Allies plan limited Russian representation at Paris talks
Paris January 22 official statement outlines a proposed policy toward Bolshevik Russia. Aimed at halting terrorism while aiding food relief and railway and industry reorganization, the plan may invite Bolshevik representatives to Paris for consultation rather than formal recognition. Military withdrawals and evacuation of Archangel are discussed as part of the approach.
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Paris
Peace Council
Russia
M. Scavenius
Petrograd
Jong Archangel
Bismarck Planned New War Against France
Paris reports a Petit Parisien document claiming Otto von Bismarck foresaw a second war to crush France. The note, said to be from a Hanover king’s counsellor, quotes Bismarck vowing to seize colonies fleets and money and to dismember France if he lived long enough.
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Paris
Bismarck
HUNS SENT TO POLISH FRONT
A squadron of the Third Army is dispatched to the Polish border as part of a military movement. The report notes Bertin as a location and mentions a unit heading to a local defense post. The text is fragmentary but indicates deployment toward Poland.
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Bertin
Ae 22
Eee Seereae
Lokal Anzet Potedam
Republic in Ireland Proclaims Independence and Evacuates Garrisons
Dublin reports the Sinn Fein parliament declaring independence and demanding British evacuation. The assembly elected Cathal Burgess president as the declaration was read in Irish. In Tipperary area twelve men shot two policemen guarding explosives near a quarry. Police clashed with Sinn Fein prisoners in Belfast.
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Dublin
Mansion House
Ireland
Father Q’flanagan
Roscontmon
Cathal Burgess
MacDonnell
Donnell
Tipperary
Sinn Fein
Belfast
U S Urges Sky Blue Laws For Promoter Prospectuses
A draft bill to empower the treasury to investigate and certify the accuracy of statements in promotion prospectuses has been sent to Secretary Goss by Charles S. Hamlin. The aim is blue sky legislation this session to curb doubtful securities after the armistice and to curb promoters exchanging Liberty bonds for their stocks.
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Washington
Treasury
Goss
Charles S. Hamlin
Capital Issues Committee
Congress
French Women Petition to Punish German Atrocities
Paris January 22 French women petition the peace conference asking justice for thousands of women girls and children who were torn from families and mistreated by Germans during the war They urge that those who ordered the acts be condemned as criminals of the common law.
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Peace Conference
Paris
Esthenians Score Dorpat Narva Victory in Baltic War
Esthenian forces recaptured Dorpat west of Lake Peipus and captured three guns a locomotive and many cars. They seized Narva on the Reval Petrograd line with numerous prisoners amid Bolshevik losses. Trotzky fled Narva after the defeat. Sweden plans a volunteer expedition to Lithuania amid limited support for Estonia.
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Stockholm
Lithuania
Esthonia
Libau
Dorpat
Lake Peipus
Leon Trotzky
Narva
London
War Secretary Baker to Appear Before House Rules Committee
Secretary of War Baker has been summoned to testify Friday before the House Rules Committee regarding reports that Kansas state troops suffered heavy casualties in the Argonne due to questionable strategy. The committee refused to place Campbell of Kansas’s resolution for investigation on the calendar until Baker testifies.
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Washington
Baker
House Rules Committee
Kansas State
Argonne
Campbell
Kansas
Protests from 12 State Commissions on Wire Control Measure
Washington reports that a dozen state public service commissions filed protests with the house post office committee against the administration plan extending government wire control. The action signals broad regional opposition to the proposed policy change.
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Washington
Public Service Commissions
House Post Office Committee
Coast Ship Workers Strike Hits Seattle and Tacoma
About 30,000 Seattle shipyard workers and 15,000 in Tacoma are on strike demanding a basic agreement of 8 dollars a day for mechanics 7 for craftsmen and 6 for laborers and helpers. Leaders expect Olympia and other Northwest yards to vote to strike. Aberdeen wooden yards have been striking for a week with machinists and shipwrights expected to join.
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Seattle
Wash
Tacoma
Olympia
Northwest
Aberdeen
Dominions Seek Autonomy in Foreign Policy for League Talks
Canada Australia New Zealand and South Africa plan to join the league with internal sovereignty while Britain retains control of foreign relations. Officials call this among the peace conference’s most momentous asks as dominions press formal recognition of independence in domestic affairs.
