Civilian disturbances sweep England with widespread damage
Across England civilian disturbances caused heavy damage. In Swindon gangs looted twenty premises and burned the flagstaff at the town hall. Seton reports the town hall burned as police filed charges. Coventry shops were attacked injuring forty people and Birmingham police were called for help. Bilston mobs pulled down a wall and used bricks against officers. Police from nearby towns were summoned.
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London
Swindon
Seton
Coventry
Birmingham
Bilston
Cambridge Honors Go To War Leaders At Senate House
General Sir Arthur Currie and other senior Allied officers receive Cambridge University Doctor of Laws degrees in a crowded Senate House ceremony. Admirals Sturdee and Wemyss and Generals Rawlinson Birdwood Wilson Herne Manass the Earl of Cavan and Gen. Pershing are cited among recipients. The vice chancellor Dr Arthur Shipley presided and hosted a luncheon at Christ College hall afterward with students cheering as Birdwood is carried shoulder high.
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Cambridge University
Cambridge
England
Arthur Currie
Senate House
University
Arthur E. Shipley
Christ College
Sturdee
Wemyss
Rawlinson
Birdwood
Wilson
Herne
Manass
Earl of Cavan
Gen. Pershing
Christ College Hall
Gen. Birdwood
Berlin Blockade Easing Sparks Cologne Imports Flood
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung reports initial effects of the blockade rise with Cologne inundated by foreign goods. French firms flood market with cocoa powder chocolate coffee and food items while German importers receive corn starch cocoa beans and beans. American offers include bacon olive oil rubber coats and machinery while Anglo Japanese firms push borax resin flax oil and shellac imports.
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Berlin
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
Cologne
Paris honors Sgt Mannheim in Berlin murder burial
Paris memory of Sgt Paul Mannheim of the French army killed in Berlin on July 13. Burial at Pere Lachaise cemetery drew great crowds with representation from President Poincare and Premier Clemenceau.
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Paris
Paul Mannheim
Berlin
Sgt. Mannheim
Pere Lachaise
Poincare
Premier Clemenceau
State ships to run 110000 tons in Atlantic trade
By year end the government will operate twenty ships with a total net tonnage of 110 000 tons in the North Atlantic and West Indian trade. The seven steamers already in service have earned profits.
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Ottawa
Wheat Cutting Near Brandon Inspires Local Harvest
Brandon farmer Robert Roddick of Brandon Hills began cutting wheat on a field sown April 15. The crop is praised as the finest since 1914 and is notable as wheat has not been cut in this district for three summers during July. Assiniboine River Valley fields are ripening rapidly.
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Brandon Brandon
Robert Roddick
Brandon Hills
Assiniboine River
Awaiting Proclamation Of Peace In Ottawa War Worries
Ottawa awaits Britain and Canada to proclaim peace after Versailles. Parliament resumes before ratification finishes, with war measures and orders in council in question. Britain may proclaim earlier, but Canada plans fall session to ratify terms from Versailles. Ratification by Germany and key allies needed for full peace. doubt on timing.
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Ottawa
Germany
Paris
C. J. Doherty
A. L. Sifton
Canada
Versailles
Sir Robert Borden
London
Britain
Great Britain
AS .B. Aylesworth
U.S
British Empire
France
Italy
Japan
Austria
Bulgaria
Turkey
Winnipeg Strikes Trial Hears Secret Service Evidence
At the preliminary trial of eight labor leaders charged with seditious conspiracy, Manitoba police secret service chief Sergt. Reames testified that reliable agents warned of a revolution in the making. He cited speeches by Williams Ivens and George Armstrong as contributing causes to the general strike and described inflammatory remarks to foreigners about police violence.
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Winnipeg
Labor Temple
Sergt
A. E. Reames
Manitoba Royal Northwest Mounted Police
R. B. Russell
W. M. Ivens
W. A. Pritchard
Joseph T. Hill
Wm. Ivens
Ivens
Germans Must Surrender Livestock to Paris
Germany must surrender 500 stallions 3000 fillies 90000 milk cows 100000 sheep and 10000 goats to France. A peace commission report presented by M Dubois economist under Rene Viviani notes additional German livestock to Belgium 200 stallions 5000 mares 5000 fillies 50000 cows 4000 heifers. Deliveries to be monthly over three months.
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Paris
Germany
France
Rene Viviani
M. Dubois
Belgium
Retirement fund cheques sent for postal workers
J A Elrick reports Ottawa telegram says retirement fund cheques for postal workers displaced by the strike will be mailed soon. Cheques average about 400 dollars and represent the five percent deducted from wages since service began as part of the retirement fund replacing a pension system.
