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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1918
Page
6
Madrid reports Count Romanones, Spain’s premier, returned satisfied after talks with French and American statesmen on Morocco’s question. Discussion covered both military and financial aspects and touched on the future status of Gibraltar.
A fragment notes that the matter of Gibraltar was said to have come up for consideration, indicating ongoing discussion or review without detailing parties, dates, or decisions.
In Barcelona last night clashes erupted between autonomy party factions and Spanish unity party supporters. A police lieutenant was shot and killed during the disturbances.
The Boston Sunday Post preview recounts General Pershing’s vast task of subduing the Moro tribes in the Philippines. H. F. Wheeler’s profile, The Real Life of General Pershing, promises many little known details in next week’s issue.
Cardinal O'Connell presided at a solemn high mass at Cathedral of the Holy Cross yesterday at 10 o'clock. Chaplains included Mgr. John B. Peterson, president of St. John's Ecclesiastical Seminary, Brighton, and Rev. Dr. Richard J. Haberlin.
The celebrant Rev. Augustine I. Hickey presided as seminary clergy, with Rev. M. J. Scanlan delivering the sermon. Cardinal bestowed papal blessing after a grand mass attended by thousands despite bad weather, with a 50-member seminarian choir directed by Rev. Dr. Joseph A. Murphy. Canonical procession and choral selections highlighted by Enrico Moriacchi's Tota pulchra es Maria.
Professor William Z Ripley of Harvard, named by Governor McCall for the Boston Elevated board, will confer with the Governor before deciding to accept the post. Illness delays the conference time. Ripley, a Rock Island railroad director and government representative in rate hearings, is regarded by friends as highly qualified. He stated he would prefer not to speak until after talks with the Governor.
Jazz music and dancing filled the Knights of Columbus Home in Berkeley Street as 2000 plus sailors and soldiers found holiday solace. Cardinal O Connell spoke, John B Neal did Santa, and 100 French sailors joined a midnight mass and breakfast after.
Four hundred twenty veterans of the Civil and Spanish wars at the Soldiers' Home in Chelsea enjoyed a Christmas Day with a roast turkey dinner and a Christmas gift each. Hospital wards had trees and the Ladies' Auxiliary distributed Christmas bags with diary pocket handkerchief card nuts and candy. An evening entertainment by DeRoss and Kathleen McAllister of Belmont followed.
On December 23 in New York Hoboken and New Jersey terminals over 1200 orphaned children and newsies were guests aboard the Leviathan. Sailors funded the event with 1500 crew and organized a full feast of 1200 pounds of turkey and pies. Santa Claus appeared as Chief Electrician Costello and gifts were distributed before film and puppet shows in the ship’s winter garden.
A Coblenz dispatch reports a German Democratic Party meeting urging a united liberal Germany including Austria. The platform calls for equality before the law for all, free press and speech, protection for large families, abolition of war industries, free peasants on free soil, government aid for war wounded and dependents, and sympathy from officials to ensure service. The party plans to stand in the national assembly.
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