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Newspaper
Bridgeport Standard Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1919
Page
6
The Times says Britain will demand Admiral von Tirpitz be tried in London for Germanys submarine warfare. After hearings in the capital, statesmen may indict him as a grand jury would in a murder case in New York or Chicago.
Two sisters aged 20s were killed when their car was struck by a passenger train at a highway crossing by York Harbor and Beach railroad near Foil McElway. Mrs Henry Tuck of Bronxville New York and her sister were summer residents at Kittrey Point and were driving from their summer college to the satellite post office when the wreck occurred.
Obituaries report military funeral for Joseph F. McMahon of 158 Nichols Street with services at St Marva RC Church and burial at St Michael's cemetery. Other notices include deaths of James M. Snee, Elizabeth Hayes, Marie Williams, Bartholomew Pender, Mary E. Smith, May B. Smith, Thomas A. Hanley, Lewis Chatfield, and Grace Hartman with services across local churches, private burials, and familiar fraternal and church group attendances.
President Wilson may invite members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to a White House conference before delivering the peace treaty. Five senators, three Democrats and two Republicans, were named as likely invitees. The plan includes separating the League of Nations covenant from the treaty and substituting for certain words. The move aims to gain support as the Foreign Relations Committee prepares to start formal discussion next week.
The United States plans to compete with Britain and France in dirigible production and to build a naval dirigible shed capable of housing large rigid airships. The shed is described as five times the size of a British B-31 and would accommodate up to 10,000,000 cubic feet. Naval experts weigh freight and passenger potential, but commercial development is delayed until dirigibles are airborne.
New York dispatch reports Irish leader Eamonn De Valera replying to Lord French on Ireland's status. He cites Dec election figures showing 20 percent voting union and 73 of 105 MPs elected on independence and republic lines, alleging British agents manipulated the result.
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