Renounce Crown In Germany Turmoil Prompted by Radical Groups
Paris reports Crown Prince Frederick William renounced his claim as Berlin faces serious disorders with gunfire in major streets. Spartacus group led by Liebknecht reportedly plans revolt as Ernst Daumig named as key policy influencer and possible dictator. Allied forces may occupy Berlin and Mannheim after a camp supervisor shot three French prisoners.
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Copenhagen
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
Earthquake in Olyte hits killing ten in Chile report
Ceará dispatch: Northern Chile reports a quake of magnitude eight struck Wednesday near Olyte Buenos Aires additional details say ten dead and about one hundred injured with relief efforts underway as authorities confirm casualty toll across the region.
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Olyte
Buenos Aires
Chile
Belgian Rulers in Paris Visit Draws Big Crowd
In Paris King Albert of Belgium Queen Elizabeth and the prince of Brabant arrived before a tremendous crowd. A 101 gun salute marked the welcome as President Poincare and his wife joined notables. The royal party was escorted past troops that had fought in Belgium to the foreign office.
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Elizabeth
Prince of Brabant
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McAdoo to retire as Treasury Secretary December 16
Washington December 6 Secretary McAdoo announced he would relinquish his duties as secretary of the treasury on Monday December 16 He declined to name a likely successor but said he was in constant wireless contact with the president and that a new director general of the railroads would be chosen soon.
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Washington
Mc Adoo
Secretary of the Treasury
Pershing Warns Hun Civilians During Rhine Advance
American troops moved into Mainz as the Army of Occupation progressed along the Rhine. General Pershing issued a proclamation urging civilians to resume normal life and obey military authority, warning that violations of the laws of war will be punished swiftly and that the army aims to protect persons, homes, religion, and property.
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Rhine
Dickmann
Treves
Brown
Smith
General Pershing
Dutch Offer for Life Imprisonment Debate
London dispatch reports Holland would urge life imprisonment for Kaiser Wilhelm II and Crown Prince Frederick if Allies press for delivery to an international court. Holland suggests placing them on a Dutch island for life, awaiting the Allies' response with interest.
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London
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Baruch and Davidson Named to Reconstruction Committee
Washington December 7 Bernard Baruch and Henry P Davidson are named to a committee to decide what materials America should furnish to war shattered Europe. The two will serve as an economic commission to assess raw materials needed for postwar reconstruction and will proceed overseas immediately per the White House.
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Henry P. Davidson
Washington
Ben
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Ope
Europe
Baruch
Davidson
White House
Churchill vows no limits on British naval defense at Dundee
London dispatch reports Winston Spencer Churchill, minister of munitions, announced that Britain will not demand Helgoland's return from Germany and will nationalize railways. He said the peace conference will proceed with no fettering restraints on naval power and insisted on Britain's naval supremacy. Helgoland, a former Danish island ceded to Britain in 1914 and then to Germany in 1880, sits off the Elbe Weser entry and Kiel canal, a key wartime base later occupied by the Allies.
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Helgoland
Great Britain
Germany
Winston Spencer Churchill
Dundee
Churchill
North Sea
Elbe and Weser
Kiel Canal
America better policed under wartime justice drive
Washington December 6 America is more thoroughly policed today than ever before in its history. Attorney General JT W Gregory reports the department’s wide war effort against enemy propaganda sabotage sedition alien enemies draft evaders and other wartime duties highlighting a vast amount of justice department work.
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Washington
America
JT. W. Gregory
Bernstorff Urges Help for Hale in German Propaganda
A. Bruce Bielaski testified before a senate committee on 1916 Bernstorff cablegrams showing efforts to use William Bayard Hale as a German agent. Hale earned 300 dollars weekly from Hearst and 15000 annually from a German propaganda group. Fritz Fuehr and Bernstorff discussed Washington Post motives and sending Hale to Berlin as a confidential emissary. Notables list includes Shepard, Münsterburg, Sloane and many professors and officials connected to pro German activity.
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Bureau of Investigation
Department of Justice
Senate
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Berlin
Bernstorff
William Bayard Hale
Hearst
Bielaski
Hale
Bernard Dernburg
Washington Post
Albert
Dernburg
Post
Fuehr
Foreign Office
Germany
John R. McLean
Bernstorty
Emassy
Senate Committee
United States
A. Bruce Bielaski
William R. Shepard
Columbia University
Hugo Muensterburg
Harvard University
William M. Sloane
de C. J. Hexamer
Philadelphia
Charles Nagel
Comerce and Labor
St. Louis
Oswald Garrison
Villard
New York Evening West
William Randolph Hearst
New York American
Bernard Ridder
New York Staats Zeitung
Edward A. Rumely
New York Evening Mail
Frederick A. Schrader
Broadway
New York
Frank Harris
Washington Square
New York City
Rob. I. Ford
Freeman's Journal
Father Thirney
American Catholic Weekly
Max A. Hein
Riverside Drive
George Sylvester Viereck
William P. Trent
West Thirty-eighth Street
Flu Deaths In Montana Reach 2000 Toll
Helena Montana officials estimate the statewide influenza and pneumonia death toll may reach 2000, about ten times the number killed in battle during the same period, as the epidemic spreads across the state.
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Montana
Helena
Mont
Women conductors removed from Cleveland streetcars
The 2100 street car men who struck over women as conductors returned to work after ratifying terms. The union leaders accepted. Woman conductors will be eliminated from service by March 1. The plan was agreed at a conference in the mayor's office with all parties.
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Cleveland, O
Massacre and famine in Turkey reach millions
Constantinople correspondent of the Morning Post says in four years under the committee on union and progress Turks have committed ruinous acts. He reports three million killed and a further million on the edge of starvation this winter due to corruption and misery in Turkey.
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London
Committee On Union and Progress
Turkey
Constantinople
Morning Post
Duke of Grafton Dies at 97 in London
London reports the death of the Duke of Grafton at age ninety seven. He was head of the Fitz-Roy family and a retired general in the British army.
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Duke of Grafton
London
Fitz-Roy
Great Britain to bar enemy aliens and prosecute war criminals
Premier Lloyd George pledges British effort at the peace conference to punish those responsible for the war. He calls the war a frightful crime, demands extradition and expulsion of enemy aliens, and backs an international court for the Kaiser and aides. He also urges fair labor rewards and restraint on sweating.
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Lormion
Lloyd George
United Kingdom
Empire
Europe
International Court
England
Kaiser
High Seas
Lioyd George
Russia
Flu Kills 6000 in Samoa as influenza spreads
London report cites a Madrid dispatch stating six thousand deaths in Samoa from the Spanish influenza. The measure reflects the pandemic’s toll on the island as health officials warn of continuing spread and rising mortality.
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London
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