King Manuel Reported Entering Portugal Amid Revolt
From Vigo to Lisbon reports say ex king Manuel crossed the Minho into Portugal Sunday morning. Leaflets dropped on Vigo warn foreigners to flee. In Lisbon royalist resistance was crushed as republicans seized Monsanto hill and freed political prisoners except the Sidonio Paes killer.
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Vigo
Spain
Manuel
Portugal
Minho
Ataminho
Opor
Lisbon
Ayres Ornellas
Monsanto
Oporto
Braga
Monsanto Till
Muque
Republic
Monsanto Hill
Vianna
Vizeu
Sidonio Paes
Santarem
Major Castro
London
Manuel of
England
Food for starving Poles aid ship sails from Hoboken
The steamship Westward Ho carrying 2,000,000 dollars worth of foodstuffs and clothing for Polish relief departed Hoboken for Danzig. The navy attached vessel was dispatched by the Joint Distribution Committee of the American Fund for Jewish War Sufferers.
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New York
Westward Ho
Hobolken
Danzig
Navy
Joint Distribution Committee
American Fund For
President Wilson Visits Chateau Thierry in Storm Visit
President Wilson and Mrs. Wilson with Rear Admiral Grayson and a party of Incan and French generals left Paris by car at eight Sunday morning for a tour of the Chateau Thierry region. A heavy storm began as they departed, sweeping the devastated area.
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Paris
Wilson
Grayson
Pars
Chateau Thierry
EXPECT RED ATTACK Two Armies to Meet Bolsheviks This Spring
Berlin reports the government is preparing for a Bolshevik invasion in early spring. It seeks national assembly approval to mobilize two armies to East Prussia and Silesia. Preparations focus on reorganizing volunteer battalions, some privately funded, amid fiscal strain. Officers resist re enlistment after the revolution’s rough treatment.
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Berlin
Berliner Zeitung
National Assembly
East Prussia
Silesia
Near East
Ukraine
Wernstorff Full of Hope For League Admission
Berlin reports indicate Germany and Russia may join the League of Nations only after their political situations stabilize. Count von Bernstorff says foreign office officials and high figures expect the matter to be settled at the forthcoming assembly meeting.
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Berlin
Foreign Office
Paris
Germany
Russia
League of Nations
Count von Bernstorff
Peace Conference Plans for March Submission
Paris reports from January indicate French officials expect preliminaries for peace to be finished and ready for submission to the French chamber between March and March 31. Sources note rapid organization and a fast moving second plenary session of the peace conference.
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Paris
London Daily Mail
The
Figaro
Huns Defend Borders Amid Czech Polish Skirmish
Berlin war commentary reports Germany will not allow the country to be drawn into further adventures. The government is preparing measures to protect the peoples against Polish and other threats as fighting continues between Czechs and Poles.
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Vorwaerts
Germany
Berlin
Ebert Government Surrender Question Not Yet Answered
Paris January 27 Robert Lansing named to the American peace committee on responsibility for the war with a second member to be chosen from experts. The Ebert government has given no official stance on surrendering the former German emperor though the issue rests on German refuge in Holland. Clemenceau outlined peace congress committees including reparation and international labor with Baruch Davis and McCormick to lead United States delegations.
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Paris
Robert Lansing
Ebert
William Hohenzollern
Holland
Clemenceau
Peace Congress
Congress
Great Britain
Gordon Hewart
France
Andre Tardieu
Ferdinand Lamande
Italy
Vierto Scialola
Ramondo
United States
B. M. Baruch
John W. Davis
Vance McCormick
William Morris Hughes
Sir John Simon
Baron Cunliffe
L. L. Klotz
L. P. Locheur
A. F. Lebrup
Antonio Salandra
General Badoglio
Japan
Baron Makino
Baron Nobuaku
E. N. Hurley
Samuel Gompers
George Nicol Barnes
Ian Malcolm
M. Coillard
Signor DesPlanches
Signor Cubrini
M. Ouchian
M. Oka
Henry White
Andre Wetss
Albert Clavetilo
Signor Grespi
Signor DeMartino
M. Yamakawa
Colonel Sato
Three Hundred Thousand U S Soldiers To Be Returned Monthly
Washington January 27 General March announced that arrangements will allow three hundred thousand U S soldiers to be returned from foreign lands each month. He said demobilization can be completed in six months.
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Washington, D. C
Allied forces shorten line before Archangel
British and American troops retreat from Shenkurk under Bolshevik pressure and pull back to a shorter line north of the town, as front actions near Archangel continue.
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Archangel
Kurck
Bodies of Liebknecht and 83 others buried in Berlin
Berlin crowds honor Dr. Karl Liebknecht and 83 others slain in recent disorders with processional burial at Friedrichsfelde. Soldiers guard central streets as thousands of workers halt work and demonstrate peacefully. no serious clashes reported.
