French Demand Delays League Draft Acceptance
Paris and London report French fears over a league of nations without a police force slow the draft's adoption. Bourgeois proposes an international army to police key regions while Britain and the U S resist discussing the plan. France recalls war memories to justify stricter guarantees and immediate enforcement.
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Dardaelles
Kiel Canal
Vistula
Great Britain
America
Wilson
Amer- Pasar
Gare la Chapelle
U.S
Capn Hugo Sunstedt Aims Atlantic Sea Plane Flight
Capt Hugo Sunstedt plans to pilot a giant sea plane crossing the Atlantic. The aircraft is being assembled at Bayonne New Jersey with crew and engineers preparing for the historic voyage.
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Hugo Sunstedt
Atlantic
Bayonne
N. J
Ambulances Dash From Field Hospitals to Paris
Soldiers report ambulances leaving field hospitals for Paris, fifty miles away, last June creating visible spectacle as they moved in daytime rather than waiting until night. The influx overwhelmed efforts to delay sightings and drew attention to medical evacuations.
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Hostil
Paris
Summer at Camp Grant Weather Report
Camp Grant in Rockford NL reports unusually warm conditions on February 13. Soldiers catch grasshoppers as dandelions bloom, signaling an early spring feel at the military post.
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Camp Grant
Rockford, NL
Arrest Made in Cleveland Plot to Kill Wilson
Pierre Pierre, an alleged I W W leader, was arrested in Cleveland on a conspiracy charge to kill President Wilson. The plan reportedly centered in Chicago with delivery of final instructions at I W W headquarters. Pierre will be tried in Kansas City, and the probe traces to Leavenworth and Italian convicts.
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Pierre Pierre
Cleveland
Ohio
Wilson
Chicago
Secret Service
France
Fred R. Robertson
Kansas
Pierre
Kas
Robertson
Leavenworth
Piérre
IW. W
R. Bobba
Marquette
Mich
McAdoo
William G. McAdoo
TI. W. W
Arizona
Globe
Andrassy Heads to Britain for Talks With British Leaders
Vienna and Budapest newspapers report Count Andrassy former Austro Hungarian foreign minister has left Berne and is en route to England to confer with leading British statesmen.
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Andrassy
Britain
Paris
Vienna
Budapest
Count Andrassy
Berne
England
World War May Be Reopened Says Wilson at Peace Conference
Paris February 13 The threat of renewed war with Germany hangs over the Peace Conference as Germany may fail to honor Armistice terms. President Wilson says resumption of hostilities is a grave possibility and would be justified if Germany does not execute the terms, potentially ordering American forces to take up arms again.
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Supreme Court
Germany
League of Nations Commission
Council of the Powers
Wilson
League
M. Bourgeois
France
Fermany
Prsident Wilson
Clarkson to lead demobilization and reconstruction council
Grosvenor B. Clarkson, who was ejected director of the Council of National Defense to succeed Mr. Clifford and has served as secretary during the war, now heads the council's demobilization and reconstruction work with the energy of its 184,000 national and local units.
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Council of National Defense
Mr. Clifford
Council
Ebert Becomes Germany’s First Head of State in Weimar
In Weimar on February 13 Friedrich Ebert, socialist former saddler, was proclaimed president as church bells rang at 4 15 pm. He appeared before the theater amid cheers from the crowd and officials, while armistice terms and the war’s aftermath drew denunciations and calls for peace. Dr Edouard David spoke on Eberts’s使命 as assembly president. a disruptive socialist woman interrupted. The session ended with a prolonged cheer as Ebert sat bowed and folded arms.
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Friedrich Ebert
Germany
Ebert
Austria
Wuerttemburg
Edouard David
National Assembly
Doctor David
Conference Aims at Russian Factions Meet on Princes Islands
Reports from near Paris say at least four Russian factions will attend a conference on the Princes Islands. Ukraine says its government will participate and Denikine’s regime may join. The Crimea and the Bolshevik government have accepted invitations. Success hinges on Moscow granting guarantees ending hostilities and withdrawing Bolshevik forces.
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Princes’ Islands
Ukraine
Russia
General Denikines
Crimea
2084 More Troops Arrive in New York on Stockholm
The transport Stockholm docked in New York from Brest with 2,084 American troops. Included were units from the 369th Infantry of the 93rd Division, transportation corps, and casual companies 216 Maryland 222 Iowa 234 Mississippi, all listed as Negro troops. Also aboard were over 400 casual officers and men from various branches, plus 14 nurses and 18 civilians.
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Stockholm
Brest
Transportation Corps
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Iowa
Mississippi
Insurrection in Roumania Drives Royal Flight and Republic Demand
A Vienna dispatch reports growing insurrection in Roumania as workers block roads and the Royal family fled from Bucharest toward Jassy. King Ferdinand was slightly wounded in a clash during the escape, and workers demand the overthrow of the dynasty and the formation of a republic.
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Vienna
Ferdinand
Bucharest
Jassy
American Reinforcements Drive Bolsheviks from Sredmakrenga
Archangel Feb 13 American reinforcements have reached the hard pressed British in the region of Sredmakrenga and routed the Bolsheviks, strengthening allied lines amid ongoing battles.
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Archangle
Sredmakrenga
Miners Vote Against Government Terms for Settlement
London reports the Miners Federation meeting at Southport rejected government settlement terms, signaling a likely strike that could worsen a coal shortage. Federation demands include a six hour day and an eighty percent wage increase. government offers a war bonus raise and a representative committee review.
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London
Miners’ Federation of Great Britain
Southport
Miners’ Federation
Russia Chaos Linked to New York East Side Influence
Rev G Regens forner head of the Methodist Episcopal church in Russia testified before a Senate judiciary subcommittee that the anarchist movement in Russia owed success to aid from New York's lower East Side and that Yiddish influence drove much propaganda. He cited German funds, Smolny Institute ties, and 1917 pro Allied sentiment shifting to pro-German currents before the Kerensky regime fell.
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Russia
Lower East Side
New York
G. Regens Forner
Methodist Episcopal Church
Senate Judiciary
United States
Propas Ganda
East Side
Simmons
Kerensky
Simons
Smolney Institute
Petrograd
Doctor Simons
Professor Cordon
Rand School of Social Science
Washington Square Methodist Episcopal Church
Walcott
Delaeware
Wiithoss
Unter
American Friends urge Wilson for moral world order
The American Society of Friends sent a message to President Wilson thanking him for seeking justice and praying for strength to unite peoples in a league based on moral force. They call for complete disarmament as vital to future international order.
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Paris
Peb
American Society of Friends
Wilson
American Friends
Australia Accepts Warships from Britain
Six destroyers and six modern type submarines tendered by the British government to Australia will be accepted. The decision is officially announced in Melbourne dated February 13.
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Australia
Melbourne
Commonwealth of Australia
American forces in Siberia casualties reported
A cablegram from American Expeditionary Forces in France lists total U S losses in Siberia up to February 9 as 10 officers and 814 men killed died of wounds and disease and wounded and missing in action.
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Washington
France
Siberia
Tacoma shipyard strike directed toward early settlement
Tacoma Feb 13 officials statement from the metal trades union strike committee says negotiations are under way and this may lead to an early settlement of the Tacoma shipyard strike.
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Metal Trades
Wash
The
Metal Trades Union
Taycoma
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