Navy Chief Sees End to Naval Arms Race and Peace Plan
Secretary Daniels reports competitive naval building will soon end as a three year program is urged to align with a postwar peace framework. He envisions navies as international police, urges reductions in armaments, and notes Admiral Benson will be the American naval adviser at the peace conference.
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Washington
Daniels
League of Nations
United States
Congress
Wilson
Council of Free Peoples
Republic
Admiral Benson
Allies May Be Asked to Take a Hand
Paris reports Dec 9 that Ebert's government sends new troops to Berlin to crush the Spartacus uprising spreading to northern suburbs and Populous districts. Karl Liebknecht followers alleged to have started a revolution. Reichstag building reportedly seized with riots in Berlin Munich and Pilsen. Allied intervention in Prussia could save the government.
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Paris
Ebert
Berlin
Spartacus
Zurich
Karl Liebknecht
Germany
Reichstag
Munich
Pilsen
Interevention
Prussia
Americans Reach Coblenz as Rhine Bridgehead Forms
American troops of the Third Army occupy Coblenz, with a detachment of about 1000 men from the 29th Infantry Fourth Division arriving by special train at noon. German officials requested immediate entry after their evacuation, and martial law will be declared in Coblenz to guard utilities.
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Webb Miller
Prussia
Coblenz
Third Army
Rhine
Invading Japanese peace delegation faces opposition
Viscount Kato leads Japan's delegation to the peace conference with demands including the former German port of Tsingtau, Pacific islands, removal of race restrictions, and continued Pacific supremacy. The program is expected to meet strong opposition and the delegates' efforts will be watched closely.
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Viscount Kato
Japan
Aie
Tsingtau
Pacific
U. S
Kato
Clark Sees Central South America as Postwar Trade Hub
Speaker Champ Clark told the Southern Commercial Congress in Baltimore that after the war the best hunting grounds for trade lie in Central and South America near our doors. He warned Germany may be shut from raw materials and urged expanding Latin American markets to offset lost British and German demand. Clark praised Latin America’s wealth and called for assured freedom of the seas led by President Wilson at Versailles.
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Baltimore
Central
South America
Champ Clark
Southern Commercial Congress
Clark
Great Britain
Germany
Latin America
Wilson
Mrs Lloyd George Leads Wales Tour for Husband
Mrs David Lloyd George tours Wales in support of her husband’s parliamentary bid. She speaks at Tryheis to a large miners’ meeting as campaign activity continues. In other news the A R C shipped thirty tractors to France, plowing 7 500 acres in eight weeks.
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Husland
London
David Lloyd George
Wales
Tryheis
France
Possible U S Railroads Director Lovett Emerges
President Wilson may name a successor to William Gibbs McAdoo as director general of the U S railroads. Among contenders is 58 year old Texan Robert S Lovett, a veteran railroad attorney and counselor who entered the field in 1884 and has served several roads in Texas and the Harriman system.
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Wilson
William Gibbs McAdoo
U. S
Robert S. Lovett
Regval
Railway World
Texas
Harrimar
Peace Conference Opens with Formal Sessions in Paris
Paris December 9 The first sessions of the associated governments conference will start about January 3 in the French foreign office and last five to six weeks Germany will be invited to Versailles after terms are formulated The congress is seen as a formality since Germany has acknowledged defeat and cannot resume fighting Wilson plans December 19 visit to the Sallan king and to address American troops before Christmas
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ED L. Keen
Paris
Associated Governments
Versailles
Germany
Wilson
Meeting of the B P O dispensed until further notice
Owing to flu conditions and in cooperation with the board of health the meeting of the B P O is dispensed with until further notice. John B. Cross, E. R.
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Board of Health
John B. Cross
E. R
Army reports ample rations for demobilizing soldiers
Washington, Dec 9. Army subsistence stocks on hand as of November 1 show large supplies of bacon, beef, canned goods, flour, sugar, coffee and more. Brig. Gen. W. T. Wood says overall feeding of American soldiers, in camps and fields, has been universally satisfactory with no complaints on one inspection trip to camps housing 33,000 soldiers.
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Washington, D. C
Sai
United States
R. E. Wood
W. T. Wood
Army
Wood
Man Arrested For Refusing To Set Brakes In West Virginia
Emory Hebb a brakeman from Keyser was arrested in Martinsburg for refusing to set the brakes on his train. The arrest marks the first under the new statute making this a serious offense.
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Martinsburg
W. VA
Emory Hebb
Keyser
Dis
Stewart W. Walker
University service men depart as flu cases improve
Reports from Ohio University indicate most S A T C and navy men have left the university or are convalescent. Nurses and medical staff remain to care for the ill while quarantine ends. The university plans to resume normal operations in the second semester starting February 3.