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Winnipeg
Ottawa
J. A. Elrick
Amalgamated Postal Workers
Elrick
No Trace of Nipigon Man Seeks Murder Suspect
Another day passes with no sign of the second man implicated in the murder of Constable Armstrong at Nipigon. Police from Fort William and Nipigon, along with Mounted Police and railway police, continue ceaseless searches through woods between Fort Arthur and Wild Goose Point.
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Fort William
Armstrong
Nipigon
Symons
Burleigh
Mounted Police
Dominion
Fort Arthur
Wild Goose Point
Ottawa Leader Expected Back From Gulf Cruise
Sir Robert Borden is aboard a cruise in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and is expected to return to Ottawa within the next few days. He plans to resume official duties after the voyage.
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Ottawa
Sir Robert Borden
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Trading In Titles Is Charge Made
London scandal centers on honor gifts and cash for titles in British politics. The new national party presses Parliament to reveal reasons behind peerages since 1910 and to expose alleged payments to gain noble titles and favorable newspaper support.
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London
House of Lords
New National Party
House of Commons
Page Croft
Lenine Seeks Peace with Romania in Bessarabia Armistice
A Bolshevik delegation arrives at Kishineff offering peace to Romanian forces for Lenin. He proposes ceding Bessarabia if Romania blocks Ukrainian citizens and Kolchak forces from crossing the frontier. An eight day armistice on the Bessarabian front has been agreed, and the delegation moves to Romanian HQ.
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London
Kishineff
Nikolai Lenine
Berlin
Lenine
Bessarabia
Rumania
Admiral Kolchak
Omsk
Canadians Sentenced In England After Epsom Death
At the Survey assizes London Bugler Robert Todd and Private E A McAllan of the Canadian Forestry Corps were found not guilty of manslaughter in the death of Police Sergeant Green at Epsom and discharged. Privates F H Wilkie J Connors A McMaster D Verex and A Masse were found guilty and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment with hard labor.
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London
Robert Todd
E. A. McAllan
Canadian Forestry Corps
Green
Epsom
F. H. Wilkie
J. Connors
Canadian Highlanders
A. McMaster
Canadian Reserve
D. Verex
A. Masse
Victory For Clemenceau in Paris Vote of Confidence
Paris newspapers hail Premier Clemenceau after his decisive confidence vote in the chamber of deputies. Some comment the result as a push for a stronger policy to curb the high cost of living, with pledges to consult the country in upcoming elections.
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Paris
Clemenceau
Chamber of Deputies
Prince To Visit White House London
The Prince of Wales will travel to the United States next month as a guest of the U S government. King George has accepted President Wilsons invitation for the prince to visit Washington after a Canadian trip and then to New York for a brief stay aboard the battleship Renown while remaining a government guest.
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London
Prince of Wales
U.S
King George
Prince
Wilson
Washington
Canada
United States
New York
New York Harbor
King to Unveil Montreal Statue by Electrical Launch
King George consents to unveil the Sir Etienne Cartier memorial in Montreal by pressing a button at Balmoral. The Duke of Connaught cabled E W Villeneuve that the unveiling will occur on September 6, Cartier’s birthday, with a wire running from Balmoral to connect Atlantic and Canadian cable lines for a direct electrical link.
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Montreal
King George
Sir Etienne Cartier
Balmoral
Duke of Connaught
E. W. Villeneuve
Cartier
Germany Aims for Friendlier Ties With Neighbors
Weimar. Dr. Hermann Mueller, foreign minister, urged full carrying out of the peace treaty while seeking its revision. He called for sacrifices to ease Belgium relations and for friendly ties with Poland and Czecho Slovakia, while preferring non intervention in Russia and avoiding old allies Bulgaria and Turkey.
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Weimar
Hermann Mueller
National Assembly
Belgium
Mueller
Russia
Poland
Czecho-Slovakia
Germany
Bulgaria
Turkey
Clergymen Face Attachment Over Parish Revenues
Judge Lavell issues attaching orders against twelve Kingston archdiocese priests to seize ten per cent of parish revenue payable to Archbishop Spratt. Move follows a $20,000 judgment won by Sister Mary Basil against Spratt and Sister Margregie of the House of Providence.
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Kingston, Ont
Lavell
Kingston
Spratt
Mary Basil
Margregie
House of Providence
Feed Relief Plans Move Stock and Hay to Drought Areas
Hon Duncan Marshall told the Canadian Press that two carloads of stock will be shipped free to feed areas from any point in southern Alberta for one man. Seven cars of hay will also be transported free for one man from Manitoba Saskatchewan or Alberta to growth areas. He noted substantial hay and feed in northern Alberta.
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Calgary
Duncan Marshall
Alberta
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Marshall
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