Exile May Be Fate of Kaiser Exposed in War Trial Plan
Paris dispatch reports the council of four debating war accountability. Military offenders like Ludendorff and Tirpitz may face joint courts martial under a codified system, while political offenders such as William II and Bethmann Hollweg would be handled through policy-based measures, with Belgium influencing extradition. The talks cover Fiume, Danzig, Kiel canal, Helgoland fortifications, and the fate of the German fleet as naval terms remain unsettled.
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Paris
Council of Four
Belgium
Ludendorff
Tirpitz
William
Bethmann Hollweg
Napoleon I
Napoleon
St. Helena
Europe
Fiume
Danzig
Helgoland
Strife at Springfield Telephone Plant Sparks Break Effort
Springfield Mass April 19 in the effort to break the strike of girl operatives at the local branch of the New Telephone Pecereah on 8 fe using
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Springfield
Mass
Ihe
Giri Op
Pa Pecereah
Foch Plans for Postwar Pressure as German Treaty Drafts Move
Paris reports Marshal Foch and 10 agents prepare a report on actions if Germany refuses to sign the peace treaty. Allies may employ coercion including occupying more German territory, blocking enemy ports, and halting food shipments. The foreign ministers favor revising the 1839 Belgian treaty once Germany’s plenipotentiaries reach Versailles. The opening session will be led by Wilson and the premiers, with Germans arriving Friday night April 25 and a first meeting possibly Saturday or Monday.
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Paris
Marshal Foch
Germany
Foreign Office
von Bethmann-Hollweg
Versailles
Wilson
German government troops seize Brunswick and arrest Eichhorn
Copenhagen reports German forces occupied Brunswick with little resistance and captured Robert Emil Eichhorn, former Berlin police chief who led the capital’s communist movement before Liebknecht and Luxemburg deaths. Eichhorn tried to flee by airplane. it was forced to land and he was jailed. General Merker ousted the Red government, replacing banners with the German flag.
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Copenhagen
Brunswick
Robert Emil Eichhorn
Berlin
Karl Liebknecht
Rosa Luxemburg
Merker
Eichhorn
Herr Richhorn
Julius Barnes Named U S Wheat Director
Washington April 19 Julius Barnes president of the federal grain corporation is appointed by President Wilson to be U S wheat director He will direct the distribution of the nineteen nineteen wheat crop and administer the billion dollar fund for maintaining the price as set by government.
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Washington
Julius Barnes
Federal Grain Corporaton
Wilson
U. S
House Passes Presidential Suffrage Vote Approved
Des Moines reports the legislature passed a bill granting women the right to vote for presidential electors by an 84 to 2 margin. The measure now moves to the governor for final approval.
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HOUSE
Des Moines
Sale of war-built ships begins with 15 vessels sold
The Shipping Board started selling the war-built merchant fleet, transferring 15 wooden steamships to the Naci rema Steamship Company of New York for $650,000 per vessel, averaging $145 per deadweight ton.
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Washington
The
Shipping Board
Nacirema Steamship Company of
New York
Fourteen Yanks and Six French Soldiers Dead in Train Wreck
Paris dispatch reports fourteen American troops and six French soldiers killed when an express train carrying U S troops collided with a stationary French soldier train near Le Mans. Twenty five Americans and twenty two Frenchmen were injured. Le Mans lies in the Sarthe department west of Paris.
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Paris
Amerigen
le Mans
Department of the Sarthe
Receiver for Big Shipyards in Pusey & Jones Case
An application for a receivership was filed in Trenton for the Pusey & Jones company running shipyards at Wilmington Delaware Chester Pennsylvania and Gloucester New Jersey. The Delaware corporation has a capitalization of 40.9 million dollars.
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Pusey & Jones Company
New Jersey
Trenton
N. J
Wilmington
Del
Chester
Glouchester
Delaware
First Icebreaker Reaches Archangel as Bolsheviki Evacuate Bolshie Ozerki
Archangel April 19 Brig Gen Wilds P Richardson US Army arrived with staff on the first big icebreaker into Archangel docks since winter. He carries Pershing’s message praising American expeditionary forces and morale. Richardson plans to front. Bolsheviks evacuate Bolshie Ozerki after two weeks of shelling, woods nearby hold their positions.
