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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1918
Page
3
American forces publish rules to govern inhabitants under occupation by Gen. Pershing. Identifications, residency lists, and weapon surrender are required. Public gatherings are limited to courts schools councils and religious services with permission, else military courts will punish attacks or property damage.
New York December 29 President Frazee of the Boston club announced Edward G Barrow had signed a contract as manager of the world champion Red Sox for 1919.
London dispatch reports King George visiting President Wilson at Wilsons apartments at 10 o clock Saturday morning to wish him many happy returns of the day on President Wilsons sixty second birthday.
The British battleship Hercules returned to its home port after inspecting German naval bases air ship and seaplane stations under armistice terms. The voyage included Kiel canal passage on December 18 with destroyers Verdun and Viseroy. German ships were found neglected and discipline poor prompting orders to clear ships. The mission also surveyed land facilities revealing Germany’s interior conditions and crops. Admirals Goette Von Scheer and Von Ripper noted in retirement as Ludendorff hides. Seaplane stations were praised while Warnemunde faced entry obstruction during inspections. Submarine work at Hamburg and Bremen showed many U boats nearly complete and not previously declared.
The American transport Turrialha arrived in New York from France carrying 92 wounded officers and a cargo of explosives returned from the war zone.
A single Guinea butter bean grown in California provides enough food for a family. An example in the Los Angeles market measured nearly three feet in length with a nine inch circumference. Report says the pod offers excellent eating and resembles eggplant in flavor.
A London dispatch cites a returned observer’s warning that the Bolshevik government in Russia resembles a carpet bag regime, with Moscow dictating local Soviets and traveling commissars from abroad. The piece argues socialization would privilege workers only, dispossess property owners, and provoke armed intervention to enforce central Soviet will.
Private John W Kennedy of Company C 354th Infantry reports that the 11th field artillery fired eleven shots at the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month. He recalls a tense final bombardment twenty minutes before the armistice took effect with both sides shelling trenches. He notes the Americans fired the last shot in their sector as chaos peaked. He also describes an airplane raised to a great height using a dirigible.
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