Army justice debate casts doubt on court martial system
Lieutenant Jonel Ansell urged the American Bar Association panel to rewrite military law to guarantee soldiers' rights, arguing the system favors an officer caste and was born from eras when common soldiers served the crown. He criticized departmental control and urged Congress to set discipline rules. Limerick strikers plan local currency amid city wide stoppage.
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Jonel Ansell
American Bar Association
An- Sell
Congress
Ansell
War Department
Crowder
Crowdee
Baker
Army
Wieheatereae
8S.S. Gregory
Chicago
Mr. Gregory
Beker
Martin Conboy
New York
Conboy
Conbey
Germany invites Jo Frange April 20 event
Paris April 23 reported that Allied governments informed Germany through General Nudant at Spa they are ready to receive German delegates at Versailles on April 28.
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Germany
JO Frange
General Nudant
Spa
Italy Bolts Peace Meeting in Paris Over Fiume Quest
Rome delegates say further talks useless unless allies grant their demands. Italians refuse to yield on London pact terms, including Fiume. Break with France Britain and the United States widens as Premier Orlando misses a four power session and Wilson wary on the Fiume issue.
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Paris
Fiume
Orlando
Council of Four
Clamenceau
Lloyd George
Wilson
Kinoe-Chayu
Baron Makino
Viscount Chinda
America
Dalmatian
Italy
France
Great Britain
War with Albanians drives Italians in Albania
Under Italian occupation in Albania the provisional government capital shifted from Durazzo to Tirana. Thousands of Albanians fled to the mountains while Italian artillery failed to seize Kretas Kiafa and Boali. Meetings against Essad Pasha Greece and Serbia were held but poorly attended.
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Ttalian
Albania
Tarishan Pasia
Durazzo
Tirana
Athens
Kretas
Kiafa
Boali
Essad Pasha
Greece
Serbia
Italian Delegation Stands Firm on Fiume Disposal
Paris April 23 Italian delegation to peace conference reasserted determination to stand firm on the Fiume question and said it would not return to the conference unless the council changes its position. With Premier Orlando absent Clemenceau Lloyd George and Wilson resumed consideration of issues concerning China and Japan.
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Wilson
Lloyd George
Clemenceau
Orlando
Sonnine
Italy
Paris
Tion
Fiume
Allies Gain Twenty Miles Near Lake Onega Front
Archangel area reports a 20 mile southward advance along the Murmansk railroad bringing allied forces within easy striking distance of Lake Onega linked to Petrograd by waterways. On April 17 they captured Vojmosalma 80 miles east of Urosoder o and pressed toward Povienets. Bolsh e viki losses were heavy with 28 captured as allies suffered light casualties and continued advancing about ten miles south of Urosodero.
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Murmansk
Lake Onega
Petrograd
Vojmosalma
Urosodero
Povienets
Ptrovinki
Yam
Airman Uses Wireless Phone to Read Wilson Note
An army officer reading President Wilson’s Victory Liberty loan message was broadcast from a plane at 2600 feet to about 15,000 people on the treasury steps. Admiral Sims also spoke via the amplifier as government workers observed the opening loan drive, part of a nationwide $4,500,000 fundraising effort.
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Washington
Wilson
Victory Liberty Loan
Treasury
Admiral Sims
H. EB. Metcalf
Shoot at School Election in Dixon Illinois
In Dixon Illinois on April 28 Sebalt Claussen president of the board and judge of the school election at District 117 in Ogle county shot Martin Engelkes after a dispute over markings given to children by the principal Mrs Floyd Rickenbaugh. Engelkes fired a revolver wounding Claussen and the room emptied through windows as the election was postponed. Engelkes held on $2000 bond.
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Dixon, Ill
Sebalt
Claussen
Board of
Ogle County
Martin Engelkes
Engelkes
Limerick
Oregon
Floyd Rickenbaugh
Warrant for Prince Henry in Berlin fugitive charge
A warrant is issued in Berlin for the arrest of Prince Henry of Prussia, former Kaiser's brother, on a charge of concealing a crime. The prince is described as a fugitive.
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Prince Henry
Amsterdam
Berlin
Prince Henry of
Prussia
Kaiser
Vilna Recaptured From Bolsheviks Reported by Russia
London April 23. The important city of Vilna has been recaptured from the bolsheviks, according to official dispatch in a Russian wireless message. The enemy attacked with considerable force in the Vilna region, pierced our lines and occupied the town.
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London
Vilna
Australians to get $838,500 in home aid under war service act
Melbourne reports that the war service act enables Australian land and sea force members and dependents to obtain homes via a rent purchase scheme at cost plus 5 percent. Eligible soldiers sailors nurses widows and dependents may secure dwellings and land with weekly or monthly payments over 20 to 87 years, plus mortgage advances and house construction on their land or assumption of existing mortgages.
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Melbourne
Australian Land and Sea Forces
War Service Act
Dock Workers Strike in Liverpool England
Five thousand dock workers in Liverpool went on strike on April 23. The action halted port operations and drew attention from local authorities and unions.
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Liverpool
England
Nationalization of Women Law Sparks Outcry in Russia
London reports from Stockholm that a province halted the nationalization decree amid popular protest. Vladimir’s commissary forms a women’s committee to study the law’s operation, which requires girls at eighteen to register and select a husband from men aged nineteen to fifty. Reports cite abductions, forced marriages, and murders as the policy’s consequences, with Kovrov noting scant registrations and widespread resistance.
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London
Russia
Stockholm
Vladimir
Krasnaya=Gazeta
Bureau of Free Love
Gazeta
Nonburgeois Commrade
Rablonowsky
Gurtagin
Kovrov
Noted French flyer reported killed near Lyons
Paris April 22 unconfirmed reports state Jules Vedrines French aviator who departed Villacoublay for Rome may have perished in a plane wreck in the Drone department south of Lyons His mechanic is also said to have died Vera Cruz April 23 Gen Francisco Alvarez of the anti government forces was executed by a squad with utmost bravery in the city
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Paris
Villacoublay
Rome
Department of
Drone
Lyons
Vera Cruz, Mex
Francisco Alvarez
Antigovernment Forces
Huns Prepare for New War in Bavaria and Munich
Munich reports show German elements arming in Upper Silesia with armored cars built at Gleiwitz and hidden guns in Liebnitz and Stresslitz while Oppeln stores engines. Hoffmann ministry asserts Bavarian security improvements as Spartacists are repelled near Dacha and Munich braces for further reinforcements.
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Upper Silesia
Paris
Munich
Journal Des Debats
Gleiwitz
Liebnitz
Stresslitz
Oppelm
German Attack On Red Cross Mission At Kovno
A cablegram to the Lithuanian National Council from its Paris representative reports German troops attacked the Americas Red Cross mission at Kovno in Lithuania. The message provides no time or outcome. One Lithuanian soldier was killed defending the Americans, according to the report.
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New Tarn
Americas Red Cross
Kovno
Lithuania
Lithuanian National Council
Paris
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