Cabinet Crisis Deepens in Japan as Ministers Resign
Tokyo January 15. Vice Minister of Communications Nakashoko resigns and Muzuka of the Railroad Bureau is named successor. The cabinet crisis worsens as Finance and other ministers resign, forcing double duties and threatening a dissolution of the Diet. Constitutionalists seek a country mandate, implying a potential Katsura or Gombel Yamamoto leadership if the budget and tax cuts fail. Immigration issues are deemed unrelated to the crisis.
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Tokio
Nakashoko
Communications
Muzuka
Railroad Bureau
Marquis Salonji
Finance
Saionji
Marquis Katsura
Baron Gombel
Yamamoto
Amerca
Canada
Viscount Aoki Downgrades Japanese Labor in America
In an interview printed in a Honolulu Japanese newspaper Viscount Aoki the former Japanese ambassador to the United States expresses disapproval of laborers moving to America. He says they cannot adapt after Japan’s long isolation and asserts destiny and opportunity lie in Asia especially Korea and Manchuria.
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Honolulu
Viscount Aoki
America
Amerca
Japan
Asia
Korea
Manchuria
Stoessel Trial Nears Verdict For Port Arthur Surrender
The court martial of General Stoessel in St Petersburg is nearing its end with a verdict expected early next week. Attorney Syrtianoff signals little hope for acquittal on the main charge of surrendering the fortress, though blame for evacuating minor Russian positions may be excused. The case draws crowded courts with high ranking officers and prominent figures including several Grand Dukes.
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Petersburg
Stoessel
Port Arthur
Syrtianoff
M. Syrtianoff
Smirnoff
Earthquake hits Gonaives Haiti minor damage reported
Jan 15 Haiti. Gonaives sixty five miles northwest of Port au Prince experiences earthquakes. Some buildings including Henmann Adder Jolibert are destroyed. No deaths reported yet. Communications with Gonaives broken after first shock and tidal wave. Gonaives a busy port exporting coffee dyewoods and cotton with 18000 residents and a bishop's see.
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Port-Au-Prince
Haiti
Gonaives
Henmann, Adder & Jolibert
German Fleet to Cruise the Mediterranean Next Spring
Paris dispatch reports Germany plans a Mediterranean cruise by a warship fleet next spring. Government circles fear renewed German meddling in Moroccan affairs amid the move.
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Paris
Mediterranean
Augustinian nuns flee hospital amid Paris Catholic protest
Paris reports the departure of the Augustinian nuns from Municipal Hospital triggers a Catholic demonstration. As carriages arrive, men try to unhitched horses to seize the sisters, police intervene, one man strikes a policeman, and several arrests are made amid shouts against the republic.
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Paris
The
Republic
Premier Diamond Mining Cancels Dividend Amid Market Slump
Premier Diamond Mining Company says world diamond markets are dislocated due to American financial crisis and European stringency. Directors postpone a $800,000 dividend and retain $1,200,000 government share to sustain operations and resist price drops. London syndicate and De Beers pledge to maintain prices as imports confirm market control.
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Johannesburg
America
Europe
Tas
Leopold Stern
Stern Bros. & Co
United States
London
Stern
de Beers
Redmond Elected President of Irish League Directory
John B. Redmond was chosen President of the National Directory of the United Irish League in Dublin. The report showed three year receipts above the prior period by over 40009 and over 1200 evicted tenants reinstated. Cork delegates were expelled after a clash at the meeting.
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Dublin
John B. Redmond
United Irish League
Lord Curzon
Cork
O’brien
League
France Expects Rising Public Assets and Railway Nationalization
Paris reports Finance Minister Caillaux releasing an interview noting France’s strong public assets versus liabilities. He cites future growth from escheated local franchises and predicts railroads will become national property between 1950 and 1960.
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Paris
Caillaux
M. Calllaux
Hechting, &c
Perry Belmont Steps Down as Manhattan Club Governor
Perry Belmont resigns from the Manhattan Club Board of Governors. Ex Justice Morgan J. O'Brien is elected to succeed him. The change was announced yesterday and positions the club for new leadership.
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Berlin
Perry Belmont
Manhattan Club
Morgan J. O’brien
Germans Hold Balance of Political Power Says Historians
Herman Ridder at the German Friendly Society dinner in Charleston argues Germans in America shaped the nation. He cites Michael Iden, founder of the society, and the German Fusiliers, praising contributions to the Revolution and Washington's army. He urges schoolbooks to credit German Americans and notes their political independence and balance of power.
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Charleston
8. C
South Carolina
Friederich Wilhelm von Steuben
Washington
Princeton
Trenton
United States
America
Arrests at Casablanca
Paris dispatch says French troops seized three instigators of July 31 troubles in Casablanca. The raid by three tribes killed several native guards and Europeans. The three men will be tried by court martial.
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Paris
Casablanca
Takahira to Succeed Aoki as Japanese Ambassador
Baron Takahira was received in a farewell audience by King Victor Emmanuel in Rome and will leave Liverpool for New York on February 8 aboard the Mauretania to assume the post as Japanese Ambassador to the United States.
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Rome
Takahira
Viscount Aoki
United States
Victor Emmanuel
Liverpool
New York
Mauretania
New Move In Rate War Shrinks Cunard Fares
London reports a new phase in the Atlantic passenger rate war as Cunard grants a 10 shilling differential on second and third class to the Lusitania and Mauretania. White Star accepted a smaller cut, signaling possible stalemate. steerage rates drop further, costing as low as 10 1/2 dollars, with Oceanic carrying over 1,000 steerage passengers and total steerage departures rising this year to over 21 thousand.
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London
Cunard Steamship Company
Lusitania
Mauretania
White Star Company
England
Cunard Line
International Mercantile Marine Company
White Star Line
American
Caronila
Adriatic
Oceanic
American Line
White Star
Ince
Southern Limited to Start New Train Service
The Southern Railway announces a Sunday January 19 inauguration of the Southern Limited service between New York Augusta and Florida. Trains depart New York daily except Sunday at 9 55 A M and Sundays at 12 25 A M, with dining and Pullman sleeping cars to Augusta and Jacksonville reaching Augusta cars next morning and Jacksonville in the afternoon.
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The
Southern Railway
Southern Limited
New York
Augusta
Florida
Jacksonville
Fla
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