Senate panel schedules eight day peace treaty hearings
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee extends its inquiry into the peace treaty, with eight day hearings on Fiume Aland Islands German colonies in Africa and Ireland independence. Delegations include Italians Jugo Slavs Hungarians Greeks Irish Lithuanians Ukrainians Esthonians Letts and American Negroes. Hearings on Egypt case follow.
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Archduke Joseph Ousted as Hungarian Government Resigns
Paris reports indicate Archduke Joseph has resigned as Hungary’s government falls. A new cabinet is to be formed with Paul Garami as minister of commerce Jules Peidl as minister of food Karl Payer as minister of labor and Count Crangas as minister of foreign affairs. The inter allied mission set a two hour deadline.
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Honduran Rebels Beaten near Santa Rosa Front
Honduran revolutionary forces have been defeated and scattered by government troops in the Santa Rosa area near the Guatemalan frontier. The official dispatch reports many killed and wounded and missing.
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Santa Rosa
Army Demobilization Targets 225000 by September
The War Department announced a rapid demobilization reducing the army to 225000 by September 30. The August 19 strength stood at 461390 officers and men in Washington.
War news and domestic legislation from Washington to Coblenz
The Fifth and Fiftieth Infantry regiments are ordered to Silesia via Coblenz to be equipped and move across Germany. President Wilson offers a four cent an hour raise for shop workers retroactive to May 1. Army demobilization targets 225,000 by September 30 from 361,290 on August 19. Wilson seeks to extend wartime passport controls to curb alien influx post peace. Pullman rental contract set at 11.7 million annually. Postal workers expect wage increases within two weeks. FTC probes about 60 complaints of wildcat oil stocks in Texas fields. Food control act passes with a 5000 dollar fine or two-year jail for violations. A tariff bill targets tungsten and related salts. Senate bans alcohol sales in the Panama Canal Zone.
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Pershing Visits France Then Returns to Paris
General John J. Pershing commander in chief of the American expeditionary forces in France has completed a tour of the Italian battle front and major Italian cities and returned to Paris. Senator Duncan A. Fletcher of Florida who was knocked down by a street car in Washington was not seriously injured and is expected to be out in a week, according to physicians. Thomas Nelson Page of Virginia resigned as ambassador to Italy, announced by the State Department in Washington.
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Mutiny and warfare flare as Bolshevik turmoil surges
Archangel mutineers are executed after a revolt among newly mobilized troops. British forces shell the front with poison gas. Paris reports Belgian authorities seize Malmedy under the peace treaty. Poland defeats Bolsheviks near Dubno as Soviet forces retreat. An American automaker in London orders 4000 cars after import restrictions end.
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American Aviators Pay Bandit Leader After Shootout
Reports from Marfa Texas state Maj James P Yancey says US punitive expedition forces killed bandit Ren teria after paying him for treatment of Lieuts Peterson and Davis. The item lists unrelated events including rail strikes and Pearl Harbor dock dedication.
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Bolshevik Wireless Claims Vladivostok Siege and Refugees
A Bolshevik wireless report to London says Vladivostok is surrounded by insurgents and filled with refugees as a Japanese squadron reportedly arrives. A Montreal dispatch adds that 800 interneed Germans were shipped from Canada to Rotterdam last week.
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Iowa State News Highlights Actions and Incidents Across Cities
Des Moines lands the 1920 Iowa Association of County Officers convention and Cedar Rapids seeks a 35 percent pay rise for postal workers. Grinnell police seek a stolen Ford. Stiles man commits suicide in a Bloomfield well. Webster City elects a new painters board chair. Hartwick to get a 20000 bushel modern elevator. Iowa State Fair opens with street cars restored amid strike fears. Cedar Rapids school bids fail as portable classrooms delay fall term. Weather notes say corn yields likely above normal with good rains and sun. winter wheat planting advances in several areas.
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Utagaki: Old Japanese Poetry Gatherings and Their Legacy
The article recounts Utagaki, a flower season poetry gathering in which young men and women composed odes to blossoms and moonbeams to court and wed. It traces its origins to Emperor Yuryaku era, describes the ritual, social dynamics, and eventual decline as civilization advanced.
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Yamato
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Japan Magazine
Lord Leverhulme Buys Lewis Island for Fishing Hub In Scotland
One man, Lord Leverhulme, buys Lewis Island off Scotland to develop a major fishing center. The island spans about 770 square miles with roughly 80,000 residents, whom the owner believes can support a population of 300,000. He already has proven success on Merseyside.
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Mersey
Troops Moved Swiftly From Olympic After Arrival
The Olympic troopship docked at six pm with 4,900 soldiers aboard. Eleven special trains were formed to move troops to demobilization points inland. The first specials departed at 7:45 pm, with the rest leaving about every 18 minutes. Within three hours all soldiers proceeded interiorward. Troops averaged 445 men per train using 150 cars in total.
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Olympic
Peer Applies for Comrades of the Great War Rank
Lord Crawford chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster applies as Corporal Crawford for membership in the Wigan branch. He first enlisted as a private in the Royal Army Medical Corps, served in France as a private, and later rose to corporal, a rank he still holds.
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