Paris Dispatch on German Govt Crisis and Troop Movements
Paris reports Germany seeks to form a treaty, with the government asking the field marshal for an explanation. Two active army regiments to be sent to Frankfurt. The dispatch accuses Major General Scheuch and Field Marshal von Hindenburg allied with a counter revolutionary movement, saying the current government cannot stop their plan.
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Paris
Des
von Hin Bas
Armimice
Epatch
le Journal
Zuric Seine
Mehl Warshal
Frankfort-on-the-Main
Scheuch
Preslan
von Hindenburg
Lequid
Lequis
Metz
Berlin
Long Awaited Hog Island Yards Report Made Public
The Justice Department report on the Hog Island shipyard reveals no criminal liability but urges a board of arbitration to determine if part of the over 60 million spent was beyond reasonable necessity. It notes costs rose from an original 21 million to about 61 million and cites management questions while preserving the project’s wartime urgency and progress.
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Washington
Department of Justice
Hog Island
White House
Wilson
Board of Arbitration
Emergency Fleet Corporation
American International Corporation
Piex
Senate Commerce Committee
G. Carroll Todd
Mark Hyman
American International Corporation of New York
Buila
Fleet Corporation
Contracts Signed for Railroad Rent Pacts Today
Washington reports standard form agreements signed between the railroad administration and the New York Ontario and Western for an annual rental of 2 103 559 dollars and the Minnesota and International for 202 465 dollars. A contract with the Great Northern railroad is anticipated shortly.
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Washington
The
Railroad Administration
New York, Ontario and Western Railroad
Minnesota and International Railroad
Great Northern Railroad
Ed Crows Hall
Part Of Japanese Peace Mission Arrives In Honolulu
Honolulu December 26 One section of the Japanese peace delegation arrived en route to San Francisco. The party includes Biron N Makino General Nara and Vice Admiral Takeahita leaders of the military and naval sections with about forty members. Another section led by Marquis Baronji will meet them in Paris traveling via the Indian Ocean route.
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Honolulu
San Francisco
Biron N. Makino
Nara
Takeahita
Marquis Baronji
Japan
Paris
Marquis
Indian Ocean
Destroyer contracts to be canceled for unstarted work
Washington reports a conference between shipbuilders and Secretary Daniels to cut existing destroyer contracts not begun and redirect keellay plans to ships reflecting wartime experience. No reduction in overall program expected. Boston notes death of Francis Silk O Loughlin, famed American League umpire, after brief illness. Weather forecast for North Dakota: partly cloudy tonight and Saturday with little temperature change.
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Washington
Daniels
Dantes
Boston
Francis “Silk O'Loughlin
North Dakota
Christmas and No Place to Go For Soldiers In New York
New York on December 25 will see a nationwide effort by the War Camp Community Service to entertain thousands of soldiers and sailors on leave. The program, funded to the hundreds of thousands, offers dinners theaters dances and gifts to men who cannot return home. In New York a continuous schedule from Christmas Eve to New Year’s Night aims to ensure every khaki or blue clad service member shares in the festivities. The drive also seeks to foster cooperation between communities and the armed services through holiday cheer and shared spirit.
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New York
War Camp
Community Service
War and Navy
Co Ion
President Wilson to visit England for four days
President Wilson and Mrs. Wilson will arrive in London December 26 and stay about four days as guests of King George at Buckingham Palace. He plans to visit London and northern France with talks in Paris and consultations with Colonel House and Italian and British leaders. The trip follows Christmas with American troops and precedes the inter Allied conference opening mid January. The conference aims for a united front ahead of the peace congress. analysts call the outcome a decisive victory for allied terms and an unconditional surrender premise. Federal control of milk distribution and pricing in the U.S. has been relinquished by the food administration after a meeting with state and city officials and dairy representatives.
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Wilson
Mrs. Wilson
London
King George
Buckingham Palace
Paris
England
Colonel House
Andre Tardieu
United States
France
Belgium
Orlando
Italy
Lloyd George
Tondo
New York
United States Food Administration
Dairymen’s League
Spanish Premier Arrives in Paris for Allied Talks
Paris December 20 Count Romanones the Spanish premier arrived in Paris today to confer with President Wisan and Allied representatives on the peace conference agenda and postwar arrangements.
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Paris
Count Romanones
Wisan
Eighty Million Cigarettes to Be Given Soldiers
New York December 30 The Young Men's Christian Association announced that 80 million cigarettes would be distributed to American expeditionary forces at Christmas celebrations in 1,500 huts. Also 4 million chocolates 3,000 gum and mail-in postcards. Each hut will host a tree with entertainment by the Hed Triangle department. French children invited as guests on Christmas Eve and day. Thomas Cushing’s playlet Misne toe and Onions will be presented with a minstrel show and moving pictures. Soldiers will perform. props costumes scenery and coaches provided by the Red Cross.
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New York
Eaves
Thomas Cushing
Bed Cross
Bandits Steal $12000 Payroll From Electric Co
Everett Mass December 20 Six men in an automobile held up Lynn paymaster Frank Brown of the General Electric foundry here shot him and escaped with the payroll totaling about 12000. Bed Cross Roll Call.
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Everett
Mass
Frank Brown
Lynn
General Electric Company
Revenue bill amends postage zones and rates
Washington adopts a revenue bill amendment repealing the second class postage zone system and sets substitute rates of one cent per pound within 150 miles and one and a half cents beyond. New York Yacht Club declines America's Cup challenge. 1920 may be better. Red Grass campaign enrolls six million. Polish troops land at Danzig per Warsaw dispatch. Times estimates six million global flu and pneumonia deaths in three months.
