President Wilson Hosts London Portrait Moment at Downing Street
In London on December 28, President Wilson met with David Lloyd George and Arthur Balfour for peace talks. He and Queen Mary attended a Buckingh am Palace banquet where he unveiled Lord Albemarle's portrait of George Washington. Crowds cheered as Wilson waved and newspapers praised his visit.
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David Lloyd George
Arthur J. Balfour
London
Wilson
Mr. Lloyd George
President Wilson
Buckingham Palace
Pershing tightens rules in occupied German zone
General Pershing, commander of American forces at Coblenz, orders strict obedience to new regulations in the German-occupied area. The rules require registration of all residents over twelve, control travel, ban light wine and beer consumption, and impose censorship on the press, theaters, and mails, modeled on French rules.
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Coblenz
General Pershing
Pershing
British Warship Calypso Captures Bolshevik Destroyers
The British warship Calypso seized two Bolshevik destroyers in the eastern Baltic. One destroyer bombarded lighthouse at Reval and the crew were taken prisoner. Calypso reported unharmed with no casualties.
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London
Calypso
Admiralty
Reval
Bethlehem and Near East relief praised by General Allenby
A cablegram received in New York thanks American Sunday schools for relief efforts in Bethlehem Nazareth and Jerusalem. General Allenby, commanding British forces, sends Christmas greetings to every scholar teacher and officer thanking them for last year's offerings rather than gifts.
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Bethlehem
Nazareth
Jerusalem
Sunday Schools of America
American Committee For Relief In
Near East
State Department
Allenby
Hoover Refuses German Request for Food Talks
Food Administrator Hoover in Europe rejects a proposed meeting with Baron von der Lancken and Dr. Rith, prominent German officials in Belgium. He authoritatively tells them to relay two and a half years of arrogance and cruelty to the Belgians and to go to hell with his compliments.
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Washington
Hoover
Europe
Baron von der Lancken
Rith
Paris
Belgium
Berlin
Walter Lyman Brown
Commission For Relief
Rotterdam
Mr. Hoover
Two-Cent Fare Law Upheld by U.S. Judge
Judge C. W. Sessions in Grand Rapids upheld the Michigan 2-cent fare law in U S district court. He denied the Grand Rapids Grand Haven and Muskegon interurban railway’s bid to raise its fare to 3 cents and rejected their injunction request to block enforcement.
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Michigan
C. W. Sessions
United States District Court
Grand Rapids
Grand Haven
Muskegon
Son watches mother killed by street car
In Detroit on December 28 Frank Borowski helplessly watched from his jail cell as his mother was struck and killed by a street car while crossing the street on her way to visit him. He is in custody awaiting trial for automobile stealing.
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Son
Detroit
Frank Borowski
Frank
French Notes For Yanks In Germany
Paris reports the American occupation army in Germany will be paid in French notes of about 10 20 and 40 cents. This marks the first issuance of such small notes by the French government the smallest prior notes being 5 francs about one dollar.
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Germany
Paris
Bolshevik Envoy Proposes Peace Talks With Allies
Boris Litvinoff former Bolshevik envoy to Britain sent a formal note to the Allies and President Wilson offering to negotiate peace. The message, directed to London, was reported from Stockholm.
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United States
Stockholm
Boris Litvinoff
Great Britain
Wilson
London
Army Sick List Is Small for Occupying Troops
Coblenz December 28 The Third Army medical officers report a low sickness rate among occupying American troops with about 4000 cases in eight evacuation hospitals within the occupied area. With an approximate 300000 troops the illness rate is under 1 percent. In peacetime soldiers average 2 to 3 percent ill.
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Coblenz
Third Army
Berlin Faces Anarchy As Sailors Hold Palace
A Berlin dispatch reports mutinous sailors and their wives seizing rifles to defend the royal palace against civil guards. Although surrendering, the sailors stay in the city backing Chancellor Ebert, while Spartacists led by Karl Liebknecht threaten ministers. The Vorwaerts plant is held with machine guns and an armored car in use.
