WEATHER. Continued unsettled tonight and tomorrow. Temperature for twenty-four hours ending 2 p.m. today: Highest, 34, at 7 a.m. today; lowest, 23, at 7 a.m. today. Closing New York Stocks, Pace 12. WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1918?SIXTEEN PAGES. WAR RISK BUREAU CUTS 70,000 OFF DEPENDENTS' LIST Action Follows Investigation Showing Allotment Claims Are Unwarranted. EXPLAINS COMPLAINTS OF DELAY IN PAYMENT Charges That Mail Is Neglected and Employees Shown. Work Begun by Officials. Widespread complaints charging the bureau of war risk insurance with delays in paying allotments and family allowances to soldiers' dependents concern for the most part cases in which such payments have not been delayed, but have been cut off. It was learned today. In all more than 70,000 monthly allowances heretofore paid by the government have been suspended, following investigations which disclosed the fact that the alleged dependents were not actually dependent, or that the allotments and allowances far exceeded the amounts previously contributed by the enlisted men before they entered the service, the basis upon which the law requires that the allowances be paid. In the vast majority of cases, the eliminations are based on replies to questions made by the beneficiaries themselves. The government is not concerned with the amount a soldier sends to his family, but when he makes an allotment because of alleged dependency, and then claims a federal allowance to supplement that, it does draw the line if his claims are found to be unwarranted. It was explained that most of the cases disallowed after investigation disclose no attempt on the part of the men to defraud the government, but arose because of a misapprehension as to what constituted dependency under the war risk insurance act or from a misunderstanding of the law. Sample Case Is Cited. As an example, many young men had contributed previously to their families, but in many cases, that particular family was buying a house, paying for a piano or other furniture on the installment plan, and this money was often used for other purposes than their support. Such contributions were held not to have been for support. In many cases, contributions were made by young men living with their parents, but it was held that part of these contributions really went for board and lodging. The officials of the bureau are considerably concerned regarding certain charges which reflect not only on the conduct of the bureau, but upon the thousands of loyal, hardworking and faithful employees. Many of these employees came to Washington out of a patriotic sense of duty. They came to render a war service here, and they have rendered, under very trying conditions, most faithful and efficient service, was stated. One of the statements which has had wide publicity was to the effect that most of the 14,000 employees of the bureau did not average a real day's work a week. Another statement was that members of the night force of the bureau were accustomed to report at 6 o'clock and then go away to the theater or movies practically at will. Officials state that these charges are wholly without foundation, and that they are an unwarranted slur upon the patriotic employees of the bureau. Absences Are Necessary. A time system is used at the bureau's buildings, by which tardiness and absences are recorded. The night force is checked up just as accurately as the day force, and none is permitted to leave without his name being recorded and his absence being noted and charged up against him. Members of the day force have worked overtime on many occasions. Some of them have had no leave of absence whatever. While the law contemplates ordinarily thirty days' leave of absence for employees, no employees of the bureau have been allowed more than two weeks' leave. As a sample of the generous and whole-hearted support of the employees, it was pointed out that just before Christmas there were 200 applications from clerks who had Leave coming to them to go home for the holidays. These clerks were appealed to to withdraw these applications because of the heavy pressure of the bureau's work, and 95 percent of them did so, in spite of the fact that they lost any claim upon the leave coming to them after December 31. Such instances might be cited as one group of employees, consisting of several hundred, who worked continuously not only all of the regular day, but all the next night, and many of them were on service until 2 and 3 o'clock the next day, a few of them for thirty-six hours continuously, with only time out for meals. No Mail Left Unopened. Another charge which has been given wide publicity throughout the country was that there were 300,000 letters in the bureau, and that many of them had not been opened. This charge is declared to be without foundation. Letters are not allowed in the unopened in any case more than a few hours after they reach the bureau. The correspondence problem of the bureau has been one of its most difficult ones to handle, and largely because of the difficulty of identifying the enlisted men about whom people are writing. The daily mail now is running between 40,000 and 48,000 letters daily, and including discharge notices and applications the mail sometimes exceeds 100,000 pieces a day. It is admitted, and was announced at the time, that there was a delay in sending out September