President Wilson has made a great speech about his plans for the future peace of the world, he says America can have no voice in the peace terms but they can and will have a voice in the arrangements which are made after the war to stop further wars. He is a great man & I hope the allies will listen to him. Fortunately our leaders have more sense than the newspapers. I cannot quite understand what the president’s plans are, but he seems pleased with our answer to his note.

I see to day that further complications have arisen as some Americans have been made prisoners.

There are further details about the terrible explosion in London, so many houses were destroyed & a fearful loss of life. There seems to be a fear in the parish that John Langy & Johnnie Lang were working in that munition factory, they were working at Plumstead & that seems to be just where it was. Also Alfred Jordan was working there.