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Newspaper
New Mexico State Record
Location
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1919
Page
2
Military update reports a new offensive drive leading to French and Romanian forces occupying Kiev, with Soviet forces reportedly retreating. Concrete details on dates and strategic impacts remain scarce in the readable text.
Reported Allied forces retreat from Archangel amid Bolshevik offensives as American and British troops evacuate. Paris notes a united approach by major powers for postwar peace, while Lisbon reports monarchist threats and Winnipeg recounts riots and anti-foreigner actions targeting Swift & Co workers.
News from the Tonga islands under British protection reports Queen Takibo, aged over seventy, among 400 natives who died from influenza. Frightened natives kept away from the sufferers, allowing the disease to spread unchecked. Word from San Francisco notes distant advices on the epidemics.
Paris dispatch reports a wartime council meeting outlining actions on demobilisation and Allied force structuring, a global warning on territorial claims, expansion of joint commissions including Marshal Foch and Tasker Bliss, plans for a medal for all troops, and instructions for a mission to Poland ahead of league talks.
The War Department ordered that no man be discharged against his will until he can obtain civilian work. Commanding officers must ensure enlisted personnel understand the policy, allowing temporary retention in the military at the soldier’s written request until employment is secured.
Reports say Buenos Aires Maxi radicals fought frontier police at Port Natales Chile and pushed Argentine territory toward Rio Gallegos. Warships and troops are dispatched. From Punta Arenas Maxi radicals failed to enter the penitentiary at Puerto Natales to free anarchist Barrera, linked to the escape of Radhowsky sentenced for life for the 1910 assassination of Buenos Aires Chief of Police Falcon. Santa Cruz authorities send police and volunteers to intercept before Rio Gallegos.
Francisco Villa led a band into Santa Eulalia a few miles southeast of Chihuahua City killing four federal soldiers, hanging a civilian, detaining Americans tied to local mines, looting shops, then releasing the Americans before riding out. In another report Paris outlines Britain's plan for international labor machinery to be considered by the peace conference.
Mrs. Helen Sill Woodrow aunt of President Wilson died at her daughter’s home 1245 Franklin Street Denver after weeks of illness stomach trouble attributed to her death. General Bliss decorated. Paris General Mim American military representative on the Supreme War Council decorated with the distinguished service medal by General Pershing.
dispatches from Likay and Copenhagen report Leon Trotzky captured after Narva defeat. Bolshevik shelling of American positions persists near Shenkursk, with American artillery returning fire. Bolsheviks evacuate Petrograd as stores move south. Trotzky allegedly shifts headquarters to ni-Norod amid rising anti Bolshevik sentiment.
The conference unanimously adopted the League of Nations project with Wilson and House as American members of the commission. M. Clemenceau outlined a resolution for a permanent league linked to the peace treaty open to civilized nations. A commission will draft a constitution and prerogatives, and investigate wartime responsibilities and violations by Germany and allies.
Archibald Stevenson of New York testifies before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on German propaganda. He says Bolsheviks have established soviets in nearly every large industrial center and are organized to the degree that they constitute the greatest menace to the country today.
News release states Simon Guggenheim is elected to succeed brother Daniel Guggenheim as president of the American Smelting and Refining Company. R. Guggenheim and Murry Guggenheim retire from executive roles but stay on the board. board of directors list to be seen.
Paris reports that President Wilson’s proposals include recognition of Russia’s right to self determination and invitation for representatives to Princes' Islands by February 15. London notes possible interallied commissions on a league of nations and German reparations. Anarchist forces in Northern Russia suffer defeat as peasant uprisings rise. Warsaw to Danzig tour finds anti Bolshevik sentiment in East Prussia and German arms sales continued. Washington reports 105753 American soldiers in hospitals in France and Britain, with 72642Diseases and 33111Wounds and injuries, and a weekly decline in hospital cases.
Chicago based Morrie and Co report for the year ending November 2 1918 shows net earnings of 4 217 858 84 on invested capital of 53 964 934 24 yielding 7 83 percent Earnings fell slightly despite a sales rise of 100 million while profits declined over 1 million with by products included in sales
Washington reports President Wilson notified Senator Smith that cotton exports to non enemy countries could resume and Germany and Austria shipments would be allowed as soon as possible. The move follows a request from cotton growing state lawmakers and raises policy questions for allied governments. In Hamburg, government forces quashed the Spartacan outbreak quickly, restoring ordinary traffic and business earlier than Berlin's Spartacan week.
A neutral diplomat reports Germany is aiding Sinn Feiners in Ireland by sending funds through America and other neutral countries, with constant communication. The claim notes German involvement and suggests active support from Berlin amid wartime tensions.
War rages across Portugal as the cabinet resigns and a strong effort unfolds to restore the crown. Key leaders and military factions are cited as the crisis deepens with tension over succession and governance.
A Lisbon dispatch reports a sweeping royalist push against the republic with 300 officers imprisoned and a regiment disbanded. Provisional government revokes republic laws and sends troops to Aviero and other loyal points as monarchist forces face republican concentration across Portugal.
A Copenhagen dispatch cites Reval reports that Leon Trotzky, Bolshevist minister of war and marine, escaped Narva before its capture. It says a Red Guard regiment and several officers were captured, and that Reds killed the remaining bourgeoisie and entire populations of nearby villages for not paying heavy taxes.
After a week of spirited debate the Senate approved by 58 to 18 the administration bill authorizing 100 million dollars for food relief in Europe and the Near East. The fund, sought by President Wilson to check Bolshevism, now goes to conference for minor Senate amendments with expected final action next week.
San Francisco report tells of Lou McKelly, Lake County sheriff, chasing post office robbers with a rattlesnake hat. After dinner with Detective Hippeley, the hat vanished from the table and no clues to the criminals emerged. McKelly replaced it with a new beanny and returned to Kellyville.
St Louis Roy Colley rushed home to find wife Clara dead with a bloody scene that looked like murder. His sister in law Mary Collins rushed to police as Colley claimed a burglar killed her. Officers found the wife alive, who revealed the ketchup was evidence of a staged crime and that she would discipline him to stay home.
Cleveland man A Lidle who left 30 years on the Erie railroad to ease danger at work was killed with his wife and a cousin when a car they rode in at a Warren Ohio railroad crossing was struck by a passing train. The couple had hoped to find contentment after his retirement from the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen.
A Waukegan burglar who took jewelry from Dr. Paul O. Berger and wife concealed the items in their home icebox. Days later the homeowner discovered the stash when checking the icebox. The incident underscores a rare case of remorse leading to restitution.
In Winsted Connecticut the Robertsville Falls power plant supplying electricity for Mghting failed after a rat crawled into the terminals and short-circuited the system. An investigation confirmed the rodent caused the outage killing the plant’s operation.
Long Beach city lifts wartime ban on public kissing in bars and open spaces. The ordinance once forbidden embraces in view of others and carried fines, repealed as hostilities end, returning public affection to normal social conduct.
A compact market summary lists numerous produce items with prices and notes on hay, grain, and livestock markets. It includes fruit and vegetable quotations, western upland price references, Chicago and Minneapolis grain and livestock movements, and cash grain figures for oats, corn, wheat, and hogs with regional price hints.
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