Berlin Reds Gain in Civil Unrest Across City
Berlin troops occupy public buildings as Spartacans reportedly beaten and quiet partly restored. Fighting erupts at Anhalt railway station and near the chancellor’s palace as government forces shell Brandenburg Gate. several killed or wounded. State of siege proclaimed in Berlin with riots spreading to Düsseldorf Essen Dortmund and other Ruhr towns. Munich bank storm attempt repulsed by machine guns. Spartacans linked to plots per Politiken dispatches.
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Spartacans
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Anhalt
Frankfort
Brandenburg Gate
Unter den Linden
Wilelmstrasse
Tan
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Braunwich
Dusseldorf
Essen
Dortmund
Munich
Politken
Ruhr
Fiat
Wspatch
Politiken
Telephone Lines Open Between Coblenz And Berlin
Five trunk telephone lines were opened between Coblenz and the interior of Germany under American occupation. Telegraph and mail had already moved under strict censorship, with telephone use limited to business conversations. Officials would monitor for improper use, aiming to ease communication with Berlin while minimizing interference.
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Associated Press
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Coblenz
Germany
Estening
Berlin
Assassin Villain to Face Jury in Paris Trial
Paris January 9 Raoul Villain who killed Socialist leader Jean Juares on July 31 1914 will be brought to trial soon Villain was arrested shortly after the shooting as he claimed Juares betrayed France by leading the campaign against the three year military law The killing occurred while Juares dined at a Paris restaurant
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Paris
Raoul Villain
Jan Juares
M. Juares
Villain
Juares
France
General Bell Dies After Brief Illness at 88
Major General J Franklin Bell long time Army leader dies at Presbyterian Hospital New York after brief illness of heart disease He served in Spanish American and Philippine campaigns and earned fame for harrowing missions including a harbor rescue swim He was a West Point graduate class of 1881 and at one point the youngest brigadier general in the American forces Also reports on total railroad loans by War Finance Corporation totaling 45 million with Chicago Milwaukee St Paul receiving 11.6 million and Chicago Rock Island Pacigific 9.7 million
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J. Franklin Bell
Department of the Cast
Presbyterian Hospital
Well
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Weat Point
IST
Tie
Seventh Cavalry
Wounded Knee
Bell
San Francisco
Mirailo
Tam Tipl
Washington
War Finance Corporation
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Chicago, Rock Island
Pacificking
Allied Powers 10 Form War Council
London Jan 10 The allied governments will form a supreme war council with two representatives each from France Italy the United States and Great Britain to handle food finance and shipping for revictualing and supply of liberated and enemy territories. Hoover Clementel and Vilain named. Reading and Beale to represent Britain. Emergency relief to Serbia and Romania noted. Further action anticipated as inter allied commission reports.
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London
France
Italy
United States
Great Britain
War Cabinet
Earl of Reading
Sir John Beale
Paris
Herbert C. Hoover
Etienne Clementel
Consimmerce
M. Vilerauin
Serbia
Rumania
Austria
Germany
Inter-Alled Commission
Vienna
Prague
Supreme Council
Bolsheviks Take Vilna as Polish forces fall back
Vilna is reported fallen to a Bolshevik army of several thousand, driving out Polish troops under General Vietka who retreated to Lancvarova then were disarmed by Germans and sent toward Bialystok. Retaliations and civilian massacres followed as Poles faced scarce munitions and shifting fronts across Lemberg and Kiev rumors of unrest spread.
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Associated Press
Warsaw
Vilna
Mitia
Vietka
Lancvarova
Bialystok
Lemberg
French Delegation To Conference Named
Paris reports the peace congress will include Georges Clemenceau premier Stephen Pichon foreign minister Louis Lucien Klotz finance minister Henry Simon colonies Andrew Tarcieuk French high commissioner to the United States The technical reps include Marshal Foch for military matters and Leon Bourgeois on the society of nations.
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Paris
Georges Clemenceau
Stephen Pichon
Louis Lucier Klotz
Henry Simon
Andrew Tarcieuk
United States
Marshal [Och
Leon Bourgeois
Society of Nations
Nations League study meeting set in Paris
Associations in allied countries will hold a joint meeting in Paris on January 26 to study the league of nations problem. Lord Robert Cecil will represent Great Britain and Leon Boure geis will represent France at the congress.
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Paris
League of Nations
Temps Saye
Robert Cecil
Great Britain
Leon Bouregeis
France
Scores Congress For Log-rolling And Corruption
Sr Stanwood Menken former president of the national security league testified before a congressional committee investigating the organization. He charged members of congress had wasted public funds by log rolling and spending where votes were thickest. He denied personal corruption but said misrepresentation in New York exists and joked about running if nominated.
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Congress
Naval Board
Army
Navy
Stanwood Menken
National Securit League
Congressional
Washington
Ben Johnson
Kentucky
Harrison
Mississippi
Menken
Treaty On Migratory Birds In Force Says It Remains
Washington January 9 The migratory bird treaty act which protects US game and song birds is not affected by the Supreme Court action dismissing the Shauver case. Dr DW Nelson chief of the biological survey explains the 1913 act was repealed by the 1928 treaty act. The Shauver case had challenged a repealed law and was dismissed at the government's request.
