German Lines Form Four Year Shipping Coalition
Bremen reports North German Lloyd and Hamburg American Line will jointly operate North Atlantic and East Asiatic routes for four years. Hamburg American cuts second cabin rate to 38 dollars on several ships, aiming to divert Eastbound traffic to London and Paris, while Plymouth calls resume.
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Lloyd Stamship Company
Hamburg-American Steamship Company
Hamburg Company
Far East
United States
Liord
Herr Ballin
Hamburg
North Atlantic
Lloyd Lines
Gustav H. Schwab
Lloyd Line
Emil L. Boas
Hamburg-American Line
New York
Kaiserin Auguste Victoria
Amerika
Pennsylvania
Patricia
Pretoria
Graf Waldersee
Lloyd
Cunard
Plymouth
Cherbourg
London
Paris
Lusitania
Mauretania
Rioting in Kiahsing Fu Sparks Anti Foreign Sentiment
Reports from Peking describe intensifying rioting in Kiahsing Fu Che Kiang province with anti foreign sentiment. The Catholic mission station seeks protection from France's Minister to China M Bapst as unrest widens.
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Peking
Kiahsing-Fu
Che- Kiang
Catholic
M. Bapst
China
Messing Regalia Inquiry Opens With Contested Scope
Dublin witnesses the vice regal commission’s first session into the July missing state regalia from Dublin Castle valued at 250000. Sir Arthur Vicars and counsel withdraw citing lack of witness powers and oath procedures. the inquiry adjourns awaiting guidance. Transvaal gold output for December sets a new record at 583.52 ounces valued at £478,000.
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Dublin
Dublin Castle
Arthur Edward Vicars
Ulster
Arthur
Timothy M. Healy
M. P
James Campbell
Order of St. Patrick
Dublin Evening Herald
Ireland
Transvaal
London
Bomb Attack Kills Two in Sokolow Rail Car
A morning assault by terrorists on a post car at Sokolow on the Vistula Railroad left two dead and ten wounded among soldiers and railroad workers. The raid included looting safes before the assailants fled.
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Sokolow
Vistula
Read To Well Postum Ad Encourages Personal Change
An advertisement promotes Postum as a caffeine free alternative to coffee. It argues caffeine harms digestion and that reducing caffeine improves mind and body poise and earning power. The copy invites a two week trial and asserts readers will learn there is a reason to switch.
Congo Reform Plan Details Congo Commission Reply
Brussels reports the Congo Government replies to the Congo Commission recommendations. It states King Leopold seeks no personal profit from treaty revenues now at 1.3 million dollars yearly, rising to about 5 million later, to fund philanthropic, educational, hospital, Catholic missions, and sleeping sickness research efforts. It notes concession companies answer to Congo law, highlights Katanga mineral wealth with 18 copper mines and two million tons ore, denies current forced labor, and warns Leopold could revert to earlier administration if the treaty fails ratification. Scholart's premiership reportedly hinged on expectations of broader concessions from the king.
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Congo Commission
Leopold
Congo Independent
Congo
Katanga
M. Schollaert
No friction with Japan over immigration talks
Washington officials deny reports of friction between the United States and Japan over immigrant labor controls. Ambassador O Brien is aiding Japan in refining internal passport regulations to curb casual emigration, with no written treaty or modus vivendi sought. The State Department cooperates with Commerce and Labor to improve proposed measures and avoid signaling bad faith.
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America
Japan
United States
State Department
O’brien
Department
Department of State
Department of Commerce and Labor
O'Brien
San Francisco
Japanese Admiral Ito Dismissed Over Scandal
Advices by the steamer Aki report Admiral Baron Ito of the Naval Council who commanded the navy in the war with China has been dismissed from service due to a scandal involving him and the wife of a Yokosuka workman in the navy yards.
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B. C
Aki
Baron Ito
Naval Council
China
Yokosuka
Alarmist in Paris Urges Britain and France to Act
Lucien Millevoye, once linked to the Boulangist movement, writes a sensational article urging Great Britain and France to intervene in the American-Japanese crisis before it worsens. He blames London for sparking the Russo-Japanese war and warns that arbitration cannot wait.
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Paris
Lucien Millevoye
Chamber of Deputies
Great Britain
France
M. Millerove
London
War Department calls for larger Hawaii National Guard
In Honolulu on January 10 the War Department urged territorial officials to greatly expand Hawaii, national guard units to strengthen defense. The message stresses increased manpower and readiness amid ongoing regional tensions.