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Paris
League of Nations
Great Britain
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
Belgium
England
Dominions
No Change in Hog Prices Maintained by Government Policy
Government policy keeps hogs at 17.80 per hundredweight with F S Snyder head of the meat division of the food administration stating the pledge to producers remains. He warned a potential three month shortage despite current hog surplus, in Washington.
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Meat Divisio N
Washington
F. S. Snyder
Meat Division
The
Food Administration
Snyder
Liebknecht Shot in Back Amid Escape Attempt
Autopsy on Dr Karl Liebknecht shows he was shot from behind at distance. The procedure was led by Prof August Bier and Prof Paul Strassmann with surgeon William Liebknecht present. Hugo Haase observed.
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Berlin
Karl Liebknecht
August C. G. Bier
Paul Strassman
William Liebknecht
Liebknecht
Hugo Haase
Milk prices set for February 1919 by regional producers
Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin milk producers agreed on February wholesale prices ranging from 3.76 to 38.81 per hundred pounds, more than double five years prior. They also voted to stop direct sales to condensers or Chicago distributors from this month, directing milk to the Co operative Marketing company to handle distribution.
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Elgin
Ill
Illinois
Indiana
Wisconsin
Chicago
Co-operative Marketing Company
Producers’ Association
Co-Operative Company
Three divisions sail for demobilization from Brest
Troops from Ohio West Virginia and Illinois of the Eighty third division including parts of the 339th and 351st infantry sailed January 17 from Brest bound for Camp Sherman Ohio to demobilize aboard the cruiser Frederick and transports Conia and Susquehanna under General March. The flotilla is due in New York on January 28 with the Susquehanna carrying one company of Minot troops.
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Washington
Ohio
West Virginia
Illinois
Three Hundred and Thirty-ninth Infantry
Three Hundred and Fifty-first Infantry
Camp Sherman
Brest
Frederick
Conia
Susquehanna
General March
New York
National Guard Divisions Ordered to Prepare for Embarkation
The War Department announced three famed divisions the Twenty-seventh New York Twenty-seventh Thirty-seventh Buckeye will prepare to embark. The Rainbow Forty-second and Twenty-sixth New England may parade on return. Rainbow to be reviewed in New York and Washington. others to southern or Ohio camps.
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Washington
War Department
National Guard
Twenty-seventh
New York
Thirtieth
Wildcat
Thirtyseventh
Buckeye
United States
France
Twenty-sixth
New England
Rainbow
Baker
Boston
John F. O'Ryan
North
South Carolina
Tennessee
Camp Sherman
Ohio
Red s ask for conference in Stockholm note from Tchitcherin
Maxim Litvinoff in Stockholm forwarded a note from Bolshevik Foreign Minister Tchitcherin to the American State Department. It argues the original allies intervention in Russia no longer exists and expresses willingness to reach an understanding. Foreign Minister To miter also asks for a date and place to meet U S emissaries.
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Stockholm
Maxim Litvinoff
London
American State Department
Tchitcherin
Russia
Senate
Hitchcock
Tohiterin
United States
Army to Be Under 500000 by July 1920
Washington reports the army will be reduced well below 500,000 before July 1, 1920, per General Lord director of army finances to the house military affairs committee. He explained how the fiscal year funds estimate was reached.
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Washington
America
Lord
House Military Affairs Committee
Packer Armours Wait to Sell to U S Warns on Meat Bill
J Cuire Armour told the house interstate commerce committee that pending meat-packing regulation is reactionary and may be unconstitutional. He warned that restricting the industry would raise costs, slow livestock markets, and harm farmers and consumers, while denying private initiative. He offered to relinquish holdings for compensation.
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Washington
J. Cuire Aenour
House
Interstate Merce Committee
Congress
Armour
Malik
Armour & Co
Plot to kill Rockefellers uncovered by New York inspector
Washington report describes a 1914 bomb plot by anarchists Carson Berg and Hanson to slay John D. Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller Jr. The plan failed when their bomb exploded, killing the plotters. Inspector Thomas J. Tunney testified to a Senate committee that anarchist activity was rising.
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Washington
John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
New York
Senate
Thomas J. Tunney
Carson
Berg
Hanson
Rockefellers
Tunney
Wilson Highway Planned as National Route Link
Kansas City Jan 22 The plan to establish Wilson highway a trunk road from Ely Minnesota to Paso Texas is included in the national highways program begun earlier this year emphasizing a cross country route.
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Ely
Minn
Elo Paso
Tex
Kansas City
Paso
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