Threat voiced by Hun leader threatens dismemberment and war costs
Berlin reports Count Von Brockdorff-Rantzau, Germanys foreign minister, declares in the Reichstag that no peace accord diverging from Wilsons fourteen points will be signed. He warns that financial demands require talks with German experts and asserts Germany cannot be dismembered while being drained of resources. He calls for release of the West and food imports. Chancellor Schneidemanns policy aims for strict treaty observance, vital interests protection, and conciliatory stance.
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Berlin
Count von Brockdorff-Rantgau
National Assembly
Wiemar
Germany
Wilson
West
Schneidermann
Assembly
Storm Toll in West Heav y
Ninety two killed and about eight hundred injured as a storm raked Arkansas North Texas and Southern Oklahoma. Texas records seventy five dead Oklahoma fourteen Arkansas eight with Ravenna denial. About one thousand homeless spurred aid and tents and food were dispatched while farms and machinery suffered severe losses.
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Dallas
Texas
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Ravenna
France Says Germany Must Pay for War Damages
Senator Henry Cheron argues that common law requires victims be made whole and Germany must pay not only for damage and pensions to war sufferers but also bear the overall cost of the war, as published by Petit Parisien.
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Paris
France
Petit Parisien
Henry Cheron
Germany
Recount Sought in Michigan Hotelmen’s Associa tion
Charles W. Norton treasurer of the Michigan Hotelmen’s Association Campaign Committee says a recount will be sought of the wine and beer amendment vote in Michigan. He accuses dry forces of wholesale fraudulent reports and claims an accurate count would show a net 20 000 votes for the amendment.
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Detroit
Mich
Michigan Hotelmen’s Association
Michigan
Former Hun Liner Saile Sails to New York
The former North German liner Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm sails from Liverpool bound for New York. Reports in 1916 said the ship ran aground off Samsoe after breaking the British blockade, was refloated, and towed to a German port.
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London
Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm
Liverpool
New York
Samsoe
Demonstrations in Seoul Reported as Korean Deaths
The Korean Daily News reports over twenty demonstrations near Seoul on March 27. It says Japanese soldiers used gas swords and bayonets against crowds. Koreans are said to have been killed. The text notes difficulties in handling the unrest.
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Peking
Seoul
Korean Daily News
Japa
Navy Adds Destroyers and Submarine to Battle Fleet
Washington reports last month added 10 destroyers and one submarine along with the Idaho. Five auxiliary ships completed in March with over 150 more ships expected by year end. New commissions include Gridley Williams Barney Cowell Maddox Foote Kalk Hopewell McDermut Laub K-4 and Seagull.
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America
Idaho
Admiral Mayo
Guantanamo Bay
Cuba
Gridley
Williams
Barney
Cowell
Maddox
Foote
Kalk
Hopewell
McDermut
Lau
More Pay For Railroad Men Affected By Wage Increases
Washington. Director General Walker Hines ordered wage advances totaling 65 million dollars for 400000 railroad engineers firemen train men and conductors in both passenger and freight service of the four railroad brotherhoods retroactive to January 1 1919. The action nearly completes the war cycle of wage increases granted since government took over management fifteen months ago. Including the overall increases for 2000000 railroad employees the rate is 822311000 per year or more than 400 dollars per man.
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Washington
Walker Hines
Railroad Administration
Entente Aims to Feed Russia Through Neutral Commission
Herbert Hoover of the Interallied Relief Organization asks Dr Fridtjof Nansen to head an international neutral commission to study feeding Russia if hostilities cease. A Copenhagen dispatch to the Telegraph says 10,000,000 pounds sterling monthly would be needed to fund the plan.
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Entente
London
Herbert Hoover
Interallied Relief Organization
Dr. Fridtj
Nansen
United States
Russia
Exchange ‘Telegraph Co
Copenhagen
Deadly Auto Deaths Outpace Major Diseases in Cincinnati
Health Officer Peters notes automobile accidents in Cincinnati kill 22 people since January 1, surpassing typhoid fever scarlet fever diphtheria whooping cough and smallpox with 18 deaths combined. The statement highlights the rising traffic toll relative to infectious diseases.
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Cincinnati
Peters
Defective Ailments Shrink Youth Growth Across Nation
The National Physical Education Service reports half of the nations 25 million school age children have physical defects or ailments hindering normal development. The executive committee highlights widespread health issues among youths in the United States.
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Washington
The
National Physical Education Service
Japanese Arrest Missionary Aiding Korean Propaganda
The State Department was informed of the arrest of Nev. E. Miller Mowry, a Presbyterian missionary at Pyong Yang, Korea, by Japanese authorities who accuse him of aiding and abetting Korean independence propaganda.
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Washington
State Department
E. Miller Mowry
Michigan Marshal Shot During Whisky Run Battle Near Trenton
Detroit reports Marshal Thomas Zrozski aged 84 died after being shot through the heart in a gunfight with whisky runners along Michigan Central tracks near Trenton. Marshal John L. Labo was wounded in the abdomen. seven civilians aided in the capture of the fleeing men.
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Detroit
Mich
Thomas Zrozski
John L. Labo
Trenton
Zrozski
Heavy Demands Drive Meat Prices Across War Markets
The American Meat Packers Association warns that meat prices will stay high as war strained Europe cannot resume quotas. It notes demand, not production, pushes prices, cites hog markets and dwindling foreign herds, and shows U S livestock gains versus rising global need as world hunger grows.