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Honolulu
National Guard of
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War Department
Journal Des Depats Hails Central American Congress
Paris reports the Journal des Depats says the Washington congress of Central American republics marks a triumph for U S statesmanship. It notes potential strengthening of the Monroe and Drago doctrines and hints at a future confederation of the two Ameritas with global significance.
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Greater America
Paris
Journal Des Dépats
Washington
United States
Monroe
Drago
Peters Whbel suit sparks crowd outside court
Cologne January report says the Peters Whbel lawsuit sparked popular anger as Peters left the courthouse at noon an excited crowd followed him shouting murder er and other epithets.
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Cologne
Jan. W
Peters
Samuel W Bass Ends Life Over Wife’s Death in Lawrence
Samuel W Bass aged 74 a retired bobbin maker shot himself at his Haverhill Street home in Lawrence this afternoon. He was despondent due to his wife’s death.
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Lawrence
Mass
Samuel W. Bass
Haverhill Street
Socialists Dispersed as Berlin Police Break Demonstrations
Berlin authorities quashed a Socialist street protest before the Prussian Landtag. Police charged at Kurfürsten Bridge and dispersed crowds after mass meetings and leaflets urged electoral reform. Chancellor Biilow said manhood suffrage would not aid the state. reforms may come later. The three-class Prussian system preserves representation for laborers only in theory, not in practice.
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Prince von Biilow
Reichstag
Prussia
Deportation sentences invalidated by new flaw in immigration act
In Johannesburg the government faces a revised act after a flaw makes deportation sentences against several British Indian leaders illegal. Indian leaders Gandhi and five others face two months imprisonment for failing to observe registration. Seven Indian traders at Pretoria receive three months hard labor for refusing to leave and to register.
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Johannesburg
Transvaal
Ghandhi
Pretoria
General Keim May Resign Post
Berlin January 10 an official communication states Prince Henry of Prussia who chairs the Naval League has decided to retire from this post Major General Keim remains as managing director the move follows a conference between Emperor William and Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria and centers on Keim using league resources for political purposes Keim helped build the league to over a million members, having retired from the army ten years ago.
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Berlin
Henry
Prussia
William
Naval League
Keim
League
Rupprecht
Bavaria
Association
Room for the Old Guard Considered by Armory Board
Controller Metz urged the armory board to explore offering a room to the Old Guard rather than funding a new armory building. He noted he is a member but questioned city expense at this time.
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Metz
Armory Board
Old Guard
Hale Bill Promises Naval Staff Roles and Reforms
Washington January 10 The Hale bill advances naval staff rank while debating titles and duties and envisions retirement options. it seeks to dissolve the naval general board and addresses staff versus line officer roles, pay increases, and academy appointment limits. Army plans probe elimination of unfit officers and a 90 mile three day horse ride. Experimental storage of shells on Vermont and Louisiana aims to speed fire.
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Hale
Navy Department
Senate
Army
Capron
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Naval General Board
Board
Congress
Senate Naval Committee
Navy
General Staff
William Crozier
Military Movements and Warship Dispatches Reported
The piece lists detachments of officers reassigned to various posts including Peking Panama Detroit and Annapolis. It also details ships arriving at Washington Portsmouth Boston and San Diego with the Relief to become an auxiliary hospital ship at Mare Island February 1 under a naval surgeon and merchant crew.
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Peking
Theodore H. Low
Hancock
George. van Orden
Panama
Thomas A. Mott
Detroit
Paul A. Capron
Naval Medical Hospital
Washington
Marine Barracks
Annapolis
Navy Yard
Mare Island
Gill resolution on Relief command favors navy inquiry
The House Naval Affairs Committee reported favorably the Gill resolution asking the Secretary of the Navy for a full record of correspondence on Surgeon Stokes’s assignment to command the hospital ship Relief and Admiral Brownson’s resignation. Navy orders place the colliers Marcellus and Leonidas out of commission February 1 to fund Relief fitting. Surgeon Raymond Spear is detached from League Island Yard and assigned to the Relief.
