Fire Over Flag Sparks Posen Riot In Poland
German officers fire on an Allied car bearing the American flag during a Posen riot that lasts hours. Polish guards try to protect the flag as Germans use machine guns, injuring many including women and children. Paderewski’s arrival stirs crowds amid clashes with German and Polish forces.
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U.S
Posen
London
Exchange Telegrapher Company
Copenhagen
Geran
Warsaw
Schimmelfeng
Associated
Fress
Ignace Jan Paderewski
Paderewski
Orl
Potes Plan to Vake Paderewski First President
A dispatch from Danzig and Posen reports plans for a Polish republic with Ignace Paderewski as president. Berlin coverage notes public enthusiasm in Poznan and Berlin amid celebrations and a gun salute, with Poland seeking munitions from Germany while Germany maintains neutrality toward Bolsheviks.
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Potes
Paderewski
Lomton
Danzig
Posen
Berlin
Republic of Poland
Ignace Jin Paderewski
Weki
Tosen
Itung Ammittag
Washington Declares Paderewski Mission Solidify Poles
A Polish Bureau in Washington states Paderewski aims to solidify Polish government activities rather than create a new one. The Paris-sourced report notes his visit may reassure Poles and ease resistance to Germany while the area around Krakow and Lemberg is mentioned in prewar context.
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Washington
Paderewski
Wasiington
Ignace Jan Faderewski
Poland
Cresviu
Thatountey
Chuteau
Paris
Puiur
Wilwail
Krakow
Lemberg
Berlin Forms League To Protect the Kaiser
A league for the protection of the personal liberty and life of the ex emperor has been formed and will appeal to former officials and diplomats to submit documents proving the emperor's innocence in the war outbreak. Prince Henry of Prussia proposed von Hindenburg for league president.
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Erlin
Satur
League For
Prince Henry of
Prussia
League
von Hindenburg
Soldier's Wife Slashed, Man Nearly Lynched
In Greenwich Village at 93 Bain Street a man named Paul Ward, 49, stabbed and slashed Mary Thompson, 24, the so called Belle of Greenwich Village, as crowds watched. Ward was beaten by townsfolk and nearly lynched before police intervened. Thompson lay dying at Bellevue Hospital with fatal wounds. Ward later claimed she rejected his love and he would make her reciprocate or suffer. The incident occurred after months of unwanted attention from Ward.
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Paul Ward
Mary Thompson
Greenwich Village
Woldier
Ban's Street
Ward
Termi
Aozen
St. Vincent's Hospital
Weiten
Smallest Enemy Airman Claims He Felled Roosevelt
German aviator Donhuser, 23, claims he downed Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt over Chamery in the area of the siege. He weighs 94 pounds and says he had previously downed thirty enemy planes. Officials prepare funeral arrangements as news spreads.
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Roosevelt
Associated Prosal
Christian Don Tiwuser
Donhuser
Haase Retires and New Berlin Government Emerges
Berlin reports state Haase and other ministers quit cabinet as Independents lose votes to the Central Council. Premier Ebert Scheidemann Landsberg lead a revolutionary cabinet as Majority Socialists expect to form a new government with naval bourgeois support. Berlin anxious over likely social upheaval and continued naval mutiny.
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Berlin
Dew
Associated Press
Haase
Barth
Dittman
Mierward
Couneil
Nich
Sinn Feinners Blow Up Boer War Monument
Sinn Feinners blew up the Cork monument raised by public subscription for soldiers who fought in the South African war after the election results were announced.
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Sinn
OAK
Associated Press
Sinn Weiners
Cork
Anti British Propaganda Found Among Army Troops
An investigation by the Department of Dusties reveals widespread anti-British propaganda among American troops aboard transports returning home. Senators Knox and Mitch Beck hold information that hostility to Great Britain is being instilled by transport crews, with propagandists leveraging canteen workers and others to shape returning soldiers. Officials warn this could damage friendly ties and world peace if not halted at the source. The report notes some soldiers already express extreme anti British sentiment and urges action as soon as possible.
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Department of Dusties
Knox
Foreign Relations
Mitchbeck
Great Britain
England
Averion
Alfred Hoss
Wits
Hilekeork
Bossom
Cat Hllie
Saul
Siem
Mr. Rosson
Jro
Olf
Burone
Rosso
M. Pacharding
Clemenceau
Ukraine
Caucasus
Western
Beria
Odesh
M. Pichon
Revulvdr
Caid
Dr. Pichon
Prince Looff
Perm
M .Clemenceau
Pichon
M. Desebanel
Socalinte
M Bouillon
Frepslin-Bouillon
Hollinga Artstan
Wilson Visits Carlisle as Crowds Cheer in Cold Weather
President Wilson and Mrs Wilson toured Carlisle England visiting the boyhood home of his mother and the family chapel site on Annetwell Street. He signed the freeman s roll at the Crown said Mitre Hotel and spoke from the pulpit of Lowther Street Congregational Church about duty and change in times, recalling his grandfather s stern lessons.
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Carlisle
England
Associated Press
Wilsom
Mitre Hotel
Annetwell Street
Cavendish Place
Lowther Street
Wilson
Edward Booth
Mentow
France Seeks Rhine Settlement on Alsace Lorraine Sarre
In the Chamber debate on provisional credits Henry Fralin Bouillon argued the Alsace Lorraine issue and Sarre Basin form a single settlement problem. He urged reclaiming Sarre mines and banning enemy forces left of the Rhine while advocating nonmilitary Allied involvement and broader French sacrifice.
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Aris
Chamber of Deputies
Henry Frankl .Houillon
Chamber
Alsace-Lorraine
Sarre
Committee On Foreign Affairs
M. Fralin-Bouillon
Prussia
Rhine
France
Plan to pool war costs sent to Russia debated in Paris
Paris dispatch reports a French plan to deploy Serbian and Greek troops to the Ukraine with a Polish legion to back Russia against Bolshevik forces. The debate touches Allied policy, finance, and the cost of war, with leaders like Pichon and Cachin sparring over intervention.
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Russia
Paris
Dee
Tribune
Pichon
Age
Foreign Relations Commission
Action Francaise
Humanitée
Chamber of Deputies
Marcel Cachin
Cachin
Rusia
Ukraine
Seot
Unte
Germany
Prince Lyoff
George Halbmeter
Waslington Lyon
France Signals Open Peace Talks With No Annexations
Paris dispatch reports Foreign Minister Stephen Pichon told deputies the government seeks open peace sessions with full publicity, supports a league of nations, and reserves Alsace Lorraine frontiers. He cited Russia intervention aims and detailed Bolshevik brutality while stormy debates raged over the budget and peace plenipotentiaries.
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Paris
Preas
Chamber of Deputies
Stephen Pichon
France
Accor
Marcel Gachin
Clemenceau
League of Nations
M. Bracke
Alsace Lorraine
Franklin-Bouillon
Vatican
Russia
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Imperial Palace
Tagesseitung
Marine
Reichstag
Vossische Zeitun
Joovie
Sam
Carlisle Church
Vines Looff
Tula
Prince Lvolf
Wilton
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Tusia
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Inancial Society of Nations
U. S
Senate
Bank of France
Inter-Allied Financial Society
Sociaists
Financial Society of Nations
Chumbers
Austria
Turkey
Bulgaria
Peace Congress
Jacques Stern
Helferich
United States
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