Armies to be Reduced and Rhine Forts Demolished
Paris reports outline harsh disarmament terms for Germany. Army limited to 100000 with no mobilization. great general staff and military schools cut. Fortifications near the Rhine within 50 miles must be destroyed and no new works allowed. Weapons production restricted and arms surrendered to allies. import and export of war material banned. Naval terms aim to match police and frontier control capacities.
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Rhine
London
Germany
Paris
Times
Daily Mail
Husband Stands By Girl In Poisoning Case
Seattle, March 21. Despite police claim that Ruth Garrison confessed to poisoning Mrs. Grace G. Storrs, Dudley M. Storrs arrives from eastern Washington and says the girl is innocent. He asserts his wife often threatened suicide and he doubts the confession, alleging police coercion. He maintains Mrs. Storrs ended her life.
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Seattle
Wash
Grace G. Storrs
Ruth Garrison
Dudley M. Storrs
Washington
Storrs
Ruth
Turks Slay Greek Peasants in Smyrna District
Reported by Athens on March 21 that condition of Greeks in the Smyrna district is extremely critical. Turkish soldiers and civilians overrun the region murdering and pillaging. At Budja near Smyrna a party of Greek peasants was attacked last Thursday with several killed and about 50 bodies found debased and partly burned.
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Athens
Smyrna
Budja
Reds Evacuate Pinsk As Bolsheviks Retire
Copenhagen reports Mitau, a key rail junction southwest of Riga, has fallen to Lettish troops as Bolsheviks retreat along the front. Warsaw dispatch notes Bolshevik forces forced to evacuate Pinsk, 100 miles east of Brest-Litovsk, amid Polish pressure. Berlin notes a Bolshevik invasion plan timed with uprisings, while Archangel front defenses claim a Bolshevik attack was repulsed with casualties and prisoners.
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Copenhagen
Mitau
Riga
Pinsk
Brest-Litovsk
Warsaw
Berlin
Germany
Austria
National Zeitung
Vienna
London
Archangel
Morjejovska
Puth
Comunique
Six Hour Day and Five Day Week Backed by UMWA
In Indianapolis on March 21 the subcommittee of the general policy committee endorsed Frank J. Hayes's push for a six hour day and five day work week, plus wage increases and coal mine nationalization. They urged using UMWA power to pursue these goals and proposed letting international officers draft a bill for nationalizing all coal mines to be presented at the union's special convention and to Congress.
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Indianapolis
Frank J. Hayes
United Mine Workers of America
General Policy Committee
United Mine Workers
Congress
Japanese Proposal Seeks Equal Rights for Aliens
Paris dispatch reports Japan will submit an amendment to the League covenant calling for equal and just treatment of aliens from member nations. neutrals from Europe, Asia and the Americas will have input, with Lord Robert Cecil chairing and Wilson presiding over the meeting. The Americans aim to accept a limited set of amendments, and preliminary treaty talks include the League in Germany terms.
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Robert Cecil
Paris
League of Nations
League
Supreme Council
Reuter’s
Eee
Europe
Asia
Central and
South America
Holland
Switzerland
Great Britain
Venigelos
Greece
M. Vesnich
Serbia
Paul Hymans
Belgium
Col
Ki. M. House
United States
Sean Bourgeois
France
Wilson
League of Nations Commission
America
Lord Robert Cecil
Thomas W. Gregory
Germany
Fiume Demanded as Part of Peace Contention
Paris March 21 The Adriatic littoral dispute shifts as the Italian delegation at the peace talks announces it will withdraw from the conference unless Fiume is definitively assigned to Italy at the conclusion of peace. The stance marks a decisive turn in ongoing deliberations over territorial settlements.
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Fiume
Italy
Surrender of German Fleet Delayed by Coal Shortage
Three diverse reports: the Weimar assembly adopts a decree incorporating German Austria into Germany, a Nashville crash kills Representative J H Bessan and injures Dan Wolfenbarger after a six-man delegation plunges from Capitol Hill, and Berlin cites coal shortages from strikes and transport woes delaying surrender of part of the German mercantile fleet.
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Weimar
National Assembly
Germany
Solons
Nashville
Tenn
Capitol Hill
J. H. Bessan
Dyer County
Dan Wolfenbarger
Grainger County
Berlin
General Allen arrives in Paris to advise on Near East
Near East Paris March 21 Gen E H Allen commander of British forces in Palestine arrived from Egypt to advise the supreme council on Near Eastern questions.