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Berlin
Karl Liebknecht
Friedrichsfelde
Wilson address to French women focuses on women voting
President Wilson speaks to a delegation of French working women at the Murat mansion. He acknowledges their tribute and expresses humility while stressing that the right of women to participate in national life is a domestic issue for each nation and should not be dictated by an international peace conference.
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Paris
France
Murat
Wilson
Mile. Thomson
Pershing’s Hospital Data in France and England
War department report from General Pershing shows on January 9 there were 105 753 American army hospitalized in France and England. Of these 72642 suffered from disease and 33111 from wounds or injuries. Hospital cases decline by more than 15000 since prior week.
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Wahington
Pershing
War Department
France
England
U S Flyers Stage Pranks Over Rhine Moselle Rivers
Coblenz January 27 American aviators sparked delight by buzzing the Rhine and Moselle valleys. They skimmed water, dodged steamers, looped near Pfaffendorf bridge and nearly reached the Third Army headquarters as crowds counted the audacious flights.
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Coblenz
Rhine and
Moselle
Pfaffendorf
Third Army
Czech Troops Capture Oderberg from Poles in Bitter Fight
Amsterdam dispatch says Czech forces seized Oderberg, a 1500 resident town on the Oder river at the Austrian Silesia Prussia frontier, after sanguinary fighting reported by the Breslau national council.
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Oderberg
Oder River
Amsterdam
Breslau
Austrian Silesia
Prussia
Huge Savings Declared in War Expenditures Bill
Congress reported more than 15 billion dollars in savings from war expenditures by the war and navy departments. The measure cancels contracts totaling 7.17 billion and withdraws authority for 8.22 billion in future obligations, with total department provisions around 36.7 billion. Navy savings are modest cashwise but vast in authorizations, while the army shows large cash and authorization reductions.
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Washington
War and Navy Departments
Congress
House Appropriations Committee
Sherley
Navy
War Department
Department
Great Lakes to Consolidate Aviation Training Under One School
Announcement says the Great Lakes aviation training school will be kept intact and other U S aviation schools will be transferred there. Schools to move include Naval Air Training station Pensacola Boston School of Technology Navy Liberty Motor School Detroit Navy Gas Engine school Columbia University Naval detachment Tunwoodle Institute Minneapolis Naval Training station Hampton Roads Virginia.
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Chicago
Great Lakes
United States
Naval Air Training Station
Pensacola
Fla
Boston School of Technology
Navy Liberty Motor School
Detroit
Mich
Navy Gas Engine School
Columbia University
Naval
Tunwoodle Institute
Minneapolis
Naval Training Station
Iampton Roads
Loot Ring Exposed as Four Arrested in $500000 Theft
Chicago police say the so called Team sters Thieves Trust organized and stole $500000 in loot. Four members confessed and implicated 15 associates and receivers. Loot worth $10000, mostly in firearms, has been recovered with 208000 stolen in the last three months.
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Chicago
Weotema
U-53 torpedoed Jacob Jones near Newport and sunk allied ships
Navy report reveals German submarine U-53 torpedoed the American destroyer Jacob Jones off the Irish coast on December 6 1917 after visiting Newport Rhode Island in 1916 It also notes U-53 commander Captain vom Schrader and a later U-152 crewed by Lieuts Mueller and Pulcher who were captured by the same subs and later released The Bristol Channel action reportedly sank an escort ship believed to be Tampa and a torpedo toward Chester, with no hits on the Chester
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Washington
Jacob Jones
Newport
R. I
New England
Lieuts
F. L. Mueller
J. H. Pulcher
Ticonderoga
Kiel
Navy Department
Vom Schrader
David Worth Bagley
Daniels
von Schrader
Bagley
Sims
Queenstown
Fulcher
Bristol Channel
Coast Guard
Tampa
Chester
East Has Murder Mystery
The body of a 21 year old woman wearing expensive furs was found by two hunting dogs in a deserted woods near Englewood New Jersey. She lay face down with her head toward a shallow pool, dead about a month, body well preserved, no signs of violence or identity. Police from New York and New Jersey probe the unclear homicide at the scene.
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New York
Lulban Road
Englewood
N. J
New Jersey
Yank Mission to Poland
Henry P Davison, chairman of the American Red Cross war council, advised from Paris that an American Red Cross relief mission will be sent to Poland immediately. The group will travel from Paris via Copenhagen and Danzig and be headed by Dr Walter C Batley of Boston and Maj F B Franczak Buffalo health commissioner and representative to Paris of all Poles in America.
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Washington
Henry P. Davison
American Red Cross War Council
Paris
Red Cross
Poland
Copenhagen
Danzig
Walter C. Batley
Boston
Maj
F. B. Franczak
Buffalo
N. Y
America
Foreign Wave Body to Expand Veterans Group
New York reports plans to expand the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States to include those who served in Europe during the war against the Central Powers. The organization was formed after the Spanish American War.
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New York
Es Pansion
Veterans of Foreign Wars of
United States
Europe
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Pershing’s Hospital Data
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