Republican farmer., 1919-02-21
Received at Arsenal By General Helmick, Mil
 tary Comnlandant.
q GUN SALUTE
 ONLY CEREMONY
Trench Naval Escort Ac- companied the George
 Washington Out to Sea,

Washington Out to Sea.
 BrcSt, Feb. I5 - President Wilson left Brest on his return to the United States on board Cae U. S. S. George Washington shortly after II o'clock this morning. The George Wash ington weighed anchor at it:l5 o'clock.
 The President arrived in Brcst from Paris at iO;3O o'clock and went direct to tine dock. where he embarked on French gunboat which took him and his party io the George Washington.
 The President was received at the 1}rcet arsenal by Admiral Noreau of the French navy. General Helmlck, tho military comuau.er of Eresl, Charles N. S.lw.b and civil officials. There was uo ceremony except for rnr Naudslnk.0- and a salute uf 2 suns which truudered forth as the President embarked on the guuboat.
 From tro railroad siding to the dock were drawn un a battalion of Ameri- rtn soldiers and French marine band played trc "Star SparEled Ban ncr" as the gunboat left it's moorings. All the ships in the har1or displayed the American flag and all traffic was suspended while the Presidents party was transferred t1 the George Wash tngton.
 A French naval escort consisting of the cruiser Condo and several torpedo boats acted as a guest of honor for the George Washington. This escort. with the American battIcshiu New Mexico, will escort the President ont 10 sea and then return. The New Mexico was accompanied by four American torpeGo boats. Georges 1eygues, the French minister of ma riue. and Andre Tardieu, French high commissioner to the United States. accompanied the President on board the George Washington to bid him goodbye.
 Franklin D. Roosevelt. American assistant secretary of the navy, arriv- ed in Brest shortly before the Presi- dent boarded the George Washington and was taken aboard the liner on special naval craft. The weather was misty and cloudy with a moderate temperature.
 When the President aItghted from the train he was smiling. He shook hands with Admiral NIoreau, General HeImick, Admiral Halstead and MT. SChwab. The President talked for Q few minutes with Mir. Schwab Mrs. Wilson smiled as she followed tho President and received from NJ Ley
 
 Mrs. Josephine Lewis of Cincinnati presented the President with d bou- quet of violcts which he accepted with a bow.
 After exchanging greetings the President stood on the gunboat and waved to the crowds on the dock and those assembled on the ombaukmeuts high above the quay. The mistiness of the weather hid the guuboat from sight soon after it left the dock but the President continued To wave his hat and smile as the boat headed toward the George Washington The President was accompanied on board the gunbOat by Ambassador and Madame Jusserand and by Represent tatives Helyering. White and Norton. who have been in France for several months. David E. Francis, the Amer ican ambassador t1 Russia, and his son and daughter also were members of the party.
 The President spent just 15 minutes at the quay He passed along the line of those assembled to greet him and shook hands with each one. Reaching the end of the line, he descended the stairs to the deck of the gunboat ant then assisted Mrs. Wilson 10 descend.
 On the arrival of the Presidential party on board the George Washing ton there was little formality except for handshakes with NJ. Leygucs and NJ. Tardieu the orders being for the George Washington to get under way as soon as the party and it's baggage had been received. The sea was calm as the EuubOat made it's way to the George Washington.