THE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN THE WEATHER: Pair klaitUf and Sands) , ttuim riuni in Mwpurmrure. (JIXIZEN" WANT ADA BRING, RESULTS T0L. XXXV, NO. 02. ASIIEVIILE, N. C, SATURDAY MORNINU.'DKCKMHKH 28, 1!UH. PRICE FIVE OENT8 K Mi HONOR OF ROYALTY M ACCORD 0 PRESIDENT mum ' . V. o O 3 o d STATE BANQUET FEATURE OF PRESIDENT WILSON'S SECOND DAY IN ENGLAND Spectacle Such as Probably No Olher Court io Europe Can Pro vide Is Arranged in Honor of Chief Executive and First Lady of the United Slates, By King George and Queen Mary. ' . MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF GOLD PLATE Aside From Banquet, President Spends a Busy Wotking Day, Holding Several Coherences and Attending Luncheon Where He Meets Leading British States men. IE GEORG E SPEECH AT STATE. BANQUET TOASTS UNITED STATES For First Time President of United States Is Guest at Palace LONDON, Doc. 27. The environment of President Wilson's second day in England was quieter than that of the first day. The only ceremonial event was a state ban quet in Buckingham palace tonight which was notable not only as a spectacle as probably no other court in Europe can provide the setting for", now that the thrones of Rus sia, Germany and Austria have disappeared, but from the representative character of the men siurunona to meet tW&eiwi f the -American jroiwnm "'V'"1" ' Officials Present. Beside the members of the royal family, the official world was represented by the foreign ambassadors to the Court of St. James, the heads of the government, present , and past chiefs of the army and navy, colonial officials and members of the royal household. There also were present dignitaries of the Church o4 England, representatives of universities and men high in the world of literature, art and journalism. President Wilson escorted Queen Mary into the ban quet hall, while King George gave his arm to Mrs. Wil son. Chiefly Working Day. Today, however, was chiefly a working day with the president. Five hours were taken up by two conferences with Prime Minister Lloyd-George and Foreign Secre ' tary Balfour, on peace problems. This was the fulfillment of the main purpose of the president's pilgrimage to Lon don. For three hours in the morning President Wilson sat with Lloyd-George and the foreign secretary before the open fireplace in the president's apartment in Bucking ham palace. The second meeting was in the cabinet room of the premier's residence in Downing street. The two sessions were broken by a luncheon at which Mr. Lloyd George gathered a dozen leading Britislvstatesmen of the conservative, liberal and labor parties. Picturesque Incident. There was a picturesque incident after the luncheon when President Wilson unveiled a portrait of George Washington, presented to the premier's residence by Lord Albemarle. The interest of Londoners in President Wilson con tinues high. Crowds outside the palace and in Downing street awaited his coining all day, notwithstanding thf j rain, and cheered his every appearance. Each time they saw President Wilson they demanded a speech, but each time the president shook his head negatively. The newspapers today were, filled with tributes to the president, which undoubtedly have been the cause of a heightening of his personal popularity in London. It is expected that another great gathering will wit ness the progress of the president to the Guild hall to morrow to receive the address of the lord mayor. Regal Setting. No more regal setting ever had been arranged in Buckingham palace than that which greeted President Wilson and Mrs. Wilson when they were escorted into the banquet hall tonight for the precedent-breaking state dinner.' :' ' ". ' ' ' Every royal formality which attended epochal occa sions at the palace for two or three hundred years was car ried out before and during the banquet. President Wil son and Queen Marv led the procession into the dinins: ' ?rm.fl,n government .to negotiate with U t&l fl, l,J:.n 6!Mr. Hoover. for food supplies. In