Demobilization Moves Start as Atlantic Troop Flow Ends
Washington reports the Atlantic troop movement has ceased and demobilization begins at home camps. About 200,000 will return within two weeks and daily discharges reach 30,000 as divisions including the Rainbow and New England units are poised for early homecoming before year’s end.
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Washington
Atlantic
General Pershing
France
March
Igang Fecof Det
New England National Guard
Baker
United States Guards
United States
Congress
Pershing
New England
Devens
Narest
Former Kaiser Not Interned by Dutch in Holland
Amerongen Holland November 13 William Hohenzollern remains uninterned by the Netherlands government seen walking on castle grounds with Count von Bentinck. The former emperor and his suite have surrendered weapons and await movement fate while under protection.
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Amerongen
Holland
William Hohenzollern
Netherlands
Count von Pentinck
Count von Bentinck
Zuylenstein
Marshall College President Resigns to Lead Wartime Vocational Education
Dr. O. I. Woodley resigns after two years as president of Marshall College Huntington. Effective January 31, he will take a partial leave and join Reed Base Hospital in Washington to direct vocational education for wounded soldiers.
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Marshall College
Huntington
W. Va
O. I. Woodley
Resignation of Huntington Commissioner Sparks City Election Move
Huntington W Va November 16 Acting Mayor Rufus Switze resigns from the city commission to save expenses of a special election for a successor to the late Mayor Leon Wiles The charter allows appointment if multiple vacancies occur a citizens board meeting Tuesday will elect two new commissioners Mayor Wiles died in the influenza outbreak
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Huuntington
W. Va
Leon
Wiles
Rufus Switze
Huntington
Citizens Board
War Gardeners Pledge Help to Hoover for Victory Crops
On November 16 Washington reports War Gardeners of America asked Food Administrator Hoover to take assurances to Europe that U S growers will raise victory crops next year in excess of this year. Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the National War Garden Commission, sent a telegram from New York aboard the steamer.
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Washington
War Gardeners of America
Hoover
Europe
New York
Charles Lathrop Pack
National War Garden Commission
United States
German Government Appeals To Submarine Crews
Basel November 16 The German government appeals to submarine crews explaining armistice terms must be carried out quickly. It promises guarantees of repatriation after arrival in England and discharge upon their return to Germany.
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Basel
Havas
England
Germany
Former Crown Prince Frederick William Interned Abroad
An Amsterdam dispatch reports former Crown Prince Frederick William of Germany has been interned at a castle owned by his friend Count Gilbert Wolff Metternich in Swalmen Limburg Netherlands. It says his wife is with him.
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London
Crown Prince
Frederick William of
Germany
Count Gilbert Wolff Metternich
Swalmen
Limburg
Holland
Isterdam
Exchange Telegraph Company
Navy department estimates total 2.44 billion for naval program
The navy department presented 2 4419 million for the 1420 naval appropriation bill with a three year shipbuilding program including ten superdreadnoughts and six battle cruisers. It also calls for an emergency 175 million fund and major yard improvements at Norfolk Philadelphia Mare Island Puget Sound.
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Washington
Navy Department
Congress
House Naval Committee
Navy
Hesses
Daniels
Navy Yards
New York Yard
Philadelphia Yard
Norfolk
Hampton Roads
Key West Naval Station
Mare Island
California
Puget Sound
Express business seized by Wilson and given to McAdoo
President Wilson issued a proclamation to place the consolidated express business under the railroad administration directed by McAdoo. The move aims to clarify control, enable rate changes, and likely raise wages by about 12 million dollars as the government assumes full control at noon Monday.
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Washington
Wilson
Consolidated Express
American Railway Express Company
McAdoo
Railroad Administra 1Ce
Interstate Commerce Commission
Railroad Administration
Germans in Africa Surrender After Armistice Terms
London reports that German forces in east Africa under General Von Lettow Vorbeck surrendered on November 14 near the Chambenzi River south of Kasama in north eastern Rhodesia in compliance with armistice terms.
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Africa
London
East Africa
von Lettow-Vorbeck
Chambenzi River
Kasama
Rhodesia
Large number of ships sunk by German crews
Copenhagen reports that many ships demanded by the Allies under the armistice terms were sunk by their German crews during the revolution. Germania of Berlin notes Clause V of the armistice requires restoration of merchant vessels in German hands in specified ports.
