Germany Rebuffs Peace Proposals Amid War Stalemate
Chancellor Von Hertling rejects Wilson and Lloyd George terms. Germany will keep occupied territories and argues Russian peace does not involve others. He vows to negotiate with France alone on evacuating land, refuses Alsace Lor raine surrender, delays Belgium restoration, and seeks Britain to give up Gibraltar and other fortresses.
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Wilson
Lloyd George
France
Alsace-Lorraine
Belgium
Britain
Gibraltar
No Peace But By The Sword In Berlin And Vienna
Washington reports from Berlin and Vienna show German Chancellor von Hertling and Austrian foreign minister presenting war aims that favor ending the conflict only through victory. Officials say texts hint at internal audience aims and possible discord among allies, with Germany sounding aggressive and Austria more conciliatory.
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Washington
Berlin
Vienna
von Hertling
Germany
Austria
German Chancellor Hertling Reply Bristles With War Spirit
Amsterdam dispatch notes Count von Hertling’s reply to Wilson and Lloyd George is the most reactionary German official statement yet. It rejects any conciliatory ground for peace and embodies aggression, flouting allied efforts for a just settlement and reflecting Junker and pan German aims.
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Amsterdam
Count von Hertling
Wilson
Lloyd George
United States
Great Britain
Bay State Street Railway Ends Wage Dispute With Coop Plan
Receiver Wallace B Denham and Amalgamated Association chief W D Mahon announce a cooperative wage plan averting a strike for 460 Bay State workers. Unions on Brockton and Chelsea divisions vote unanimously to accept, preserving current contracts while adding a two cent hourly guarantee via cooperative savings devices. Further cooperation will be agreed between company and union representatives, with the plan expected to be signed today.
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Wallace B. Denham
Bay State Street Railway Company
W. D. Mahon
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employer of America
Bay State
Brockton
Chelsea
Fuel Administrator Prohibits Time-Making Work Shifts
Fuel Administrator James J. Storrow bans any increase in working hours on days other than Monday to recover lost Monday holiday time. He issued revised Monday closing regulations for New England and left Boston for New York to press coal supply relief with President A. E. Smith. Storrow urged extra coal shipments to Boston as barge traffic at Hampton Roads remains stalled and deliveries lag.
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New England
Boston
James J. Storrow
New York
A. E. Smith
New York Central
McAdoo
Hampton Roads
Mr. Storrow
Storrow Urges Officeholders in Business Blocks
Mr. Storrow issued a statement urging occupants of offices in business blocks to consider reforms and public interest. He emphasized accountability and potential policy changes affecting commercial districts.
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Mr. Storrow
Roosevelt Confers with Guests at Medill McCormick Home
Colonel Roosevelt spends the day with friends in Washington and will return to Oyster Bay tomorrow. About a hundred congressmen were invited to meet him at Representative Medill McCormick's house tonight. The War Inquiry Committee released part of secret testimony as McCormick testified allied governments urged caution over American aid in October.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Medill McCormick
Oyster Bay
Senate’ Military Committee
McCormick
Illinois
House
Wilson Bars All Visitors
President Wilson cancelled all engagements for this afternoon and stayed at the White House. Officials cited a slight cold. no outward signs indicated focus on international events or attacks on the War Department in Congress.
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Washington
Wilson
White House
War Department
Congress
Stettinius Named Army Purchases Surveyor General
Edward Stettinius of New York was appointed surveyor general for army purchases. President Wilson chose WD J Stettinius of J P Morgan & Co to direct army supplies, praised as an ideal man by James J Phelan who notes his long experience buying for the allies since 1914.
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Edward Stettinius
New York
Wilson
WD. J. Stettinius
J. P. Morgan & Co
Army
James J Phelan
Andicott
Phelan
Hornblower & Weeks
Post
Stettinius
United States
Abruzzo Convicted of First Degree Murder in Saloon Slaying
Thomas Abruzzo was found guilty of murder in the first degree for the June hold up of a New York saloon. Prosecutors said he killed Mathew Castelli to remove the sole witness to a Boston robbery where their companion Thomas Costello had swallowed a $20 gold piece.
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New York
Thomas Abruzzo
Mathew Casselli
Abruzzo
Castelli
Boston
Thomas Costello
Costello
Refused Passport to American Diplomat in Stockholm
In Stockholm on January 25 the Bolshevik foreign representative refused to grant a visa to Livingston Phelps third secretary at the American embassy in Petrograd who wishes to return to his post.
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Livingston Phelps
The
American
Petrograd
Men carry girl miles over trail on Stone Mountain rescue
Eighteen mountaineers from Smith Kentucky carried Miss Lilliath Robbins a 21 year old Boston girl and Boston University graduate over snowbound Stone Mountain in a storm. They bore her from a settlement school to the railroad so she could reach a hospital in Louisville. The tale reached Boston last night.
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Smith
Kentucky
Lilliath Robbins
Boston
Boston University
Stone Mountain
Louisville
Boston Settlement Worker Rescued From Kentucky Mountain Trail
Miss Robbins formerly of the Frances E. Willard Settlement, living at 44 Chambers Street, graduated from Boston University last June and worked at Pine Mountain. In a severe winter storm 18 men from Smith village carried her to a railroad and she reached Louisville hospital for an operation.
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Frances E. Willard
Chambers Street
Boston University
Kentucky
Pine Mountain
Smith
Louisville
Stone Mountain
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