British War Chiefs Hope Action At Paris On Bolshevik Threat
London dispatch reports British leaders including Lloyd George Churchill Beatty and Wilson gathering in Paris to discuss possible defensive steps against Bolshevik aggression in the near east. Persian requests for aid and Bolshevik advances threaten Persia Mesopotamia and Afghanistan as Denekine’s collapse and Siberian gains loom.
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London
Paris
Lloyd George
Winston Spencer Churchill
Walter Hume Long
Admiralty
Baron Beatty
Grand Fleet
Sir Henry Wilson
Imperial Staff
Great Britain
Persia
Near East
India
Mesopotamia
Asiatic
Turkey
Asia
Denekine
Russia
Transcaspia
Afghanistan
Crimea
Black Sea
Georgia
Daghestan
Izerbaijan
Poland
Japan
China
Krasnoyarsk
Irkutsk
Siberia
Siberian
Mongolian
Irkutak
Dodge of Detroit Dies in New York Influenza Victim
John Dodge of Detroit automobile maker dies in New York from pneumonia after influenza. He arrived with brother Horace at the automobile show. Horace is reported out of danger. John Dodge, born in Michigan, built a fortune of about 54 million with his brother after starting in a small shop.
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Dodge
Detroit
New York
John Dodge
Michigan
Mr. Dodge
Niles
Mich
U S Steamer Guildford Short of Coal Off Halifax
The United States shipping board steamer Guildford reports from 1385 miles off Halifax that she can only coal for sixty miles to port, she is leaking, and requires assistance. a tug will tow her in. Abe Reuf, Frisco political boss, has been sentenced to 14 years but is granted freedom.
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Halifax
N.S
United States Shipping Board
Guildford
Abe Reuf
Frisco
League Council Elects Bourgeois Chairman Drummond Secretary
Representatives from France Great Britain Italy Greece Belgium Spain Japan Portugal and Brazil met at the French foreign office for the first League of Nations council meeting. The council elected Leon Bourgeois as chairman and confirmed Sir Eric Drummond of Great Britain as general secretary.
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League Council
Leon Bourgeois
Eric Drummond
Paris
France
Great Britain
Italy
Greece
Belgium
Spain
Japan
Portugal
Brazil
Council of the
League of Nations
Foreign Office
League
Officials to view irrigated demonstration farm site
The Hon. Diarcan Marshall and the Hon. Mr. Mitchell will visit Medicine Hat on Monday the 19th for a review of the proposed site for the government irrigated demonstration farm.
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Dencan Marshall
C. R. Mitchell
Board of Trade
Diar¢an Marstih
Medicine Hat
Mitchell
Library board weighs larger quarters and juvenile space
The Library board reelected Alderman Bellamy as chair and named a finance and book committee. They discussed adding a separate juvenile department and a ladies and reference room, with cost estimates totaling 855 for rent salaries shelving furniture. December 1919 circulation reached 5720 with 154 new cards issued.
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Ald. Bellamy
Ald. Montgomerie
Messrs
F. M Oliver
W. B. Stevens
Warner
Salt Deposit Found Near Major Alberta
An excellent quality common salt deposit was discovered in a lake bottom near Major Alberta. A borehole shows a surface flare reservoir and brine flowing freely without diminishing. A company has been formed to exploit the site.
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Alta
Influenza Rages in Chicago with Deaths and Quarantine
Influenza caused four deaths in Chicago yesterday and 137 new cases were reported to the health department. One hundred new cases were reported at the Great Lakes naval training station, bringing the total to 200 and the facility under partial quarantine.
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Chicago
Health Department
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Spiritua lism Strengthens Religion Says Sir Oliver Lodge
Sir Oliver Lodge arrives in New York and declares spiritualism is not opposed to religion but strengthens it. He argues survival of man can be proven and that new evidence supports essential parts of the old faith, enhancing belief and challenging materialistic views.
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Oliver Lodge
New York
Clemenceau Withdraws Candidacy in France President Race
Paris January 16 Associated Press Premier Clemenceau announced his withdrawal from the presidential race and urged supporters to back President Raymond Poincare for re election.
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Poincare
Paris
Associated Press
Clemenceau
Raymond Poincare
Shooting Tragedy At Tisdale Saskatchewan
John Watkins, a homesteader, shot and killed his sons in law Harry Brand and Archie Purcell at Roscoe Sask twenty five miles east of the Hudson Bay junction on the Canadian National Railway. Watkins, under arrest, followed tensions arising from a family dispute. The ill wife prompted Watkins to summon his daughters and their husbands to the home. An argument over entry led to the fatal shootings.
