Peace Conference Moves Toward Versailles Signing
Paris April 15 reports say Germany invited to Versailles for peace talks on April 25 with about two hundred delegates. Delegates will stay at Hotel Des Retombees and Triamon Palace hotel while meetings run ten to fifteen days. Signing planned in the hall of mirrors as Wilson may remain to witness the final document with Allied leaders.
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Associated Press
Paris
Council of Four
Versailles
Tonigh
Hotel Des Retrevoires
Wilson
Foreign Office
Eiery Plenipotentiaries
House
Lloyd George
Supreme Economic Council
Belgium
United States
Kaiv
The
Economic Council
Plan to sell surplus stopka to Germany approved
The supreme economic council approved a plan to offer surplus stopka of raw materials held by Allied governments for sale to Germany before the peace treaty. A special committee will work with blockade and finance sections to arrange details.
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Supreme Economic Council
Economic Council
Austria-Hungary
Bulgaria
Turkey
Restitutions Commission
Germany
Vote to Join France Petitioned in Alsace Lorraine
Eduard Bernstein, veteran German Social Democrat and peace delegate, says in the Neues Wiener Journal that in Alsace Lorraine a referendum today would favor joining France by a large margin. He warns autonomy would invite ongoing political and economic intrigue.
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France
Perne
Alsace and Lorraine
Eduard Bernstein
Neues Wieher Journal
Vienna
Alsace-Lorraine
Alleged Frick Confession Read in Treason Trial
In New York on April 16 a purported confession of Albert Paul Fricke was read to the jury in federal court where he faces treason charges. The document says Fricke acted as financial agent for Carl Ridiger alias Hermann Wessels under orders to fund him to Frick's limit of resources.
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Frick
New York
Albert Paul Fricke
United States
Carl Ridiger
Hermann Wessels
We Tie Up Everything Afloat Harbor Walkout Declared
The marine workers affiliation renews the general harbor strike involving sixteen thousand workers. The new walkout begins at six a.m. Thursday and aims to shut down all water traffic including ferry boats, coastwise and trans Atlantic ships.
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New York
Marine Workers
General Harbor
Forward Trade Toward an Early Peace A Sharp One
The article outlines a swift move toward peace with Germany and notes the Paris council inviting German delegates to Versailles on April 25 to hear terms. It reports on economic allowances for Germany to buy raw materials, the reparations inquiry into Austria Hungary Bulgaria and Turkey, and ongoing turmoil in Bavaria with communist advances and street fighting. It also mentions a Berlin bank clerks strike, Bolshevik actions on Archangel and Murmansk, and Secretary Baker detailing rapid American troop repatriation plans starting with 275000 home in the month and escalating through June.
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Associated Press
Council of Four
Paris
Germany
Versailles
Associated Powers
London
Wilson
France
United States
Adriatic
Italy
Jugo-Slavia
Council of
Arthur J. Danour
David Lloyd4 George
England
Economic Council
Austria-Hungary
Bulgaria
Turkey
Bavaria
Munich
Hoffman
Berlin
Mannheim
Chemnitz
Archangel
Murmansk
Besserbia
Petlura
Baker
Europe
Labor Conditions in Sonora Reported Deteriorating
Officials report six thousand copper workers discharged in Sonora Mexico over six years of poor conditions. Despite this, several large silver mines have reopened after years closed. More Americans, including mining men and bankers, are arriving in Sonora.
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Sonora
Washington
Mexico
Weston minister elected moderator of Graf ton Presbytery
Rev. W. T. Mann of Weston was elected moderator at the Graf ton Presbytery meeting in Clarksburg West Virginia. He succeeds Rev. L. K. Black of Parkersburg.
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W.T. Mann
Clarksburg
W. Va
W. T. Mann
Weston
Grafton
Ile
L. K H. Black
Parkersburg
Russians Forcing Romanian Retreat In Bessarabia Fight
A Russian wireless message states Soviet troops push Roumanians to a general retreat in Bessarabia from Kamenetz Mohilev along the Dniester in Podolia. Further north in western Ukraine General Petliura's forces have been driven from their positions.
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London
Bessarabia
Kamenetz-Mohilév
Podolia
Ukraine
Petiura
Ukrainians Seen in Bukowina Amid Wartime Talks
A special mission from western Ukraine’s government meets Premier Hratiano in Bucharest regarding Bukowina’s future. He pledges to follow Allied decisions while considering Ukrainian wishes during Romanian provisional administration of Bukowina.
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Kamenetz-Proskutov-Shiepartovke
Bucharest
Ukrainia
Hratiano
Bukowina
Roumania
Indisputable Evidence of Bolshevik Massacre
Report from Omsk dated April 5 cites Red Cross observers Simmons Emerson and Dr Rudolph Teusler describing mass killings near Ose town in Osa. About 2,000 civilians dead including clergy, lawyers, doctors and workers, with executions, mass graves, and targeted destruction of church staff.