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Chicago
American Meat Packers’ Association
Europe
Herbert Hoover
Food Administration
United States
Italy
France
Germany
United Kingdom
Denmark
Netherlands
Hungary Votes Amid Coercion in Soviet Council Elections
Hungary held elections to create Soviet councils with the Red Army pressuring participation. Voters reported confusion and a lack of understanding about the ballot while local Soviets formed in districts under coercive influence.
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Budapest
Hungary
Red Army
Bandits Derail Train 140 Km From Tampico
Washington dispatch says bandits derailed a passenger train 140 kilometers from Tampico with an American passenger J. P. Mennet among the injured. The State Department wired Tampico for further particulars.
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Washington
State Department
Tampico
Mexico
J. P. Mennet
Navy to remove 57000 mines in North Sea barrage
About 1 800 officers and men under Rear Admiral Strauss will lead the dangerous mine removal of 57 000 mines laid by American forces in the North Sea anti submarine barrage. Eighteen mine sweepers will be used with 20 submarine chasers as tenders. Two sweepers are in British waters, 12 en route and four sail from Boston next Tuesday. These ships were specially built.
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Washington
Strauss
North Sea
Boston
Sarre Valley Settlement Gives League Oversight Fifteen Years
Paris reports a Council of Four settlement placing general League supervision over the Sarre Valley for fifteen years. Afterward a plebiscite will decide governance. France gains economic control of the coal fields to reimburse losses from German occupation.
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League of Nations
Sarre
Council of Four
France
Saare
Supreme Economic Council
Europe
Austria
Adriatic
Esthenia
Latvia
Lithuania
Poland
Morgan to Aid Japanese in Steamship Venture
Kotaro Mochizuki, a Japanese economist and parliament member, said in Seattle that J P Morgan and other American financiers will join Japanese capitalists to form a new steamship corporation. He estimated about 200 million dollars of American and Japanese funds would be invested.
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Wash
J. P. Morgan
Kotaro Mochizuki
New York
Mochizuki
Hoover Relief Director General Reports European Deliveries
Herbert Hoover reports March relief efforts by the United States Great Britain France and Italy under the Supreme Economic Council. Total supplies valued at about 95 million dollars and 888,041 tons distributed across Poland Finland Czecho Slovakia Germany Austria Serbia Roumania and Turkey with deferred payment for most shipments and ongoing upkeep for famine threatened areas.
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Herbert Hoover
United States
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France
Italy
Supreme Economic Council
Poland
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Hoover
Warsaw
Finland
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Serbia
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Roumania
Danube
Turkey
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Armenia
Emigrating Aliens Loaded With Coin Warned by Bankers
A letter from the American Bankers Association warns that Bolshevik propaganda could drive 6,000,000 aliens from the United States carrying about 4 billion dollars. The savings bank section describes the alleged conditions and urges prompt countermeasures directed at New York and New England banking institutions.
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New York
Savings Bank
American Bankers’ Association
New England
Belgian Widows to Vote in New Reform
Brussels reports the Belgian Chamber of Deputies approved an electoral reform bill by unanimous vote. The measure grants universal male suffrage for those over 21 and extends ballot rights to widows who have not remarried and to mothers of soldiers killed.
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Brussels
Chamber of Deputies
Bloodshed at Danzig as troops fire on crowd
In Copenhagen dispatches report a sanguinary collision at Danzig where troops guarding the railway station square opened fire on a mob. Three persons were killed and several wounded in the confrontation.
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Copenhagen
Danzig
Minister Placed In Cell After Health Order Violation
Murray Ky Rev H Boyce Taylor pastor of Murray Baptist church surrendered to the sheriff and was placed in a cell at Calloway county jail after conviction for holding services during the influenza epidemic against aState Board of Health order.
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Murray
H. Boyce ‘Taylor
Murray Baptist Church
State Board of Health
Calloway County
Eight Men Paroled From Ohio Penitentiary
Mansfield C Hight Hamilton county inmates at the Ohio Penitentiary were paroled by the State Clemency Board. Parolees include men from Mansfield and Hamilton County as part of clemency actions.
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Mansfield
Hamilton County
Ohio Penitentiary
Score Injured in Cincinnati Traction Car Crash
A southbound Cincinnati and Dayton Traction car with about 60 passengers jumped a sharp curve on Hamilton pike north of Mt. Healthy Ohio, injuring six or fourteen people with two serious and leaving many bruised. Witnesses say escape from death was remarkable as seats filled and many stood in aisles. Motorman Marion Smith and Conductor Harry Lawl of Hamilton Ohio led the crew.
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Cincinnati
Hamilton
Mt. Healthy
New Burlington
Marion Smith
Harry Lawl
War Minister Shot By Soldiers in Dresden Riot
Copenhagen report says Saxony War Minister Herr Neuring was killed by soldiers after he refused a beating. Demonstrators stormed the War Ministry, dragged him from the building and shot him as he attempted to swim to the bank.
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Copenhagen
Herr Neuring
Saxony
Dresden
War Ministry
Greek Refugees Protest Activities of Italian Commander
The League of Greek Refugees of Northern Epirus appeals to President Wilson and allied Premiers at Paris, denouncing alleged actions by General Rossie, commander of Italian troops in Epirus.
Rioting in Egypt Leaves Dozens Dead and Armenians Targeted
In two days of rioting in Cairo 88 people were killed and 100 wounded, with Armenians chiefly attacked. In Alexandria three killed and six seriously hurt while troops were again attacked, 17 more killed. The official communique notes continued Cairo rioting with mobs armed with knives and hatchets focusing on Armenians.
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Egypt
Cairo
Alexandria
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