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Watkins
Brand
Purcell
Adjourned matters in lien sale and seizure cases
In Greene Gerhard Heintzman Piano store versus L D Clancy an application by Geo Calder to remove and sell a piano under lien note. adjourned to Tuesday next. J Stronack et al versus Arthur Dickinson, application by M L Bell to sell goods under seizure for rent. defendant appeared. adjourned to Tuesday June 7th to seek arrangements. GC A Herring versus H Wilbur, application by A B Clow for directions. granted. International Willarverter Co versus Frank L McLarne n, application by A B Clow to sell under chattel mortgage. opposed by R B Davidson. adjourned to Tuesday January 27.
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Greene Gerhard Heintzman
L. D. Clancy
Geo. Calder
J. Stronack Et al
Arthur Dickinson
M. L. Bell
H. Wilbur
A. B. Clow
International Wilarverter Co
Frank L. McLarnen
R. B. Davidson
Newfoundland Supported Union With Canada Says Reports
Reports indicate sentiment in Newfoundland has shifted in favor of joining Canada, with public opinion turning toward a union. Proponents argue economic and political benefits while opponents warn of loss of autonomy.
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Newfoundland
Canada
T. M. Gulley Elected Mayor of Greenwood
T. M. Gulley won the mayoralty in Greenwood in an election result reported by the local paper. The victory marks Gulley as the city’s new chief executive, with coverage noting the formal proclamation and community reaction.
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T. M. Gulley
Greenwood
Ex-MP Macpherson Resigns from Vancouver Post Master Seat
R G Macpherson, former Member of Parliament and longtime Vancouver post master, resigns. Saskatchewan government will guarantee back loans for seed oats by rural municipalities, signaling new agricultural finance policy.
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Saskatchewan Gvernment
Resignation of R A Pringle Reportedly Handed To Finance Minister
Ottawa wires that R A Pringle controller of newsprint and book paper will place his resignation in the hands of Sir Henry Drayton, the finance minister, this afternoon. Pringle declined to discuss the resignation when asked at noon. In Winnipeg the three daily papers plan a one sheet bulletin after newsprint shipments from Fort Frances mills failed, forcing suspension of publication tomorrow.
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R. A. Pringle
R.A. Pringle
Winnipeg
Ottawa
Henry Drayton
Canadian Press
Fort Frances
Radicals Fail to Trigger General Strike in Berlin
Berlin January 16. Labor leaders tried to spark a general strike in protest of mob violence at the Reichstag, but the effort collapsed. By early afternoon the inner city looked normal with only a few radical‑leaning shops closed and no street crowds downtown.
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Berlin
Reichstag
Holland Faces Great Freshwater Flood Threat
The Hague says the Rhine and Maas rivers threaten Holland with possibly the greatest freshwater flood in history as emergency dykes fail. Water has reached emergency protections, submerging two preliminary dykes and flooding Arnhem and Nijmegen up to first floors. Lily Maud Mulock, accused in London court of libel, is said by her lawyer to have lost two sons and eight brothers in the war.
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The
Hague
Rhine
Maas
Holland
Arnhem
Nymegen
Venice
Lily Maud Mulock
London
May Refuge Reds Admission Into Russia
Helsinki reports radical agitators deported from America will be carefully examined before entering Russia. Soviet delegation secretary M. Klishk and colleague M. Benkendorff say Russia will not accept being a dumping ground for agitators from America and remain uninformed on details of the Soviet ark Bideford.
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Helsingfors
America
Russia
Associated Press
M. Klishk
Dorpat
M. Klishke
M. Benkendorff
Europe
Ark
Soviet Russia
Lettish forces repulse Bolshevik offensive gains
Advices from Riga report the Bolshevik attack along the Reschitza Kreutzburg railway on Wednesday was repulsed. Letts counterattacked and captured prisoners. Letts seized six villages between Tvinsk and Antopol and held the Pytalovo station.
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London
Riga
Reschitza- Kreutzburg
Tvinsk
Antopol
Pytalovo
Mutiny Rumors Reach French Ports Unconfirmed
Jan 16 reports claim French naval forces and troops at Toulon mutinied but details remain unverified. No information about the disorder has reached Marseilles.
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Faris
Toulon
Marseilles
Bolshevik Occupies Odessa, Chief Black Sea Port
To Basel reports dated Jan 16 state Odessa, Russia's main Black Sea port, has fallen under Bolshevik occupation according to newspaper dispatches received here.
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Basel
Hayas
Odessa
Russia
Black Sea
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