Allies' War Claims Settle for 893 Million Dollars
Washington reports final settlement of claims against the United States by allied powers and their nationals totaling 893,716,093 with excess war materiel and stocks overseas disposed of for 822,923,295. France received 748,392 Britain 112,996,012 Belgium 2,279,827 Italy 12,620,13 and individuals 174. The bulk sales abroad totaled 400 million to France and 422,023,236 to Belgium and other nations. Substantial stock returned to the United States and most settlements made by offsetting accounts to minimize cash payments.
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Washington
United States
War Department Liquidation Commission
Baker
France
Great Britain
Belgium
Italy
Poland
Czecho- Slovakia
Serbia
Near East
War Department
Poles Take Two Towns on Northern Front Drive
Warsaw reports the Poles have occupied Glubokoi and Dokahuchac on the northern front as Bolsheviki retreat. Reinforcements bolster line while ground previously lost is regained. A Polish-American relief train led by Lt Arthur Fox was shelled but all workers escaped. medical supplies were captured with a sanitary station damaged.
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Warsaw
Associated Press
Glubokoi
Sventsiny
Dokahuchac
Beresina River
Arthur Fox
Philadelphia
Minsk
Borisov
Mail Carriers Urged to Show the Light to Reds
Two thousand postal workers paraded from Thirty-Fifth Street and Fifth Avenue to St Patrick's Cathedral for a memorial service honoring peace efforts. Postmaster Thomas G. Patten reviewed the march. Monsignor Lavelle greeted attendees as Rev P J Casey urged carriers to set an example against Bolsheviks and anarchists by allying with police for national unity.
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Fifth Avenue
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Thomas G. Patten
Uien
Monsignor Lavelle
P. J. Casey, S. Jr
Police
John F Carr Decorated By the King of Italy
John Foster Carr of 241 Fifth Avenue, chair Librarians' Council of the American Library Association, receives the Order of the Crown of Italy. Italian officials commend his work for immigration, Books for Everybody, and Italy America Society education. Previous honors include the 1912 Cross of Chevalier and diplomas from Dante Alighieri society.
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John Foster Carr
241
Fifth Avenue
Librarians’ Council
American Library Associon
Italy
Mr. Carr
Order of the Crown of
Carr
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Uly
Order of the Crown
Princess Denies Slander in Suit Against American Woman
Princess Victor of Thurn and Taxis arrived in Rome from the United States and denied a American newspaper reports that she sued for slander by Bernard Francis S. Gregory. She claimed the charges were untrue and that she had never met Gregory or claimed he swindled her in a milk deal.
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Rome
Victor
Thurn and Taxis
United States
Bernard Francis S. Gregory
Lida Nicholls
Uniontown
Rudolf Festetics
Bernard Gregory
America
Russian Prince Wounded in Paris Restaurant Shooting
Prince Vladimir Cantacuzene, a Russian royal figure, was hit in the head by a revolver bullet during an affray at a Montmartre restaurant on Friday night. He later filed charges against an American described as a wealthy resident of Avenue Wagram. In Italy, Bari province agricultural workers’ strike led to police intervention at Spinazola with exchanges of gunfire but no casualties.
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Paris
Prince Vladimir Cantacuzene
Montmartre
Wealthy
Avenue Wagram
Rome
Bari
Spinazola
Tereigi
Independents Poll Big Vote In Germany
Berlin reports indicate widespread turnout with 2000 Berlin polling sites. Independent candidates show strong gains across industrial areas while the German People's party leads bourgeois factions. early unofficial tallies show Socialists ahead in several cities and high participation in working class districts of Berlin and Bavaria's Diet elections.
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Berlin
Germany
Grester Berlin
Ebert
Krausen-Strasse
Mueller
Koester
German People's Party
National Liberals
German National Party
Democrats
Center
German Peop Party
National Party
Communi
Halle
Frankfort
Darmstadt
Nuremberg
Peoples’ Party
Middle Party
German People’s, Party
West End
Bavaria
Paterson Child Killed By Fall Into River
Five year-old Peter Dounna of 31 Elm Street fell into swift water along the race way at McBride Avenue while playing with companions. Sixteen-year-old Charles Lepton of 20 Elm Street swam after him and brought him ashore. The boy was taken by car to St. John's Hospital alive but unconscious, and doctors failed to revive him after an hour of efforts.
French Reconstruction Is Rapid Says Paris Banker
Georges Hebmann of Guaranty Trust in New York reports rapid reconstruction in France after the war. Agriculture in Marne, North, Oise, Voges and other devastated regions nears prewar levels with Calais plantings at 103000 hectares versus 142500 in 1914 and 82000 in 1918. Industrial recovery shows 1808 plants back in operation by January this year, with Meurthe and Moselle leading at 11 percent of damaged establishments in operation.
