The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-12-27
Washington

Inc American DdCJleSnlp SquduTOH
attached to the British grand fleet dis
played a spirit of true comradeship
throughout it's period Of service, de-
clared Admiral Sir David Beatty, the
commander-in-chief of the grand fleet.
in a farewell address on board the
U. S. S. New York, on December 1.
the day the squadron was detached
from the grand fleet. All hands had
been called to muster on the forecas-
tie to hear Admiral Beatty.
President Wilson gave his personal
impressions at meeting with repre-
sentatives of the American press of his
the same time announcement was
made that the members of the Amer
lean commission to negotiate peace
would meet daily with the press.
81 am confident that the big council
of statesmen of the world will be able
to reach a just and reasonable solution
Of the problems that will be presented
to them, and thus earn the gratitude
of the world for the most critical and
necessary service which has ever been
rendered it." said President Wilson, in
an interview, referring to the ap-
preaching peace conference.
President Wilson says the Versailles
congress was a conference Of BOSSES,
and further opines that we have adj
vanced too far to permit the confer
ence for world-peace to be anything
more than a meeting place of the serv-
ants of the peoples represented by
delegates. "There is no master mind
who can, alone and unaided, settle
the problems of today. If there is any
body who thinks he knows what is in
the minds of all peoples, that man is
fool"
1t is the observation of all states
men in all countries that President
Wilson is truly representing the Amer
lean people abroad regardless of poll
tics or other sentiments. His conten-
ton that 1--WE have got to put our
heads together and pool everything we
have got for the benefit Of the ideals
which are common to all" has almost
become the shibboleth of the Labor
Party Of Great Britain.
In clash on November % between
the army navy guard of the American
steamship Monterey and Mexican GUS
toms guards at Tampico, one Mexican,
said to have been captured, was killed;
a Mexican soldier MORALLY wounded,
and chief gunner's mate, named Ber-
ry, in charge of the American guard,
less seriously hurt This was learned
with the steamers arrival in New
York from Havana and Nassau, where
she touched after leaving Tampico.
"It< was owing to the action of the
Russian Polsheviki that hundreds OF
thousands of German troops were let
loose to hurI themselves against our
men on the western front. 1t was ow-
ing to their betrayal that Roumania
with all it's rich resources in grain and
oil fell into the hands of the Ger
mans" This is the explanation the
British secretary of war offers for the
keeping of allied troops in Russia
Undoubtedly Kerensky and his fol-
lowers want to represent Russia in the
peace conference, but whether their
status will be recognized is entirely
another question.
The assassinated president Of Portu-
gal. Doctor Paes, was a professor OF
mathematics in the University of Coin
bra when he entered the Portuguese
cabinet in 1911 as minister of public
work. At the outbreak of the war
he was Portuguese minister to Ber-
lin 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.
The royal castle in Coblenz, to pre-
vent the removal of valuables, is be-
ing guarded by American troops.