Harden says HUNERVOY lied to Wilson in WWI speech
Amsterdam dispatch reports Maximilian Harden accusing Bernstorff of deception toward President Wilson and asserts Moltke told the Kaiser in September 1914 that the war was lost. Harden recalls missed peace opportunities in 1914 and 1916, and discusses U-boat warfare debates led by Tirpitz amid global war fatigue.
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Amsterdam
Helmuth von Moltke
Germany
Marne
Maximilian Harden
Die Zukunft
Hamburg
Bernstorf
Harden
Washington
Wilson
Foreign Office
Bernstorff
France
Moltke
Hardens
Roumanians Declare Union With Roumania in Transylvania
The Roumanian national assembly at Gyulafebervar adopts a resolution calling all Roumanians in Transylvania Banat and Hungary to proclaim their union with Roumania during the Hungarian meeting.
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Amsterdam
President Wilson Calls for Sacrifices by All Nations
On board the steamer George Washington December 6, it was learned that President Wilson will announce from France that all nations at the peace table must be prepared to sacrifice and that armed domination by any one nation must end.
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George Washington
Wilson
France
Ruthenians Retake Lemberg from Poles
Paris reports Ruthenian forces have retaken Lemberg from Polish control. The development marks a turn in the regional struggle as depicted in dispatches from the front.
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Lemberg
Paris
Carter Glass Nominated by Wilson for Treasury Secretary
Representative Carter Glass of Virginia was nominated by President Wilson to be secretary of the treasury. Glass, long a banking and currency expert, chairs the House committee on banking and currency and helped shape the federal reserve act. He owns the Lynchburg Daily News and Daily Advance, serves on the University of Virginia board of visitors, and led the Democratic national committee last campaign. He traveled to Europe recently to study wartime conditions and aftermath.
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Carter Glass
Virginian
Wilson
the Treasury
Glass
Virginia
Congress
Virginian State Senate
House
Federal Reserve Nct
Lynchburg
Daily News
Daily Advance
University of Virginia
Democratic National Committee
Europe
Berlin fears Bolshevik threat and Bavarian conference plan
Berlin reports a Bolshevik outbreak risk led by Doctor Liebknecht with hidden artillery and munitions. Premier Ebert and Scheidemann blamed if blood is shed. Eisner of Bavaria calls for an immediate German-wide conference at Jena to align policies on assembly, foreign ministry, and documents. Austrian divisions moving from the western front desert, leaving equipment behind in Württemberg.
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Amsterdam
Berlin
Deutsche Zeitung
Liebknecht
Ebert
Phillipp Scheidemann
Eisner
Bavaria
Munich
Ibert
Jena
Saxe-Weimar
National Assembly
Foreign Ministry
Heilbronn
Stuttgart
Furttemberg
Berlin Kreuz Zeitung
Berlin in turmoil as firing erupts in streets
Reports from London dated December 6 state serious disorders have broken out in Berlin with considerable street firing. The unrest is attributed to the German Bolsheviki.
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Berlin
London
Bol
Hospital ship Comfort Missing After Storm With 400 Soldiers
Army authorities say the hospital ship Comfort carrying four hundred wounded American soldiers from France has not been heard from since Thursday. A damaged wireless station amid a heavy storm is suspected as the cause.
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New York
Comfort
France
Baker Reduces War Contracts Across Nation
Secretary of War Baker announces large contract cancellations save about seven to twelve billion dollars from wartime appropriations. He says veteran divisions in France may stay until peace is declared, while a large portion of orders canceled affects powder artillery vehicles textiles and other supplies. Midwest regions report significant contract losses as cancellations rise.
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D Baker
France
Europe
Senate Finance Committee
Baker
War Department
Congress
House Appropriations Committee
Treasury
Sherley
House
United States
Midwest
Army faces surplus explosives across states
Mr. Baker listed state allocations of powder totals with Massachusetts at 241 million, Michigan 743 million, New York 90 million each for Pennsylvania Ohio and Missouri, Illinois 55 million, Tadiana 844 million, Wisconsin and Minnesota 11 million each. He said the army has powder in excess of its needs and expresses embarrassment over storage.
