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Show PRESIDENT GREETS SOLDIERS 0. S. Commander-in-Chief Meets Husky Guard and Exchanges Xmas Greetings; Soldier Boys From Box Car and Tree Tops Cheer Their Executive; Pershing and French Officials Wei- j come Party to Chaumont; Leaves Tonight for; England; Big Celebration Starts in London To-, morrow; Returns to Paris on New Year's Day.j CHAUMONT, Dec. 25, by the Associated Press. i President Wilson reached here from Paris early this morning for his Christmas Day visit to the American troops. His i train was held outside the town for a time to accord with the i program of the local officials. At nine o'clock he entered ' Chaumont, as had been arranged. I The president played in luck again on the weather while J 1 it seemed to the visiting party to be cold and bleak and rain ' was apparently threatening, the American troops at headquarters head-quarters declared the day was really a fine one for this region at this season. i ; A guard of French and American troops received the I president at the station. General Pershing greeted him as he arrived in the city, as did the mayor and the prefect There ! j was a reception at the- city hall. The president's first contact with the American army in : the field quarters was when he found a soldier on guard out-j side his car. The strapping fellow who had been assigned for ' ' ' this duty saluted the president, who wished a merry Christmas ' , and made him the proudest soldier in France. All along the j latter part of the route into Chaumont, which was traversed by daylight, the troops were clustered on locomotives in the j ! yards, on top of box cars, on tree tops and on every point of j vantage, waiting to get a glimpse of their commander-in-chief and shout him a merry Christmas. i i PARIS. Tuesday, Dec. 24. L'lnlran-slgcant, L'lnlran-slgcant, describing President Wilson's shopping tour with Mrs. Wilson, says that the couple while strolling through : the crowded shopping center yestor-I yestor-I day lost their way and asked two lit-,! lit-,! tie boys where they were. The lads ?i gave the needed information and the 3 ono of tbom doffing his cap, astonished w the president by asking, "niiglu one j shako hands with Monsieur le President'" Presi-dent'" The president shook hands It with both boys heartily and wished them a Merry Christmas before proceeding pro-ceeding on his way. After calling on Premier Clemen-ceau Clemen-ceau the president had his first experience ex-perience with Parisian taxi drivers He went down town to continue hiE shopping, intending to walk home, but rain set in and ho was obliged to call ' a cab or taxi which in the present : ! crowded condition of the capital is r , complicated and often an exasperat-j exasperat-j ing experience, cabmen and taxi driv- ers generally being masters of the sit- S nation. President Wilson, however, ; though unrecognized, got through the : ordeal without difficulty. Late this afternoon President Wil- son conferred with members of the i American shipping board and then called on Premier Clemcnceau to say ' that he was going away for a week. . Mrs. "Wilson went down town during I, : the day to purchase cakes and -candy A which she sent for distribution among j Parisian orphan asylums. LONDON, Dec. 24. "The arrival of I President Wilson will be one of the I Krcatest events in our own and in I American history," says the Times in U nn article of welcome to England of h the American executive. l "He will come," the Times adds, 'at ft critical period in our history. Wo p have won the war, thanks in no small measure to American assistance. we K have now to win peace, and peaco M will not bo won for this country or the world unless it is based on the Mr warm, active friendship of the two M 't Engll&h -speaking, nations. II "History never repeats itself, least -H vse in ihe same form; but our slates-w slates-w men, American and British, now have ' 'he power to remake the destinies of I the English-speaking peoples; to real; re-al; mould them as they might have been moulded if the two nations had part-M part-M cd not in anger, but in unity and ) sood fellowship. There are many K bonds of fellowship between us, bul K.I next to common language is the joint Hi publication of our common law. We re attempting to turn aspirations and ( nematlonal Jurisprudence into genu-IK genu-IK ne operative International law and tc mt ondow it with functions like those o! 1: municipal laws. With the active good H ff?lowship or England and Amoricc IK 11 irnph cannot be done. We alone III -'I'oak th common idiom of law; wc only Tiave it in us to translate political ideals into the form of international 1 legislation, and only our cordial ; friendship can give this legislation i and sanction necessary to give it validity. va-lidity. "A league of nations is the ideal of i the English-speaking peoples, and it s is a libel, Iraceablo ultimately to the I enemy that we in England havo less ; enthusiasm for this ideal than they in America. ; "Jf President Wilson has a great, pupular following in Europe, it is be-causo be-causo he