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Gill
Secretary of the Navy
House of Representatives
Stokes
Relief
Brownson
Bureau of Navigation
House Committee On Naval Affairs
Navy Department
Marcellus
Leonidas
Trinidad
Raymond Spear
League Island Navy Yard
Presidential cadet appointments to West Point named
Washington January 10 President appoints eight principal cadets and twelve alternates to West Point. Principals include Samuel Knight Louis Craig Henry Allen Thomas Besterly Blackburn Hall Lawrence Weeks and James Brown. Alternates list includes William Foote Franklin Sibert Joseph McDonald James Dorst Oscar Gatchell Henry Perrine Edward Ellis Alfred Johnson Paul Newgarden Bushrod Hoppin William Crane Abiel Smith Geoffrey Keyes Leon Hares Freeman Rowley and Albert Jackson.
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Samuel ¥. Knight
J. T Knight
Louis A. Craig
Henry Allen
Henry T. Allen
Thomas Bestertry
Thomas H. Barry
Blackburn Hall
W. P. Hall
Lawrence Babbit Weeks
E. B. Weeks
James Francis Brown
John S. Blown
William Cooper Foote
Morris C. Foote
Franklin Cummings Sibert
W. 5. Sibert
Joseph E. McDonald
J. B. McDonald
James Archer Dorst
J. H. Dorst
Oscar J. Gatchell
George W. Gatchell
Henry Pratt Perrine
Edward Llis
W. E. Ellis
Alfred B. Johnson
Paul Woollever Newgarden
George J. Newgarden
Bushrod Hoppin
Curtis P. Hoppin
William Carey Crane
Charles J. Crane
Abiel L. Smith, Jr
A. L. Smith
Geoffrey Keyes
Alexander
Norfolk Navy Yard Cuts Create Over Two Hundred Discharges
In Norfolk Virginia today Navy Yard management announced layoffs across departments bringing weekly total to over two hundred. Officials cited lack of funds to meet payrolls while noting increasing work backlog at the yard.
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Norfolk
Norfolk Navy Yard
North Carolina Seatrial Delayed Before Coast Trial
The cruiser North Carolina arrived at Newport News after a trial trip off Rockland Maine. A 36 hour storm pounding at Provincetown Massachusetts kept her from meeting the contract speed by a small margin. General Manager Post says another trial near the Virginia Capes will be held within two weeks and expects it to meet all requirements.
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Newport News
North Carolina
Rockland
Provincetown
Mass
Post
Virginia Capes
National Rifle Match recommendations by rifle board
The National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice opened its annual War Department session with Assistant Secretary Oliver presiding. They urged Taft to hold the national target match at Camp Perry Ohio starting August 34 and two days of preliminary practice. The Springfield rifle Model 13 should be used with government powder in all contests.
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National Board For the
War Department
Oliver
Taft
Camp Perry
Ohio
Springfield
Hobson Proposes Commission to Study Arbitration and Navy
Representative Richmond Pearson Hobson today offered a resolution calling for the President to appoint a commission. The panel would investigate and report on preserving general welfare through arbitration and the maintenance of armed forces as part of an enlarged and improved navy campaign in the House.
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Washington
Richmond Pearson Hobson
Congress
Militia Time Extended by Joint Resolution
Washington reports the House passed a joint resolution extending to January 7 sixty days for militia companies to conform their organization weapons and discipline to that prescribed for regular U S forces. The Senate had approved it before the holidays and it now goes to the President.
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Washington
United States
House
Senate
Purchase of Embassies Proposed
Washington Jan 10 renewed efforts in the th Congress to obtain suitable legations and consulates abroad to be maintained by the United States. Representative Perkins of New York introduced a bill to spend up to 400000 for embassies in London Paris and Berlin with sites plans and buildings to be purchased under Secretary of State supervision.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Congress
United States
Perkins
New York
House
London
Paris
Berlin
Secretary of State
Root
Committee On Foreign Affairs
Local Streets Referenced at Warren and 13th Streets
Reading shows a brief note locating a site near Warren Street and 13th Street east and street. The fragment confirms two crossing avenues but lacks full details or context about the event or purpose.
Government to consider buying U S consulates abroad
The article notes moves to place United States consulates in China under government control and to fund embassies by purchase or construction. Mr Perkins supports improved diplomatic housing, arguing rent reduces salaries of American representatives abroad and that new or purchased embassies in London Paris and a Berlin site be examined.
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China
Perkins
London
Paris
Berlin
Germany
Calls Halt on Public Buildings in Early Session
Washington reports the 58th Congress has introduced over six hundred bills for public buildings and grounds totaling about 40 million nationwide and 4 million for the District of Columbia. Budget strains and tax revenue shortfalls prompt tight limits on new legislation and spending.
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Bartholdt
House Committee On
Appropriations Committee
District of Columbia
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