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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY DAYBREST BREST France December 11 The United States steamer George Washington with President Wilson and party aboard changed its course after leaving the Azores and will arrive in Brest in advance of the time announced according to a naval wire ¬ less dispatch received today The president now is expected to reach Brest at 10 oclock Friday morn ¬ ing instead of 3 oclock in the afternoon He will depart for Paris at 4 oclock in the iflternoon iflternoonNEW NEW YORK December 11 President Timothy S Williams and four other officials of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company were ordered held today on charges of manslaughter by Mayor John F Hy land as a result of the mayors investigation into the recent wreck on the Brooklyn Uanid Transit in which ninetyfive persons were killed and 200 in ¬ jured juredBRISTOL BRISTOL England December 11 The navy is a defensive weapon and that is why we do not intend to give it up declared Premier David Lloyd George in an address here today in which he announced that the conscript armies of the continent must end if we want permanent peace We propose to demand the whole cost of the war from Germany the British premier added addedLONDON LONDON December 11 President Wilson ac ¬ cording to the Daily Express has informed the British government that his freedom of the seas proposals would not include abandonment of Britains right of search at sea the law of contraband or abandonment of the enforcement of blockades if the program for a league of nations Is not successful successfulWASHINGTON WASHINGTON December 11 General weather forecast Generally fair weather is indicated for this forecast district for the next two or three days with the exception of some precipitation in the northern Rocky Mountain region The tempera ¬ ture will continue moderate for the season for several days as there is no cold weather in sight sightPARIS PARIS France December 11 Marshal Foch has refused the request of the German armistice dele ¬ gates that they be permitted to communicate with the provinces west of the Rhine now being occupied bv the allies The coniinanderinchief declared that it was necessary to maintain the blockade of Ger ¬ many as provided by the armistice armisticeWASHINGTON WASHINGTON D C December 11 Immediate enactment of legislation lo protect American in ¬ dustries from Josses in the present sweeping can cellution of all war contracts will bo urged on Congress by Bernard M Rariich resigned chairman of the War Industries Board lie announced this afternoon afternoonNEW NEW YORK December 11 The American liner Kroonlarid from Brest with 1349 soldiers civilians and nurses on board docked at her pier today here She brought 704 wounded and sick soldiers thirtytwo bedridden thirtyfive tubercular and t 37 requiring special attention attentionLONDON LONDON December 11 Russian troops support ¬ ing the Omsk government attacked and dispersed a Bolshevik brigade that was descending upon Ekaterinburg capturing 1000 prisoners said an Omsk dispatch to the Times today Much material was taken also alsoPARIS PARIS December 11 The reported decision of the British to ask abandonment of compulsory mili ¬ tary service in Europe as a peace condition is the first definite move toward the limitation of arma ¬ ment It has aroused interest but no official comment here LONDON December 11 If Frederick Ebert re ¬ mains another week a German chancellor the ex kaiser can return safely charged Dr Karl Lieb knecht leader of the German extremists in a speech at Berlin according to an Amsterdam dispatch to the Daily Express ExpressGENEVA GENEVA December 11 Another counterrevo ¬ lution in Germany is being plotted by former Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria aud other German officials at Chiir Switzerland it was reported from that place today todayWASHINGTON WASHINGTON D C December 11 Air mail service between New York Cleveland and Chicago will be inaugurated Wednesday December 18 Post ¬ masterGeneral Burieson announced this afternoon afternoonNEW NEW YORK December 11 The New York Cen ¬ tral Railroad Company today declared the usual quarterly dividend of one and onequarter per cent payable February 1 to holders of record January 3 3PARIS PARIS December 11 German parliamentarians arrived at Treves today to arrange for an extension of the linriistice Treves is now held by American troops It is in western Prussia PrussiaBOSTON BOSTON December 11 Amid a perfect bedlam of noise the big White Star liner Canopic bringing home fiftyfour officers and 1067 men came up the harbor early today todayWASHINGTON WASHINGTON December 11 Reports of in ¬ creasing ravages of influenza are being received from all parts of the country