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Paris
Guaranty Trust
Georges Hebmann
Guaranty Trust Company of
New York
France
Marne
North
Oise
Vogés
Mr.Hebmann
Department of
Calais
Meurthe
Moselle
800 Wives and Children Of Poles on Way to U. S.
The Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Society reports 800 wives and children of Polish immigrants travel from Danzig to an American port. This first group forms part of an expected 50 000 families to be reunited with husbands and fathers separated by war. Society president John L Bernstein stresses the project aids families of Polish men in the United States with no aim to bring new Jewish immigrants.
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Rat
Danzig
Hebrew Sheltering and
America
Hebrew Society
John L. Bernstein
Society
Poland
Lunacy Board Ends Work on Deficient Killers
Ossining June 6 The second lunacy commission appointed by Governor Smith finished its inquiry into James Cassidy and Charles McLaughlin convicted of killing Otto Fiala a subway ticket chopper. Findings confirm the first board that both men are mentally deficient though not insane.
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Smith
James Cassidy
Charles McLaughlin
Otto Fiala
Explosion kills fourteen near Turin in Fort Pampalu blast
A massive explosion at Fort Pampalu northwest of Turin overnight killed fourteen people and injured about a hundred, with many buildings destroyed as carloads of explosives detonated.
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London
Fort Pampalu
Turin
China Admitted To Far East Pact Say Peking Times
Peking reports that China should join the Anglo-Japanese alliance to form a Far East triple pact. The Times backs China’s inclusion with conditions for safeguarding sovereignty including return of Port Arthur and South Manchuria railways, removal of non treaty Japanese troops, and a China-Japan administration of Shantung railways.
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China
Far East
Peking
Tien-Tsin
Times
Liao Tung Peninsula
Port Arthur
South Manchuria
Manchuria
Great Britain
Watts
Tsingtao
Germany
Shantung
Dairen
Power exploration stalls amid global withdrawal talk
Fragmentary quotation indicates calls for Britain and Japan to withdraw from China and for Italy and the United States to follow. The text hints at a broader discussion on post offices and mixed alliances, reflecting wartime diplomacy debates.
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Britain
Japan
China
Nce
Italy
United States
Accommodating Roomer Takes Poison in Morgue
William Weissman of 358 State Street Brooklyn ended his life in an undertaker shop to avoid disturbing his landlady, swallowing cyanide of potassium at Matthew’s funeral home on Lexington Avenue after a period of illness and despondency.
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William Weissman
State Street
Brooklyn
Esther Cahoon
Weissman
William J. Matthews
Lexington Avenue
Armed Robbery Halts Poker Game at 66 Bayard Street
Four armed men stormed a quiet poker game at 66 Bayard Street at 4 AM yesterday, taking $400 in cash and $200 in jewelry from Tony Colanco and players. A diamond pin was retrieved from under a sink after the thieves forced a player to discard it. Police were notified only last night as detectives pursue the robbers near Elizabeth Street Station.
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Bayard Street
Tony Colanco
Elizabeth Street
Boy in Sing Sing Will Visit Doomed Mother
OSSINING June 6 Sing Sing rules suspended for the first time to allow Theodore Dixon a cell inmate to visit his mother Mrs Hattie Dixon in the women's death house awaiting electrocution The warden suspended the rule banning visits between death row inmates so the seventeen year old may see his brother frequently before execution
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Lawes
Albanians Rout Italians Near Alessio in Balkan War
Vienna dispatch cites Belgrade report that Albanian insurgents annihilated an Italian battalion near Alessio and Italian warships shelled the city. Skirmishes reported near Scutari and Avlona with Italian forces forced to retreat.
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Alessio
London
Vienna
Exchange Telegraph Company
Belgrade
Scutari
Avlona
Turks Granted 15 Day Delay to Present Peace Views
Constantinople June 6 The Allies allow Turks fifteen days to present observations on peace terms. Damad Ferid Pasha says Turkey cannot live five years under the treaty and urges Americans to understand Turkey’s position. He blames Nationalists, claims leaders are not truly Turkish, and doubts acceptance of provisions on Oriental Thrace, Anatolia, the Strait, Armenia and Smyrna.
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Constantinople
Turkey
Damad Ferid Pasha
Bro ‘Law
America
Europe
Mustapha Kemal Pash
Ali Fuad Bey
Ahmed Rustem Bey
Bilinski
Damad
Oriental Thrace
Anatolia
Orient
Thrace
The
Strait
Armenia
Smyrna
Turkish Premier warns Bolsheviks and asserts territorial aims
Damad Pasha characterizes the Wilson plan as allowing Armenia to gain Van Bitlis and Mosul, home to a small Christian population, and urges President Wilson to consider boundaries. He claims Bolshevik influence stirs unrest in Turkey and Near East, asserting Batum as Armenia’s natural port and warning that an unjust treaty would fuel the Bolshevik movement and prolong the war.
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Turkey
Mesopotamia
Syria
Arabia
Wilson
Dama
Van
Bitlis
Mosul
Armenia
Batum
Near East
Damad
Anatolia
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