Colonization plan urged to boost long term world food supply
Secretary William B. Wilson urges legislation to colonize public lands with millions of soldiers, creating fully equipped farms and communities under federal oversight. He warns past land grants fostered speculation and favors title use over mere ownership to aid postwar employment and farming expansion.
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Washington
America
William B. Wilson
Wilson
Department of Agriculture, Interior and Labor
Gsolliers
Labor Service
United States Employment Service
First American Officers Arrive in Berlin After Armistice
Brigadier General Harries and Lieutenants Gaillard and Schelling of the American Commission for the Repatriation of War Prisoners arrived in Berlin, the first U S officers to reach the city since the armistice. American officers report POW returns as good as expected under wartime food conditions in Germany.
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Berlin
Harries
Gaillard and Schelling
Germany
Armenian massacres continue as Turkish troops in retreat
Washington reports over 20 000 Armenians killed in renewed outrages by Turkish evacuations. Arrests of former governor Doctor Rechid and Gendarmerie lieutenants Chakri and aroun are linked to 1915 massacres. death sentences likely. Prince Safar ed Daouleh leaves Constantinople amid confinement. Annie Allen, an American missionary, attends to his child during illness.
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Rechid
Diarbekr
Chakri
Aroun
Ada Pazuri
Enver Pasha
Tamat Pasha
Safar Ed Daouleh
Shah
Brusa
Asia Minor
Annie Alien
United States
Salar
Turkey
Switzerland
Persia
Bagdad
Rulers Back at Bucharest After Roumanian Return
King Ferdinand and Queen Mary were enthusiastically greeted on their official entry into Bucharest on December 3. General Berthelot of the French army and British officers welcomed them as Bucharest residents who had fled in November 1916 for Jassy crowded the streets to greet the royal couple.
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London
Ferdinand
Mary
Roumania
Bucharest
Berthelot
Jassy
NOW A COSSACK COMMANDER
London reports Grand Duke Nicolas Nicholaiefitch now commands a Cossack force in southern Russia. Wireless dispatch says his headquarters are at Katerynotzka station near Waterla oslay southeast of Wkaterla oslay.
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Grand Duke
Nicholas
Russia
London
Niclas Nicheluelyitch
Mia
Katerinovka Station
Wkaterlaoslay
Nine Thousand American Troops Return Home
Secretary Daniels announced four transports carrying nine thousand American soldiers are en route home to the United States. The ships departed from a French port and are under Navy department control.
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United States
Washington, D. C
Daniels
The
Navy
America
Five Big Transports Arrive Home From War
Newsreel from New York reports five troop ships arriving in a single day. The Kroonland carried 1,352 soldiers, many wounded, followed by Calamares with 2,472, Ascanias with 1,427, Tenandores with 852, and Adriatic passing Sandy Hook with 2,288. total exceeds 7,800 homebound servicemen.
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New York
Kroonland
Calamares
Ascanias
Tenandores
Uncle Sam
Adriatic
Sandy Hook
Entente Refuses Food Send To Germany Over Bolshevik Council
Berlin reports say Entente powers will withhold food for Germany until the dissoultion of the soldiers and workers council is ordered. Allies reserve right to march into Germany. Berlin cabInet asks Russia not to send a delegation to a December 16 conference due to the present German situation. Bolshevist accusations by Adolph Joffe affect cabinet support.
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Copenhagen
Berlin
Germany
Soldiers’ and Workers’ Council
Soldiers and Workmen's Council
Adolph Joffe
Bolshevist
Arab official Feisuel seeks audience with Wilson in Varis
Sheriff Feisuel, son of the Mecca emir and Arab army commander with General Allenby, waits in Varis for a chance to present grievances to President Wilson. His forces helped expel the Turks from Palestine and occupied Damascus before Allenby’s troops arrived. The Arabs seek national independence.
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London
Varis
Wilson
Sheriff Feiseul
Mecca
Mohammed
Feisuel
Allenby
Palestine
Damascus
Army checks to reach families by Christmas
Treasury war risk bureau speeded up to deliver allotment and allowance checks to soldiers and sailors families by Christmas. An army of clerks is printing about 140,000 checks daily to effect the distribution.
