Senator Chamberlain Defends War Work Bills
Washington November 29 Senator Chamberlain chairman of the Senate military affairs committee says the war work bills were justified and the committee fearless. He will retire March 4 and may be succeeded by Senator Warren, father in law of General Pershing. He notes criticisms, praises wartime speed, debt to expenditures, and demobilization plans under the Overman act as the postwar focus shifts.
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Military Affairs Committee
Wilson
Kaiser Expects to Regain Throne in Germany
London November 29 former German Kaiser Wilhelm II contemplates an early return to Germany to reclaim his throne. The Daily Mail says the present revolution was staged by former high officials and officers to keep a republic until a favorable peace treaty. Once peace is declared the revolutionary movement would collapse and the Kaiser would return as Emperor.
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Germany
British to Station 400 Staff in Paris for Peace Conference
London reports the government will deploy a 400 person staff in Paris for the peace conference. Assistant Secretary Towle of the food ministry told correspondents that the Majestic Hotel will host the delegation and a force of servants will accompany them. Paris hotels anticipate high rates, so the food industry handles catering with help from the House of Commons.
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Long line of U boats seen at Harwich surrender site
A Reuters correspondent toured U boat avenue off Harwich where surrendered submarines lie for over a mile. Subs are towed in batches of threes and fours with red flags. A Deutschland type submarine yielded a bloodstained cat o nine tails found by a British sailor under the captain’s bunk.
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London
Reuter
Harwich
King George III in Paris greeted by French and Allied troops
Paris salutes King George and the Prince of Wales on a Sunday arrival. President Poincare and Premier Clemenceau welcomed them as a parade of French troops, Allied Colonials, and British forces past the Arc de Triomphe. Crowds, Union Jacks, and released prisoners witnessed the royal visit alongside airplanes and light tanks. A doughboy division from the western front joined the procession.
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Prince of Wales
Gare ¢U Nord
Poincare
Clemenceau
Arc de Triomphe
Champs Elysees
Place de la Concorde
Rawlinson
St. Quentin
Mons
Western Front
Germany Must Pay to Capacity Extent Declared by Lloyd George
New Castle England November 29 Premier Lloyd George declared Germany must bear the costs of the war to the limit of her capacity in a speech delivered today.
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Germany
New Castle
England
Lloyd
George
Austria Hungary losses Four Million Killed or Wounded
Berne report cites Vienna statement claiming Austria-Hungary lost four million men killed or wounded in the war, reflecting the immense human cost of the conflict.
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Austria-Hungary
Berne
Vienna
Allied leaders to meet in London next week
London officials report that leaders of the Allied nations will gather in London next week in a preliminary meeting ahead of the peace conference at Paris. The gathering signals early coordination among Western powers before formal talks.
Allied reps to visit Berlin for armistice talks
Amsterdam Nov 29 announces that representatives of Great Britain France and the United States will arrive in Berlin shortly to discuss questions growing out of the armistice.
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Great Britain
France
United States
Austrian government orders former emperor to leave
Copenhagen dispatch reports that the Austrian government has ordered former Emperor Carl to depart the country immediately. The action follows persistent anti-revolution agitation led by conservatives, the announcement says.
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Carl
Conserva
Entente to send larger forces to Balkans ventures
Washington reports the entente powers will not withdraw from the Balkans and may dispatch bigger expeditions to Hungary and Austria amid rising disorder. Concern grows over the Bohemian mobilization for conquest in German Austria and Romanian moves against Hungarians in Transylvania, backed by Bucharest.
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Balkans
Hungary
Austria
Transylvania
Thanksgiving grid results from early college games
Thanksgiving football results list scores from Madison Wisconsin Wisconsin 7 Michigan 6 Aggies 6 at Lincoln Nebraska Notre Dame 0 Nebraska 3 Oklahoma City Oklahoma 26 A and M 0 Houston Texas 7 Texas A and M 0 Camp Dodge 7 Camp Funston 0 Lawrence Kansas Kansas University 18 Kansas Aggies 7.
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Pershing National Republican League formed in Ohio
Columbus November 26 1920 campaign for Gen John J Pershing to the presidency in 1920 was officially launched in Ohio with the incorporation of the Pershing National Republican league. Akron senator Charles Dick leads 14 Akron Summit county sponsors who signed the articles of incorporation.
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John J. Pershing
France
Ohio
Pershing National Republican League
United States
Charles Dick
Akron
Summit County
Mr. Dick
Fire damages Crescent plant in Pittsburgh steel works
A fire triggered by an oil detonation damaged about half of the Crescent plant of the Crucible Steel company in Pittsburgh. Two hundred workers were in the plant when the blast occurred and escaped. only one man suffered a minor burn. In Washington, the elimination of the one half cent per mile extra Pullman fare for rail travel will take effect December 1, as decided by Director General McAdoo.
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Solf protests evacuation order amid Rhine encroachments
Zurich dispatch reports Dr. W S Solf, German foreign minister, sending a note to the allied powers protesting the armistice evacuation deadlines for Belgium France Luxembourg and Alsace Lorraine. She warns of continued incursions west of the Rhine and asserts Germany’s solemn protest against loss of the territories. The German armistice commission reiterates concerns over delays due to economic conditions.
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German Armistice Commission
Belgium demands left bank Scheldt as war peace term
Belgium unity across parties backs occupation of the left bank of the Scheldt and seeks it at the peace conference. Belgium also cites unofficial losses near 88,000,000,000 francs. Separately, Lieut Julius B. Fulcher recounts capture on the German U boat Deutschland after the Ticonderoga sinking. He describes life aboard the submarine, being held with 85 German sailors, and events leading to its recall on October 26.
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Rhine
Luxemburg
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Frank T. Muller
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Cal
Harwich
Daily Express
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Fulcher
Bavarian Break With Berlin Splits German States
London and Copenhagen dispatches report Bavaria severing diplomatic ties with Berlin over alleged deceit by the Berlin government. Bavarian president Kurt Eisner led calls to oust Milias Erzberger and W Solf as Bavarian leaders push to supplant Prussia amid a Soviet movement in Berlin. Officials warn Prussia faces isolation while Vienna vows trials for wartime statesmen and generals. Armistice terms bar a blockade lift, though cables note talks to ease shortages for Germany.
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Vienna
Bolshevik Invasion of Estonia Reported
Russian bolshevik troops crossed the Narva River and entered Estonia between the Gulf of Finland and Lake Peipus in a broad front, according to a Central News dispatch from Stockholm. Herbert Hoover and his party arrived in Paris from England to confer with Colonel House and Food Minister Boret.
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Red Guards Sprind Terror.
Socialist workers who refuse Bolshevist authority in Russia are being executed by Red guards alongside aristocracy, military officers, and the bourgeoisie in a wholesale purge.
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Red Guards
Paris
Russia
Fleet to meet Wilson at sea escorts to port
A large Allied fleet of British French and American warships will meet President Wilson at sea and escort his ship to port with naval honors it was learned this afternoon. The president probably will land at London.
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Wilson
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