and October checks. This was due to the influenza, which affected the bureau employees more seriously than many other government offices. In the disbursing office there were about 70 percent of the employees away on account of illness for a time. An additional difficulty was experienced with the addressograph ma. Hines, which was explained by the shortage of good materials and the lack of skilled mechanics, which seriously interfered with the quality of the machinery and plates used. In this connection, there were letters unanswered. They concerned complaints of the tardiness of the September and October checks. Instead of taking posters to announce Irish republics. The central Sinn Fein council, calling itself the Irish Parliament, will meet in Dublin. LONDON, December 28.?Posters will appear in every parish in Ireland today announcing that the Irish republic has come into being, says the Express. The newspaper adds that the Sinn Feiners in the recent election swept Leinster, Munster, and Connaught. Seventy members of parliament were elected by the party, but they will not take their seats. It is stated by the Express that a central Sinn Fein council will be established in Dublin almost immediately and will call itself the Irish parliament. If the government orders its disbandment, it is stated, it will establish itself elsewhere, and, if necessary, move from place to place. BRIWHER GETS BY GAMBLING INDICATIONS Point to Overwhelming Indorsement of Government Policy. RESULTS OF ELECTION By the Associated Press. LONDON, December 23.?All indications at 2 a.m. today were that Premier Lloyd George and his government would have an overwhelming majority in the new house of commons. Of the 353 members whose elections had been announced so far not less than 274 support the government. The new house will have 707 members. Of the members already elected 198 are coal. In union unions, unionists and seventy-six are coalition liberals. The independent unionists have elected eight members and the Asquithian liberals only five. Labor has thirty-five members, the Irish nationalists one, the Sinn Feiners twenty-six, and there are four independents. It is probable, therefore, that the laborites will be the second strongest party in the house, as the Sinn Feiners will refrain from attendance at Westminster. The laborites, however, have lost two of their most prominent leaders in the defeat of Arthur Henderson and Philip Snowden. Of the fourteen woman candidates, only five so far know their fate, and they all have been defeated. Premier Is He-Elected. David Lloyd George, prime minister and leader of the coalition government, has been re-elected to his seat in parliament from Carnarvon, Wales. The premier, who stood as a coalition liberal, received 13,993 votes to 1,095 for Austin Harrison, son of Frederic Harrison, the writer. Mr. Harrison was an independent candidate. Asquith Suffers Defeat. The Asquith section of the liberals received a severe blow in the defeat, not only of the former premier himself, but of Sir John Simon, who was considered the probable heir to the leadership, and Reginald McKenna, a Scottish leader. The former premier was defeated by Col. Sir Alexander Sprot, a Scottish leader, who has served four years with the British army in France. On two previous occasions Sir Alexander had been defeated by Mr. Asquith. The vote was: Sir Alexander Sprot, unionist, 8,996; H.H. Asquith, liberal, 6,994; W.P. Morgan, independent, 591. Sir Eric Geddes a Winner. In Cambridge, Sir Eric Geddes, first lord of the admiralty, coalition unionist, defeated the Rev. T. R. Williams, laborite, 11,553 to 3,784. Sir Albert Stanley, president of the board of trade, was re-elected for Ashton-Under-Lyne. He received 10,260 votes against 7,334 for T. F. Lister, candidate of the national federation of discharged soldiers and sailors. At Blackburn, Philip Snowden, laborite and pacifist, was defeated. The result there was: Sir Henry Norman, coalition liberal, 32,076; Lieutenant Commander Dean, coalition unionist, 30,158, and Philip Snowden, 15,274. Blackburn has two seats. Defeat of Arthur Henderson. Arthur Henderson, leader of the British labor party and former member of the war cabinet, has been defeated for re-election from the south district of East Ham. The vote there was Clem Edwards, coalition liberal 7,972; Frank Hamlett, unionist, 5,661; Arthur Henderson, labor, 5,024. AID TO VIENNA HUNGRY Swiss Government Begins Shipment of Foodstuffs for Relief of Civilian Population. The Swiss government today began the shipment of more than 1,000 tons of foodstuffs to Vienna for the relief of the civil population, with the cooperation of Dr. Alonzo Taylor, Herbert Hoover's representative in southern Europe. Word to this effect was received by cable today by Dr. Hans Sulzer, the Swiss minister. The emergency shipment consists of 600 tons of flour, 400 tons of rice, and sixty tons of milk and chocolate, to make up which the Swiss population sacrifices a part of its own food card. Dr. Taylor is now making his headquarters at Bern. The cable indicated that the Swiss government will cooperate fully in assisting in the revictualing of the Austrian civil population. U. S. AIR SERVICE LOSSES. The summary of casualties in the American air service in France, as announced by the War Department today, shows that 150 commissioned officers of this service were killed