Senate Defeats High War Profits Tax Amid Tax Debate
The Senate votes 72 percent to oppose a raised war profits levy, endorsing a slower approach. The Finance Committee plan would lift the top rate to 4 percent and add over a billion dollars in revenue. Administratio n advocates seek balance between war financing and price stability while cautioning against radical shifts in taxation and industry control.
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W. Gilbert Washington
Senate Penance Commisitee
Senate
Patie
Workington
Falesr
British Ship Losses Increase Twenty Sunk Last Week
London reports a fourth straight weekly rise in British shipping losses to sea from submarines. Twenty vessels over 1,600 tons and three under that tonnage were sunk last week, with a shift toward larger ships and no losses among fishing vessels.
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London
Admiralty
Ffteen
Teres
Reichstag Majority Targets Censorship Move Ahead of Reassembly
The unitary commander for the th Army Corps issued a preventive censorship order covering all brochures and leaflets on public matters. Mimeographed and privately circulated works fall under the ban, with violators risking up to a year’s imprisonment in districts including Hanover.
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Cop Banavens
Pept.o
Reichstag
Michaelis
Areps
Ith Army Corps
Hanover
Kerensky Threatens Suppression of Finnish Opposition
Petrograd September 5 The Governor General of Finland returns to Helsingfors with Kerensky's approval to resist any Finnish local government act deemed harmful to Russia by force if needed.
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Kerensky
Women Arrested as Leaders In Plot to Restore Czar
Grand Dukes Michael and Paral and their wives were arrested in a monarchist plan to restore the czar, reportedly led by women Mile. Margaret Hitrovo and Mme Liubor Hitrovo. Grand Duke Dimitri Paulovitch was also reported detained. Premier Kerensky demanded minister resignation for failing to expose the conspiracy.
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Patrograd
Michael and
Paral
Premer Kerenski
Moscow
Mile
Margaret Hitrovo
Tobolek
Mme
Liubor Hitrovo
Yelaburg
Roth
Dimitri Paulovitch
Yaroudny
Kerensky
Romanoff
Michael
Nicholas
Paul
F. A. Naryehaine
Alexendra Feodorovna
Naryehaine
Birtheviya
Keronaky
Hurovo
Ministry of Justice
Crimea
Forward For
Cour
Holy Russia
Wea
Petrograd
Taarskoe-Selo
Uremier Kerensky
Gatchina
Diets
Ahao
Russian Fleet Prepares for Baltic Battle as Germans Advance
Official dispatches reach the Russian Embassy reporting the Baltic fleet aided by submarines ready to meet German forces along the Riga coast. They describe an expected great sea battle off Kronstadt near Petrograd and note German mine sweepers clearing waters for an attack on the Russian capital. Morale remains low behind the fronts with many Russian soldiers returning home in large numbers.
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Washington
Baltic
Riga
Kronstadt
Petrograd
German Army Advances 33 Miles Beyond Riga Pursuing Russians
London Sept 9 German forces push beyond Riga pursuing retreating Russians with rapid speed crossing the Livonian River Aa about 33 miles northeast of the evacuated seaport and capturing Dünamünde at the Dvina mouth. Meanwhile Russian lines east of the Dvina appear to be collapsing as German troops near Segeveld and Lemburg.
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Riga
London
Livonian
Duenamuende
Dvina
Twelfth
Berlin
Peace Meeting in Vienna Set for November 1919
A Budapest dispatch says Austrian and Hungarian delegates will meet in Vienna in November to discuss peace and internal and foreign policy. Wilson’s note to the Pope dominates reactions in Hungary and Germany, with strong pro peace positions and warnings against annexations. As German propaganda shifts to support or resist the note, European papers debate the path to peace and the implications for Germany and the Allies.
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Amsterdam
Woeser Zeitung
Budapest
Vienna
Ax Ent
Magyar Orizny
Wilson
Benedict
Volkische Zeitung
Berlin
America
Hungary
Magyar Orizag, Independence Party
Wilson Wishes In German Reforms
Washington Sept 6 state department officials indicated that German reforms required before US talks include radical electoral progress. It was unclear if universal suffrage is needed, but an elective Reichstag chosen on that principle and a ministry responsible to the Reichstag would meet President Wilson's demands for democratization.
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Schwaebische Merkur
Stuttgart
Wilson
Soukhomlinoff
Russia
Washington
State Department
Germany
United States
Ion
U S Agents Raid I W W Across the Nation
Federal agents in many towns seized books checks and papers from Industrial Workers of the World and Socialist party offices as part of a nationwide inquiry into anti war propaganda and sedition. William D Haywood was questioned and released after brief custody in Chicago.
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Washington
Industrial Workers of the World
Socialist Party
United States
Gregory
Chicago
Haywood
William D. Haywood
W. W
William C. Fitts
Pacifist Moves Of Chicago Mayor Under Scrutiny
Chicago headlines report federal inquiry into Mayor Thompson for alleged sedition after antiwar actions and supportive interviews. National Security League plans a loop district mass meeting with Elihu Root invited, while legal notices push the Peace Council from 70 Fifth Avenue.
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Chicago
General Department of Justice
Thompson
National Security League
Loop
Elihu Root
New York
Union League Club
John & Miller
Frank I. Shepard
Hy Metrics
League
Republican
Lowden
Federal Department of Justice
William Hale Thompson
Hinker
Thirty-third Street
Wilson’s Note Letter Used as School Textbook Text
Hyde Park High School pupils received President Wilson’s reply to Pope Benedict XV’s peace proposals as their first fall term English lesson. Copies of the note will serve as printed textbooks for several days, with Principal H R Loumis urging clear understanding by every student.
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Chicago
Hyde Park High School
Wilson
Benedict XV
H. R."loumis
Militants Arrested At Parade Picket Begin Sixty Day Sentences
Militants from the National Woman's Party were arrested during a parade picket at the President's reviewing stand. Three men were sentenced today to sixty days in the workhouse, with no appeal filed as they began serving time.
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Wartin Iud
Depeom Rieven
National Woman's Party
National Army
Kemedy
Mit
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