Peace Congress Opens Formally in Paris and New York
Reports from Paris and New York detail the peace congress opening. President Wilson sits with Clemenceau as presses debate publicity and secrecy. A French censor is under scrutiny after a misleading dispatch to the New York Tribune is denied by Garrett and Wilson.
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Clemenceau
Paris
Wilson Sot
Lloyd George
Supreme Interallied Council
Chamber of Deputies
Mistral
M. Clemenceau
League of Nations
New York Tribune
Garet Garrett
The
Tribune
Miss Frances Perkins Cable Suppressed by French Authorities
Paris dispatch claims the cable to the Tribune was shown to President Wilson and blocked by order of the French government. American observers say the suppression unsettles British and American officials who favor broader public access to proceedings to some extent.
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Paris
Tribune
Wilson
Foch Praises U S Army As Superb Force At Rhine
Marshal Foch told American correspondents in Treves that the Rhine must be a barrier between France and Germany and that American troops were superb. He recalled Pershing urging concentration for a sector attack and praised the Army’s punch and gallantry. He cited the Argonne Meuse front and noted treaties ended with Allied victory.
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Marshal Foch
Pershing
Argonne- Meuse
Rhine
Germany
Lorraine
Bolsheviks Begin General Retreat from Ithonia
Reports from Reval say Petrograd counter revolutionaries surge in Petro rad forcing a Bolshevik retreat eastward from Ithonia. The development signals a major shift in the Soviet front and raises questions about control of the region.
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Petrograd
Helsingfors
Petrorad
Reval
Ithonia
Killed Leaders of German Radical Ring Identified
Berlin reports say Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg were killed. Luxemburg was beaten unconscious by a mob and shot in a Berlin street after being seized from a hotel lobby. Liebknecht, fleeing car officers, was shot while attempting escape near Moabit prison.
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Vorwaerts
Berlin
Karl Liebknecht
Rosa Luxembourg
Liebknecht
Rosa Luxemburg
Fraulein Luxemburg
Sentences handed down in I W W antiwar case
In Sacramento California on January 18 sentences from one to ten years were imposed by U S District Judge F H Rudkin on 43 of 46 defendants convicted in the Industrial Workers of the World antiwar conspiracy case. The fate of Miss Theodore Pollok Basile Saffores and A L Fox the only three defendants with counsel was postponed pending a motion for a new trial.
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Sacramento
Cal
United States
F. H. Rudkin
Spokane
Wash
Industrial Workers of the World
Theodore Pollok
Basile Saffores
A. L. Fox
London to Paris to Start Air Service Monday
A regular aerial passenger service between London and Paris in connection with the peace conference will begin Monday. Several airplanes fitted for the route feature a two passenger cabin with cushion seats and a glass enclosed table. The flight time is about two hours.
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London
Paris
Foch Threatens to Break Armistice Terms
Paris reports General Foch quoted by Matin vowing to end the armistice with Germany if terms are not fulfilled more readily. The warning underscores rising wartime tensions as Allied leaders seek stricter compliance.
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Foch
Russian Representation Impossible at Peace Conference
Paris reports that representation by any Russian element is deemed impossible for the present at the peace conference. The decision reflects the unsettled Russian situation and absence of a unified delegation.
Paincaire Urges Peace Delegates to Shape World’s Future
Paris January opening remarks urge delegates to guide global destiny. Painaire praises Allied nations and Germany’s fall by iron, lauds America, Wilson, and the American people and army as pivotal in wartime outcomes.
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Paris
Painaire
Germany
British steamer Belgie brings 8000 troops to Camp Grant
The Belgie arrived from Brest with over 8,000 American expeditionary forces. A large unit of 86 officers and 2,486 men from the Forty ninth regular infantry, including headquarters and medical detachments and the First and Second battalions, commanded by Col. L. C. Palmer, had seen action in France. In Newport News the battleships Virginia and Rhode Island reached with 2,000 troops from France.
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New York
Tvest
Fortyninth Regular Infantry
L. C. Palmer
France
Newport News
Virginia
Rhode Island
Bolshevik Ousts Copenhagen Envoy Demands Peace Talks
Reported in Riga and Warsaw dated January 18 with details on Maxsim Litvinov's note to President Wilson offering to halt propaganda if allies enter peace talks. USSR front developments place General Jules Janin in command of allied forces in Russia while elections and cooperative movements gain attention. In Warsaw, German frontier denial blocks U S and British officers from Lapy as they urge frontier defense against Bolsheviks.
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Copenhagen
Maxsim Litvinoff
London
Wilson
Russia
Social Demokraten Omsk
Siberian
Jules Janin
Janin
Knox
Commissariat
Omsk
Warsaw
Bialystok
Reginald Foster
Peace Commission
Wade
Lapy
Tenth Army
Foster
Wisconsin and Minnesota Ratify Prohibition Amendments
Wisconsin completes ratification of the national prohibition amendment with a 39 to 6 House vote and Senate approval last week Minnesota also ratifies the federal prohibition amendment with a 92 to 36 House vote and Senate action. Dry leaders in Washington expect final approval as 40 states have ratified.
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Wis
Wisconsin
House
Senate
Minnesota
St. Paul
Washington
Dinwiddie
Congress
America
Mquor
Supreme Court
Law-Enforcement Commission
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
United States
END STRIKES IN Argentina Call Off Except Harbor
In Buenos Aires a conference with President Irigoyen led leaders to call off nearly all strikes in Argentina. Only the harbor shipping strike remains. Casualty tallies from the past week range from 850 to 1,000 killed and 3,500 to 5,000 wounded, with many believed carried away by rioters.
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Buenos Aires
Irigoyen Lator
Argentina
All American ships released to owners except those in army service
The United States Shipping Board announced that all requisitioned American ships have been released to their owners. The only exceptions are vessels actually engaged in army service. The announcement came from New York.
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New York
United States Shipping Board
Shipping Board
Tortured Priests Report Escape From Perm Battle
Priests escaping Perm tell of brutal torture before the battle that led to Prem’s capture by General Gaida’s troops. They describe priests plunged naked into ice cold water then hot water, flogging, and deaths from sticks driven into backs.
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Omsk
Central
Siberia
Perm
Prem
Gaida
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