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Copenhagen
Germania of
Berlin
United States
Medal for Pershing Conferred at Headquarters
General Pershing received the Distinguished Service Medal at his headquarters in eastern France with General Tasker H. Wiss representing President Wilson. The ceremony was attended by members of the allied missions and described as impressive.
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Associated Press
France
General Pershing
Tasker H. Wiss
Wilson
German Food Aid Debate Aims to Influence Peace Talks
Washington views German provisional government food appeals as a ploy to sway the peace conference. Officials say aiding civilians is the aim, not starving nations, and Hoover will handle purchases with German payments, while Germany seeks funds and credit to avoid famine and Bolshevik influence.
Secretary Lansing Calls for Diplomatic Channels in Armistice Talks
The note to Switzerland's Sulzer reports the German radio requests on armistice terms with Germany and Turkey will be referred to Allied governments and the supreme war council in Paris. It insists communications be sent to all associated governments through established diplomatic channels, not direct to the U.S. president and not by wireless.
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Turkey
Supreme War Council
Washington
Lansing
United States
Sulzer
Switzerland
Paris
Mouzon
Thiacourt
Luxemburg
Briey
Moselle
Longwy
Duchy of
Associated Press
France
Rhine
Bolland Wins National Junior Cross-Country Title
Max Bolland of Paulist A. C. captured the National AAU junior cross-country title at Van Cortlandt Park six miles in 38 26. T Halpin of Morningside A. C. was second and teammate P Triviloudis third. Forty seven started with ten, including Frank Gillespie unattached of Chicago, failing to finish.
Wages Increase for Railroad Telegraphers Across Narrow Range
Washington reports the Director General McAdoo raised railroad tele graphers wages by thirteen cents an hour above January 1 levels, with a minimum of forty eight cents per hour retroactive to October 1. Eight hours equals a day and overtime pays time and a half. About 60,000 to 70,000 workers gain, excluding telephone switchboard operators. A separate order will cover non telegrapher railroad agents. The rise aims to ease long hours and partially meets the telegraphers union requests.
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Washington
McAdoo
Railroad Administration
Wage Rules Set For Weekly and Daily Paid Workers
The order says hourly rates below a basic minimum of thirty five cents per hour must be raised to that minimum plus thirteen cents per hour for rates above the minimum. A workday comprises eight consecutive hours excluding a meal hour. It excludes those paid fifty dollars or less per month for partial-time special services. Commission and combination salary cases, excluding express or outside commissions, will be reviewed by the board on wages and working conditions.
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Board of Railroad
Western team wins trapshooting contest at Travers Islands
In a west rem past trapshooting contest a five man western team defeated rivals by 475 to 450. F. B. Tomlin of Penns Grove New Jersey claimed the high score with 99 hits of 100.
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New York
United War Work
Travers Islands
Tomlin
Penns Grove
N. J
Resumption of Public Building Construction Ordered
Secretary McAdoo ordered the resumption of construction on post offices and other public buildings, reversing December suspensions due to war. He said renewed peace conditions justify early bids for new works, including an archives building in Washington, to aid the industrial shift from war to peace.
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Washington
McAdoo
Germany
Congress
Archives
Capital Issues Committee
The
Treasury
Moe- Adoo
West Virginia Supreme Court Reverses Frazer Conviction
In Charleston on Nov 16 the state against Charles Frazer of Mineral County was decided with the supreme court of appeals reversing the lower court and remanding the case. Frazer, arrested on an interstate train with liquor in his possession, argued the WV law did not apply as the liquor was destined for another state.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
Supreme Court of Appeals
Charles Frazer
British Submarines Heroic War Roles Revealed
Details disclose British submarines destroyed two battleships two armed cruisers two light cruisers seven destroyers five gunboats twenty submarines and five armed auxiliary vessels. Three battleships and one light cruiser torpedoed but reached port damaged. Submarines also aided convoy work. One commander completed twenty four cruises totaling 22000 miles, a likely submarine record.
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London
British Wireless Service
Lght
Czecho-Slovak Republic Proclaimed by National Assembly
The National Assembly proclaimed the Czecho-Slovak republic and ratified Prof. T. G. Masaryk as president, an official Prague dispatch reports.
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New ‘Republic
Perne
T. G. Masyrik
Prague
Americans Await Eager Move Toward Germany
American forces in France prepare to advance toward Germany at 6:30 a.m. Sunday in a carefully staged march across twelve miles daily. The advance includes an early guard, engineers, mine clearance, and water purification, with observation balloons and Allied troops alongside French units while Belgium is approached.
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Associated Press
France
Germany
United States
Belgian
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