See Aleppo as Travel Center
Aleppo in Syria becomes a junction point linking intercontinental rail and air routes north to south and east to west. A Cape to Cairo railway vision ties Aleppo with Damascus and Baghdad rail, suggesting a future London to Cape Town journey via Paris Vienna and Cairo.
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Syria
Aleppo
Berome
Llenby
London
Cape
Paris
Vienna
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Cairo
Petrograd
Black Sea
Bagdad
Cape Town
Vancouver
Canton
Tokyo
Cal
Rome
South
Minute Men Drive Fund Raising Reported Large Totals
Campaign leaders say the Minute Men drive raised substantial sums on day one with reports of five thousand dollars from downtown and significant totals from other districts. S. P. Jennings, Seattle chief organizer, notes broad public liberality and ongoing solicitors in residence areas as drives continue.
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Minute Men
Lyon
One @ar
S. P. Jennings
Seattle
Dis
Recital by Albert E. Markus and Pupils at Ballard
Albert E. Markus a basso-cantante will present a song recital in Calvary M. E. Church Ballard on Friday evening with his pupils performing alongside.
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Albert E. Markus
Calvary M. EL Church
Ballard
Chamber Men Meet Mayor to Aid City Officials
A delegation from the Chamber of Commerce Club led by O. J. C. Dutton conferred with Mayor Hanson on Thursday to plan steps to improve the effectiveness of the city police and health departments.
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Chamber of Commerce Club
O. J. C. Dutton
Hanson
Yankee Prisoner Released After Terrible Treatment
Schaffhausen Switzerland Dec 6 Corporal Edward Roberta of Iroquoia 8 D 16th infantry the first American released after the armistice is totally blind from cruel confinement. He was under guard of Conrad Hoffman who aided Y M C A prisoner relief work in Germany for four years. Hoffmann predicts a permanent United States of Germany and describes the postarmistice revolution as orderly with Bolshevik influences minimal. He notes American food is awaited to prevent reign of terror as German crops strain to feed 9,000,000 returning soldiers with rationed bread meat butter sugar and potatoes priced high.
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Edward M. Thierry N. EB
Schauffhausen
Switzerland
Edward Roberta
Iroquoia
16Th Infantry
Roberta
Conrad Hoffman
Kansas University
Hoffman
Germany
Berlin
Hut
Socialista
Deise
Bury Unter den Linden
Liebknaecht
Ex Kaiser Refuses Interview Through His orderly
AMERONGEN Holland Dec 6 Former governor of Metz ex Kaiser Wilhelm sent a statement to newspaper men via his orderly but declined to be interviewed He said he must reserve any statement until charges are brought and he owes loyalty to the present German government to avoid compromising others
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Amerongen
Holland
Metz
Kaiser Wilhelm
Chinese herbs fail influenza victim in Los Angeles
Dr Tom Shee Binn, operating herbal practice without a license, was fined 350 and sentenced to 180 days in jail by Judge Chesebro after a state board arrest. Detective Jack O Connell led the case. Evidence showed he charged 780 for herbs to prevent Spanish influenza, with patient Dana dying despite treatment.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Tom Shee
Binn
Chesebro
Jack M. O'Connell
State Board of Medical Examiners
J. A. Dunn
Dana
Bavarian Leader Calls for German Chiefs Conference
Kurt Eisner head of the Bavarian government telegraphed Chancellor Ebert urging a meeting of the heads of the German states at Jena. They would discuss composition of the foreign ministry, convocation of a national assembly, and publication of documents.
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Munich
Kurt Eisner
Ebert
Jena
Foreign Ministry
Merchant Marine Men Unruly Says Training Captain
West Seattle merchant marine training station officers report postwar discipline problems. Formerly unruly sailors could join naval service. now civil authorities must handle offenses. Deputy Summers reports sailor W. White jailed for damaging property after breaking from quarters and escaping, with Capt. J. S. Johnson ordering confinement and a warrant issued for arrest.
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Merchant Marine
West Seattle
Summers
W. White
J. 8. Johnson
Whisky concealment case heard in commissioner's court
Eugene I Norton and Willian Gray faced hearings for concealing imported whisky before Commissioner McClelland on Thursday. Joseph H Neal, held on a white slave charge, was scheduled for his first hearing the same day before the commissioner.
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Eugene I. Norton
Willian Gray
McClelland
Joseph H. Neal
Theft Report: $100 Pocketed from John O'Neil
John O'Neil of 2012 Westlake Avenue woke Thursday to find his trousers in the center of the room and his purse missing. He searched the pocket and realized the $100 was gone.
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John
John O'Neil
Westlake Ave
German Rule Never Relaxed Alsace Lorraine Files
Special dispatch reports that after 47 years of German rule in Alsace Lorraine the minority sentiment remained pro German. An official order restricted by German authorities claims most letters were unfavorable to Germany and calls for stricter supervision of postal correspondence to monitor anti German opinion despite a small loyalist minority.
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London
Germany
Alsace Lorraine
Almace-Lorraine
Ministry official denies pork cull plan amid meat shortfall
In London on December 6 May, Astor of the ministry of food angrily rejects claims that British farmers are urged to slaughter pigs by Christmas under the influence of the American meat trader. He says it is common knowledge more tonnage is needed to import feeding stouffa for fattening hogs than to import hams and bacon.
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London
Astor
Ministry of Food
Camp Lewis to meet Vancouver Barracks in final clash
Camp Lewis faces Vancouver Barracks in the season finale at Portland this Saturday. French aviator Marcel Lorgnat reportedly set a record flight carrying 14 passengers an hour and a quarter at a height of 1 245 meters.
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Camp Lewis
Vancouver Barracks
Portland
Marcel Lorgnat
Plan New Jobs for Soldiers in Shipyards and Merchant Marine
Washington reports two hundred thousand jobs will be offered to returned soldiers and sailors in shipyards and the merchant marine. The plan stems from an agreement between the War Department and the U S Shipping Board, with Special Shipping Board agents to assist veterans in finding suitable work.
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Washington
War Department
U. S. Shipping Boards
Special Shipping Board
Army
Training Aboard Training Ships For Marine Service Recruits
Army officers will assist. Inexperienced men wishing to join the marine service will be given a course of training on the shipping board s training ships. Men slated for the shipyards will be assigned to work best fitted for them.
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Army
Marine Service
Shipping Board
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