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Paris
E. H. Allenby
Palestine
Egypt
Supreme Council
Doctor Lam masch Heads to Paris as Union Foes Route
Former Austrian premier Lammasch travels to Paris amid strong opposition to the German German union plan. Paris newspapers deem the journey highly significant for the anti union stance and regional reactions.
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Geneva
Lammasch
Austria
Germany
Paris
United States Sets Billion Dollar War Loss Claim
Paris report says the United States has a maximum war loss claim of one billion dollars for life and property, with individual loss of life fixed at twenty five thousand dollars in every case.
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United States
Paris
Reds Rule Ukraine Allied Troops Forced to Withdraw to Odessa
London reports say Bolsheviks control virtually all Ukraine with heavy fighting at Nikolaievy forcing the French garrison to withdraw to Odessa. Bolsheviks reach the Isthmus of Perekop near the Crimea and push Russian opposition. Kiev and Zhitomir fall to Moscow forces aided by Ukrainian Bolsheviks, driving Petlura’s peasant government toward Pokrov.
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London
Ukraine
Nikolaievy
Odessa
Perekop
Crimea
Russia
Moscow
Kiev
Zhitomir
Petlura
Vinnitza
Proskurov
Podolia
Galicia
Air mail service to start Chicago to New York
Chicago reports that a new air mail route between Chicago and New York will begin on April 15. John A. Jordan, head of the air mail service, said three planes are ready in Cleveland and that after launch the 100 de Havilland aircraft will enter service.
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Chicago
New York
Air Mail
John A. Jordan
Air Mail Service
Cleveland
War Department
Bolsheviks organize 28 units in Germany and schools for reds
Berlin reports to Lenin that Radek formed 28 separate Bolshevik groups in Germany aimed at spreading revolution in western occupation zones. Up to January 20, 11 million rubles were spent on Radek’s mission. A Soviet in Petrograd published German language sheets and built a Bolshevist school for war prisoners.
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Hague
Berlin
Otto Pertz
Petrograd
Lenine
Trotzky
Radek
Germany
Detrograd
East Prussia
West Prussia
Nijni Novgorod Samara
Siberia
See Jap Plot in Mexico
Washington reports investigations ordered by the state department into alleged dealings by the California and Mexican Land company to sell 800000 acres of land on the Mexico California border to a Japanese syndicate. The Monroe doctrine may be violated. Senator Phelan forwarded the information.
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Washington
California and Mexican Land Company
Mexico
California
State Department
Phelan
Reed Defies the Assembly in Missouri Senate Row
St Louis March 21 Senator James A Reed comments on 50 Missouri house Democrats who urged his resignation to test public sentiment He says he does not object to resolutions but objects to accusations he spoke disrespectfully of President Wilson He states he will not resign and will not conduct a campaign by abusing opponents.
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St. Louis
James A. Reed
Missouri House of Representatives
Wilson
War Contract Cancellations Slowed by Detailed Audits
Washington reports that settlement of claims on war contracts slows cancellations with $2.941 billion in contracts under review and only $185.132 million closed by February 27. Explosives valued at $12 million move to interior use, while 1.5 billion pounds of surplus sodium nitrate valued at $57 million will be sold for agriculture and commerce. The Agriculture Department will acquire 284 million pounds for fertilizer at cost, with rest handled by nitrate pools.
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Department of Agriculture
Army
Washington
War Department
Interior Department
Ordnance Department
United States
Nitrate Board
American Nitrate Pool
Chile
Fort Wingate
N. M
Sparta
Wis
Charleston
S. C
Munitions
Crowell
Cotton Great German Need
Germany faces a cotton shortage estimated at 4,500,000 bales of 500 pounds each, based on European expert opinion. At the start of WWI in 1914 Germany had about 400,000 bales on hand, enough for three to four months, with prewar annual consumption around 2,000,000 bales. Exports ceased but military needs absorbed demand, and imports were bolstered by 1,200,000 bales seized in invaded areas.
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Washington
Germany
Distillers Move to Challenge Prohibition Law
New York March 2 The committee representing the entire distilling industry of the United States announced plans to attack the constitutionality of the federal prohibition amendment and the wartime prohibition act. Levy Mayor of Chicago was instructed to arrange for a test suit to challenge the prohibition law after the peace treaty is signed.
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New York
United States
Chicago
Conqagel
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