in action in 1918. Of this number, three officers were residents of Washington, namely Second Lieutenant James E. Bowyer, 135th Squadron, of 3410 15th Street; First Lieutenant Harris E. Petree, 22d Squadron. of 133½ Euclid Street, and First Lieutenant George V. Selbold, 148th Squadron, of IM Rock Creek Church Road. NATIONS AGREED ON ALL PRINCIPLES, SAYSAOELEGATE Declares in Paris That Differing Viewpoints Have Been Reconciled. OPTIMISTIC VIEW IS NOW TAKE OF COMING PARLEY Several Difficult Questions May Be Left Over for Future Arbitration. By the Associated Press. PARIS, December 28.?One of the most prominent delegates to the peace conference now in Paris, said today that the exchanges of the last few days had resulted in an agreement on the principles of virtually all questions, including the reconciling of different viewpoints on the question of freedom of the seas. Premier Clemenceau, it is reported, has informed his intimate friends that his three conferences with President Wilson and Col. House have resulted in a complete understanding. As the result of these reports, peace delegation circles take a much more optimistic view of the outlook of the peace congress than they did a week ago. Members of the American delegation attach significance to the President's conferences with Premier Lloyd George and Secretary Balfour and to his speech at Buckingham Palace last night. Some Questions Kay Go Over. In conference circles, the opinion prevails that several difficult questions which will come before the allies at some time during the peace conference may be left over for arbitration after an agreement has been reached as to a league of nations. One of these questions may be the future status of Luxembourg. One party there desires the re- establishment of the grand duchy. Another favors the proclamation of a republic. ! A third advocates annexation to France, while still another prefers annexation to Belgium. The same course may be followed concerning differences between the Italians and Jugo-Slavs as to a division of territory on the eastern shore of the Adriatic. A question which attracts attention is the future of Serbia, where there is a conflict of several European influences. Cardinal Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster, went to Serbia recently and before leaving Rome had a long interview with Pope Benedict. An Anglican bishop also has visited Serbia, it is reported. Pledges Labor's Support. LONDON, December 27.?In a letter written to Lord Robert Cecil, who will be the British representative in charge of all questions affecting the I proposed league of nations at the ; peace conference. J. H. Thomas, secrej tary of the National Union of Rail! waymen, declared that no section of ! the people in this country would give I more hearty co-operation and support | in his efforts to establish a league of I nations than those in the labor move j incut. In reply, Lord Robert pointed out I tuat such a league would be more than | an agency for preventing war. It | would have to consider, he said, the problem of the reduction of armaments, It must protect smaller states, it must safeguard the races that are yet unable to protect themselves and it must act as the guardian of places of international Importance. Poducts essential to the welfare and prosperity of mankind, he : declared, must be made available for all. Lord Robert said that such a league must revise obsolete treaties, and in i his opinion, regulate traffic by air and sea, sanitation, and even labor conditions. He added: "For this policy to be successfully inaugurated, we shall require not an ordinary peace treaty, but a settlement every line of which is inspired by the league of nations' spirit." MORE SOLDIERS RETURN; GREETINGS BY WIRELESS Capt. Harrigan, Famous Comedian's Son, and Among Rescuers of Lost Battalion, Wounded. NEW YORK, December 28.?The American transport Turrialba, with ninety-two wounded officers, arrived here today from France. She brought a return cargo of explosives. The officers include Capt. William Harrigan, son of the late Edward Harrigan, comedian. Capt. Harrigan was wounded by a machine gun bullet while leading one of the detachments which went to the rescue of Col. Whittlesey's "lost battalion" in the Argonne forest. In a wireless message received today by the Associated Press from the American steamship Lake Huron, now on her way from Kircaidy to Norfolk, the officers and enlisted men extend their relatives and friends Christmas and New Year greetings. The transport General Gorgas, which left Bordeaux December 13, arrived here yesterday with fourteen officers, seven enlisted men and twenty-two civilians. As the ship was loaded with returned ammunition, she anchored in Gravesend bay and the passengers were brought ashore in boats. BOLSHEVIK, WARSHIPS TAKEN British Capture Two Destroyers, One Bombarding Lighthouses. LONDON, December 27.?The British warship Calypso has captured two bolshevik destroyers in the eastern Baltic, according to an official report. Official report from the admiralty today. One of the destroyers was engaged in bombarding lighthouses in the vicinity of RevaL The officers and men on board the destroyers were made prisoner. No casualties occurred on the Calypso, according to the reports reaching the admiralty. The Calypso was commanded by Cut. Bertram S. Theslger. SEES NO EARLY DROP IN THE HIGH