Germany Likely to Accept Peace if Plebiscite and League Vote
Berlin reports that Germany’s reply to terms hinges on allied agreement to a plebiscite in disputed territories and Germany’s equal vote in the League of Nations. The reply urges a 100000 man army on a peace footing with a transition force, and favors self determination while demanding League-based adjustments of economic issues.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Germany
League of Nations
Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau
Germa
Austria
World League
Transatlantic flight finally America's prize
London greets Harry Hawker and Lieut. Commander Mackenzie Grieve after their troubled transatlantic crossing from Northern Scotland. Crowds line routes to the Aero Club as mayors and Sopwith workers join in welcome. Hawker says another attempt depends on Sopwith.
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Associated Press
London
Harry G. Hawker
Mackenzie Grieve
Scotland
Aero Club
Hawker
Grieve
St. Pancras
Royal Aero Club
Brancker
Duke of Atholl
Sopwith Works
Atlantic
Allied council replies to Renner on terms timing
The allied council has sent a reply to Dr. Renner head of the Austrian delegation regarding the delay in presenting the peace terms. The Austrian delegation understands the reply sets formal notice for presenting the terms on Friday.
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Associated Press
St. Germain
Allied Council
Dr. Renner
Germans to Send Note Over Shipping Losses to Clemenceau
The Vossische Zeitung reports Berlin will issue a note to Premier Clemenceau concerning the peace treaty's economic teams. It contends the allied claim that Germans destroyed over 12,000,000 tons of shipping is false, noting much was sunk by legal cruiser warfare.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Clemenceau
Vossische Zeitung
Montana Fair Plans and Bond Vote Set for November
In state news coverage the Montana fair is discussed alongside a forthcoming bond vote in November. The article notes a misunderstanding about a band’s attitude and reports on attorney fees. It also mentions wage-related promotions and calls for a salary raise for teachers from Superintendent Maddock.
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Montana
Butte
Wirta
Maddock
Anaconda News
Ontana
Gou
German Counter Proposals To Peace Treaty Expected
European situation summarized as Germany's counter proposals to the peace treaty are prepared for presentation by Thursday with arguments for lessening terms across finance disarmament and both land and sea limits. Austrian terms due Sunday while Foch tightens western inspection and Allied plans foresee Danzig landings. Allies to aid Admiral Kolchak with conditions of a constituent assembly in Russia, and a Viborg report says Petrograd’s soviet government has fallen.
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Associated Press
Germany
Associated Powers
Peace Congress
Berlin
Marshal Foch
Danzig
Admiral Kolchak
Russia
Viborg
Petrograd
Victory bonds debut on stock exchange at open
In New York on May 27 the stock exchange sold victory bonds for the first time. Three lots valued at $150,000, $100,000 and $50,000 brought a price of $99.90 per $100, marking the initial public offering of war finance securities.
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New York
Stock Exchange
Daniels Abandons Navy Build Program to Back League Peace
Washington May 27 The Navy Secretary tells the House Naval Affairs Committee that the 1916 program for 10 battleships and 10 battle cruisers should be abandoned to show faith in the League of Nations. He argues the 1919 program totaling over 1 billion dollars should be wiped from the slate and warns that if the United States does not halt new shipbuilding other nations will follow. Britain France and Italy are waiting on the United States.
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Washington
Navy Department
Daniels
House Naval Affairs Committee
United States
League of Nations
League
Britain
France
Italy
Great Britain
Immaculate nerve of wobbling I W W in trial
Seattle May 27 The Industrial Workers of the World are said to draw prophecy from President Wilson and his book The New Freedom as a key I W W view of capital and labor in the James Bruce criminal anarchy trial. Elbert Coutts a former I W W testified the book supported radical theories. Defense counsel noted the book was offered as a prize for subscription work for an I W W publication. State counsel argued the writings do not condone violence by I W W members.
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Seattle
Wash
Wilson
James Bruce
Elbert Coutts
George Vanderveer
The
Deadly ptomaine poisoning kills five miners
Dawson reports five of eighteen miners at the Yukon Gold Dredging camp on Hunker creek died and eight others are critically ill after a dinner, suspected to be caused by ptomaine poisoning.
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Dawson
Yukon Gold Dredging Company
Hunker Creek
Ford libel suit witnesses back Ford pledge jobs
Thirteen former Ford employees testified in Henry Fords $1,000,000 libel suit against the Chicago Daily Tribune in Judge Tuckers court. They said Ford reinstated them after they joined the national guard in 1916 and that an emissary was sent to reassure guardsmen their jobs would be held.
