18 Apr 1919
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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1919
Page
1
Belgium reports total war damages at 7 billion dollars in a central industrial committee study. Key items include 1.1 billion for state property, 2.0 billion in war expenses, and 1.6 billion for industry losses. The note covers railroads posts telegraphs and private property destruction.
Entente delegates estimate Germany will need about one week to digest the peace treaty and prepare an answer, plus four days travel between Berlin and Versailles. They believe Germanys reply likely will not be ready before May 6.
Former German officer is named custodian of property aboard the steamship Patricia after a navigation authorities action. The incident centers on constitutional property control and wartime restitution steps.
From Copenhagen dated April 18, a German force has forcibly captured Libau, overthrowing the Yettish administration and installing a provisional government. Libau reserves were greatly reduced as units were sent to the Bolshevik front. the Libau garrison was surprised and overwhelmed.
In Boston on April 18 a German agent aboard the Patricia attempted to set a fire as the transport neared with about 2,812 troops aboard including the One Hundred and Second and One Hundred and Third machine gun battalions. Fisher, locked in a state room, allegedly manipulated electric wires to start the blaze. crew extinguished the fire and he was restrained. The Patricia, a Hamburg merchant ship turned Allied property, carried multiple units and detachments from several states and the regular army.
An Allied scouting party ahead of the rail line surprised and wounded Bolshevik patrols in a forest four miles east of the railway. The front has been quiet recently as roads thaw, causing transport delays due to icy slush.
German troops occupy Brunswick with little resistance and arrest Robert Eichhorn, former Berlin police chief who led a communist revolt in Berlin before the deaths of Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg. Eichhorn fled after that upheaval.
Reports from Libau and Stockholm describe a rapid annihilation of bourgeois elements in Riga with 70 009 victims sent to the Island of Hasen in the Duna river, including women and children. Russian fronts claim gains from the Baltic to the Black Sea as Petrograd endures rising deaths and unrest.
More than half of 10 000 troops due in New York were fog bound in the lower bay for hours after crossing from France aboard the Kaiserin Augusta Victoria. The vessel was the first of the German ships handed to the allies for use at this port.
Foreigners and especially Americans in Vienna receive marriage proposals from wealthy Hungarian families hoping to shield assets from nationalization. Many Hungarians flee poverty, Count Karolyi begs for condensed milk from the U S mission while lamenting treatment by allies and aristocrats. He once spent a million crowns annually.
Irish delegation predicts invitation for Tamang, Griffiths, Plunkett to join the peace conference within ten days. M. J. Ryan reports that Ireland’s case will be placed before the big four, with President Wilson said to listen sympathetically as the Irish-American delegation presses for self-government and a hearing of Irish claims.
The will of Phoebe A Hearst valued at several million dollars was filed for probate in San Francisco County. Attorney Charles Stetson Wheeler presented the document naming William Randolph Hearst as principal beneficiary with most bequests to family and friends and the University of California as the only institution mentioned.
London dispatches report the possible capture of Sebastopol by Bolshevik forces. Bolshevik troops are said to be engaged with Romanian forces along the entire Dniester front.
April 18 report from Venice California says aviation instructor Andrew Curry and an unidentified pupil were killed when their plane entered a tall spin and plunged into a residence section.
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