Berlin in Turmoil as Spartacists Hold City
Berlin remains engulfed in civil war with heavy fighting through the night. Government troops clash with Spartacists who hold key points including the Reichstag and Brandenburg Gate approaches. Reports from Paris claim Ebert and Scheidemann government toppled and Ledebour leading a new socialist regime.
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Liebknecht
Reds
Berlin
Bavaria
Bavarian Chamber of Deputies
Munich
Herr Auer
Interior
Germany
Auer
Spartacans
Reichstag
Brandenburg Gate
Silesian
Ebert
Paris
Ebert-Scheidemann
George Ledebour
Herr Liebmann
Herr ‘Ick
Karl Liebknecht
London
Man
Daniels Warns Philadelphia on Vice Conditions
Secretary Daniels warns Philadelphia mayor that unless municipal authorities improve vice conditions immediately the government will act to protect thousands of young men in uniform who must visit the city or be denied liberty.
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Daniels
Philadelphia
Washington
Swithh
Rail Plan Seeks Private Rail Ownership Under Regulation
A comprehensive program for private ownership and management of railroads under strong government oversight was presented to the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee by T DeWitt Cayter, chair of the Association of Railway Executives. The plan envisions system mergers, unified operations, pooled facilities and earnings, and an independent transportation secretary with the ICC as review court. Wage disputes would go to a department board, strikes barred pending review, and ongoing reforms from the railroad administration would continue despite opposition to a five year extension of government control.
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Washington
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
T. DeWitt Cayter
Association of Railway Executives
United States
Secretary of Transportation
Interstate Commerce Commission
Supreme Court of Review
Department of Transportation
Volta
Railroad Administration
General McAdoo
Senate Committee
One Twelfth of American Force Sails Home from France
Paris reports that 151000 American troops have departed French soil. The group includes 10485 officers and 140689 noncommissioned officers and privates in the initial return voyage.
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Paris
France
United States
Baron von Demp Muench Sentenced for Forged Passport
Baron Al lardt von Demp Muench nephew of the former German ambassador Count von Bernstorff was jailed three months for defrauding the government by trying to enter the United States with a forged passport.
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Count von Bernstorff
San Francisco
Baron Allardt von Demp. Muench
Rioters Repulsed by Guns at Munich Bank
Munich dispatch reports a mob of several thousand attempted to storm a major bank but was repulsed by machine guns. The riots were promoted by Spartacists and occurred amid unrest in Munich.
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Munich
Spartacans
Copenhagen
Politiken
Sparticans Defeated in Berlin as Buenos Aires Strikes Spread
In Buenos Aires on January 10, clashes at the Vasena iron foundry sparked a 24 hour general strike that paralyzed most of the city. More than fifty unions joined, 100000 workers affected, five metal workers killed, thirty wounded, and streetcars and taxis overturned. The government deployed mounted police to separate strikers and strike breakers.
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Buenos Aires
Vasena Iron Foundry
National Mounted Police
Regional Labor Federation
Fifth Labor Congress
Ebert Government Captures Spartacan Police Headquarters
Berlin reports a decisive Ebert government victory as Fusilier guards seize the Spartacan city police headquarters after a brief clash with minimal casualties. Police chief Eighhorn fled. many Spartacan followers were arrested as hope waned for the besieged forces.
Immigrant movement fear sparks government action
Washington reports the labor department will arrest and detain all aliens found advocating anarchy or property destruction pending deportation. Secretary Wilson says the move targets bolshevik influence while not barring those merely joining the I W W. Frank Morrison of the AFL plans a warning to unions to root out radicals.
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Wilson
Washington
Department of Labor
L W. W
United States
Morrison
Labor
Frank Morrison
American Federation of Labor
Tong
Chicago
Opposition Hardens Over Wilson European Relief Fund
Washington January 8 The Republican opposition grows in both chambers to the 100 million dollar European relief appropriation. In the House Representative Moore of Pennsylvania blocks consent to bring up the bill on Thursday. In the Senate Borah and Smoot pledge to oppose without fuller plans for money use.
