League Covenant Summary Predicts Peace Through Assembly
The Paris summary outlines the League of Nations covenant. It creates an assembly with up to three representatives per member state and a council including five great powers. Members may withdraw with two years' notice. The league promotes cooperation, disarmament, arbitration, and collective security, with a permanent secretariat and court. Members pledge to reduce armaments, exchange military information, respect territory, submit disputes to arbitration, and treat treaty breaches as acts of war against the league. Nonmembers may join for specific disputes, with enforcement possible.
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Wehle on League Covenant and International Peace
Louis B. Wehle surveys the League of Nations covenant provisions. He notes that mandates for former colonies and Ottoman territories are to be administered by willing states, with general supervision. He highlights responsibilities on labor, native treatment, drugs, arms traffic, transit, health, and Red Cross work, and identifies the league as central to coordinating international activity. Amendments require council approval and majority assembly consent, with dissenting states free to resign.
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Plunder Creeps as Soviet Rule Bites Budapest
Amsterdam dispatch reports famine and looting in Budapest after Soviet control. Dutch refugees recount soldiers robbing women for earrings while essentials vanish. Bela Kun weighs broader army action and accuses Romanians of abducting his family as salt flour milk and fat remain scarce.
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Oldensaal
Bela Kun
Hungary
Debs Leaves to Begin Term for Federal Prison
Eugene V. Debs boarded a Big Four train in Terre Haute escorted to begin serving a ten year federal sentence at Moundsville. The Socialist leader heads to Cleveland to surrender after his Canton speech conviction for obstructing the nation's war effort.
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Lenine Government Opens Talks on Peace Relief
Paris reports say Bolshevik Russia would suspend executions and punishments for opponents in exchange for goods and recognition and halt expansion of Bolshevism in allied states. It demands recognition of its de facto and de jure government and soviet rule, while refusing democratic elections or reconvening a constituent assembly. A neutrals report hints on freedom of speech and press as potential food-relief conditions.
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Hjalmar Branting
Constituent Assembly
Berlin spends 109 million marks monthly on occupying armies
Berlin reports the imperial treasury is paying an average of 109,000,000 marks per month to maintain the armies of occupation, totaling about 27 million dollars, with the announcement made in Berlin.
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Liggett's Army to be dissolved April 20
Word from Third Army headquarters says Lieut. Gen. Hunter L. Liggett will dissolve the First Army on April 20. The report places the action within the larger reorganization of Allied forces in the region.
Summons to Meet Peace Congress at Versailles
Paris April 14 The summoning of the Peace Congress will occur between April 26 and May 5 after enemy nation delegates are admitted. President Wilson will remain and take part in the congress at Versailles where German plenipotentiaries will participate.
Victory fleet arrives off Ambrose channel in New York
The vanguard of the Victory fleet of 103 American warships has arrived off Ambrose channel. The fleet will pass up the harbor on Tuesday to mark the opening of the Victory loan campaign with a great reception in New York.
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Paris deputation offered Ireland home rule to Sinn Feiners
Paris reports a Dublin correspondent says a Paris deputation offered Edward de Valera home rule for Ireland as a British dominion if Sinn Feiners abandoned republican policy. The claim cites a reliable Paris source and reflects the political maneuvering around Easter Week tensions.
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Saxon War Minister Killed in Dresden Riots
April 14 dispatch from Copenhagen reports Herr Neuring Saxony war minister killed during a Dresden confrontation with protesting soldiers who stormed the ministry and threw him into the Elbe. Five die in disorders as a state of siege is proclaimed and troops abstain from fire. A march on the war ministry preceded the tragedy. May begin Soviet rule noted in Weimar with potential move and coal strikes in Zwickau and Lugau.
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Victory Loan Announced Sevenths District Quota Set
Washington April 14 Secretary Glass announced final form terms of the Victory loan the last of the Liberty issues. The issue begins April 21 as gold notes four-year maturity redeemable at par after three years two note classes taxable at 4 percent or tax exempt except for estate taxes both convertible. Total subscriptions sought 84.5 billion with no heavy oversubscription allotment up to 10 000 fully. District quotas list New York 901 850 000 Chicago 875 000 000 San Francisco 0 0 Richmond 210 000 000 St Louis 195 000 000 Kansas City 185 000 000 Minneapolis 144 000 000 Dallas 4 500 000 total 4 500 000 000 Chicago and Cook County get 189 225 000 Iowa Michigan Indiana Wisconsin totals per district and state quotas follow.
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Mrs Phoebe Hearst Dies at Home in Pleasanton
Mrs Phoebe A Hearst mother of William Randolph Hearst died at her home the Huelands Pleasanton after weeks of illness. She was the widow of former California Senator George Hearst and was seventy six years old.
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Mra
Phoebe A. Hearst
Willing Randolph Bearst
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George Hearst
California
Hanson to Tour Country on Victory Loan Speaking Tour
San Francisco April 14 Mayor Ole Hanson of Seattle announced he will accept a government invitation to a coast to coast speaking tour supporting the Victory loan. His subject will be Americanization and he warned against pandering to or conciliating anarchists citing recent Seattle revolutionary attempts.
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