Saxons Rise in Revolution Across German Lands
Spartacans and independent socialists push to overthrow Weimar in Saxony with strikes, rail stoppages, and seizure of plants in Plauen Leipzig and Halle. Mannheim unrest and guards clash as sailors seize barracks and post offices amid a broader radical challenge to government authority.
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Saxony
Halle
Spartacans
Plauen
Leipzig
Weimar
Pirna
Munich
Dresden
Mannheim
Baden
Gotha
National Assembly
Copenhagen
Armistice Plans Not Suspended Move To National Army
Weimar reports say the socialists opposed the bill for a national army of defense, arguing it revives militarism. War Minister Noske defended it as frontier defense with limited strength. Berlin notes President Ebert forming a presidential cabinet with Von Holtzendorff named for a post.
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Weimar
Gustave Noske
People's Party
Berlin
Ebert
von Holtzendorff
End of Berne Dispatch Heralds Spa Talks Ending
Geneva reports a sudden suspension of armistice talks as the German commission left Spa for Berlin. No reason given. Anarchists in Germany reportedly plan a coup d etat with many army officers involved to overthrow the Ebert government and restore Kaiser Wilhelm.
Exchange proposal tops Bolshevik prisoner swap news
The Danish Red Cross reports an American named Kolomatinne held in the Kremlin after a death sentence by the Bolsheviki has been commuted. Moscow may exchange him and other Americans for Soviet detainees held by American forces in Vladivostok. Libau and Windau ports on the Baltic recaptured. In Amur near Blagoveshchensk a clash leaves Japanese with two officers and eighteen men dead or wounded, Bolshevik force about 8,000.
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Stockholm
Pele
Morris
Danish Red Cross
Kolomatinne
Kremlin
Moscow
Kolomatiano
Vladivostok
Libau
Windau
Courland
Palmer Office Under Senate Probe Demands Full Accounting
A senate resolution by Senator Frelinghuysen calls for a full inquiry into A Mitchell Palmer's alien property custodian office. It seeks details on property taken over, its disposition, funds received, and a payroll showing hires and salaries.
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Washington
Congress
A. Mitchell Palmer
Frelinghuysen
New Jersey
Senate
Palmer
Refugees Return as Bolsheviks Open Route to Moscow
Warsaw reports a new flow of Russian refugees and Austro German POWs heading north after Bolshevik forces opened a route from Turkestan to Moscow. E A Frick of Geneva, head of the Red Cross mission to Russia, says thousands of Austrians and Germans in Siberia and central Russia seek to go home amid dire transportation conditions.
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Turkestan
Moscow
E. A. Frick
Geneva
International Red Cross
Russia
Siberia
Hostage case ties release to Debs or Mooney swap
Washington reports indicate the Bolsheviki demand the exchange of American Kolomatiano for either Eugene V. Debs or Thomas J. Mooney. Officials say they also offered to release American Consul Townsend if a pardon is granted.
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Washington
State Department
Kolomatiano
Eugene V. Debs
Thomas J. Mooney
Townsend
Debs
Mooney
Rivers and Harbors Bill Advances After Senate Action
Washington February 27 passage of the 32 million rivers and harbors appropriation bill followed a conference report in the Senate. The measure provides for 75 new projects and now goes to the president for signature.
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Senate
Washington
Hog price policy decision delayed after talks
Washington reports the food administration did not decide by midnight Friday on whether to continue its minimum hog-price policy. Officials held conferences with the war trade board and later with President Wilson and his cabinet.
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Washington
Food Administration
War-Trade Board
Wilson
Four German Delegates Named to Paris Peace Conference
Four German subjects have been appointed delegates from Denmark to the Paris peace conference. They are P. Hanssen deputy from Noerrenmoelle to the German reichstag Nisnissen and Kloppenberg Skrumsager both deputies in the Prussian landtag and Andreas Grau an editor.