tumed, bearing wands and walking backwards and tnak ing obeisance to the guests. - Immediately behind the president and the queen, CLOSE BONDS UNITE THE TWO COUNTRIES King Points Out That Lit- erajur Nations Are Alike LONDON, Dec. J7. In hie speech at the state banquet to President Wll aon at Buckingham palace tonight, King- George aald: "This la an historic moment and your visit marks an historic epoch. Nearly 150 years have passed sine your republic began Its Independent life and now, for rtie first time, a president of the United States is our guest in England. "We welcome you to the country whence came your ancestors and where stands the homes of those from whom -sprang Washington and Lin coln. We welcome you for yourself, as one whose Insight, calmness and dignity in the discharge of his high duties we have watched with admira tion. We see in you the happy union of the gifts of a scholar with those of a statesman. You came from a stu dious, academic quiet into the full stream of an arduous public life and your deliverances have combined breadth of view, and grasp of world problems with the mastery of a lofty diction recalling that of your great orators of the past and of our own. . Head of Great Nation . "You come as the official head arid spokesman of a mighty common wealth bound to us toy the closest ties. . Pals j .riira-cs-"": . - - , - . my i e.-i-t.i i " 1 .... . i w STRIKING 7 HIBUTE PI MAG ARTHUR Dvnni mriinnrn ui oLu. iviLiiunLn n mm i mm vreu. iienoner was x ormer ly in Command of' ' Rainbow Division : V URGES PROMOTION , V FOR GEN. MAC ARTHUE Copy of,, Communication From General Menoher 1 ; Reaches Washington REMARKABLE AND SENSATIONAL LETTER FROM PRINCE ALBERT OF MONACO TO THE FORMER KAISER IS MADE PUBLIC WASHINGTON", Tc. t7 A strlk Ing tribute t the eoursg and . skill of Brigadier-General Douglas MacArthur commanding- the- Eighty-fourth irl gsde of the Jrty-second (Rainbow) s division was glvsn by Major-General m hv.,.,, lui n,.i 1 in rrji m- , maod of the division, In a letter Io ' Oeneral Psrshinf, urglst for the see ond tlmt ths promotion of General KscArthur to the rank of Majof-Qen- ; tral. ; rf , ; ' Ilenche Washtngtoi. ; A copy of the communlcm'lon hws Just rsached Washington! It svlsw- tht record of General 'SJaeArthur' as first chief of staff of the division" and later a commander of one of Its two Infantry brigade and dlsWosod hat the young,' officer,-- a, , major of engineers wbn the Vhlted Utatea entered tbe irar, had been twice wounded, haU been decorated hv hot iv ments for personal. a.Uantry in action. and In addition had been twice recom- ' mended .for, the French , Legion- sf Honors 1 . t ' j. i .- : ' "I do not feel that f am free to assume another rommand." ; General Menoher wrote to Qenerml Pershing on the eve of his transfer to the com mand of the lxth army aorps, "with out recording the services rendered by General Douglas MacArthur. These ' services, rendered constantly for over1 a year, and In the large part, amidst ; active .operations In the field - have i been so soundly, 'brilliantly and loy ally performed that In recognition of them I eee on fair appraisal of the . example of energy,' of 'courage and . I nt ftlrfn rtf whtlh flMAml UaniHhllli r n , , i , . , , , ' , ' , .,. , , , : 01 "icwncy wnicn uenerai saaoArinur Prince Recalls Conversations With the Hun Leader in Which the Intent of Wilhelm ' hf5-f!n 11: ivl? The to Plunge the World Into War Was Clearly Indicated-Albert Was Frequent Guest of Kaiser During Many Years of Intimacy, (CONTINUED ON I'AGE TWyO) HOOVER EMPHATICALLY REFUSES TO DISCUSS .PARIS, Dec. 7. Prince Albert of Monaco has given to The Associated Press a remarkable letter he lias ad- 'd reused to former Emperor William which promises to rival the notable revelations made by Prince Lk-linow-sky, German Bmbataador at London at the outbreak of war. The letter gives textually many con versations with the ex-emperor on his war projects. 