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Massachusetts
Michigan
New York
Pennseyylvania
Ohio
Missour
Ilinois
Tadiana
Wisconsin
Minnesota
3D Army Continues Advance South of Moselle
General Pershing's communique reports the Third army advancing south of the Moselle to the line Berneastel Malborn Otzenhausen while northwest of Berncastel the line holds. In Prussia hundreds of thousands of Germans are under American authority, with normal life resuming as troops advance and factories hum.
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Prussia
Washington
Pershine
France
Third
Moselle
Berneastel-Malborn-Otzenhausen
Berncastel
New York Receives Fresh American Troops and Hospital Ship
The British transport Ores docked with 124 American troops at West Fifteenth Street and the Hudson. The hospital ship Comfort with 400 wounded is due to dock today. The Leviathan carrying 9,000 soldiers from France is to reach the army pier on December 16, after loading troops and supplies at Brest.
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West Fifteenth Street
Hudson River
Camp Fille
Comfort
Army Pier
France
Brest
Baseball in 1919 to Resume in Major Leagues
Chicago reports that major leagues plan a return to baseball in 1919 after Ban Johnson received war department approval. General March of the staff replies there is no reason the game should not restart, signaling a full resumption after World War I.
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Chicago
Ban Johnson
War Department
Peyton
March
Johnson
Washington
Navy to Discharge 20 Percent of Wartime Personnel
Secretary Daniels announced a 20 percent discharge of wartime personnel about 100000 men with release to civil life as soon as feasible. Private yachts and craft taken by the navy are being returned, with 700 craft stricken from the navy list. Special training programs for students will conclude and then graduates join the reserve. Navy expenditures for the coming year exceed a billion dollars, with rapid reduction already removing over two fifths of the $2.6 billion total.
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Washington
Navy
Daniels
Paymasters
Princeton
Ensigns
Aneapolis
Annapolis
Tinniels
Congress
Wife Slain in Czars Arms in Ekaterinburg Fire
Amsterdam dispatch via Exchange Telegraph reports Kiev papers quote a former empress’s valet on July 17 the Romanoff family was executed in a convent cellar at Ekaterinburg by Bolsheviks. Nicholas II allegedly witnessed his dying wife die in his arms. Tatiana reportedly died from blunt force after initial gunfire. Bodies burned on outskirts of Ekaterinburg.
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London
Tatiana
Mkaterinburg
Incident at Saxony prison camp prompts Allied action
Paris reports incidents of serious gravity in a Saxony prison camp holding allied prisoners. The Echo de Paris says the allied governments are reportedly resolved to act energetically in response.
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Saxony
Paris
Echo de Paria
Alled
Ex Kaiser's Physician Arrives in Hel land From Berlin on Special Train
Amsterdam reports documentary evidence of the ex-emperor's guilt in war planning found in the Berlin archives. Sir Auckland Geddes called for trials and punishment for leaders like the former emperor Enver Pasha and rulers of Bulgaria and Austria. A German physician arrived in Theiland from Berlin on a special train. Three staff members left Amerongen for Berlin with documents on the emperor's private property. A Berlin telegram says a delegation from the Berlin soldiers and workers council arrived to monitor negotiations on the former emperor's status.
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Berlin
Amerongen
Amsterdam
London
Sir Auckland Geddes
National Service
Enver Pasha
Bulgaria
Austria
Aine
Uitler
Theiland
Amergagen
Tague
Heliand
Legation
Germany
Netherlands
Marchand
Holland
Ger- TT Ae
Quarreling Prince Favored Anglo German Accord
Former German crown prince told a Daily Mirror correspondent in Wieringen that he argued with his father over Britain's stance. He said Britain would oppose Germany, but his father never believed it and Frederick William favored an agreement with Britain.
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Great Britain
Germany
London
Daily Mirror
Wieringen
Frederick William
Bank Robbers Steal $100,000 in Liberty Bonds
In Leavenworth Indiana on December 6 a band of robbers looted the Leavenworth State Bank and secured an estimated $100,000 in Liberty bonds and War Savings certificates.
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Ind) Institution
Leavenworth, Ind
Leavenworth State Bank
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