Paroled 600 as 4,000 enemy aliens interned during war
Attorney General Palmer said about 4,000 enemy aliens were interned in the war. Some 600 of the harmless class will be paroled, 900 dangerous foes held, and 200 I W W members referred for deportation. Repatriation plans aim to send around 1,800 seamen and 500 other Germans back to Germany.
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Department of Labor
Anith
Department of Justice
State Department
Germany
Secretary of Labor
Congress
Gregory
Wilson
Yanks Order 500 Track Suits for Expeditionary Force
Washington reports Capt. John L. Griffith received an order for 500 track suits for the American expeditionary force track team that will represent the United States in the May interallied championship. The blue trunks with red side stripes will have a white shirt with red bands and a red U S on the breast. Suits are to be shipped to France immediately.
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Washington
American Expeditionary Force
United States
John L. Griffith
U. S
France
Paper inquiry halt as trade commission cites funds
Washington March 29 The federal trade commission denied the newspaper publishers bid to reopen Ree’s investigation into news print costs and prices. It said it might have the right to reopen the matter but has no funds to conduct any inquiry and cannot incur the required expenditures without congressional authority.
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eThe Federal Trade Policn
Congress
Italy buys U S coal at $25 a ton
The Italian ministry accepted the American offer of 8,000,000 tons of coal at $25 per ton to be delivered in Genoa within six months.
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Friome
Tome
Tralian Ministry
Genoa
U S Troops To Russia As Bolsheviks Retreat
Archangel report notes the first detachment of American railroad troops has reached the Murman coast to work on the Murman railway. General Richardson will depart London with engineers sanitary workers and officers for Archangel. Meanwhile Bolsheviks fall back north of the Pripet marshes and Vilna is expected to be evacuated.
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Russia
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France
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Pripet Marshes
Kovno
Vilna
Lithuania
Willl
Midwest units coming home after Brest voyage
Washington reports the transport Leviathan with over 12,000 troops aboard the Eighty fifth Division and two other transports, plus battleships Rhode Island and Virginia. Leviathan left Brest on March 26 and is due in New York on April 2, marking the largest single troop lift by the giant transport.
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France
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Rhode Island
Virginia
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Wisconsin
Michigan National Army
War Department
Brest
New York
Royalist Plotters Shot in Siberia Conspiracy
Stockholm reports that 21 alleged royalists were executed by bolsheviks near Penza in eastern Russia. The Krasnaya Gazeta claims conspirators planned to elevate a bishop’s nephew as Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovitch, to flee to Moscow and stage a Kremlin appeal.
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Penza
Saratov
Russia
Krasnaya Gazette
Ufa
Dmitri Pavlovitch
Moscow
Kremlin
German admiralty cannot explain Cyclops disappearance
Berlin reports the German admiralty cannot explain the March last year disappearance of the U S naval collier Cyclops bound from Brazil to the United States with 15 officers, 221 crew, 57 passengers, and manganese. Admiralty officials say no sinking report reached them and no German submarines operated in West Indian waters at that time.
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United States
Brazil
Admiralty
West Indian
Germans Start Trouble at Danzig
Paris dispatch notes heightened precautions for President Wilson and premiers in daily conferences. Officials kept meeting times secret while newspapers reported crowds gathering for arrivals. Wilson remained calm as leaders prepared for talks.
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Paris
Wilson
Secret Service
White House
Allied Mission Is Interned at Danzig
Paris reports a disrupted Allied mission at Danzig amid German opposition to Allied control of the port. Echo de Paris notes Gen Haller may land troops there, while Paris public assemblies prompt caution and Wilson keeps up his pace amid mounting duties.
Foreign ministers council eyes peace terms and borders
A wartime briefing notes the Allied foreign ministers council to lift the blockade on German Austria once imports are controlled, to study the Moroccan question and Schleswig borders, and to draft a broader peace with Italy France Britain and the U.S. The council may add a labor representative and expand national delegations while excluding Japan from direct foreign minister representation.