1 he conversations cover 5 ears of close intimacy during which Prince Albert w.im a frequent guest of tbe emperor in Berlin. Recalling to the ex-emperor their conversations the prince, in part, says: "Although you said to trie one day that it was not your right to take a certain action which would have con served world peace, yet you told me on the yacht Meteor on June 28. 1914, in learning of the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, 'now i must do everything over again.' ' "History will' recognise In these manifestations of .your conscience the Truth of your responsibility , tot a deliberate war.' In an Interview bad with you oh the same yacht on the morning of the same day I noted cer tain points dlscloHing your real pur poses. Whun 1 aii.ld to you thut I believed the majority of the French supported the idea of a rapnroull ment with Germany, you answered me with unusual emphasis: 'res, but we must hurry or else It will be too late and other arrangements will he necesuary to establish the ponKiaa of the nations of Europe, Here mf :h,o Anglo-Huxons understanding their true Interests and trying to group themselves In Joint protection against the yellow races. Even this year President Wilson and Kngland have used diplomatic language. They under stand also that there is nothing to do with Germany than to Accept her as she is.' " Talked at length. After thus quoting the emperor's language,' Prince Afbert silil; ' "You afterward talked at length to convince me you had no bad sentl- tnent toward France or any one, and' you remarked to me that you might huve fallen upon Russia when she "' her war with .fupan, and upon France when DOO.ouO w ...u.tlifci-H were In hospitals.! When I answered you that France's pacific Intention were shown by the tendency to reduce her military forces, you had nothing more to say." The orlnce then relate a um.. tional conversation In which the em-' peror, pointing to a Britlshequadron I viiitlroj Kiel, foresaw the comlna of1 war. "The trsratformatlon of your men- tCONTWUEl ON PAG$ VOl.'R) , J BELIEVED PIGHON WAS j i iwn whTTUJiTnrrpiwrr mm iiui Mini in ! iiniiUL No . Decision - - Regarding Russia Has Been Defi-' nitely Made UP TO CONFERENCE ( CONTl NU BD ,)N' 1 'AQ & TWO) Two German OflBcials Ask Hearing On Food Question CAN GO TO HELL' WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. --Food Ad ministrator Ho'over. In F.m'cpe. ar ranging relief for the peoples of the war-devastated territories, has refus ed In emphatic terms to dismiss Ger man food conditions with 4,i von Der Incken and Dr. Pieth, who sought a meeting with the fool ad ministrator. A message from Paris today Mid these two German officials, who were prominent in the German administra tion of Belgium, wired from Heme to Walt-r I.yman Brown, director of the commission for relief in Re'aium, mat tney naa Deen appointed by the EAGLE BOATS WORTHY OF PERMANENT NAVAL USE Exceed All Requirements in Demonstrations To Fight U-Boats. NO THOUGHT OF REVENGE IN MINDS OF SOCIALISTS Only Wish to Germany, Herr berg Declares. Rebuild Lands- .WASHIXGTO.N, Dec. 27. Trials of 'PfllNCESSPAT"TOWED A BRITISH COMMANDER Engagement to Commander Alexander Ramsay Of ficially Announced. LONDON. Dec. 27. The court "The king has gladly consented to CONTINUKD ON PAGE TWO answer to the request for a confer ence. Mr. Hoover sent this message: "You can describe two and a half years of arrogance toward ourselves and cruelty to the Belgians In any language you may select, and tell the pair personally to go to hell with my compliments. If I do have to deal with Germans, tt will at b with that Mir.- PARIS. Dee. 27 fHavnsl Herr inn nojirn n:tve rnnvmte.i mtv 1 4-K..- v. rAnMM constructors that (he litt.'e raft turn'- ' Jority soclnlist mombers In the tier-, clr'ru,ar ,oniKht makes the following ru oui dj- me ruin piaiu i i'ew mi , nr-an relchstag. today made, a .deelara -1 sis lemeni to fight aubmarlnci are wor-hy of tak-: tion to the correspondent of the the fleet. "lTV Turned tay fh le would ev'com. l???mZl the betr"h'" PtHcla of official reports to toe navy department j jortv oClaiMs. whose only aim was Connaught to Commander Alexander giving full details of the trial show , t0 etabiHh order In the country and Ramsay, heh- to the Karl of Dal that In speed sea-worthiness and . rebulld Germany. houele " tnanueverlng ability the new boats ex- , ; ., noueie. j-j -n. i.