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Mount Clemens
Henry Ford
Chicago Daily Tribune
Tucker
Tribune
Ford
National Guard
Mr. Ford
Walter P. Jonson
Borah and His Crowd Ingloriously Routed
Washington may 27 senators Penrose of Pennsylvania and Warren of Wyoming poised to head finance and appropriations committees after republican senate conference. Progressives led by Borah of Idaho were routed 34 to 8 in a bid to replace Penrose, and they decided not to press the fight on the senate floor.
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Washington
Senate
Penrose
Pennsylvania
Warren
Wyoming
Finance
Appropriations
Borah
Idaho
Weather outlook for Montana
A fair spell settles over Montana with pleasant conditions on Wednesday and Thursday. Temperatures dip slightly on Wednesday making the day marginally cooler than the following day.
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Montana
Panic-Stricken Reds Flee Petrograd As Fall Approaches
Stockholm reports bombardment near Petrograd and Kronstadt with Bolshevik panic in Petrograd. Chinese, Left and Finnish Reds said to control the city after fierce street fighting. Workmen guard districts to deter pillaging and placards threaten bourgeois class executions.
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Petrograd
Associated Press
Stockholm
Kronstadt
Viborg
Transatlantic NC-4 Seaplane Reaches Lisbon First Crossing
Washington reports that the NC-4 seaplane completed the first transatlantic flight, landing at Lisbon at 4:01 p.m. Washington time after a 9 hour 44 minute leg from Ponta Delgada. Crowds cheered as the American crew under Lieut. Commander Read arrived aboard the Rochester.
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Washington
Lisbon
Portugal
Pora Delgada
United States Navy
Albert Cushing Read
Atlantic Ocean
Ponta Delgada
Azores
Rockaway Beach
Long Island
Plymouth
England
Newfoundland
Read
Atlantic
Naval
Department
Townley Seditious Trial Set For June 23
Jackson Minn May 27 Trial of A C Townely president of the non partisan league and Joseph Gilbert of the same group on charges of conspiring to violate the espionage act was set for June 23 The trial date had been tentatively planned for early June but jurors were released for a time causing the Jackson county district court to adjourn until June 23.
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Jackson, Minn
A. C. Townely
Nonpartisan League
Joseph Gilbert
Jackson County
Navy committee commends Read for NC-4 leg refusal to Lisbon
Members of the house naval affairs committee praised Lieutenant Commander Read after Secretary Daniels refused to permit Flight Commander John H Towers to proceed from Ponta Delgada to Lisbon aboard the naval seaplane NC-4 with Read. The action centers on the wartime flight authorization and the associated decision.
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Washington
Daniels
John H. Towers
Ponta Delgada
Lisbon
Read
House Naval Affairs Committee
Mob Attacks Yale Campus After Veteran Parade
A mob of several hundred recently discharged soldiers and sailors targeted Yale University in New Haven on May 27. Rioters smashed campus windows and beat students off campus as police mobilized citywide to regain control of the situation.
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New Haven
Conn
Yale University
Yale
Calupus
Kolchak Forces Rally as Russian Front Advances
Paris reports that Kolchak’s anti Bolshevist armies are again advancing against the Bolsheviks, with enemy units falling back toward the Volga. Earlier dispatches noted heavy opposition near Samara and a retreat along the railroad toward Ufa.
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Associated Press
Paris
Kolchak
Russia
Ueain
Volga
Samara
Ufa
Coblenz Salute as Third Army unit marches through Coblenz
Coblenz residents watched as American Third Army forces, part of a composite regiment, marched through the city on Monday prompting civilians to salute the flag amid the Allied occupation after World War I.
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Associated Press
Coblenz
Cobleng
Coblems
Yankee victory in every way in transatlantic flight
The NC-4 completes the first transatlantic air journey from Ponta Delgada to Lisbon with Americans designing building and manning the craft. Commander Read and crew are reported safe with engines working well and a smooth course, as destroyers maintain radio liaison and the fleet cheers greet the arrival in Portugal.
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Lisbon
Associated Press
Portugese
Tagus River
Atlantic
Read
Azores
Rochester
Amany
England
Penta Delgada
Wortmann
Ponta Delgada
Portugal
NC-4
Admiral Jackson
Wrymouth
Venta Delgada
Washington
Hawkers plane fished from Atlantic by American ship
St John’s May 8 report says the Sopwith biplane used by Harry Hawker and MacKenzie Grieve in attempting the Atlantic crossing was picked up at 49.40 N, 29.08 W by the American ship Saks Charlottesville. The craft was recovered with crew and remains aboard the ship as repairs or transport proceed.
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N. F
Harry Hawker
MacKenzie Grieve
Atlantic
Saks
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