War Era News Briefs From Washington and Abroad
War department reports deserters under 1 percent while the armed cruiser Pittsburgh and a destroyer head to the Baltic to safeguard U S interests. Soviet plots, cotton exports, sugar trade, rail and wage changes, and various international developments are summarized with names, places and figures brightening the week.
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Pittsburgh
Baltic Sea
Washington
Cherbourg
France
Navy Department
Poland Independence Aide Vowed By United States
The United States will use all available means to safeguard Poland's independence and territorial integrity and will not recognize the Soviet government. France backs Wrangel in southern Russia. Britain seeks a Poland Russia peace, while Minsk talks proceed and Polish defenses prepare for a counter stroke.
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United States
Poland
Russia
Wrangel
London
Krassin and Kameneff
France
Minsk
Warsaw
Italy
Great Britain
Germany
Wilson lays out terms for end to war over Russia and Poland
President Wilson spoke to Italy outlining a settlement plan that would withdraw Russian forces from Poland and allied troops from ethnographic Russia while pledging that Russia not be dismembered. He urged narrow talks with the Soviet regime and warned against recognition of any guarantees. Lubomirski, Poland's minister, asked for food clothing arms and munitions rather than armed aid.
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Poland
Russia
Wilson
Colby
Eugene Sapleha
Warsaw
America
Italy
Finland
Washington
Prince Lubomirski
British French premiers meet at Hythe on peace pledge
Lloyd George told the house of commons after a Hythe conference with the French premier that peace remains possible. He asserted Mussia deserves strict guarantees against future Polish attacks but not a right to destroy Poland as a nation if Russia intervenes.
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Hythe
London
Lloyd George
House of Commons
Mussia
Poland
Russia
World News Summary from Eastern Front and Aegean
A Vladivostok to Finland correspondent reports widespread hunger cries across Russia and notes Lenine warned of another harsh winter. Soviet Latvia peace provisional. Finland armistice terms reduce potential for allied blockade. In Persia red forces base at Ardebil. Teheran government still in place. Greece strengthens Asia Minor presence while Tartars head to join Kemal Pasha for a Smyrna front push. Dodecanesus assigned to Greece. Rhodes to be plebiscited later.
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Vladivostok
Finland
Russia
Nikolai Lenine
Latvia
Persia
Enzeli
Ardebil
Caspian
Teheran
Greece
Asia Minor
Kemal Pasha
Smyrna
Italy
Dodecanesus
Rhodes
End of World War Sealed by Sevres Turkey Treaty
The war formally concluded as the last peace pact with Turkey was signed at Sevres near Paris. The Jugo-Slavs refused to sign, objecting to the plan to partition the Ottoman debt among former Turkish states.
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Turkey
Sevres
Paris
Roosevelt Nominated for Vice President in Democratic Campaign
Franklin Roosevelt was notified Monday of his nomination for the vice presidency by the Democrats and two days later opened the Chicago campaign with a speech appealing to the Bull Moose element. Cox began his speaking tour as Harding maintains front porch plans. Prohibition nominees Watkins and Colvin spoke at Germantown Ohio with campaign plans to use airplanes for reach.
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Franklin Roosevelt
Chicago
Cox
Senator Harding
Harding
League of Nations
Wilson League
Watkins
Colvin
Germantown. O
Ponzi Arrested as Hanover Trust Closure Hits Cash Ops
Charles Ponzi of Boston faced a state larceny charge after a state bank examiner closed the Hanover Trust company used to run his postal coupon scheme. He admitted prison time in Atlanta and Canada and claimed he can handle all his financial obligations.
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Charless. Brightwell
Raymond Meyers
Charles O.myers
Old Colony Foreign Lixchange
Boston
Securities Exchange Company
Charles Ponzi
Hanover Trust Company
Atlanta
Canada
Ponzi
Poles Rout Reds In Warsaw Battle Gains
Warsaw Aug 18 allied officers report the Soviet hold on Warsaw gates broken and a Polish counteroffensive in full sway. General Pilsudski directs the operation as French tactics under Weygand aid the effort. Wrangel commands about 150000 antibolshevik troops in the South Russian front.
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Pilsudski
Wrangel
Warsaw
Weygand
Marshal Foch
Paris
Chelm
Bug River
Novogeorgievsk
Mlawa
Cholim
Galicia
Bug
Narew
Modlin
Wrangell
Russia
Wives Witness Airmen Die in Colfax Crash
In Colfax Iowa on August 18 Clyde Jones and Pat Willis were killed when their plane dropped 200 feet in a nose dive. The aviators were aboard a training flight and were observed by the wives of both men as the aircraft plunged to the ground.
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Colfax
Iowa
Clyde Jones
Pat” Willis
Gondra Inaugurated as Paraguay President
Dr Manuel Gondra was inaugurated president of Paraguay in Asuncion on August 18 with diplomatic representatives from nearly all American republics attending the ceremonies.
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Mazatlan
Mexico
Chapman
Department of Commerce
Treasury
Interstate Commerce Commission
Laura Bramwell
New York
Broadtop Fields
Pennsylvania
Department of Jabor
First National Bank
Thornton
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Railroad Commission
Madison
Hobart G. Frary
University of Wisconsin
Maude Eiliott Frary
Wisconsin River
Wilbourne
Susie Brown
Nebraska State Normal School
Shenandoah, Ta
California
State Industrial Welfare Commission
Sacramento
Anna Burian
James Sbotak
West Fiftieth Place
New Hampshire
Tramway
Greeley
Whitford
Denver
Colo
Toledo
Houghton, Mich
American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers
Joseph Lukatich
Thomas O’brien
C. W. Stevens
Whiting
Ind
Camp Perry
Antwerp
Ray Chapman
Cleveland Americans
Leo Diegel
England
Ted Ray
Oxey
Lemming
Sweden
Terrence McSweeney
Cork
McSweeney
Ireland
Irish Republic
Saghalin Island
Royal Irish Constabulary
Templemore
Narew River
Hrubieszow
Wlodawa
Fermoy
Killarney
Tralee
Baron Wrangel
Crimean Peninsula
Constantinople
Eleutharioa Venizelos
Lyons
Danish
Oresund
Russian
British Admiralty
John T. Pratt
Republican National Committee
Ways and Means Committee
Southampton
Cantu
Edward W. Pickard
Europe
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Thorn
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Thrace
Mannix
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American Railway Express Company
Minois
State Public Utilities Commission
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