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France
Italy
Wilson
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Council of Foreign Ministers
Conneil
League of Nations
Reuter
Bolsheviki Suffer Defeat in Russia, Retreat Farther
Bolsheviki in Russia suffer another defeat as they retreat over fifty miles. Forces report they have lost five, and have been taken. This wrap notes a retreat and continued setbacks in the conflict.
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Bolsheviki
Russia
Liberty loan terms offer six month deferred payments
Washington says new Victory Liberty loan provides the most liberal terms yet with six month deferral from May 10 to November 11. Subscriptions require 10 per cent on May 10 and July 15, then four 20 per cent installments on August 12, September 9, October 7 and November 11, plus accrued interest with final payment. Full payment May 20 also available if 10 per cent is paid by May 10. Banks previously subscribed hundreds of millions and allowed ten months to pay, a pattern Treasury officials expect to boost public subscriptions.
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Washington
New Victory Liberty Loan
Glass
Treasury
Missionaries Declared Not Involved in Korean Uprising
Seul March 29 The representative body of Korean missionaries says missionaries are entirely free from any complicity or knowledge of the present troubles linked to the independence movement. The statement follows an inquiry into the case and is supported by judicial inquiries.
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Seul
Korea
Allies to Aid Roumania With Equipment and Front Reorganization
Paris reports that the allies will supply Romania with needed equipment to establish a firm defense. The Baltic and Black Sea fronts are to be reorganized and the interallied high command will participate in operations against the hathevils in these regions.
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Paris
Baltic
Black Sea
Embargo Placed on Former Emperor Charles Fortune
Reports from Vienna via German wireless say an embargo is placed on the private fortune of former Emperor Charles until his official abdication is received at Vienna.
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Tondon
Charles
Vienna
Germany's President Ebert Receives 20000 Monthly Salary
Berlin reports President Ebert's official monthly pay of 20,000 with no perquisites or expense allowances. The figure covers office running costs and staff salaries while demanding strict accountability for expenditures.
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Berlin
Mhert
Ebert
Food crisis in Armenia endangers thousands weekly
Paris reports an American relief worker in Tiflis warns 10,000 Armenians may die each week without aid. In Erivan 45,000 face starvation as bread and meat vanish amid severe shortages. Regional districts suffer from famine and the populace scavenges carcasses of Tsse.
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Armenia
Paris
Helms
Senate approves suffrage amendment in Missouri vote
Jefferson City March 20 The Missouri senate passes the suffrage amendment by a wide margin 20 12 sending the bill to the governor for signature.
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Senate
Jefferson City
Lawyer Permitted Temporary Leave From Prison
Ports March 29 d aul Comby a lawyer held on charges of complicity in the Calliaux and Holo Pasha Cases has been granted temporary release due to his health deteriorating under confinement.
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Bolo Cape Free
Ports
D’aul Comby
Calliaux
Holo Pasha
Fires devastate Siegler building and yacht club losses
A spectacular downtown fire swept East Third Street near Lakeside Avenue, destroying the Siegler building and causing extensive damage. A second fire wiped out the Cleveland Yacht Club boats including Speejacks and Mahappa, with combined losses around 145000 dollars and a Mahappa cost near 95,000.
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Cleveland
U S Volunteers to Go to Europe
Paris reports German garrison increases at Danzig as the war department prepares an immediate call for 50 000 volunteers for service in Europe The force will enlist for three years be based at Camp Meade and ship in contingents of about 1000 men to relieve expeditionary troops in France.
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France
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Paris
Geneva
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Galicia
Austria
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Vienna
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Gratz
Copenhagen
Weimar
Danzig
Poland
Versailles
German Brutality in Belgium Reported in Brussels
Brussels reports 6000 Belgian civilians dead from German ill-treatment. Seven orphans and 125,000 men deported. Indemnities for damages estimated at 3.18 billion. Government official figures cited by the chamber of deputies.
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Chamber of Deputies
Belerium
Germany
Belgium
Negro dentist found guilty in Wassterloo riot conspiracy
Leroy Bundy, a St Louis resident, was convicted in a Witsterloo court on one count of conspiring to murder tied to a riot that left two detectives wounded on the night of July 1, 1927. He was sentenced to life imprisonment and a new trial has been requested.
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