02 Apr 1919
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1919
Page
1
The president told premiers and military reps the world will not tolerate delays and that speeches have ended. He accepts full responsibility for the slow progress and calls for swift action, blaming no single country while stressing timely treaty readiness.
Paris reports decision to lift the blockade on Poland Estonia German Austria Turkey Bulgaria Czecho Slovakia and territories held by Romania and Serbia. Prohibition remains on German Austria trade. details continued on page 20 fifth column.
General Cole recalls the Meuse Argonne assault by the 101st 103d and 104th divisions. He notes artillery fire and personal reflections at a Copley Plaza dinner. He warns that deliberate war is preventable only by a compact among nations.
James J. Phelan of 60 Congress Street relays a cable from Colonel Logan stating the regiment will leave for Boston on the 28th and that all is well. The message is signed LOGAN.
With the departure from Brest yesterday of the transport Mongolia bearing the 51st Artillery Brigade 23330 members of the Yankee Division were homeward bound. The artillery brigade had started the voyage home bringing the total at sea to more than 80 percent of the entire force.
Shane Leslie, editor of the Dublin Review and associate of John Redmond and Sir Horace Plunkett, declares in a Post interview his enthusiastic conversion to the Sinn Fein cause and full independence for Ireland.
The Sinn Fein cause finds its most influential advocate in Mr. Leslie who has long opposed home rule for Ireland. His standing among British politicians marks him as the leading figure of the moderate Irish faction.
Taft arrived in Detroit and walked to City Hall where Mayor Couzens cashed a check for him. He said it ran out of change and noted the mayor had plenty. He planned to speak in Kalamazoo tonight on the League of Nations and was to address the Legislature in Lansing tomorrow.
The Steamship Felix Taussig arrived from Brest with 279 soldiers including a detachment of the 148th Infantry five Base Hospital 105 men and casuals reporting to Philadelphia.
Monk Eastman once terrorized New York's East Side is now Private William Delaney a veteran with an enviable war record. He will be honorably discharged from the 106th Infantry tomorrow and a petition from commanding officers asks Governor Smith to restore his citizenship.
A historical account chronicles the life of "Monk" once an opium addict and burglar who reformed to serve in 1917. He joined the 27th Division in Flanders and fought at the Hindenburg line, volunteering in danger and surviving a head wound while leading a bombing squad. The petition recounts these facts.
New York April 1 Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt announced his plan to enter politics, signaling a bid for president of the Board of Aldermen next fall, as discussed by Republican leaders in the city.
Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt says he may retire from business and enter politics if invited to run for alderman and notes his hat in the ring only as a public statement. He will focus on World War Veterans' Association work and public life in his lifelong New York State home region, aligning with his father’s beliefs on universal military service and nationalism.
President Wilson informed American delegates that no U S soldiers should be used in trouble in eastern or southeastern Europe. The warning came as allied premiers and military representatives faced the push to finalize peace without further delay.
The report lists moon rise at 6 26 and set times 7 11 and 9 49 p m with vehicle lights at 7 46. It records anniversaries and a German submarine sinking the British steamer Southport along with three trawlers and a Norwegian bark. It recalls 1915 President Wilson asking Congress for a declaration of war and a Meuse height attack near Verdun with gas.
Forecast notes fair conditions for Boston and southern New England with continued cold. Northern New England will be partly cloudy and cooler on the coast, while western Atlantic areas see warmer and fair conditions later. Winds remain northwest to north, with high pressure falling over the interior. The cold extends east of the Mississippi with a record low April temperature in Western New York and southwestern Virginia.
Mayor William Hale Thompson, Republican, wins re election in Chicago amid a tense race. Incomplete returns show a likely 15 000 plurality over Democrat Robert M Sweitzer, with Sweitzer supporters counting on the mayoral actions at City Hall and police returns.
In a six candidate race the Mayor loses to Democrat State's Attorney Maclay Hoyne who ran as an independent. The city votes Wet by about three to one marking a landslide shift in Chicago politics.
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