Britain Faces Record National Expenditures in July
In the Commons J Austen Chamberlain reported daily average government spending at nearly £4,500,000 for April 1 to July 26. Sir Laming Worthington-E Evans, the pensions minister, projected total pensions at £96,000,000 yearly and announced new rates for totally disabled single men and married men with other dependents to receive higher weekly pensions, plus proportional increases for children and widows of soldiers.
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London
Hense “of Commons
J. Austen Chamberlain
Sir Laming Worthington Evans
Laming
Ltcase
Sir Laming
Russians Offer Spitzbergen to Norway in Peace Talks
The Russian political commission in Paris advises the peace conference to allow Spitzbergen to Norway. It suggests an international convention to safeguard the rights of people of various nations with property there.
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Paris
Spitzbergen Archipelago
Arctic Ocean
Franz Josefland
Greenland
Spitzbergen
Norway
R 34 Dirigible Reaches East Fortune After London Flight
The giant British dirigible R-34, which made the first trans Atlantic flight, departed Pulham Norfolk on July 13 and returned to East Fortune Scotland before heading to the United States. It circled over London at low altitude, was seen by crowds, and cheered by onlookers.
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London
Pulham
Norfolk
East Fortune
Scotland
United States
Salvage of Scapa Flow German Navy to Begin
In Parliament Walter Hume Long said the scuttled German fleet at Scapa Flow will be salvaged. Three light cruisers and fifteen destroyers are slated for recovery with work on three additional destroyers continuing, and no court of inquiry planned. At Mineola Roland Rohlf set a new American altitude record, reaching 30,700 feet in a Curtiss wasp bi plane, short of the world mark of 33,136 feet.
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Grand Navy
Scapa Flow
Orkney Islands
House of Commons
Walter Hume Long
Admiralty
Mineola
Roland Rohlf
Roosevelt Field
Adjutant Casale
Villa Coublay
Peace proposals not given Lenine denial in Commons
In London Liberal papers claimed Sir Phillip Kerr gave a memorandum of peace proposals for Bolshevik Lenine to Wm. C. Bullitt of the U S peace delegation. Andrew Bonar Law answered in the House of Commons with a denial saying Lloyd George did not know of Bullitt’s mission to Russia until his return and that no memorandum was given.
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Lenine
London
Phillip Kerr
Lloyd George
Wm. C. Bullitt
United States
House of Commons
Andrew Bonar Law
Bonar Law
Bullitt
Russia
If you can't do anything else you can stay out of the way
The remark urges yielding space to others when faced with a task, emphasizing practical restraint over competition. It suggests avoiding interference and prioritizing safety and cooperation. The line underscores self restraint as a prudent approach in shared spaces.
Government Plan For Marketing Crop
The Ottawa government outlines its wheat policy for 1919. A board will buy and market the 1919 crop, with immediate cash payments to farmers on sale, sale of Canada’s wheat at world prices, and surplus distributed to original sellers by grade and quantity. The plan prohibits speculation by handlers and ensures prompt movement of the crop through existing channels. The board’s mandate includes price safeguards for consumers and details on records, transport, and futures prohibition during the crop season. The 1918 crop authority remains in effect for deliveries up to August 15.
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Ottawa
Canada
Europe
U.S
Board of Grain Supervisors
Tornado Swept New Brunswick Damage Report
A severe electrical storm in New Brunswick caused tornado-like damage across Florenceville Centreville and East Florence. Eleven barns were razed in Carleton county and the B F Smith warehouse was destroyed. Telegraph lines and utility poles were blown down as the storm swept a quarter mile wide. Loaded hay wagons left in barns were lifted and scattered.
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Frederickton
N.B
New Brunswick
Carleton County
Florenceville
Centreville
East Florence
B. F. Smith and Company, Limited
Marshal Foch Receives Freedom of the City of London
Marshal Foch, escorted by General Weygand and other French generals, is honored with the freedom of London at Guildhall amid cheering crowds, decorated streets, and the Marseillaise. Notables including Prince Arthur of Connaught, the French ambassador, Sir Douglas Haig, and Winston Churchill attend. Foch lauds British soldiers and industry while praising Allied efforts and the 1918 counteroffensive.