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Berlin
The
Express
Ebert
Spartacides
Ebert-Scheidemann
Karl Liebknecht
Vorwaerts
ASK CABLE IMPROVEMENTS
Exporters bankers merchants and lawyers members of the Council on Foreign Relations urged raising censorship and increasing cable facilities with foreign countries at a Washington luncheon. They discussed laying cables to the Far East and along the Atlantic coast of South America.
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New York
Council On Foreign Relations
Washington
United States
Far East
Atlantic
South America
Praises Valian t Service MacArthur Promotion Urged
Maj. Gen. Charles T. Menoher praises Brig. Gen. Douglas MacArthur in a letter to Gen. Pershing urging his promotion to major general. The missive supports MacArthur’s leadership of the Rainbow division and has reached Washington.
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Rainbow
Washington
Douglas MacArthur
Forty-second
Charles T. Menoher
Pershing
General MacArthur
Powers to raise duties extended to Carranza
Mexico City reports the chamber of deputies granted extraordinary financial powers to President Carranza after his message urging reform. The new authority allows decrees to suspend import duties on foodstuffs essentials and agricultural implements until June 30, 1919.
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Carranza
Chamber of Deputies
Chamber
Praident
Go ing After Trade Practical American Business Men Will Be in Charge
The American shipping board plans a permanent world organization to manage the government's trade fleet with offices in London Paris and Rome and 10 to 12 centers in Shanghai Yokohama Bombay Genoa Buenos Aires Valparaiso Rio Janeiro Rotterdam Antwerp. Ships supplying Belgium or France may be rerouted to India or South Africa for efficiency. Centers will be run by practical shipping men from the United States with no interference with the war department.
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World Organization
London
Rome
Edward N. Hurley
Mr. Hurley
Shanghai
Yokohama
Bombay
Genoa
Italy
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Valparaiso
Rio Janeiro
South America
Rotterdam
Antwerp
Belgium
France
India
South Africa
United States
War Department
Wheat Guaranty Costly for U S Farmers
Washington reports the cost to fulfill wartime price supports for farmers may reach 500 million dollars or more. House agricultural chair A F Lever estimates the gap between the forecast 1919 wheat crop value and the $2.26 price set during the war. A bill would extend the Grain Corporation and raise its capital stock.
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Uncle Sam
A. F. Lever
House Agricultural Committee
Lever
United States Grain Corporation
Food Administration and Agricultural Department
France Losses in Officers and Men Counted at 1 071 300
Paris reports in the Chamber of Deputies that France has suffered 1 071 300 officers and men killed or missing as of November 1 this year. The tally lists 31 300 officers and 1 040 000 men killed or missing, with 42 600 officers and 1 789 000 men dead or missing. The missing totals include 3 000 officers and 311 000 men.
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Paris
Chamber of Deputies
M.,.abras
France
Sinn Fein Declares Irish Republic Amid UK Election News
London reports early coalition wins in Britain while Ireland's Sinn Fein claims a new republic. Sinn Fein sweeps Leinster Munster and Connaught with seventy MPs elected but not seating. An Irish parliament to be formed in Dublin. government disbandment may relocate the assembly.
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Sinn Fein
Arthur Henderson
British Labor Party
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Charlotte Despard
Viscount French
Leutenant
Ireland
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Richard Morris
Morris
Mia Despard
Lemion
the Express
Sinn
Free Passage Demanded for Polish Troop Trains to Vilna
Warsaw dispatch reports the Polish chief of staff demands free passage for Polish troop trains over German lines from the frontier to Vilna. The request also seeks rejoining of Polish and Lithuanian railroads cut by Germany as Bolshevist threats loom over Vilna.
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Lithuania
Warsaw
Hoffmann and
Falkenhayn
Pension for Army Nurses Urged
Secretary Baker urged retirement of army nurse corps members after 20 years of service at three quarters pay in a letter to Speaker Clark, renewing the War department request for related legislation.