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Washington
Denmark
State Department
P. Hanssen
Noerrenmoelle
Reichstag
Nisnissen
Kloppenberg-Skrumsager
Landtag
Andreas Grau
Officials deem Berlin armistice report in Switzerland misinfo
Washington officials say Berlin dispatches published in Switzerland about suspending armistice negotiations were based on mis information. State Department spokesperson stated this in Washington D C on February 27.
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Berlin
Switzerland
Open Door Support Sought in Morocco and Posts on Poland
In Paris the Belgian claims inquiry convened its first meeting and elected Capt. Tardieu as president. The council discussed Poland and directed Marshal Foch to send inquiries to Warsaw. Henry White and Arthur Balfour urged open door trade in readjustments. Lloyd George to visit Paris for three days. Japanese rail interests in Mongolia Manchuria and Shantung noted.
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Capt. Tardieu
Supreme Council
Council of the Great Powers
Poland
Marshal Foch
Warsaw
Danzig
Morocco
France
Henry White
United States
Arthur J. Balfour
Great Britain
David Lloyd George
Russia
China
Mongolia
Manchurian
Shantung Province
Japan
Palmer Named Attorney General Nominee for March 4
President Wilson nominates Mitchell Palmer to be Attorney General. He will take office on March 4, succeeding Atty. Gen. Gregory.
Allies Break Through on Murman Coast Advance
Allied forces advanced twenty six miles on the Murman coast inflicting heavy losses on Bolshevik troops and capturing many prisoners according to a Archangel dispatch.
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London
Murman
Bishop Hayes Promoted to Archbishop of New York
New York announces the appointment of Patrick J. Hayes as archbishop of New York succeeding the late John M. Farley. The news arrived at the archepiscopal residence of Mgr Dunn, chancellor of the diocese.
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New York Province
John M. Farley
New York
Patrick J. Hayes
Mgr. Dunn
Clemenceau Heads Out Amid Crowd After Shooting
Premier Clemenceau left his residence for the first time since the Wednesday shooting. A large crowd gathered outside his home as he stepped into an automobile with Doctor Laubry, amid cheers of Viva Clemenceau.
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Viva Clemenceau
Paris
Cleau
Laubry
Slackers Seek Repatriation From Exile
Thousands of Americans who left to dodge the draft want to return but face prosecution and up to a year in jail. Government agents pick up stragglers daily on the Mexican border, while most remain in Mexico and other Latin American countries, including Cuba and South America.
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Washington
Mexico
Cuba
Clemenceau Leaves Hospital For Short Outing
Paris reports Premier Clemenceau has improved enough for doctors to permit a brief outdoor sojourn after a period of illness. His physicians authorized the outing as he recovers at the hospital, marking a notable step in his convalescence.
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Clemenceau
Paris
Victory Liberty loan bill passes House with three dissenters
Washington on February 27 reports the Victory Liberty loan bill cleared the House despite a Republican bid to strike the provision continuing the war finance corporation. The measure retains authority to make loans to finance expert trade.
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Washington
House
War Finance Corporation
President Wilson Delivers First Hand League Of Nations Briefing
President Wilson met with members of Congress at the White House to discuss the league of nations draft and his views on the plan. Notable absentees were Senators Borah and Fall, who declined the invitation to maintain confidentiality.
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Fall
White House
Washington
Congress
Wilson
League of Nations
Resonate Foreign Relations
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Senate
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New Mexico
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Knox
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Representative Flood
House Foreign Affairs Committee
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Stedman
North Carolina
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Charles I. Smith
New York
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Tinois
Ragsdale
South Carolina
Huddleston
Alabama
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Texas
Thomas F. Smith
Cooper
Wisconsin
Porter
Rogers
Masachusetts
Temple
Foss
Nenois
Miller
Minnesota
Mott
Kennedy
Rhode Island
World Power
Great Lakes naval training base to receive funding
The navy announces immediate work on the Great Lakes training station north of Chicago with $200,000 paid from a $1,500,000 appropriation. A total of $200,000 will be spent yearly, aiming to make the station the nation’s top naval training base, rivaling Lake Michigan’s big school.
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Great Lakes
Chicago
Secretary of the Navy
Navy Department
Trea
Navy
Lake Michigan
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