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Washington
United States
Supreme Court
Shauver
Mm. DW. Nelson
Biological Survey
Department of Agriculture
Nelson
Roosevelt Wrote Book Review Day Before Death
New York January 9 Colonel Roosevelt, despite rheumatic pain, read a 250000 word Beebe volume on pheasants during his last ten days. He wrote to Beebe with notes on species classification errors. The book reached him the day before Christmas, and his letter arrived fourteen hours after his death.
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New York
Roosevelt
William Beebe
New York Zoological Park
Beebe
Meager Berlin riots report from Washington dispatch
Meager official advices on Berlin disorders reach the state department. They note the situation as serious but offer no details. The war department reports no confirmation of an official note about Brigadier General Harries and the armistice terms.
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Washiington
Berlin
State Department
War Department
Harries
Department
War Trade Board Frees Imports of Corn and Rice
Washington Jan 10 All restrictions on importing corn and rice were removed by the war trade board. The board will also consider favorable export applications for rice and licenses for shipment of jute and jute products except bags. Argentine is the main country affected as large corn stocks can be sent to the United States and allied nations. Officials cited statements by food administration staff supporting removal, while market prices for corn fell on the Chicago board.
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Washington
War Trade Board
Argentine
United States
Edgar Rickard
Food Administration
J. J. Stream
The
Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
Strikes Spread as Buenos Aires Sees Vasena Clash
In Buenos Aires the Vasena dren foundry battle intensified with 20,000 strikers surrounding the plant. More than fifty unions have joined the movement affecting over 100,000 workers as police escort workers and streetcars and taxis were damaged amid mounting tensions.
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Buenos Aires
Vasena Dren
Vasena
National Mounted Police
Turks Unwilling To Surrender At Medina
London Jan 10 Allies warn Turkey that unless the Turkish force at Medina surrenders immediately the forts at the Dardanelles will be destroyed The Medina garrison rejects armistice terms while other Arabia troops lay down arms The commander Fakhri Pasha repeatedly refused until an ultimatum forced the issue.
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London
Turkey
Medina
Dardanelles
Arabia
Fakhri Pasha
Kaiser Walks in Amerongen Gardens Amid Recovery
William Hohenzollern, former German emperor, appears in the gardens at Amerongen castle for the first time in weeks. His health is described as almost normal again. The Netherlands prime minister’s secretary also visited him during the day.
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Associated Press
Amerongen
William Hohenzollern
Amerongen Castle
Holland
Congress Has 3 Models For Railroad Law
Washington January 10 Three proposals for railroad legislation are before Congress. Railroad executives presented to the Senate Interstate Commerce Commission a plan for private ownership and operation under a new cabinet officer, the secretary of transportation. The plan would allow pooling of equipment, common use of terminals, and mergers with state guaranteed earnings and government review. Earlier ICC suggested private ownership under regulation, while Director General McAdoo favored five more years of government control or early relinquishment from federal management.
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Thurscas
Senate Interstate Com Merce Commission
Secretary of Transportation
Secretary of Transportation and Interstate Commerce Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
McAdoo
Harbor Strike Faces Mediation Board Plan
New York harbor traffic halted as the New York Boat Owners association announced a conciliation board would arbitrate all issues. The strike committee denied the move calling it an owners welfare proposal. Officials in Washington prepared a defense plan to keep Europe supply lines moving if the strike continued.
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Marine Worker
New York Harbor
New York Boat Owners Association
William A. Maher
Joseph J. Glatzmeyer
Boat Owners Association
Glatzmayer
Washington
War and Navy Department
Railroad Administration
Shipping Board
Europe
Control of Cars Urged to Check Meat Prices
Walter L Fisher testified before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee urging government take over of stock cars refrigerator cars stock yards and terminal refrigerator plants or firm licensing of packers as needed to curb profiteering after the food administration ends. He argued prices would rise beyond ceilings and production could fall without action, proposing railroad ownership of facilities as a first step and government ownership only as a last resort.
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Tan
Food Administration
Walter L. Fisher
Amuarketing
American National
Interse
Fisher
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Wisher
West Virginia Ratifies Prohibition Amendment
Charleston dispatch reports the West Virginia Legislature completed ratification of the federal prohibition amendment, making West Virginia the twenty third state to take this action.
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Charleston
W. Va
Noted Men of France as Envoys
Paris on January 10 reports the French delegation to the peace congress shaping the larger envoy roster. Prominent figures like Cambon and Pinchon will lead diplomacy while Klotz and Tardieu drive finance and economics. The protocol outlines structure and executive oversight before full delegations form. Premier Clemenceau and Venizelos meet with Wilson administration as league of nations talks continue.
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France
Jules Cambon
Washington
M .Cambon
Pinchon
Lous- Klotz
Tardieu
Wilson
Great Britain
Italy
Lloyd George to Rename Ministers in Reconstructed Cabinet
London Jan 10 Premier Lloyd George is to unveil a reshaped ministry with few personnel changes but a reallocation of posts. He will retain the post of first lord of the treasury, Andrew Bonar Law becomes minister without portfolio, Churchill advances to secretary of war, Long heads the admiralty, and Shortt becomes home secretary.
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Lloyd George
the Treasury
Andrew Bonar Law
House of Commons
Winston Spencer Churchill
Walter Hume Long
Admiralty
Edward Shortt
Tisland
Suffragists Move to Ban Red Emblems in Congress
Washington January 10 suffragists backed measures before Congress to ban the red flag and suppress socialist and Bolshevik organizations with any flag other than the Stars and Stripes. The National Association for Woman Suffrage urged action and planned outreach to secure equal suffrage by the next session.
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Congress
National Association
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