The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1919-01-03
FOREIGN


Included In the New Years festivi-
ties at Santiago. Chile, will be u GER
emony marking the inauguration Of an
aerial postal service between Santiago
and Valparaiso.
President and Mrs. Wilson were in
Buckingham palace Thursday after a
journey from Calais to London, during
which they were accorded all the hon
ors ever given royalty.
General Pershing has issued an or
der to all American commanders to
cooperate fully with the French gov
eminent in measures against exces-
sive use of alcoholic liquors.
Rumors that the former emperor OF
Germany has been assassinated be-
came current in Paris, notably in the
Chamber of Deputies, Thursday even.
ing. There was not the slightest con
firmation OF the report up to Satur-
day morning.
George Creel, chairman of the com
mittee on public information, returned
to Paris tonight from trip to Verdun
and the Argonne region. Edgar Z.
Sisson, his principal assistant, who &C
companied him. stated that the report
that Mr.. Creel had resigned WIS IN
true
There is complete harmony between
the United States and the allies upon
the basic principles that will form the
foundation of the peace which will
write finis to the greatest war In his.
tory and, it Is hoped. to all wars. Such
in substance was the message of
Christmas cheer which Woodrow VIII
son. commander in chief of the Amer
lean army, conveyed TO 10000 Ameri-
can troops gathered about him in n
vast wheat field near Humes, twenty
miles from Chaumont. In his speech
the leading allied statesmen so far
have voiced the same views upon the
peace conditions as himself.
No more regal setting ever had been
arranged in Buckingham palace than
that which greeted President Wilson
and Mrs. Wilson when they were es-
corted into the banquet hall In London
for the precedent-breaking state din.
ner. In his speech at the state ban.
quet to President Wilson at Bucking.
ham palace Friday night, King George
said: This is an historic moment and
your visit marks an historic epoch
Nearly $50 years have passed since
your republic began its independent
life. and now, for the first time, a Pres
ident OF the United States is our guest
in England" Replying TO the kings
address, President Wilson said: 81 am
deeply complimented by the gracious
words which you have uttered. The
welcome which you have given me
and Mrs. Wilson has been SO warm, SO
natural, so evidently from the heart,
that we have been more than pleased.
We have been touched by it, and be
lieve that ! correctly interpret that
welcome as embodyipg not only your
own generous spirit toward US person
ally, but also as expressing for your
self and the great nation over which
you preside that same feeling for my
people, for the people of the United
States"
SPORT
Billy Miske of st. Paul -outboxed Gus
Cristle of Milwaukee in every round
OF ten-round no-decision catch weight
boxing contest at Milwaukee.
Joe Burman OF Chicago won the
twelve-round bout with Eddie Wimler
of Pittsburs. before the American Ath-
letic Association at Baltimore.
A 2,0OO-foot fall killed Capt. HOBBY
Baker, famous American flier, 1t was
learned in Paris. He fell at the Tours
aerodrome, where he was waiting to
proceed home.
GENERAL
At the hearing of packing house en-
ployes for wage increases before Fed
eral Judge Alschuler In Chicago, Miss
Ethel Kelly of Kansas City testified
that a woman's coat that cost S14.75 a
year ago now costs s35.
The Rev. DR.. J. Wilbur Chapman.
noted as an evangelist, died in New
York.
A' toot vi ilN]us III I'VE" IOIh Sldts
has increased G2 per cent since 1914,
according to figures made public by
the Consumers League.
Theodore Roosevelt celebrated
Christmas day by leaving Roosevelt
hospital, where for two months he had
been undergoing treatment for sciatic
rheumatism.
Reports received from Germany in
dictate that the present government
there is to constitute federal repub.
lie on virtually the same plan as the
United States.
The Chinese government has in.
dorsed the plan to. establish Jewish
state in Palestine, according to word
received in New York by the Zionist
organization of America, from the
Shanghai Zionist Association.