Great Britain to seek sixteen billion indemnity
London reports Great Britain will demand 16 billion pounds sterling as German reparations. Prime Minister Lloyd George is said to reveal the figure in Leeds, with annual British relief estimated at 4.0 billion pounds from the German payment. A committee including Mr Hughes of Australia and Baron Cunliffe prepared the plan.
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London
Great Britain
Germany
Daily Mail
Avid Lloyd George
Leeds
Hughes
Baron Cunliffe
Bank of England
Wilson to be informed on allied conference plans
The Daily Mail reports that French claims for reparation may exceed Britain’s. President Wilson will be wirelessly informed on the assembling of the allied conference and the peace congress. The supreme war council met in London. details remain undisclosed. The inter allied conference is set for December 16 or 17 at the Quai d Orsay. Lloyd George and Balfour may attend briefly.
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Daily Mail
Great Britain
Paris
Wilson
Supreme War Council
London
Supreme Council
Edward M. House
Clemenceau
Baron Sonnino
Earl of Derby
France
Foreign Office
Quai d’Orsay
Versailles
David Lloyd George
A. J. Balfour
Influenza Quarantine Cancels Officials’ Appointments
Little Rock December 7 State Superintendent J L Bond cancelled his speech at Laf ayette county teachers meeting in Lewis ville postponed due to influenza quarantine Gov Brough also cancelled his appearance at Crossett to speak for the constitution Dr C W Garrison state health officer reports quarantines in fifteen or twenty communities where the epidemic rages most He does not think another Little Rock quarantine necessary
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Little Rock
J. L. Bond
Lafayette County
Lewisville
Brough
Crossett
C. W. Garrison
Methodists Endorse Prohibition Plank in Conference
The Little Rock conference of the M. E. church South met in Hot Springs and adopted a resolution endorsing the prohibition plank in the new constitution.
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Little Rock
M. E. Church South
Hot Springs
Notice to Teache 4 Regular Quarterly Exam at Court House
Notice to teachers to hold the regular quarterly examination at the courthouse in December 1920 and 1918. C. M. Hirst, County Examiner.
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Court House
C. M. Hirst, Co
Propaganda Records Tie German Agents To U S Press
Washington reports confidential Justice Department files presented to the Senate committee detail efforts by German agents to influence American media. The notes reference Count von Bernstorff, proposals to buy the Washington Post, and plans to place papers under German control as World War I tensions rise.
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Washington
Department of Justice
United States
Senate Committee
Brewers
A. Bruce Bielaski
Departments Bureau of Investigation
Count von Bernstorff
Washington Post
William Bayard Hale
Germany
Hearst
von Bernstorff
Japan
Bielaski
Bernard Dernberg
Heimerich F. Albert
New York
Berlin
National Courier
Health officer reports influenza epidemic figures and vaccination plans
State Health Officer Garrison returned from Jackson, Mississippi, reporting 300000 influenza cases in that state during the epidemic and awaiting death figures. He notes Mississippi will join the federal registration system. Arkansas lags at about 20 percent. He will urge legislation for a vital statistics bureau and mentions compulsory smallpox vaccination in Mississippi and Arkansas, with about 200000 vaccinations last year.
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Little Rock
Garrison
Jackson
Miss
Mississippi
Arkansas
Harrison
Bureau of Vital Statistics
Typhoid Vaccination Surges Among School Children
In addition to school children, about 50,000 people volunteered for vaccination. Typhoid vaccination is becoming very popular, with growing counts of successful shots reported in the Salt Lake area.
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Constitution at same as constitution at same as
In Little Rock on December 7 the Attorney General explains that general election laws, rules, and regulations apply to the constitutional election set for December 14, and election officers must follow proclamation, judging, clerk appointments, poll books, and supplies as provided by the act calling the convention. Jewel Reed, a Negro, is bound over after being arraigned for stealing an overcoat from a Missouri Pacific train conductor at Emmet. grand jury to meet in January. Attorney H B McKenzie returns from Malvern and Hot Springs.
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Little Rock
Arbuckle
Jewel Reed
Nelson
Missouri Pacific
Emmet
Reconstruction Congress Sends Envoys Abroad
The Reconstruction Congress of the Industrial War Service Committees urged a European commission rep from American business to aid U S peace delegates in France on economic issues. They backed speedy railroads return to owners, opposed government control of telegraphs and cables, and pushed Sherman anti trust law modifications. The plan includes study of European reconstruction and representation from key industrial groups, with Lyon Massachusetts as the lone dissent on rail return timing.
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Atlantic City
N. J. Dee
European Commission
France
United States
Pea
Reconstruction Congress
Industrial War Service Committees
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Central Board of War Service Committees
Chamber of Commerce of the
Harry A. Wheeler
Chicago
Wilson
Wheeler
Jnbroad
Europe
Thaat
Lyon
Mass
Congress
Thousand More Discharges At Camp Pike Today
About one thousand officers in training at Camp Pike are being discharged today. Many are leaving before completing their training at the Little Rock facility.
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Little Rock
Camp Pike
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House of Satisfaction
Qzan Mercantile Company
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