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Newspaper
New Mexico State Record
Location
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1919
Page
2
Reds report a decisive engagement at Sred Mekhrenga with Allied forces securing victory and no casualties reported on either side. The clash involved intense fighting as fleets and ground units exchanged blows before the outcome favored the Allies.
A Russian report details fierce fighting around Archangel and Sted Mekhrenja with Allied forces sustaining casualties. The narrative cites missing soldiers, captures near Belshie Cerki, and reports on German and Bolshevik actions. American servicemen are described as safe amid shifting fronts and new aerial observations.
Reports from Schuttgart say a widespread strike in Frankfurt triggered heavy government counteraction with machine guns and armored cars. Casualties reported as demonstrators clash with troops while labor aims to remove political detainees and push for workers councils amid food shortages and disrupted services. Authorities allege underground labor networks seek to topple the government as Bolshevik influence faces resistance in Lithuanian towns Sumilichais Tra kai and Landvarva where Soviets are expelled and stations damaged.
Paris reports the HONS committee accepts a proposition for formulating damages payments by Cierny, with details to be set by a peace treaty commission. The 4 fall BIL, obligations, and asset use will be determined, but Germany’s full payment remains unlikely.
Pasadena resident Les An Hulett Merritt, described as a millionaire, was sentenced to five months in jail with a fine after conviction for violating wartime sugar restrictions. The case details note his arrest and subsequent legal action.
Fragmentary report notes Jeane from twenty wore fifty British regiments on parade at Kitts New York. Mires Stites returned on steamship Mantellnia claiming many men enlisted in British service early in the war. A damaged line mentions votes from the British West and a contract dispute ending with a pier hit by a punctured pipe.
A Vienna dispatch quotes West Ukraine premier M Holuboviteh stating Ukraine seeks all territory from the River Sar to the Russian frontier under entente supervision. The plan aims to erase the fighting by deciding ownership through a plebiscite between the two republics.
A wireless Bolshevik official message admits withdrawal of Bolshevik troops from Pinega Sen Under allied pressure seven miles. It also says allied attacks at Vst Poxa were repulsed. Reds Take Bank Securities Varna and the Petrograd Credit branch manager has been forced to hand Bolshevik government all deposits plus a tax of 4 025 000 rubles.
Central Labor Committee moved to seek removal of the entire Tacoma city administration after officials refused to sanction a tag day sale run by members of the Soldiers and Sailors Mutual Aid Society. Police arrested sixty six people, including several women, for proceeding with the sale in defiance of orders.
An official report from Murfa district headquarters states that Troop K and Troop M of the Eighth Cavalry under Captain Matlack pursued Mexican bandits who raided across the Rio Grande during a hail storm. Five bandits were killed, stolen horses and cattle recovered, and the unit returned to the American side.
Prime Minister Lloyd George declares Britain will present hard terms to Germany by Easter. He says there will be no lenient terms and stresses firm punishment for the German leadership.
London April 7 The Sunday Observer notes that pessimistic views on the news conference are unfounded The British premier Lloyd George says there is no divergence among negotiators though technical difficulties slow progress Talks focus on reparations and the need for guarantees while Germany must pay up to the last farthing of her power The talks proceed with high level experts from several nations and final settlement methods remain under study
A letter from a Canadian officer in France states Vimy Ridge will host a formal golf course on the ridge, with likely invitation for a notable Canadian to play in an official event. Vimy Ridge was won by Canadian forces after fierce fighting and may be turned into a war memorial by France. The report also notes talks of a Russia alliance as Munich reports, while Bavarian papers cite fears of entente food shortfalls and grain imports from Russia.
Washington reports that a Philippine Legislation social mission urged immediate independence. Secretary Baker said President Wilson believes the time has come to grant complete independence desired by the Filipino people. Massacre figure cited as 800,000. Athens dispatch cites Turkish interior minister announcing 400,000 Armenians have been massacred in Constantinople.
An official Peking statement urged by China calls for nullification of the 1915 Japanese treaty terms as incompatible with the principles of the League of Nations. The cable to the Japanese peace delegation here notes that these treaties imposed on China should be abrogated.
The great Russian port Odes, on the Black Sea, is reported to be increasing in size as allied forces evacuate the city. Evacuation is imminent and forces may withdraw to the Dniester to safeguard Bessarabia and Romania. The Isthmus of Perekop is formed by allies to shield the Sebastopol naval base.
Reports from Western Newspaper Union detail the four power council at Wilson residence as they push to unravel stubborn issues delaying peace. Key divergences on western frontiers and Alsace Lorraine provoke delays, with a proposed Rhine measure by a new advisory group failing to bridge gaps.
An American school teacher writes from Pyongrang, Korea, describing Japanese troops entering and searching schools run by Americans. She reports unarmed civilians, including schoolchildren, beaten, stabbed, and dragged to jail while crowds sang “The Song of Liberty.”
Sir Ernest Shackleton director of equipment and transport of the northern Russian expeditionary forces has returned from Murmansk and Archangel. He warns in an interview that both fronts are in peril as Bolshevik forces outnumber entente troops.
Western Newspaper Union reports Bolsheviks attacked near Archangel and Bolshevik forces suffered heavy losses while Allied troops held positions. Brig. Gen. Richardson to command American forces in north Russia as plans to pull out advance. Paris emphasizes urgent reinforcement. Also notes Blanquet’s Mexican movement and local crime tales in Los Angeles and Pine Bluff reports.
Charges of gross carelessness and negligence in preventing typhoid and paratyphoid fevers are leveled at many medical officers overseas. The circular from the chief surgeon of the American expeditionary forces warns vaccination does not give complete immunity and is made public in Washington by the Public Health Service.
German civilian prisoner Herman Seibert escaped from the prison barracks at Fort Oglethorpe Georgia. Police and military authorities seek him with officials not confirming if he is considered dangerous.
In Lynn Massachusetts Mary Guy a gypsy store owner faced larceny charges in Salem Superior Court. John Gauthier paid $250 for her cure a ritual involving an egg red silk and white cloth. The judge allowed restitution and the charge was dismissed.
Frederick Burg, a New York city resident who had married just two months earlier, was indicted for a December 11 subway hold up after his bride testified that he talked in his sleep about the crime. She said the wedding occurred December 16 and she later gave the district attorney details of his sleep talk and a $1,000 gift he had given her.
Bessie Endner an 18 year old daughter of Alfred Endner shipbuilder of Brooklyn and two youths were arrested in Poughkeepsie New York on a charge of taking 16000 from her father's safe. According to the girl's confession they entered the plant by cutting fence bars and climbing through a window then she opened the safe with the combination. The trio then left for a tour of New York state.
Joseph Madecsyk of Hammond Indiana lit a pipe after moving his family into a new six room bungalow and the house exploded. The walls buckled and the roof fell as a drayman and the family suffered bruises and burns but all survived. Escaping gas is believed to have caused the blast.
The page lists late market quotations for flour Hungarian patent various weights, Hungarian cods and hides with discount terms, and misc markets including metals with prices for silver lead and tin. An immediate call for 30,000 volunteers for service in Europe is prepared by the War Department offering early duty in France to relieve expeditionary forces seeking return home.
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