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Archangel
Wilds P. Richardson
Richardson
North
Russia
General Pershing
Pershing
America
France
Bolshie Ozerki
Mexico election field widens to six candidates
Washington dispatches report six candidates remain in the race for the Mexican presidency in July 1920, despite President Carranza urging a halt to politics. The winner will assume office December 1, while Carranza cannot seek another term under the constitution.
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Washington
Mexico
Carranza
Mexico City
Daniels Sees Marines On Duty At Ehrenbreitstein
Secretary Josephus Daniels toured Coblenz from Ehrenbreitstein fortress, viewing American marines on duty and motorized artillery of the Seventeenth regiment. He observed lumber piles for new American barracks and recreation centers, and explored underground passages funded in part by French- German wartime labor.
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Coblenz
Ehrenbreitstein
Moselle
Rhine
Josephus Daniels
United States Navy
William I
Germany
Secretary Daniels
Army of Occupation
Daniels
France
Seventeenth Artillery Regiment
E. W. McCable
German Hundred Seventeenth Infantry Forms Baseball Team
In Coblenz area the German One Hundred Seventeenth Infantry based in Hachenburg has formed a baseball team and is learning the American game. Motivated by the Wisconsin brigade in the Thirty-second division, soldiers study rulebooks translated into German and watch American teams to learn the sport despite antifraternization orders limiting coaching.
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Coblenz
One Hundred and Seventeenth Infantry
Hachenburg
Wisconsin
Poles to Buy In America for 450 Million This Year
New York April 18 the Polish government plans to purchase 450 million dollars of U S supplies in the year, stated by Polish economist Levinski Corwin at a meeting of Polish engineers and merchants in America. Weimar April 18 the German cabinet votes to hold a referendum on peace if terms diverge from Wilson's fourteen points.
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United States
New York
Levinski Corwin
America
Hune
Weimar
Wilson
Congressmen Arrive in Porto Rico for Tour
Seventeen members of Congress including Maude Kitchin and Joseph G. Cannon and Senator Gore of Oklahoma arrived in San Juan to tour Porto Rico and be entertained extensively. Senator Kenyon of Iowa, before sailing back to New York, stated the American flag will never be lowered in Porto Rico.
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San Juan
Porto Rico
American Congress
Maude Kitchin
Joseph G. Cannon
Gore
Oklahoma
William S. Kenyon
Iowa
New York
Huns Take Libau From the Letts
German and Baltic German troops seized Libau overthrew the Lettish provisional government. Lettish reserve troops were surprised, disarmed, and interned. German forces hold the city as Premier Ullman protests to General von der Goltz. Ullman reports to Denmark that he is safe and cooperating with the British. The Germans demand one third of a new ministry be Germans.
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Copenhagen
Libau
Lettish
Lettish Press Ducreau
Letts
Ullman
von der Goltz
Letvia
Riga
Denmark
L Ban
Pi Mner
Pada Pers
Debs Lives Freely in Hospital Room at Moundsville Prison
Eve Debs, labeled world’s most noted political prisoner, is not in a cell but in a private ground floor hospital room newly fumigated and painted with a real bed table and chairs. He will remain there until release. Warden says he has no guidance from authorities and is acting independently. visitors are welcome but must dine with Debs.
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Moundsville
W. Va
Eve Gene Debs
Wests Virginia
Ike
Wild Beast
Debs
Washington
Bolshevik Newspaper Appears in France
Paris reports the first bolshevik weekly named Le Titre Censure after Le Bolshevik was banned. edited by George Anquetil, the paper vows to defend bolshevism and denounce the current state of society.
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Paris
France
George Anquetil
Dyer over the top in federal loan allotment
A W Stommell of Dyer, Indiana, urged rapid shipment of publicity supplies for the federal loan program. As chairman of the Dyer organization, he announced on Thursday night that Dyer surpassed its $50,000 allotment with 300 residents participating, and later reversed the need for more materials.
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Hammond
Ind
A. W. Stommell
Dyer
Federal Loan
Stommell
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