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Omsk
Ose
Osa
Messrs. Simmons
Emerson
Rudolph Teusler
American Red Cross
Perm
Casagrande
Yekaterinburg
Assurance of Arbitrator Authority in New England Telephone Strike
Boston April 14 Joseph P Turerilly secretary to President Wilson sent a telegram to Miss Julia OConner president of the telephone operators department proposing that striking operators in New England submit their wage scale to William R Driver Jr general manager of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Co Miss OConner replied that the operators would submit their scale if the federal government assures full power to Mr Driver to settle wage scales effective to December 31 the date wage agreement expired Telephone services in the region except Connecticut were nearly paralyzed by the strike of several thousand operators of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Co and Providence Telephone Co. The girls walked out at 7 am and a settlement move was made tonight.
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Boston
Joseph P. Tuerrilly
Wilson
Julia Oconner
Telephone Operators’ Department
New England
William R. Driver
New England Telephone and ‘Telegraph Co
O'Conner
Driver
Connecticut
New England Telephone and Telegraph Co
Providence Telephone Co
Pay First Installment On Old Virginia Debt
State Treasurer W S Johnson and Attorney General E J Magland will travel to Richmond to pay Virginia's first debt installment of 1 062867 16 to the Virginia state treasurer. Additional payments include 15500 14 in interest and 25907 28 for half the cost of the stamp. Warrants for these treasurer's checks were completed by the auditor, using state funds deposited in various banks.
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Charleston
W. Va
W. 3S. Johnson
E. ‘Jt. Magland
Richmond
Virginia
Simulus
Inmates Released at Leavenworth After Review
Forty six military offenders from the disciplinary barracks at Leavenworth Kansas were released today after a two month review. Sixty more will be released tomorrow. The group includes many who participated in the January barracks strike.
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Leavenworth
Kansas
Victory Loan urged for widespread civilian support
Carter Glass urged broad distribution of the fifth Liberty Loan in New York before 4,000 campaigners. He argued public ownership and thrift would curb bolshevism and ease bank financing pressures, urging Americans to view the loan as patriotic and not solely a commercial affair.
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New York
Carter Glass
Glass
Bt Camk
Calidad
Shanis
William Hohenzollern
United States
Congress
Fragice
Aly
Chateau- Thierry
Battlefeld
France
Saint Milei Salient
Munich in Communist Control as Loyal Troops Rally
Berlin reports Munich is fully under communist control per Tageblatt, while government loyalists reinforce and shell central railway station amid escalating street fighting. Civilian casualties rise as clashes widen in Bavaria's capital.
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Munich
Bavaria
Nuremburg
Berlin
Copenhagen
Tageblatt
Hailway
Principles for a National Labor Program Seeks Referendum
Washington discusses a thirteen point statement on industrial relations prepared by a chamber committee. The document urges peaceful adjustment of labor issues, fair wages, reasonable hours, and strong representation of workers, with a proposal for national employment offices managed under civil service rules.
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Washington
Chamber of Commerce of
United States
Civil Service
Women denounce Germany in wartime resolution
Mrs. Chas. H. Farnum of New York presented Premier Clemenceau with a resolution signed by 7,000,000 American women. The document denounces German crimes against women during the war as infamous and sinister, calling for protection under international law.
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Germany
Paris
Clemenceau
Chas. H. Farnum
New York
Committee For the Protection of Women
More Guardsmen From Middle West Are Coming Home
The War Department announced sailing of transports carrying units from the thirty-fifth and seventy-sixth divisions and others. Ships Mobile Belvedere Preedom and Santa Rosa head home with infantry, artillery, engineers, medical detachments, and convalescents. Manchuria due in New York April 24.
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Washington
Thirty-Fifth
Kansas and
Missouri National Guard
War Department
157Th Infantry
Ljinhield Artillery
S19th
Ond
So2nd
145Th Michigan
Fortietha
Laveing
Manchuria
New York
L37th
Illinois
John M. Curseon
40Th Fet
Belveuére
Marseilles
Civitas Theransport Preedom
Matsoula
T He Field
Sl6th
Rijandam
Santa Rosa
Boston
Santa Cara
West Madaket
Brest
New
Santa Paula
Earby
Wifteenth Company
Air Service
Genoa
Italy
Howard H. Hall
Gibraltar
Callao
Canal Zone
American Transport Service
Germany
United States
Hinsdale assistant postmaster kills wife and children then dies
William Marwitz, assistant postmaster of Hinsdale, shot his wife after learning a physician's verdict that she had sixty days to live. He fatally wounded his two and six year old children, and then killed himself. The children died in a hospital.
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Chicago
William Marwitz
Hinsdale
Weather Delays Hawker and Raynham Atlantic Flight
Favorable weather again postponed Harry Hawker's attempt to cross the Atlantic from St Johns Newfoundland delaying the Australian aviator's bid while giving rival Captain Frederick Raynham of Britain nearly equal odds to depart as conditions clear.
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Hawker
St. Johns
Harry G. Hawker
Atlantic
Frederick P. Raynham
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