Poling Sees Prohibition Rally Among Troops Abroad
Dr. Daniel A. Poling, associate president of the United Society of Christian Endeavor, reports soldiers overseas favor national prohibition. He describes reactions in Germany and Brest, defends American camps, and asserts Europe supports Wilson and the League of Nations with Taft as Republican voice.
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America
Daniel A. Poling
United Society of Christian Endeavor of
Boston
Army and Navy
England
France
Germany
Dr. Poling
Mt. Vernon Street
Army of Accupation
Army of Occupation
Brest
Wilson
League of Nations
Dr.Poling
Scotland
Europe
Cambridge School Committee Mulls Session Change
An open Cambridge school committee meeting at city hall will decide whether to keep one daily session or revert to two sessions. Mothers petition to extend the half hour recess to one hour, citing insufficient meal time for children.
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Cambridge
Cambridge City Hall
The Boys Praise Velvet Joe's Tobacco
Velvet Joe receives praise from The Boys who express strong liking for his tobacco product. Leggatt Myara Febacee Cx noted in the crowd.
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Velvet Joe
Allies Agree to German Demands In Peace Talks
The article reports that French premier Clemenceau and Colonel House of the American peace delegation, with Lord Cecil, tentatively approved a resolution. It provides that once ships are delivered, the allies will revictual Germany until the next harvest, with payment in coal, potatoes, nitrates, and other needed products.
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Ish
M. Clemenceau
Edward M. House
Robert Cecil
Germany
Settlement Momentum as Great Powers Move Toward Spa Talks
The council nears agreement on a settlement and resumes Spa negotiations while approving Bohemia relief plans. A committee including Crespi Hoover and Cecil will oversee delivering 3000 tons daily via Fiume and Trieste to Austria, plus 80,000 tons already docked. Lansing pushes legal review of German cables, and Lloyd George seeks troop reductions under 200,000, with terms still subject to revision.
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Spa
Bohemia
Austria
Silvio Crespi
Herbert Hoover
Interallied Relief Organization
Robert Cecil
Mr. Hoover
Fiume
Trieste
Crespi
Italy
Robert Lansing
Lloyd George
Supreme Council Discusses Military Terms for Peace Treaty
Paris March 7. The supreme council met at 3 p.m. and heard Lloyd George address the military terms of the preliminary peace with Germany. It noted Spa talks on surrender of the German merchant fleet and completed re victualling the former Austria Hungary states. An inter allied commission was appointed to probe Laibach incidents. Secretary Lansing submitted a German cables proposal. The next meeting is set for tomorrow at 3 p.m.
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Paris
Spa
Supreme Council
Lloyd George
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Lansing
Laibach
Croatia
Trieste
Austria- Hungary
Clemenceau
House
Albania Proposes American Mandate Over Albanian Lands
Albania’s delegation to the peace conference proposes that if its claims are not admitted by the supreme council a mandate be given to the United States to occupy and administer for one year the territories Albanians claim. The lands include Tchamara and areas annexed to Montenegro and Serbia with a possible extension to northern Epirus under population consent.
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Paris
Clemenceau
Supreme Council
United States
Tchamara
Montenegro
Serbia
Epirus
Albania
Greece
Hurley attributes German surrender tenor to mutinous sailors
Chairman Hurley of the Shipping Board said German delegates resisted unconditional surrender of merchant ships due to fear of mutinous Bremen and Hamburg sailors who oppose Allied control. He noted German delegates demanded Allied food guarantees before action and warned ships could be taken by force if needed. Hurley spoke after Treves conference and said no ships had been turned over yet.
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Washington
Hurley
The
Shipping Board
Bremen
Hamburg
Germany
Treves
France
Temporarily Broken Off at Spa on Shipping Question
German wireless message from London reports Spa talks on shipping broken off after allied demand for unconditional handover of remaining German ships. Germany insists food guarantees, 2,500,000 tons, are needed before any fleet transfer. British leaders Lloyd George Clemenceau and House meet in Paris to resolve military naval and economic terms.
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London
Spa
Germany
Entente
Lloyd George
Clemenceau
Col. House
Ebert Rejects Scheidemann Resignation in Berlin Crisis
Chancellor Scheidemann handed in his resignation to President Ebert to give him room to handle the crisis. Ebert declined to accept and urged Scheidemann and the cabinet to stay in office, per the Zeitung am Mittag of Berlin.
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Amsterdam
Scheidemann
Ebert
Zeitung Am “Eittag
Berlin
Young Owen Sells Post on Boston Hotel Lobby
Reginald Bryan Owen six year old grandson of William Jennings Bryan travels from Egypt to Baltimore. He tours Boston with his French governess selling Boston Post newspapers at Parker House and plans to depart from South Station for New York on the noon train. Post officials arrange to see him off, delayed by baggage transfer from Portland.
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Boston Post
Reginald Bryan Owen
William Jennings Bryan
Reginald
Mile
Marguerite Passot
New York
Egypt
Baltimore
Patrick J. Mulcahy
Postoffice
William E. Hurley
Thomas G. Patton
Boston
United States Postoffice Department
Portland
Mr. Mulcahy
Hurley
Prominent Brockton Manufacturer Sentenced for Attempted Assault
James E. Atus, 62, a longtime dye industry businessman, was sentenced in Brockton Superior Court to four to six years in Charlestown State Prison for an attempted assault on his former book keeper Miss Sue Bessie Daniels. The sentence is being appealed to the Supreme Judicial Court.
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Brockton
James E. Atus
Charlestown
Sue Bessie Daniels
Supreme Court
Miss Daniels
Atus
William H. Lewis
United States
James Hi. Sisk
Boston to raise one million for Near East relief
A Boston City Club conference with about ten representatives voted unanimously to campaign in metropolitan Boston for one million dollars to aid the Near East relief effort. The drive begins March 31 as part of a nationwide push to raise thirty million for Asia Minor relief, led locally by Calvin G. Fencil with remarks from Lt. Gov. Channing Cox and speakers Dr. Charles W. Eliot Moorfield Storey and Rev. Dr. Brewer Eddy.
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Boston
Boston City Club
American Committee For Relief
Near East
Asia Minor
Channing Cox
Charles W. Eliot
Moorfield Storey
Brewer Eddy
Harry G. Hoak
Campaign of the
American Committee
Calvin G. Fencil
Tragedy on the Rails: 84-Year-Old Killed Near Chelsea Crossing
Eugene Cormier, 84, was fatally struck by the Boston bound Rockport express while working on the tracks near Crescent Avenue crossing in Chelsea. His body was hurled about 30 feet and mangled in the fatal incident.
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Boston & Maine Railroad
Crescent Avenue
Chelsea
Eugene Cormier
Rockport Express
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