Prairie Division Honored by Baker and Pershing
Twenty three thousand Prairie Division soldiers, many veterans of Somme and Meuse Argonne, are praised by Secretary Baker and General Pershing at a Diekirch meadow review before their homeward departure. The end of World War I era praise marks their distinguished service with both British and American forces.
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Luxemburg
Prairie Division
Somme
St. Mihiel
Meuse- Argonne
Baker
Pershing
Diekirch
France
33D
Why Germans Mustn t Argue At Peace Conference
Paris April 23 Germans cannot discuss the peace treaty say officials. Reading the 1000 articles would take a minute per article, two days for eight hour days. Even with one hour per article the talks would last four months, a strong argument against allowing German delegates to debate the document.
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Paris
Fourth Relief Ship On Way To Armenia
The Newport News, the fourth relief ship the U S government placed at the American committee for Armenian and Syrian relief, sailed from New York for Constantinople with a 4000 ton cargo of food clothing and other supplies valued at nearly two million dollars for the starving peoples of the near east.
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New York
Newport News
United States
American Committee For
Constantinople
Near East
Munich on verge of bankruptcy amid wartime food raids
Munich faces near bankruptcy as the city endures wholesale misery with idle workers. The Lokal Anzeiger claims food is diverted to women and children while public kitchens and hospitals lose rations. A rumored government move aims to outsmart Munich and Bamberg communists, with Levien planning to flee to Budapest by plane with cash from Munich banks.
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Berlin
Copenhagen
Munich
Lokal Anzeiger
Hoffmann
Bamberg
Nuremberg
Levien
Budapest
State of siege proclaimed in Bremen
Berlin reports a state of siege in Bremen with the Senate ordering closure of newspapers and placards, censorship of letters, and bans on telephones and telegraphs. Restaurants theatres and schools are closed, public traffic halted, and a curfew from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. enforced with a cordon around the city.
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Berlin
Bremen
Senate
Japan Likely to Join League Despite Racial Clause Talk
Reports from Tokyo and Paris indicate informed circles expect Japan to enter the League of Nations even if the racial equality clause is dropped by the peace conference. Japanese delegates reportedly stated they would not join if the clause is removed.
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Tokio
Associated Press
Japan
League of Nations
Paris
Stolen Cars on Sale Prompt Massachusetts Alert
Colonel William D. Sohier chairman of the Highway Commission urged a bill to regulate used car dealing. Dealers would notify the Highway Commission and local police four days before sale and maintain records of cars handled for sale.
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William D. Sohier
The
Highway Commission
Committee On Legal Affairs
Massachusetts
20th Engineers To Leave France Soon
Washington dispatch lists units assigned to early convoy homes from France including Headquarters and Headquarters Troop First Army 319th Field Battalion Signal Corps 106th Sanitary Train Headquarters medical detachment 11th and 12th Companies of the Fourth Battalion 20th Engineers. Army bond appeals follow.
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Washington
France
First Army
319Th
Signal Corps
20Th Engineers
Photo-Engravers Strike Over Wages and Hours
More than 130 members of the Photo-Engravers Union went on strike seeking a flat minimum wage of 33 dollars a week and a 10 percent increase for those earning that amount or more. They demand union recognition and a 48 hour week through 1919 and a 44 hour week in 1920. The strike affects commercial work and strike offices are at Elk's Hall Hayward place. Several employers signed the agreement and workers returned to their jobs.
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Photo- Engravers Union
Elk’s Hall
Hayward Place
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