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Washington
Wilson
Congress
House
Moore
Pennsylvania
Borah
Smoot
Senate
Roosevelt Will Likely Filed In Mineola Today
Oyster Bay N Y Dan 10 W Prilen Roosevelt cousin of Theodore Roosevelt announces Colonel Roose vel t will probably be filed in Mineola today The will said to be very brief Fortune estimated between 500000 and 1000000 Sagamore Hill estate valued about 150000 Contentions note earnings since leaving presidency have been large.
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Oyster Bay
N. Y
Dan
W. Prilen Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevel
Mineola
Myr. Sroosevelt
Roosevelt
Sagamore Hill
Berger's Seat Contest Farce in Congress Bid
Victor L. Berger Socialist congressman elect faces a contest from Democratic challenger J. P. Carney in Milwaukee Fifth district after Berger's conspiracy conviction. The issue of eligibility must be decided by Congress, not the courts.
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Chicago
Victor L. Berger
United States
Roosevelt Active Till Death in Final Days
Roosevelt endured constant inflammatory rheumatism yet continued public writing and read a long work on pheasants by William Roche of New York geologist park. He planned a review and, days before death, suggested corrections to species classifications in a letter to Mr. Roche. The book reached him the day before Christmas.
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New York
Roosevelt
William Toohe
Huns Pay Yanks Board Bill in January Payments
Berlin sent ten billion marks worth two and a half million dollars to Coblenz by special train as the first January payment toward six and a quarter million due for the American army of occupation. The shipment brings total aid to sixteen million dollars handed to American authorities for current expenses.
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Coblenz
Berlin
Missum
Peace treaty pace in allied conferences despite central powers needs
May 10 report notes peace talks may delay binding agreements until central powers form stable governments. Some observers say the United States will limit its role to upholding Wilson's principles while awaiting further European readjustments, possibly years of gradual change.
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Paris
Germany
Austria
Peace Congress
United States
Wilson
There Is No Russia Now Says Hitchcock In Senate Address
Washington January 10. Senator Hitchcock chair of the foreign relations committee says there is no Russia but a vast disorganized aggregation of local governments with Lenine and Trotzky at the center. He cites allied operations in Vladivostok Archangel Murmansk as war measures against Germany and details troop numbers and movements. Archangel Kadish village actions are reported as Americans advance after burning and retreat.
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Russia
Washington
United States
Hitchcock
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Johnson
California
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Trotzky
Petrograd
Moscow
State Department
Polk
Vladivostok
Murmansk
Archangel
Supreme War Council
Germany
Viadivostok
Pacific
Arctic
European
Murman Coast
White Sea
Ming
Murman
Borah
Mfitchecock
Benater Johnson
Villiage
Kadish
Patterson at Camp Grant Receives Honorable Discharge
Capt Joseph Medill Patterson of Chicago reached Camp Grant at 1 a.m. Wednesday and by 1 p.m. was en route home with his honorable discharge. He served in the One Hundred Forty-ninth Field Artillery and the record shows he was wounded.
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Camp Grant
Joseph Medill Patterson
Chicago
Patterson
One Hundred and Forty-ninth Field Artillery
Turks Ordered to Lay Down Arms at Medina
London reports allies told Turkey that if the Turkish force at Medina does not surrender at once the Turkish garrison there will be destroyed by forces at the Dardanelles. The ultimatum tightens pressure in the Middle East during the war.
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London
Turkey
Medina
Dardanelles
Indictment for Treason Targets Poet Herman Bechet
New York dated January 9 reports Herman Bechet a farmer, poet and author born in San Francisco to German parents was indicted by the federal grand jury for treason. Citizens react as the case draws public and legal scrutiny.
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New York
Herman Bechet Famer
En Francisco
Federal
Grand
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