Secretary of State Lansing did not visit his office today, and he announced that no dispatches of importance were received during the day.

Dr. AN OK WESTMINSTER
IN CITIZEN OF PERISH
LONDON, December 25. - The dean of Westminster, the Right Rev. Herbert Edward Kyle, preaching in the Abbey today, said:
"It is our resolve, God helping us to overthrow military brigandage in Europe, to rescue the liberties and homes of the desolated cities, to obtain for these people reparation for their wrongs, and for humanity lasting securities against a recurrence of aggressive violence and crime.
"It is true that the President of the United States, after two years of study of the question and innumerable notes, seems to believe that the object of the two groups of belligerents is the same. He knows that Germany refused arbitration, declined a conference and rejected every overture to prevent war. He knows that his own countrymen have poured money like water to support." 