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Washington
Army Nurse Corps
Baker
Clark
War Department
Daily Market Report for Minneapolis and Chicago Grain and Livestock
Minneapolis oats, rye, barley, corn prices. Duluth flaxseed. Chicago corn oats, and wheat futures. South St. Paul and Chicago live stock receipts with cash hog, cattle, calf, and sheep prices. Butter eggs poultry prices and live poultry quotes for Minneapolis markets.
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South St. Paul
Union Stock Yards
Chicago
United States Bureau of Markets
Shooting too good for him opinion on Kaiser
Richard Barth socialist Reichstag member says the former Kaiser and co conspirators deserve harsher punishment than death or exile. He argues the best penalty is forcing them to rebuild Belgium and northern France, in an interview with the Express correspondent in Berlin.
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Richard Barth
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Belgium
France
Berlin
the Express
Negro Soldiers Riot in Brooklyn Saloon Looting
Seventy five Negro soldiers from the quartermaster corps and the Fifteenth Infantry are under heavy military guard at the army building in Brooklyn after looting several saloons and inciting a riot. Saloon keepers refused to serve uniformed men, prompting military police intervention.
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New York
Quartermaster’s Corps
Fifteenth Infantry
Army Building
Brooklyn
Intervention Means Slaughter in Russia
Boris Litvinov on behalf of the Soviet government declares Allied intervention in Russia can only lead to great slaughter. The note, released publicly, was sent to President Wilson in London and to the American British French and Italian embassies offering to open peace talks with the Bolsheviks.
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Wilson
Buckingham Palace
Europe
Russia
Germany
Austria
Court of St. James
Royal Household
Church of England
Stockholm
Boris Litvinoff
Wilsom
Ebert Ousted as Hague Report Signals Crisis in Berlin
Dispatches from Berlin and London report the Ebert government nearly toppled with Scheidemann fleeing and a new cabinet possible including Liebknecht and Ledebour. Berlin troops bombard the royal palace, sailors surrender, and Hindenburg marches on Berlin to restore order as the central soviet looms.
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The
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Ebert
Berlin
Philip Scheidemann
Karl Liebknecht
George Ledebour
Central Soviet
Royal
von Hindenburg
Vorwaerts
Britten Seeks House Vote on World League of Nations
Rep RE A Britten of Chicago offers a resolution in the House urging Congress to back a League of Nations for enduring world peace. He aims for a committee hearing after the holidays and asks the peace conference to form the league at the earliest moment, quoting President Wilson.
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Congress
League of Nations
RE. A. Britten
Chicago
Committee On Naval Affairs
Britten
Committee On Foreign Relations
House
Wilson
Wilson Invited to Help Settle Vatican Question
Monsignor Ceretti the papal undersecretary of state asked President Wilson to mediate with a view to settling the Vatican situation during their Paris interview He submitted documents to Wilson justifying the Vatican's neutrality during the war
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Rome
Monsignor Ceretti
Wilson
Paris
McAdoo to Practice Law in New York City
William G. McAdoo will open a New York law office around April 1 after a three month rest in California. He will remain director general of railroads until a successor is appointed by President Wilson.
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New York
William G. McAdoo
New York City
Secretary of the Treasury
WilsOn
California
Creel denies resignation plans in Europe
George Creel head of the committee of public information says he has not resigned but plans to quit and return to the United States after settling affairs in Europe. In New York officials formed a four member committee to discuss raising censorship on commercial cables with cabinet officials and government authorities.
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Paris
United States
Europe
George Creel
Committee of Public Information
New York
Council of Foreign Relations
Postal Request Urges Enrollment Week for Boys’ Reserve
Secretary of Labor Wilson asks governors to support January 20 as a national enrollment week for the United States Boys Working Reserve. The group, formed during wartime to boost agricultural labor, should be continued to ensure food production meets global needs.
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Washington
Wilson
United States
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