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M Aoarshal Foch
Weygand
Carlton Hotel
Guildhall
General Foch
Prince Arthur of
Connaught
Fickl Marshal Haig
Henry Wilson
Winston Churchill
Messrs
Long
Barnes
Marshal Foch
Haig
Britain
Meuse
Rhine
Congress Is Peeved over German Peace Treaty Debate
Washington observers report President Wilson discussed the German peace treaty with four Republican senators who oppose the League of Nations in its current form. The Senate and committee recessed as officials study the text, signaling a bitter ratification fight. Critics dispute entangling alliances and Congress’s war-declaration authority, warning the pledge to defend France could unsettle constitutional norms.
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Germany
Wilson
League of Nations
Senate
Committee
France
Congress
Letters seized in Western Canada seditious conspiracy case
Police raids in Vancouver Edmonton Calgary and Winnipeg recovered letters from Socialist Party of Canada members urging force and riots to overthrow government. In court the letters were read as part of the preliminary hearing for eight labor organizers charged with seditious conspiracy.
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Winnipeg
Calgary
Socialist Party of Canada
United Mine Workers of America
Toronto
R. B . Russell
Russia
R. B. Russell
Socialist Party
Por
R.ln.w.m.lp
Vancouver
Edmonton
Race Riots In Chicago Barricade Zone Around South Side
Chicago soldiers under Governor Lowden and Mayor Thompson set up a bar with three miles square in the colored district to search residents for weapons. Passages were restricted, the zone ran from 122nd to 55th Street and Michigan Boulevard to Wentworth Avenue. Rioting subsided briefly but threats and incendiary attacks persisted. Adjutant General Dickson called the situation ominous as Negro leaders warned of starvation due to supply wagon drivers avoiding areas.
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Chicago
Lowden
Thompson
122Nd Street
55Th Street
Michigan Boulevard
Black Belt
Demand For Harvest Help Government Agent Says Men Hang Back From Harvest Work for Higher Pay
Winnipeg report notes J A Bowman of the provincial employment service says many unemployed men avoid harvest work seeking six dollars a day or longer hours for pay. He doubts the six dollar benchmark will be reached and urges responders to farm-help appeals, citing returning veterans as a significant part of farm labor. Crop failures in Saskatchewan push labor west to Manitoba. About 10,000 workers are needed for harvest in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. London reports Victory Loan success at £767,800,000, surpassing prior totals by £59,800,000, per Chancellor Austen Chamberlain.
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Winnipeg
J. A. Bowman
Employment Service of Canada
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Bowman
London
House” of Commons
J. “Austen Chamberlain
Industrial Unrest Threatens Britain and Bulgaria Peace
A Bulgarian peace mission in Paris faces uncertain prospects over Dobrdja and Macedonia, with hopes for fair settlement amid wartime alignments. In Britain, widespread industrial unrest endangers commerce and pressures Lloyd George, as police strikes and a looming triple-alliance general strike threaten political stability and nationalization aims.
Yorkshire Miners Ignore Leaders in Leeds Conference
In Leeds a coal miners conference with employers failed to end the strike. Miners leaders rejected the government's formula and the Miners Federation stance on returning to work, leaving a deadlock and a serious outlook with no resumption planned.
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London
Leeds
Miners’ Federation
French Bond Sale Planned in New York Market
Paris reports a plan by Louis Krotz to issue French treasury bonds totaling 50 million dollars in New York with a fifty day tenor. U S Treasury consent reportedly granted. Two sailors died when the submarine G-2 sank in Long Island Sound near Waterford Bay, eight aboard were aboard, six survived.
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Paris
Louis Krotz
United States
J.-P. Morgan and Company
New York
Treasury
Treasury Department
U.S
New London
Conn
Long Island Sound
Pleasure Beach
Waterford Bay
New Dominion Loan and Victory Bonds Support Canada
Sir Thomas White notes that since September last Britain credits totaled 167 million for last year's wheat, about 25 million for other foods, and over 12 million for timber. The Victory Loan enabled the extension credits needed to buy these products, underpinning Canada's prosperity across agriculture, industry, commerce, and finance as it faces demobilization costs and wheat sales. It isn’t the frame that matters, it’s the picture within it.
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Thomas, White
Ottawa
Sir Thomas White
Great Britain
Canada
Dominion
Peace Will Be Ratified This Month Germans Buying Copper New York
German manufacturing interests have bought moderate quantities of refined copper in New York. Shipments are already made and expected to grow. The financial arrangement linked to the copper purchases is not disclosed. Women Get Vote in Helena. Montana state senate ratified the federal suffrage amendment by 38 to 1 vote. Paris discussions on the German peace treaty expected to start August 10 with brief sessions in the chamber and senate. France anticipates ratification around August 20, while England had already ratified the treaty.
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Helena
Mont
Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Senate
Japan
England
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