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Washington
Senater
New York
New York Yacht Club
Royal Ulster Yacht Club
Three ships bring many men to U S
New York reports army transports Henry Mallory Manchuria and Megantic arriving with large American forces from Bordeaux Brest and Liverpool. The Henry Mallory carries 1461 soldiers including 492 with illness or wounds and 82 officers among the sick. The Manchuria brings 4003 officers and men plus various artillery units and cavalry. The Megantic adds 310 passengers including army and naval officers and Red Cross workers. An Italian trade mission accompanies Col Hugo Pizcarello and Lieut Angelo Fanelli headed for Washington.
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New York
United States Army
Henry R. Mallory
Bordeaux
14Ard Regiment Field Artillery
65Th Field Artillery Brigade
Manchuria
Brest
56Th Field Artillery
116Th Feld Artillery
117Th Field Artillery
51St Cavalry
62Nd Infantry Brigade
White Star
Megantic
Liverpool
Red Cross
Hugo Pizcarello
Angelo Fanelli
Washington
Red Cross Central Division Enrollments Rise
Central division states Nebraska Iowa Wisconsin Michigan and Illinois report growing Red Cross memberships. Frank Judson, division chairman, says wire reports are optimistic and the effort may exceed one million. Wisconsin progresses despite widespread influenza. Michigan near full enrollment outside Detroit.
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Chicago
Red Cross
Nebraska
Iowa
Wisconin
Michigan
Ilinois
Frank Judson
Judson
Wisconsin
Detroit
German officials strike after foreign minister resignation
Amsterdam reports that all leading German foreign office officials have struck following the resignation of Dr. Solf. Officials have not appeared for duty for days as political turmoil grows. Berlin reports the national assembly elections set for January 19 with a majority supporting summons. London notes a new people’s league in Berlin with notable figures. Copenhagen hints at a German cabinet resignation but lacks confirmation. Washington says Berlin asks modification of armistice terms and hunger relief.
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Amsterdam
Foreign Office
Dr. Solf
British Air Board Drafts International Air Convention
London December 20 The British air board has drafted articles for an international air convention to be submitted to the Airlex and suggested that an International air conference be convened Lord Weir secretary of state for the air forces announced today.
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London
British Air Board
Airlex
Lord Weir
Air Forces
Kea Cross
Senator Ledge Presses Postponement Of League Of Nations
Senator Ledge of Massachusetts urged in the Senate that the formation of a league of nations be postponed until after the peace conference. He argued the question should be considered separately and later.
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Lodge
League of Nations
Washington
Senator Ledge
Massachusetts
Senate
Six Officials Indicted Over Malbone Street Tunnel Crash
A Kings County grand jury indicted Timothy Williams president of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit company and John Hallock president of the New York Consolidated railroad company with first and second degree manslaughter. Four subordinate officers and employees are named accused in connection with the deaths of more than ninety persons in the Malbone Street tunnel wreck in November. Trial was set.
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New York
Kings County
Timothy
Willams
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
John Hallock
New York Consolidated Railroad Company
Malbone Street Tunnel
Maximum copper price controls to end January first
Washington reports the price fixing committee of the war industries board announced maximum prices on copper will expire January 1 and will not be renewed. The decision ends wartime price controls on copper.
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Washington
The
War Industries
Cross Boy More Men Arrive Home From France
Newport News Virginia reports transports Martha Washington and Mercury arrived with 3,720 officers and men from France, including 600 wounded. Also notes the death of Bernard Nadal Baker in Santa Barbara, a shipping expert formerly with the shipping board. Cotton ginned in Washington by December 14 totals 10,252,402 running bales with round bales and other figures listed.
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Newport News
Martha Washington
Mercury
France
Bernard Baker
Santa Barbara
Cal
Bernard Nadal Baker
Baltimore
Baker
Aga Re
William Denman
tad_ Gross Ball
Washington
Casualties of Germany Show 2,000,000 Dead
New York reports that total German casualties may reach about two million, based on a Cologne Gazette copy from November 25. By October 25, 6,066,769 casualties were listed, including over 4,780,000 Prussians. The naval communities totaled about 70,000 with 25,000 dead, 15,600 missing, and nearly 23,000 wounded.
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New York
Cologne
Million Tons of Shipping to Be Released
Paris reports arrangements to release one million tons of shipping from Army Supply Service for American export trade to aid home industries after the war. Charter cancellations of ships carrying home American troops will be ceased with French authorities. A major Allied shipping meeting is planned, and tonnage will be allocated first to European relief, then troop returns, then commercial business. American and Dominion troop withdrawals noted, with possible homecoming within a year.
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Paris
United States
Dominions
Another Attempt To Carry Mail By Air Fails
New York dispatch reports a third failed attempt to fly mail to Chile from New York. Officials say engines did not meet expectations and aviation tests were inadequate. Veterans Bissel and Samts diverged from the route due to motor trouble, forcing a return to Belmont Park after reaching above New York harbor. Mail is being sent to Chicago instead.
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New York
Chile
Ifwan
Bissel
Samts Bee
Belmont Park
Long Island
New York Harbor
Chicago
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Electric CO
Red Grass
Danzig
Warsaw
Times
U.S
Mallory
Svee Bell
Cal— Central Division of Red Cross
By Morris
People’s League
Copenhagen
Associated Press
Congress of Soldiers’ and Workmen's Councils
National Assembly
People's League
Berli
Prince Maximillian of
Baden
Perial
Hugo Haase
Count von Bernsstorff
Mathias Erzberger
W. 8. Solf
Prince von Hohenlohe-Schillingefuerst
Cardinal von Hartmann
Copehnagen
Friedrich Ebert
Lansing
Allied
Cross Boy
Germany
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