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Show 1 President Turns Atten-j tion to Large Amount j of Business on Ship. .CONVOY ON GUARD Press Representatives on Liner Send Out Of-1 ficiai Dispatches. ON BOARD j. S. S. GEORGE WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 (By Wire- lless to The Associated Press) President Pres-ident Wilson spent most of the firct day of the trip on the steamship working work-ing in the office of his suite. After acknowledging ac-knowledging from the bridge the greet-1 Ings that were given him as the ship , put to sea, he turned to the pile of letters and telegrams awaiting him and spent several hours working with ! his stenographers. j In the afternoon on the advice of his physician. Rear Admiral Carey T. Grayson, he lay down and rested fori a time because of a slight cold that was affecting his voice. . Later he received calls from officers; Ion hoard. InHiirlinn the Italian inrl French ambassadors. Following this he took a walk on deck with Mrs. Wilson. The presidential party dined quietly In the evening, being served by aj waiter who claimed to have attended Emperor William and the empress In jthe same suite on the trial trip of the j I George Washington. i j The reports that the presidential suite has been fitted up In a luxurious I manner are untrue. I i In the dining hall music was fur-1 nished by the ship's band and a quartette quar-tette of sailors. The president is keeping in touch with official business by wireless. The escorting destroyers, with the battleship Pennsylvania leading the column, are keeping In close touch with the steamship carrying the president. pres-ident. Mine sweepers are running before, the bow of his ship. They are loaded j with steel billets to insure their deep I draught. j The weather Is cold and misty, but the sea is calm. In the evening Mrs. Wilson released re-leased from the George Washington pigeons bearing notes of thanks to Vice Admiral Gleaves for the success of the arrangements made for the departure. de-parture. Representatives of The Associated Press, the United Press and the International In-ternational News Service are accompanying accom-panying President Wilson and party to j Europe aboard the U. S. S. George Washington. Arrangements were made In advance to permit the corres- 'pondents to send brief individual messages mes-sages by wireless, the first dispatches being released for simultaneous publication pub-lication at 11:30 a. m. eastern time today. to-day. LONDON, Dec. 5. (British .Wireless Service) The British newspapers, in publishing full reports of President Wilson's address to congress and news regarding his voyago abroad, have taken occasion to point out the British Bri-tish public's ever-growing appreciation apprecia-tion of what the American soldiers anil the American people as a whole have done in the war. "We would ask the Americans," snys the Times, "to beliove that the Al-I lied peoples .regard the coming of tho presidont in the snmo spirit in which ! they regarded the immense war cf-Ifort cf-Ifort of the United States and the decisive de-cisive contribution of its armed forces to tho common victory. If it bo a. sacrifice for the American people that! the president should come, It is a sacrifice sac-rifice which tho European Allies deeply deep-ly appreciate." The Manchester Guardian notes that "like all President Wilson's utterances, tho address Is finely and eloquently spoken." j "Well'Bpokon," it continues, speak-' Ing with pride of the splendid cour- j age and achievements of the American Ameri-can soldiers. ! "It is a great page iiuthe record of a great people. ThortT Is no example in history of such au effort under-taken under-taken with so complete absence of ma-I ma-I terial ambition or prospect of material gain in defense simply of national honor hon-or and of the larger interests of mankind. man-kind. Its immediate success has been swift aud decisive, but Its full fruits have yet to be gathered and tho president," pres-ident," in defiance of all traditions, in about to leave his own country n order or-der to lake part in the decisive conference con-ference of the Allies." oo |