PRICES A. C. Miller Says Expansions Due to War Must First Be Eliminated. LOSS IN POWER OF GOLD By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va., December 28.? High prices will prevail until the expansion of currency and credit resulting from the buying of war securities on credit has been eliminated and until the volume of credit and currency has been reduced to an equality with the needs of industry and trade, declared A. C. Miller, a member of the federal reserve board, speaking today at a session of the annual convention here of the American Economic Association. Gold Loses Purchasing Power. Tested by price levels in the leading markets, gold has lost about one half its purchasing power since the beginning of the war in 1914, said Mr. Miller. Gold as a standard of exchange has fallen in its purchasing power, he said, because it has shared the fate of paper currency from rising prices, which, on a wholesale basis, are up about 100 percent in the countries where the gold standard still obtains. "Gold will not recover its lost purchasing power until prices decline," Mr. Miller said. "Financial, credit and business relationships which have been thrown into confusion by reason of the rise in prices will not be straightened out until the price situation is rectified. But the price situation will not be rectified until the expansion of our currency and credit attributable to the buying of war securities on credit has been eliminated and the volume of credit and currency has once more been brought back to a normal economic volume? That is to say, a volume corresponding To the needs of Industry and trade for the production and exchange of goods at normal values. Should Lift Embargo. "The embargo laid by this country during the war on gold shipments, Mr. Miller said, should be lifted at the earliest practicable moment or "as soon as our international financial relationships are such that we are no longer under the necessity of taking care of adverse balances of the nations with which we have been associated in the war arising out of their trade with neutral countries." Other Speakers and Themes. Roger W. Babson of the United States Department of Labor addressed the association this morning on the subject. "Stabilizing the Dollar, urging that the dollar be based on 200 commodities instead of gold. Senator Robert L. Wen of Oklahoma also spoke on the subject of the dollar. Irving Fisher of Yale University presided. Mr. Babson said the present dollar is a "fake" dollar. He said the plan to base the dollar on certain commodities is just as feasible as any system. The world's productivity since the European war started increased 20 percent, but the purchasing power of the dollar decreased, contended the speaker. Mr. Babson's Address. Mr. Babson spoke, in part, as follows: "For thousands of years people thought that the sun went around the world. At last this is no longer believed. But people still think that high prices are due to a scarcity of goods instead of the depreciation of the dollar. "The real crime of plutocracy is not that a few men today control the coal, iron, timber and other raw materials, but that they control the purchasing power of the dollar with which you and I have to buy everything of them. Moreover, they are continually cutting down this purchasing power by depreciating gold." Grow Tired of Treadmill. "The people have trod the treadmill about as long as they will. The masses will not be bled forever by the present. Take dollar. Either we must voluntarily change the dollar of today for a real dollar based upon what we eat, wear and sleep, or else we will encourage the bolsheviks to carry on their damnable work until we have no dollars at all." Dr. Royal Meeker of Washington spoke in advocacy of government insurance. He favored an automatic insurance so that everybody would be protected. He said that 100,000,000 persons in America can be insured for what the present policy holders in this country are paying under the competitive system. President Wilson is sixty-two years old today. Born in a humble parsonage at Staunton, Va, today he is in Europe conferring with the heads of the world's great nations to formulate a peace treaty which will rank with the world's greatest historical documents, alongside the Magna Charta, the Declaration of Independence and the emancipation proclamation. While in England he will visit the birthplace of his mother. Just before he left Washington it was said that, despite the momentous problems he has faced for four years, he never was in better physical condition. When he entered the White House he was pale, lacking in endurance and suffering from a chronic stomach disorder. Under a strict physical exercise and diet program, prescribed by Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, his physician, the President now is robust, red-cheeked and shows remarkable vitality in the execution of a vast amount of work. Cabinet members sent birthday greetings to President Wilson in London through the daily cable and wireless service maintained by Secretary Tumulty. TO RECEIVE D. S. MEDALS FOR WAR WORKMEN Secretary Baker Approves Awards of Decorations Recommended by Gen. March. Upon recommendation of Gen. March, it was announced today, distinguished service medals will be awarded to the following general officers for services rendered at home during the war: Maj. Gen. William M. Black, chief of engineers, for planning and administering the military railroad service. Maj. Gen. Enoch H. Crowder, for preparing and operating the draft laws, as provost marshal general. Maj. Gen. George W. Goethals, retired, for reorganizing the quartermaster department and organizing and administering the division of supplies, purchase and storage of the general staff. Maj. Gen. William C. Gorgas, retired, for organizing and administering the medical department as surgeon general. Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, organizing and administering the embarkation service. Brig. Gen. Henry Jervey, general staff, for directing the division of operations, general staff, which had charge of the mobilization of personnel. These recommendations have been approved by Secretary Baker. Formal award of decorations will be made at a date to be announced later. Gen. March pointed out that the names as announced were arranged alphabetically and indicated no distinction between the officers recognized. WILSON'S UP-TO-DATE Solon Making Flight in Airplane From Washington to New York. Senator Wesley L. Jones of Washington left here in An airplane at 1 o'clock this morning for New York. Senator Jones, who is an enthusiast, has taken a number of flights in airplanes. He left Boiling Field in a De Haviland two-seater. The pilot is Lieut. Logg of Seattle, one of the instructors at Boiling Field. The airplane was fitted with a liberty motor. Senator Jones has been quietly planning this trip for some time, and as soon as the necessary formalities were put through the day was set for the flight. He was scheduled to land at Mineola Field. Creel Has Hot Resigned. PARIS, December 28.?George Creel, chairman of the committee on public information, said today that he had not resigned. He said he was busy winding up the affairs of the committee and when that work was finished his appointment naturally would end. CL W AMr HUH COUNCIL ASKED TO ACT IN CRISIS Radical Elements May Put Ledebour and Liebknecht in Control at Berlin. EBERT BELIEVED DOOMED By the Associated Press. BERLIN, Friday, December 27.?While the government continues to delay the existence of a crisis, developments appear to be rapidly approaching the point where the Ebert, Haasa cabinet will no longer be able to assert its authority. The Berlin newspapers reflect the apprehension pervading all circles. The Vossische Zeitung, for instance, says that the six men who sign for the government are no longer the government, and it calls upon the newly created central council of soldiers and workers to assume the responsibility. Crux of Situation. A fatal to pin hopes to the national assembly as a constituent body or as one which could repair the damage now threatening. The Lokal Xnzeiger believes that the crux of the situation is to be found in the struggle between the independent socialists and the Spartacus group for control in order. To prevent the meeting of the national assembly, it points to the probability of a repetition of the events of November 9 with the result that the radicals might constitute a new government dominated by Georg Ledebour and Dr. Karl Liebknecht. The Frieheit, the organ of the independent socialists, declares that the position of the cabinet is critical and that it is not likely to survive in its present make-up. The Täeglische Rundschau says it is highly uncertain if Ebert and Scheidemann will be able to save the situation for themselves. According to a Copenhagen dispatch of Friday night, the workmen's and soldiers' central council has been summoned to meet with a view to reconstructing the government in Berlin. This report was contained in a Berlin dispatch to the Copenhagen Berlingske Tidende. "Only Aim Is to Rebuild." PARIS, December 27 (Havas). Herr Landsberg, one of the former majority socialist members in the German Reichstag, today made a declaration to the correspondent of the Temps at Bern that no thought of revenge would ever come to the majority socialists, whose only aim was to establish order in the country and rebuild Germany. The members of the German government, Herr Landsberg added, believed it would be criminal to go against the will of the people of Alsace-Lorraine, who had been entirely estranged by the execrable politics of the former regime in Germany. He said these provinces were lost forever for Germany, and although it was certain that very much to say it, he must admit the fact. Concerning the present situation in Germany, Herr Landsberg declared that the danger of anarchy depended in great measure on the great question of revictualing. He added that Bolshevism would never take root in Germany and that military reaction would not spread to any great extent. Propose Federal Republic. GENEVA, December 27 (Havas). Reports received from Germany indicate that the present government there is to constitute a federal republic on virtually the same plan as the United States. There would be a congress, composed of two chambers, a volkshaus, or popular chamber, which would be the chamber of representatives, and a stadtenhaus, or chamber of states, which would take the part of a senate. The president would be elected by the people and would not be responsible before congress. The border states would be completely modified, the privileges of the nobility abolished, and Germany would annex German Austria. The final lap of long