Berlin Battles Resume as Spartacans Hold City
Berlin remains a battlefield as government troops contest key sites including the Reichstag and Brandenburg Gate. Reports say heavy fighting continues, civil casualties rise, and a new revolutionary government led by independent Socialists surfaces amid claims Liebknecht is killed.
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Ledebour
Liebknecht
Reds
Berlin
Bavaria
Bavarian Chamber of Deputies
Munich
Herr Auer
Interior
Germany
Auer
Spartacans
Reichstage
Brandenburg Gate
Silesian Railway Station
Ebert
Paris
Ebert-Scheidemann
George Ledebour
Herr Liebmann
Herr Tiek
Karl Liebknecht
London
Daniels Warns Philadelphia on Vice Conditions
Secretary Daniels wrote Mayor Smith of Philadelphia warning that unless the city authorities improve vice conditions immediately the government will take steps to protect the thousands of young men in uniform who must visit Philadelphia or be denied liberty.
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Daniels
Philadelphia
Washington
Smith
Rail plan to Senate outlines private rail ownership under regulation
T DeWitt Cuyler presenting for the Association of Railway Executives urged a comprehensive program for private ownership and federal oversight. The plan calls for system mergers, unification of operation, facility pooling, and earnings coordination under a transportation secretary with the Interstate Commerce Commission as appellate body. It also proposes a wage adjustment board and bans on strikes pending review, continuing many unified management reforms while opposing a five year extension of government control.
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Washington
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
T. DeWitt Cuyler
Association of Railway Executives
United States
Department of Transportation
Railroad Administration
McAdoo
Interstate Commerce Commission
Senate Committee
One Twelfth of Force Sails Home from France
American general headquarters announced that more than 151000 soldiers have left France for the United States. The total includes 10435 officers and 140639 noncommissioned officers and privates, representing roughly one twelfth of the expeditionary force.
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U. S
Paris
France
United States
Baron von Dem B Muench Sentenced for Forged Passport
Baron Al lardt von Dem B Muench nephew of Count von Bernstorff was jailed three months for fraud after attempting to enter the country with a forged passport in San Francisco.
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San Francisco
Baron Allardt von Dem B. Muench
Count von Bernstorff
Rioters Repulsed by Machine Guns in Munich Bank Clash
A Munich dispatch to Politiken reports several thousand rioters attempted to storm a major bank during unrest in Munich. The crowd, promoted by Spartacans, was repulsed by machine guns.
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Munich
Spartacans
Copenhagen
Politiken
Sparticand Suffer Defeat in Berlin
Buenos Aires reports a tense clash at the Vasena iron foundry as 20 strikers try to bar strike breakers. The city sees a 24 hour general strike with 100000 workers affected and transport paralyzed. Government police escorted workers. cars and taxis are destroyed amid mounting tensions.
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Buenos Aires
Vasena Iron Foundry
National Mounted Police
Regional Labor Federation
Fifth Labor Congress
Ebert Government Captures Reds Stronghold in Berlin
Berlin report states the Ebert government seized the city police headquarters after a brief firefight. Spartacan police chief Eighhorn escaped. many followers were arrested as Spartacan control collapses and hope fades.
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REDS
Eighhorn
Government to Arrest Aliens Advocating Anarchy
Washington reports the department of labor will arrest and detain all aliens found advocating or teaching unlawful destruction of property or anarchy, pending deportation, as part of a broader effort against Bolshevik influence. AFL Secretary Frank Morrison urges unions to root out radicals.
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Washington
Department of Labor
Wilson
United States
Morrison
Labor
Frank Morrison
American Federation of Labor
Chicago
Opposition in Congress to $100 Million European Relief Fund
Washington on January 8 saw Republican opposition in both houses to President Wilson’s $100,000,000 European relief appropriation. In the House Representative Moore of Pennsylvania blocked debate by denying unanimous consent to take up the bill on Thursday. In the Senate Senators Borah and Smoot said they would oppose the measure without more details on how the funds would be used.
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Washington
Wilsor
Congress
House
Moore
Pennsylvania
Borah and
Smoot
Senate
Peace treaties may wait on central governments formation
May 10 Paris report cites difficulty in binding Germany and Austria without stable governments. Congress may not wait indefinitely for new regimes and could aid in orderly government formation and damages payments as a last resort. United States likely limits involvement to enforcing Wilsonian principles.
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Paris
Germany
Austria
Peace Congress
United States
Wilson
There Is No Russia Now Says Hitchcock in Russia Letter
Senator Hitchcock told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that there is no Russia left but a chaotic local government scene. He cited Allied operations in Vladivostok Archangel and Murmansk to counter German bolshevik forces and to protect Russian allies. Archangel Kadish village front actions were reported in Kadish.
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Washington
Russia
United States
Hitchcock
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Johnson
California
Lenine
Trotzky
Petrograd
Moscow
State Department
Polk
Vladivostok
Murmansk
Archangel
Supreme War Council
Germany
Pacific
Arctic
European Russia
Murman Coast
White Sea
Murman
Borah
Kadish Front
Kadish
Roosevelt Cousin Reports Will Filed In Mineola
W Emlen Roosevelt, cousin of Theodore Roosevelt, said Colonel Roose velt's will will probably be filed in Mineola today. The will is described as brief and its contents not revealed. Estimated fortune ranges from 500000 to 1000000 with Sagamore Hill around 150000. Since leaving the presidency, earnings from writing have been substantial.
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Oyster Bay
N. Y
W. Emlen Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevel
Mineola
Roosevelt
Berger Faces Seat Contest After Guilty Verdict
Victor L. Berger socialist congressman elect challenges to his seat after being found guilty of conspiracy against the United States in Judge Landis' court. J. P. Carney, Democratic opponent in Milwaukee’s Fifth district, filed the complaint after Berger won by about 3,000 votes. Congress must decide eligibility, not a court.
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Chicago
Victor L. Berger
United States
Roosevelt Active Till Death
Colonel Roosevelt endured chronic inflammatory rheumatism yet wrote and reviewed a 250000 word pheasants volume in his final days. He flagged species classification errors and sent notes to Beebe who delivered the book the day before Christmas.
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New York
Roosevelt
William Reehe
New York Zoological Park
Beehe
Beebe
German Payments Reach Coblenz for Occupation Army
Ten million marks arrived from Berlin by special train as the first January payment of 6 250 000 dollars for the American army of occupation expenses. The shipment brings total aid to 16 million dollars turned over to American authorities for current costs.
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Coblenz
Berlin
Patterson Short Army Discharge At Camp Grant
Capt. Joseph Medill Patterson of Chicago is believed to have the record for a quick discharge at Camp Grant. He arrived at 11 a.m. Wednesday and by 1 30 p.m. was en route home with an honorable discharge. Patterson served in the One Hundred and Forty-ninth field artillery and was wounded.
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Camp Grant
Joseph Medill Patterson
Chicago
Patterson
One Hundred and Forty-ninth Field Artillery
Turks Must Lay Down Arms
London January 10. The allies warn that if the Turkish force at Medina does not surrender at once the forts at the Dardanelles will be destroyed.
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Dardanelles
London
Turkey
Medina
Indict Poet for Treason in New York
Herman Schefamer a poet and author born in San Francisco to German parents was indicted by the federal grand jury for treason.
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New York
Herman Sche Famer
San Francisco
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Bellevue
HMS
Earth
U.S
Berger
Carney
Victor
Roosvelt
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Rhine
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