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Army
Navy
Ohio University
Taylor
University
Ellis
Wilson May Rest Soon With Wilson
On the George Washington off the Azores President Wilson weighs Kaiser disposition with a focus on a possible trial. Officials see Taft’s league stance shaping peace talks while Lansing and White brief the president. The ship reports warmer seas and smoother voyage. Wilson attends services with troops, prays, and walks the deck.
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Robert J. Bender
U. S. S. George Washington
United Press
Wilson
Kaiser
Wilhelm
Lansing
White
America
William Howard Taft
New York
League of Nations
Peace Congress
Washington
Azores
Petain Receives Honor At Alsace-Lorraine Ceremony
General Petain received the baton of a marshal of France during the opening ceremonies for the formal transfer of Alsace Lorraine to French authority. He rode with President Poincare and other top leaders as crowds cheered amid flower showers and town décor.
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Metz
Petain
France
Alsace-Lorraine
Poincaire
Premier Clemenceau
Marshal Foch
Marshal Joffre
Marshal Haig
General Pershing
Boys of Athens County Go Over the Top in World War I
Lieut Jack Emde writes from the front about marching to No M ar s Land after artillery bombardment. He details a creeping barrage and heavy casualties including thirteen in his platoon and the death of the Bean boy, with his unit repelling a counter attack.
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Jack Emde
Athens
No Mar’s Land
Rafel Johnson
Corporal Lovett
Young
Farley
Dougan
Paris Returns to Peace Era Amid Conference Delays
Paris readies for a postwar era as allied peace delegates arrive this week and President Wilson’s arrival delays the opening of the inter allied conference. Hotels are full, prices soar, and civilian life returns with new theatres and fewer military displays.
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Fred
Ferguson
Paris
Wilson
Junior Red Cross Plans Expedition of Wooden Ducks
Young America studies a trade as the Junior Red Cross proposes sending a large group of wooden ducks and rabbits to children in Europe and Asia as a charitable relief effort.
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Young
America
Red Cross
Europe
Asia
Bolsheviks Mass To Quell Berlin Riots As Lenine Reported
Dispatches from Berlin say ten thousand Republican Guard were ordered under arms to quell rioting. Spartacus group allegedly led by top Bolshevik organizers from Russia arrives, with a possible figure named Lenine thought to be Premier Lenin.
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Lonine
Berlin
Copenhagen
Republican Guard
Arma
Russia
Spartacus
Lenine
Premier Lenine
Spartacus revolt clashes leave many dead in Berlin
Berlin reports say 28 killed and 48 wounded in street fighting between government troops and Spartacus forces led by Karl Knecht. The group planned a coup targeting the royal palace and police stations. Workmen were urged to strike as mobs surged toward public buildings with heavy gunfire on both sides.
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Berlin
Forter
Spartacus Group
Spartacusites
Karl Knecht
Royal Palace
Ristag
Liebknecht
International Republic
Mac
Sweden severs diplomatic ties with Bolsheviki
Exchange Telegraph cites Copenhagen dispatch that Sweden has severed relations with the Bolsheviki. Swedish foreign office asked Bolshevik minister M. Vorolski to leave Stockholm at once.
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London
Sweden
Copenhagen
M. Vorolski
Stockholm
Influenza Epidemic Forecast At Public Health Meet
At the forty sixth annual American Public Health Association convention in Chicago health officials anticipate a renewed influenza wave in 1919 and likely 1920. They note epidemics recur two to three years after the first outbreak and that subsequent waves bring higher mortality. Dr W A Evans cites Spain as now facing a second, more virulent outbreak with rising deaths.
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Chicago
United States
Canada
South America
American Public Health Association
W. A. Evans
Spain
Evans
Largest troop departure from Camp Sherman today
Dec 9 reports the largest postwar demobilization wave at Camp Sherman with over 1000 soldiers from Ohio and several southern states set to depart on two special trains for homeward service.
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Camp Sherman
Ohio
Many Germans Stranded Await Swiss Frontier Return
From 25,000 to 5,000 German soldiers who once lived in Switzerland wait along the Swiss frontier, eager to return home. The Swiss government enforces strict rules on crossing the frontier by these men.
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Berne
Switzerland
Swiss
War information centers explain agency roles in cities
In immigrant districts large cities war information offices outline functions of the Red Cross the War Food Administration and the Bureau of War Risk Insurance along with other federal agencies guiding wartime civic support.
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Red Cross
The
Food Administration
Bureau of War Risk 4Surance
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