flight. Army Air Squadron Starts From DAYTON, Fla., December 28.?The Army aviation squadron which crossed the continent from San Diego, Cal., to Jacksonville left here today for Washington, accompanied by four more airplanes which joined them at Arcadia, Fla., for the final lap of the long flight. The machines, commanded by Maj. Albert D. Smith, arrived last night from Arcadia and spent the night here. Maj. Smith said before leaving today that he had not decided on his first stop between here and Washington. OVERWHELMI AS TRUSTEE! PEACE, PRES In Guild Hall Addresses Soldiers Fought of the Peace by Agreement IS NOW SOUGE American Executive's Speech Inte That His Conferences Have His Viewpoint? By the Associated Press. LONDON, December 26. — The speech of Hall at a ceremonious gathering was given statesmen, President Wilson, there must no longer be a balance in the peace of the world, but that the peace of the world would be a peace. In the course of his speech, he said, "The old order, he said, had for years called the balance of power, determined that this sort of thing should end now and forever." The suggestion for a concert of power to renounce the balance of power, he remarked, was coming now from every quarter and from every sort of mind. The concert to come, he declared, must not be a balance of power or one powerful group of nations set off against another, but "a single, overwhelming, powerful group of nations which shall be the trustees of the peace of the world." The minds of the leaders of the British government, the President said, were moving along the same lines as his own, and their thought had been that the key to the peace was the guarantee of it and not the items of it. The aims of it, he added, would be worthless unless a concert of power stood behind them. Such Union Unprecedented. No such potent union of purpose had ever been seen in the world before, he said, as that which now demanded a concert of power to preserve the world's peace. Whereas it had been the thought of closed students and academic men, he now found the practical minds of the world determined. To get it. "I am particularly happy that the ground has been cleared and the foundations laid." he continued, "because we have already accepted the same body principles. Those principles are clearly and definitely enough stated to make their application a matter which should afford no fundamental difficulty. "The peoples of the world want peace, and want it now, not merely by the conquest of arms but by agreement of mind." Such an achievement the President characterized as this great may not say final, enterprise of humanity. Address Key to Conference. There had been a hint that the President's address would be the key to the conferences he has been holding with British statesmen, and the address as it was delivered today was interpreted in American quarters as confirming the previous intimations that these conferences had been satisfactory from the President's viewpoint. At the outset of his address President Wilson declared he did not fancy that the welcome of Paris and London to him was purely personal, but rather that the voices of the people were expressing not only emotions of gratification that the fighting had ceased, but also their conception that the peace to be made must guarantee that the war could not be repeated. "It now rests upon others to see that those lives were not lost in vain," the President added. The President concluded his address amid a great demonstration, and then proceeded to the luncheon at the Mansion House with the lord mayor. Record Reception. The oldest observer in the Guild Hall today declared no reception ever accorded any dignitary there approached in spontaneity and volume that which greeted the President's appearance and the address which followed. As the President left the Guild Hall after his address the crowd in the yard took up the cheers that had been echoing within the building. The President, with Mrs. Wilson, entered their carriage and as they drove off through the lanes of boisterous and hat and handkerchief waving throngs, some one proposed "three cheers for Wilson." They were given with such a will that the President smiled delightedly and rose and bowed again and again. The distinguished government and other officials received by the lord mayor before the President's arrival included Premier Lloyd George. Field Marshal Haig. Foreign Secretary Balfour, Admiral Sims, former Premier Asquith. Andrew Bonar Law, the chancellor of the exchequer, and the ambassadors of the principal allied governments. After President Wilson's arrival all were grouped on the dais, the lord mayor in the center and President Wilson on his right, next to the Duke of Connaught The Royal Artillery Band in the gkllery played American airs, ushering President Wilson in with the "Star Spangled Banner." King George Felicitates Mr. Wilson on Birthday at London's "President's Day" LONDON, December 28.?This Is President's day In the city of London. King? George called at President Wilson's apartments at 10 o'clock this morning and wished him many happy returns of the day. It was President Wilson's birthday?his sixty-second. The first two chapters of President Wilson's English visit have been devoted to meetings and functions with royal and political personages of the government circle. The scene shifts today to the somber old