the
square but made little progress.
The Square was cleared of milling
men only when Socialists by ones and
twos and in groups broke. The scrim-
mage in the park then was transferred
on a smaller scale into every neigh
boring street.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-12-06
CONGRESSMAN A PRIVATE.
Rogers, OF Massachusetts, Draftee
Goes To Camp Zachary Taylor.

Washington. = Representative Rog,
ers, of Massachusetts, Republican, left
Washington for Camp Zachary Taylor.
at Louisville, KY, to become a private
in the field artillery. He announced
he would not resign his office. Mr..
Rogers, who is 81 years old, was in
Quoted at his request by the draft
board at Lowell, Mass. his home city.
His wife is in service as a nurse at a
local hospital.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-12-06
$50 LIBERTY MOTORS DAILY.
6,2e7 Were Delivered In October, Lieu
tenant Emmons Says.

Washington. motors were
being produced at the rate of $50 a
day when the armistice was signed,
said Lieutenant H. H. Emmons, U. S.
N, chief of the engine production de-
Qartment of the Aircraft Production
Board, at the War Department in a
lecture attended by Secretary Baker
and other army officials. Deliveries of
Liberty motors in October reached s.
297, Liutenant Emmons said, larger
number of motors than English and
French factories had been able to de-
liver In any one month.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-12-06
NOBEL PRIZE TO PRESIDENT.

He Will Be Invited To Visit Chris
tiania To Receive It,
Grand Forks.-A special cable dis
patch to the Normanden in this city
from Christiania indicates thai tho
Nobel Peace prize for 1918 may be
awarded to President Wilson who ac-
cording to the dispatch, probably will
be invited to visit the Norwegian cap
ital in order to accept personally the
prize, The Danish and Swedish gov
ernmerts also are said to consider ex-
tending an invitation to the President
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-12-06
PERsHINe FOR PRESIDENT.

League To Boost Him Organized In
Ohio.
Columbus, Ohio.-A campaign fol
the election of General John ]. Perish.
ing, commander-in-chief Of the Amer
lean Expeditionary Forces in France,
to the Presidency in 1920 was for.
mally launched in Ohio by an appli'
cation to the Secretary of State for
the incorporation of THE Pershing
Republican League"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-12-06
WOMAN NAMED ENVOY.
Hungary Sends Nine. schwinmer To
Switzerland.

Berne.-The first woman to be ap.
pointed an ambassador has been nom
mated by the Hungarian Government
for the post in Switzerland She is
the Hungarian writer and pacifist.
Rosika Schwimmer, who now resides
in Switzerland. Madame Schwimme1
has accepted the nomination and will
enter upon her duties shortly at Berne,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-12-06
NEAR THEIR DESTINATION.
Americans Reach Treves On Their
Way To Coblenz.

Treves, Rhenish Prussia.-This an
cient city on the Moselle, which still
has many a landmark dating from the
time when it was a Roman camp, was
entered by American troops Tuesday.
Less than So miles to the northeast
from Treves, or Trier, as it is called in
German, lies Coblenz, the ultimate des-
tination of General Dickman's army of
occupation. The road runs along the
Moselle River, which flows into the
Rhine at Coblenz.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-12-06
Athens To Make Wilson LID.

Athens, Monday-The faculty of law
of the University of Athens has decid'
ed to confer the honorary degree OF
doctor of laws on President Wilson.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-12-06
Britain Now Has ia German Subs.

Harwich, Eng.-Twenty-seven Ger.
man submarines were surrendered
Wednesday to the Allies This brings
to ia the total of German U'boats
turned over.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-12-06
LOO JEWS MAssAcREp.

Berlin Papers Say synagogue At Lem
burg Set On Fire.
Iondon.-Eleven hundred Jews were
killed during the recent massacre in
Lemburg, according to dispatches in
the Berlin newspapers transmitted by
the Copenhagen correspondent OF tbs
Central News. Hundreds of Jews are
said to have barricaded themselves in
a synagogue, which was set afire.
Those who attempted to escape from
this refuge were fred upon.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-12-06
FIGHTING TROOPS
COMING BACK
MarshalHaig's FarewelIEuIogy
to the Doughboys.
SERVED ON BRITISH FRONT
The Twenty-Seventh, Reduced BY Re-
placement Drafts To 81 Off
GERS And 1000 Men, En-
barks At St. Nazzaire.

American Headquarters in France.
The Seventy-sixth Division of the
American Army, reduced by replace
ment drafts to 81 officers and 1000
men, has arrived at the Port of st.
Nazaire and is embarking for home.
The 9th Division, totaling 4S4 Off
GERS and 1851 men and the 18th
Division, totaling 4S8 officers and 12,-
099 men, both of which operated on
the British front, have been withdrawn
from the LIE Mans area and probably
will embark in few days.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-12-06
HUNS DAMAGE AiRPLANEs.
$50 Collected For Surrender To Allies
Ruined Bv RevoIutionists.

Basic, Switzerland.-One hundred
and fifty airplanes, which had been
gathered at the Boeblingen airdrome,
IL miles southwest of Stuttgart, to be
handed over to the Allies in accord
ance with the provisions of the armis-
according to a Stuttgart dispatch re-
ceived here.
tice, have been rendered useless by
order of the Revolutionary Committee
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-12-06
SUGAR SCRIPT DISCONTINUED.
Government Will Trust To Voluntary
Conservation.

C0nSeTVatI0ns
Observation-Disclosures of sugar
under the certificate system was dis
continued under an order issued by
the Food Administration. In announc-
sng the order, the Administration EN-
phasized that requests for conserva-
ton of sugar were in no way modified.
Domestic consumers, it was said, will
be expected to observe the voluntary
ration of four pounds per person a
month and public eating places will
be required to use only four pounds
of sugar for each 80 meals served.