Germany Receives Extended Time on Peace Treaty Reply
Paris dispatch reports Germany granted 48 extra hours to respond to the Versailles peace terms. Final Allied reply delivered, keeping core conditions, with plebiscite for Upper Silesia, West Prussia frontier ratifications, and other changes. Five days then two more days granted, extending deadline to June 23. Clemenceau explains treaty stance and Germany’s war responsibility.
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Paris
Versailles
Upper Silesia
West Prussia
Kiel Canal Commission
League of Nations
Germany
Associated Press
Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau
Weimar
National Assembly
Clemenceau
M. Clemenceau
Paul Dutasta
Legation
Simon
Baron von Loersner
M. Durasta
Herr Simon
M. Dutasta
Clemenceau Denounces Germany in Allies War Accountability
Paris dispatch summarizes Clemenceau’s letter to the German delegation accusing Germany of war crimes and tyranny. It details charges from August 1914 to battlefield conduct, bombardment of towns, use of gas, and subversion, urging justice, reparations, and redrawing Europe to safeguard liberty.
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Germany
Europe
Serbia
Balkans
Belgium
U.S. Force Breaks Up Villa Band in Juarez Fight
Americans completing 24 hours of campaigning bivouacked in barracks on the U.S. side after routing Villa forces near Juarez. Cavalry and engineers pursued bands, captured horses, and brought seven Mexican prisoners to Fort Bliss while reporting about 50 Villa followers killed and 100 horses seized.
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EL Paso
Tex
Villa
Juarez
Forts Blisg Stockade
Fifth Cavalry
James B. Erwins
Cabell
Fort Bliss
James J. Hornbrook
R. H. Tompkins
Seventh Cavalry
Edward R. Heckok
Eighth Engineers
Mesa
Nailla
Golden Guards
Wooddell
Ninth Engineers
Carranza
Mexico
Gonzales
White Cross Hospital
Fort Hidalgo
Bean
Associated Press
General Angeles
Felipe Angeles
Rio Grande
Labor Unions Move to Organize Steel Regions
In Atlantic City a 24 member committee of international labor union presidents, joined by Samuel Gompers, AFL president, decided to launch immediate nationwide organizing drives in great steel producing regions, with emphasis on the Pittsburgh district and surrounding areas.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Samuel Gompoers
American Federation of Labor
Pittsburgh
Right to Free Assembly Speech and Press Mentioned
Fragmentary OCR notes reference freedom of assembly speech and press, highlighting core First Amendment protections. The text implies a public rights discussion without detailing speakers, dates, or locations.
Boys Earn Pin Money For Reading Sunday Papers
The Quincy Whig offers 50 cents per copy for the first 50 complete Sunday sections read. Boys are urged to rustle the neighborhood and bring in the papers dated June 16.
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Quincy Whig
Tells House Allies Sent Final Terms
DNDON June 16 The final terms for Germany are the allies report. Andrew Bonar Law, government spokesman in the house of commons, opened the victory loan at the Gild Hall and urged Germany to sign within five days or the armistice ends. He warned unity at home and among allies is essential to securing a just but stern peace.
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Germany
Prussia
Alled
Europe
Wilson
Congress
Dndon
Andrew Bonar Law
House of Commons
Mr. Bonar Law
Wilson Plans Speaking Tour To Aid League
President Wilson, facing a split senate, will tour the country to press ratification of the league covenant. He plans to start after Paris and hopes to begin July 1 in Washington, with a swing through western states to rally support and answer critics on the treaty and league. Senator Knox seeks a senate vote against the covenant alongside the peace pact.
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Washington
Wilson
Senate
Paris
League
Knox
Tumulty
Far West
Versailles
Johnson
California
Mexico Up in Senate and House
Discussion of Mexican affairs arose in both chambers as American troops crossed the Rio Grande. Senators Watson King Fall questioned invasion scope and who ordered the move, while House member Could denounced it as a tacit alliance. Fall favored protection of Americans, cited Carranza garrison concerns, and accused press suppression at Secretary Lansing’s behest.
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Washington
Congress
Rio Grande
Watson
Indiana
Mexico
War Department
King
Utah
Foreign Relations Committee
Senator Fall
New Mexico
House
Representative Could
New York
United States
Fall
Juarez
Pommerene
Baker
R. M. Dudley
Fl Faso
Texas
Carranza
Lansing
Ohio Legislature Ratifies Suffrage in Historic Vote
In Columbus on June 17 the Ohio general assembly approved the federal woman suffrage amendment 73 to 6 in the house and 27 to 3 in the senate. The legislature also passed a bill granting Ohio women presidential electors voting rights in 1920 if the federal amendment is not yet in effect. Governors across the west react with differing actions on ratification and special sessions.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio General Assembly
House
Senate
Bismarck
N. D
Lynn J. Frazier
Colorado
Denver
Colo
Oliver H. Shoup
Order Dividing Navy Into 2 Fleets Given
Washington June 17 Orders making effective the division of the United States naval forces into two fleets of equal strength to be called the Atlantic and Pacific fleets were issued by the navy department. Admiral Henry B. Wilson will command the Atlantic fleet, Admiral Hugh Rodman the Pacific. Each fleet will have four divisions of battleships and dreadnoughts, two divisions of cruisers, 18 divisions of destroyers, three divisions of submarines and two divisions of mine layers.
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Washington
United States
Atlantic
Navy Department
Henry B. Wilson
Hugh Rodman
Pacific
Wilson Heads to Belgium for Belgian Visit
PARIS June 16 President Wilson will depart Paris for a Belgium visit at 10 o clock Tuesday night the Associated Press reports. The move follows recent talks and signals a continued diplomatic mission from France.
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Associated Press
Paris
Wilson
Belgium
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Juares
Chance
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