precincts of the Guild Hall and the Mansion House, set la *1" mHirt rif'liti wrt Vti/irhfiiti'i ^ nt i yie'' ... NG GROUP 5 OF WORLD IDENT'S VIEW ;ss Mr. Wilson Says o End Old Order kings. In the midst of mind, it is by all people, presented as confirming intimations have been satisfactory from the great Oration. Speaking today in the historic Guild of Great Britain's most distinguished regard, he reaffirmed his principle that the power which might unsettle the future must produce a complete revolution. The President declared the soldiers' order and establish a new one, its center the "unstable thing" claimed by competitive interests, nationalism of interests. Commercial precincts, which are the heart of Britain's strength. In the Guild Hall, an address of welcome was presented to the President on behalf of the city in the presence of a company of more than a thousand representatives of the government and of finance and of commerce. Afterward, the President was entertained at luncheon by the lord mayor and the corporation of the city—a function which was attended by 300 guests, with the business element predominating. Honored other presidents. Of American presidents, Grant and Roosevelt, after their respective administrations, have received honors at the Guild Hall, while the eloquence of a long line of American diplomats, such men as John Hay, Thomas W. Bayard, Joseph H. Choate, Whitelaw Reid, and the late Ambassador Page, have been heard in the Mansion House. A number of European rulers and statesmen have been entertained in both places. Today's event in the city had a double interest through the appearance there of the first American President to come during the term of his office, and a general belief that he would make a pronouncement of political and international importance. Troops Starch to Positions. "While the President this morning was receiving addresses from deputations representing a number of societies and church organizations at the American embassy, khaki-clad troops were marching toward the city and distributing themselves along the route, while the gilded coaches of city functionaries were bringing the aldermen and the sheriffs in their robes of office to the Guild Hall. The procession had the same features as that on the occasion of the President's entrance into London. There was the same escort of household cavalry outriders in scarlet livery, but there were only three semi-state landaus instead of five as before. The guard of honor from the famous ancient artillery company was drawn up before the Guild Hall, where the Duke of Connaught was the first important guest to arrive. The presidential party was received at the entrance by the lord mayor, Sir Horace Marshall, the lady mayor and the sheriff and members of the reception committee. Yard a Gorgeous Bower. The Guild Ball yard was transformed into a gorgeous bower of pennants and flags of the associated governments, among which the Stars and Stripes predominated. From the spire floated the great white and red flag of the city of London. The daughter of the lord mayor presented Mrs. Wilson with a bouquet as she arrived, and the President inspected the guard of honor." The procession then formed and passed into the Guild Hall. It made a fine show of color with the crimson and black and gold of the city officials' regalia. First came the marshals and the undersheriffs and the members of the commons on the reception committee, chairmen of the committee; the town clerk, the sheriffs, the aldermen, the recorder and the President's suite. It passed through the south court vestibule, and the President was ushered into the banquet hall, already crowded with guests. The spacious, lofty room, whose oaken walls were darkened by time afforded a rich background for the glowing guilt of the decorations emblazoned on the Gothic arches of the ceiling. High up on the walls hung the cherished battle banners of the famous London regiment, and below them at intervals there were draped for the occasion the flags of the United States and of England. Informal Program at Luncheon. The program of the Mansion House luncheon was comparatively informal, except for the toasts. When the aged master of ceremonies, in city livery and standing behind the lord mayor's chair, proclaimed "Your royal highness (addressing the Duke of Connaught), my lords, your excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, I pray silence for the President of the United States" there was a burst of hearty although decorous enthusiasm, with handclapping, waving of napkins and beating of tables. The President's speech was in a lighter vein with a personal touch. He described himself not as a coldtalking machine, but with something of Scotch caution, tempered by a liking for insurgencies which could have no other than Celtic origin. His explanation of the breaking of precedent in coming to Europe because he thought consultation was a 'duty above all others, was applauded, as was his quotation from Charles Lamb that one could not hate a man whom he knew. The President spoke without a touch of embarrassment or hesitation. His only gesture was when he spoke of the shadow of grief which had been lifted from the world. Declines Northampton's Invitation LONDON, December 27.?In decliniag an invitation of the mayor of North- i (Continued on Second Passes "" J * M . l. . -,v . - vaJftb*:' "-i In T M. 