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Washington
Treasury
Piez to Succeed Schwab as PEC Director General
Washington December 12 Charles Piez vice president and general manager of the emergency fleet corporation is to succeed Charles M Schwab as director general of the corporation announced at the shipping board headquarters here.
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Emergency Fleet Corporation
Shipping Board
Washington
Charles Piez
The
Charles M. Schwab
Callist
Princess He Lena Safe After U S Intervenes
Princess He Lena, a niece of the Italian queen, held by the Tusciani hat sheviki, was reported released after U S inquiries at the request of Italy. Swedish representatives in Russia presented the case, and the princess is expected to travel to Sweden. She is from the Serbian royal family and married a Russian grand duke.
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Washington
Helena
Italy
State Department
United States
Russia
Sweden
Serbia
Lloyd George pledges peace through end to conscription
London report quotes Premier Lloyd George in Bristol urging permanent peace by ending conscript armies in Europe. He says emergency justifies past conscription for Britain, but after the emergency ends there is no intent to renew it. He argues the former German emperor must be held responsible for the war and that indemnity should fall to the wrongdoer. The navy remains defensive and not to be surrendered, and America may share the view on accountability as president arrives.
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London
Lloyd George
Europe
Bristol
America
Lie Ard George
Extension of Rail Control Urged as Test of Unified Operation
Director General McAdoo urges extending federal control over Park roads to five years or until ownership restitution. He argues only three paths exist: operate for 21 months after peace, return to owners, or extend federal control. McAdoo presses extension to prove unified operation under law and depoliticize the railroad question.
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Washington
Park Roads
McAdoo
Interstate Commerce Committees of Congress
Congress
Wilton
Acdooff
U S Cruiser Brooklyn Blasts. Six Firemen Die
Six firemen and a water tender were killed and other crew members injured in an explosion on the U S Brooklyn while coaling at Yokohama Japan on December 9. The ship was in Far Eastern waters with last position listed as Vladivostok Siberia.
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Washington
U. S. Brooklyn
Yokohama
Japan
Navy Department
Brooklyn
Vindivostok
Siberia
Krupp munitions plant to become peace factory
The Krupp directors, per the Cologne Gazette, announced plans to transform the munition works into a factory devoted to peaceful production. The decision marks a shift from wartime arms output to civilian industry.
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KRUPP
Colognes Gazette
Amsterdam
Krupp Munition Works
Cologne
Coast Guard Rescues 1250 During War at Sea
Coast Guard lifesavers rescued 1,250 persons from drowning during the war ending June 20 and aided over 11 00 others on distressed vessels. Many rescued were from ships sunk by German submarines off the Atlantic coast, per Capt. E P Bertholf annual report.
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Washington
Coast Guard
E. P. Bertholf
Eost Guard
Atlantic
Foch Refuses German Armistice Delegates Request
Paris dispatch reports Marshal Foch denied the plea of German armistice delegates to communicate with provinces west of the Rhine. He said it was necessary to maintain the blockade of Germany as provided by the armistice.
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Germany
Armistece
Paris
Foch
Rhine
British Refuse Public Buildings in Amsterdam
British troops declined to use public buildings in Amsterdam per a Cologne telegram and took private quarters instead, after placement of facilities.
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Amsterdam
Cologne
Cunard Line Adds Antwerp Port of Call
Antwerp decrees Cunard Line to make Antwerp a port of call and seeks use of the pier formerly held by North German Lloyd.
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Lloyd
Antwerp
Cunard Ateamship Line
Marshall Presides as Acting Leader at Cabinet Meeting
Vice President Marshall took the chair at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday explaining he acted out of deference to the president's wishes. It was reportedly the first time a vice president presided over a cabinet session.
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Washington
Marshall
Yanks to Run Train, Lasbach, Avetria
A Great sireet train from Geneva to Tiubuana, capital of Slavoenta, will depart Thursday under control and suspices of Americans.
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Lasbach
Avetria
Geneva
Tiubuana
Slavoenta
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