- The members of the German gov-i " ' . M ... . ernfuent, Herr Landsberg added, be-! Princess Patricia of Connaught Is a An average sustained speed of 18.3 , ,,vd lt woul1 be erlmiMf to , ' dauhter of the Duke of nn..,iuf knots was mads by the boat used by .agt tne wl)J ot the people f oaugnier 01 tne Dune or Connaught, the navy experts In their tests The-Alga L ra who hlld been n-'r ffovernor-gf neral of Canada, vessel enowea no signs 01 oucniing tire,. r9$rnged by the execrable and a cousin of King George. She la """" - . i noiinoH or rna rnrmer rim in uer-i n .hay aifi a mA . Z . . '- w mil wvai aaiiw iVIlK WASHINGTON, Dec JT Govern ment officials here exprssied the be lief today that Stephen Ptchon, the FVench foreign minister, rvas voicing , his own opinion and not the politv of the French government when he said there would be no immediate in tervention in Russia y the allies . The Russian situation has 'been ths subject of earnest discussion by the representatives at Paris of the xn niated nations but so far as la known here none of the governments has put forward any definite plans. The un : derstandlng -here la that rhe whole subject will be left to the peace con- . ference. It was reiterated today that the al lied powers have no desire to -interfere with the internal affairs of Rue- . sla. - Additional reports of the chaotic i conditions in Bolshevik controlled Su- i ropmin Kussia reached the state d. partment today. One account said th loyal milllia of Kathohla and Livonia, - ! poorly equipped and with little or on training was in no conainon to wun-v stand, the attacks of the UolsbevlUL . Riga, IJeval and Limbach were report-- ed as crowded with refugees from the surrounding country. . . Advices reaching the state depart, j v ment today from Bucharest said ths , ; main force of the Bolshevik armj' in . Russia consisted of 500.001) Russian oldters, forced to Join the Bolsaevikiv because of fear of starvation, rovmer t ; lt already has been announced .thai I many. He aald these urovlnres were hn- fnvnrir. in Austro-Hungarlan prisoners of -war... most of the Ragles completed under j )st forever for (icrmany- and, al- Enrland the war conti-act will be utilised asj though It pained him very much to j Princess lunuuau. jsay it. he must admit the fact.- - - igarded ae the moat "popular of the vm. I Concerning the present eltuutlon tn younger memners or BriUsh royalty. - rATHM,l.(t Germany, Herr lndaberg declared: -She la described as a handnome , CLEVELAND, O.. Dec 27. In an that the danger of anarchy depended young woman with great spirit and effort to check the epidemic of crime j n great measure on the great ques-1 a keen sense of humor, that has resulted In fourteen murders j tlon of revictuallng. He added that' : Several times she has been reported and scores of hold-ups and robberies Bolshevism would never take root In . betrothed, but on eaoii occasion de In the past three -months, American . Oermany and that military reaction . nlals wsre made. ' Protective, league bperstives patrolled would not spread to any great ex - Alexander Robert Maule Ramsay is tj sapfe tAfitvht mmA mim iIms . mm,, . m eamsaajadar Ia the royal tuttrjr. ' has In i s "nnnjlA I Pk.Jk. k. hLJl "land 40.000 Chinese workmen The &,lo) men from the Uaikan province; Rubitn embassy received a report to-, day from the minister of foreign af-. fairs of the Russian government a : Omsk that Siberian troop command ed by General Pepellaeff captured the city of Perm, December H. 1 More than '.000 Bolshevist were taken prroner during the day' fight . Ing. the message aald, and av great , auantlty of booty oaytufweV ' . .

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