expressed this ideal of future fu-ture international relations with the greatest clearness and force. "In coming to us he is awakening . harmonies rich and deep enough to ; resolve into themselves all minor (Us-L (Us-L cords." I t LONDON. Dec. 24. The printed pro-1 pro-1 gram of .the ceremonial of the presi- dent's visit issued today from ihe lord chamberlain's office mainly confirms the details already published. The pres idential party will cross the channel on the steamer Brighton, escorted half way by four French destroyers, and the latter half to Dover by a British flotilla leader and six British destroyers. destroy-ers. Vice Admiral Keyes and the king's equerry, Sir Charles Cust, 'specially attached at-tached to President Wilson, will meet .the president at Calais and cross with the party At Dover the president will be met by the Duke of Connaught, Ambassador Ambassa-dor Davis and his staff, the Marquis of Camden, lord lieutenant of Kent. Earl Heading and Lord Herschell, also specially attached to the president. On arrivnl, salutes will be fired and a guard of honor mounted. The mayor and corporation will present an address ad-dress on the pier. The reception at Loudon will follow the plans already outlined. The orders to those engaged in the ceremonial are "service dress with swords will bo worn; otherwise morning dress." The suite in attendance on the president presi-dent includes Major General Biddle. Brigadier General Harts, Rear Admi-, Admi-, ral Grayson and Herbert C- Hoover. The processlou to Buckingham palace pal-ace will be made up as follows: First carriage, President Wilson. King George and the Duke of Qon-naught. Qon-naught. Second carriage, Mrs. Wilson, Queen Mary and Princess Mary. Third carriage, tho American ambas-I ambas-I sador, John W. Davis, lord in waiting to the queen and master of the horse. Fourth carriage, Major General Bid-i Bid-i die, Bear Admiral Grayson, Earl Bead- ing and Lord Herschell. I Fifth carriage, Brigadier General i Harts, Major Pierce and Sir Charles 5 Cusi. J On Thursday ailernoou the presi- dent and Mrs. Wilson will visit Dowager Dow-ager Queen Alexandria, the Duke - of Connaught and other members of the royal family, and in the evening will dine with King George and the" queen. Friday will be devoted, morning and afternoon, to conferences with the British ministers and luncheon with the premier, while in the evening a state banquet will be given at Buckingham Buck-ingham palace. The orders fo'- thiu arc: Evening dress, decoration'-:. Star and ribbon will be worn; service officers, offi-cers, service dress with swordts. On Saturday morning the president will receive addresses at the embassy. Then follows the function at the Guild hall. Here also service dress with swords will he worn; otherwise morning morn-ing dress. A sovereign's escort with standard will accompany the procession, while the streets will bo lined with troops and guards of honor will be mounted at the Guild hall and the Mansion house. PARIS. Dec. 21 (By the Associated Associat-ed Press) The aspirations of the Serbian government for tho future of its country, were explained tonight to LUC tVJI 1 I'DJJUIiUUUL W.1 Ll. ill. J.V. l-O- nitch, Serbian minister to France, who, in all probability, will bo one of the Serbian delegates to the peace conference. con-ference. M. Vesnitch was the head of the Serbian mission to the United States in the winter of 1917. Dr. Vesnitch said: "The Serbian peop'ie. composed of Croats, Slovenes, and Serbians living within tho boundaries of what hitherto hither-to has been called Serbia and in the former Austro-Hungarian empire, number about fifteen million. These are an ethnological whole and they elect to become one nation, under the principles laid down by President Wilson and accented by the covern- mdnts of Great Britain, France and Italy as conditions precedent to the armistices signed with Austria and Germany. "Approximately 70 per cent of our people are orthodox in religion, twenty twen-ty per cent Catholic and ten per cent protestant, Jewish or Mohammedan. As the Montenegrins havo decided to become a part of Greater Serbia we being of the same race, the frontiers of our country are Greece, Bulgaria, Rumania. Hungary and the Adriatic. That is our conception of the future Serbia as a racial whole the realization reali-zation of our race aspirations which have survived through centuries of war, division and suffering." "But what of the Italian claims to the Adriatic coast?" the'eorrespondent asked. "Italy," replied Dr. Vesnitch, "according "ac-cording to the convictions of the Serbian Ser-bian government has no just claim to the eastern Adriatic coast. The governments of Great Britain, Russia Rus-sia and Franco arranged by agreement agree-ment with Italy to give her that coast, or -a large part of it. at the London conference in April, 1915. Had Russia Rus-sia the right, to dispose of the Adriatic Adriat-ic coast? Or. England? Or France? They were each giving away what had n6t belonged to them. "We do not recognize the title ol Italy under that agreement tojmv pstrt of the eastern Adrlalfc." '" |