Wilson Seeks Ships to Bring Home Troops and Meet Foch
President Wilson conferred with shipping director Edward Hurley on securing enough tonnage to return U S troops by next December. He then met Marshal Foch and discussed Allied relief plans with Hoover potentially heading a coordinated aid effort for all nations. Rain kept him from golf. Lloyd George and Oxslando arrival to Paris adds urgency to relief and trade discussions.
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Paris
Wilson
Edward N. Hurley
United States
Marshal Foch
Herbert C. Hoover
Mr. Hoover
America
Supreme War Council
London
Lloyd George
Oxslando
Riviera
Versailles
Count Macchi di Cellere
Italy
George Washington
Mr. Wilson
Count Cellere
Yankees in Control of Occupied German Territory
The Third Army now holds a 4500 square mile strip in Germany supervising hundreds of villages and miles of railroads and streetcar lines. The occupation, begun after weeks of hard fighting, was completed with no major hostile demonstrations and even surprised German officials with its efficiency.
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Rhine
Third Army
Germany
League of Nations in Peace Treaty Not Conferences
The article argues that the formation of the League of Nations should be embodied in the peace treaty itself rather than left to subsequent conferences, emphasizing a clear and final institutional framework within the treaty.
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League of Nations
German Youths Demand Votes and Reforms in Berlin Parade
Several hundred youths marched to the Reichstag to press for votes at age eighteen, abolition of corporal punishment in schools, and child participation in governance. Red flags and incendiary placards accompanied the protest as a seventeen-year-old speaker warned of consequences. The executive committee leader expressed sympathy with the demands.
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Berlin
Reichstag
Chilean minister credits U S aid offer as friendly
In Santiago on December 13 the Chilean foreign affairs minister told the chamber that the United States offer of aid in the Peru dispute is friendly and appropriate. He stressed the U S never proposed mediation but offered assistance and noted U S impartial help has aided regional issues in the past.
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Washington
State Department
Santiago
Chile
Chamber
United States
Peru
America
Forcep
Bolshevik Army Claims Size and Moves Reported
London reports a bolshevik army of up to three million and a claim of nearly one million by business leaders returning from Russia. Dispatches note Allied positions on the White and Black seas, British warships in the Gulf of Finland, a rumored counter revolution led by Grand Duke Nicholas, and Petrograd’s hardship as the government contemplates a move to Nijni-Novgorod.
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London
Christiania
Russia
Britain
Gulf of I ®Eland
Nicholas
Petrograd
Nijai-Novgorod
Yanks Arrive in New York from U Boat Captivity Run
General Pershing designated 4500 officers and men from units including the Twenty seventh engineers and the 346th field artillery for convoy home. Additional units named include the 153rd 482nd 491st 97th and 102nd aero squadrons, the second trench mortar battalion, and others. British ships bring small contingents as Maul brest arrival lists 64 officers and 2161 men after weather delay.
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Washington
Pershing
Twenty-seventh Engineers
Field Artillery
Fourth Motor Mechanics Regiment
New York
Caronia
England
France
Maul
Brest
Five Japanese freighters to join U S Shipping Board
Five Japanese steel freighters of 9000 to 10000 tons will be delivered to the United States Shipping Board at Seattle in January by the Transoceanic company. The vessels, built at Kobe by Kawasaki, use American supplied steel under wartime barter terms. The Easterling, the seventh liner, is due December 26 at Seattle.
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Seattle
Wash
United States Shipping Board
Transoceanic Company
Kawasaki
Kobe
Shipping Board
Von Mackensen interned by Hungarian government
Copenhagen reports Field Marshal von Mackensen, commander of German forces in Roumania, has been interned by Hungary. The Hungarian government says the internment was demanded by the Allies, per the Eastern correspondent from Budapest.
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Copenhagen
von Mackensen
Roumsania
Budapest
Esthonian Army Formed Amid Smyrna Crisis
The report notes an Esthonian army mobilization proceeding with allied support bolstering morale. In Smyrna, Dec 17 dispatches say armed bands under Young Turk officials are bombarded by allied fleets as the situation remains extremely critical. The Don Cossacks claim a Bolshevik defeat with 1100 prisoners and 20 guns in the Voronest region.
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Washington
Voronest
State Department
Stockholm
Gulf of Finland
Athens
Smyrna
Mitylene
Ex Kaiser Saze in Holland
German socialist leader Friedrich Ebert said no legal means compels surrender of former Emperor William II. He noted Germany has cut ties with him and seeks legal guilt for the war to be fixed so he can be exposed.
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London
Friedrich Ebert
Germany
William Hohenzollern
Raid An American Ranch In Northern Mexico
Raid by Villa bandits targets the ranch of John B. Hibler at Galena on December 9. No fatalities reported. Loot includes corn feed 26 burros 16 oxen 4 carts 300 goats and all cattle horses and mules, as reported to the state department.
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Washington
Villa
John B. Hibler
Galena
Mexico
State Department
Coalition Candidates Elected in Oxford University Seats
London reports the coalition candidates Lord Hugh Cecil and Rowland E Prothero were declared elected to the house of commons for the two Oxford university seats.
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London
Lord Hugh Cecil
Rowland E. Prothero
House of Commons
Oxford University
Occupation Fear Drives German Elite Talks
Paris dispatch reports Journal de Geneve claiming German manufacturers financiers and pan German leaders fear a revolution so they seek Allied occupation of all Germany to preserve the existing regime or risk losing wealth to the German people.
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Paris
Journal de Geneve
Germany
German Moderates Victorious in German Elections
Amsterdam reports December 18 that the German moderates secured overwhelming victories in the elections, signaling a decisive political shift and strong public support for their platform.
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Amsterdam
Germans Print White Book on War Origins
Paris reports Germany will print a comprehensive White Book on the origin of the war in about three weeks, in three or four volumes. Carl Kautsky, an independent socialist reader and foreign ministry undersecretary, handles the data with unusual facilities. Many supposedly destroyed dispatches are said to have been found, and notes sent to Serbia by Austria before the July 1914 ultimatum will appear in the first volume.
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Paris
Germany
Carl Kautsky
Foreign Ministry
Serbia
Austria
280 Ships Built For U S Emergency Fleet Corp
Washington reports that from August 1917 to November 23 1918 the Emergency Fleet Corporation built 280 ships totaling 1 275 567 gross tons in response to a senate resolution as stated by General Manager Pier.
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Washington
Senate
Emergency Fleet Corporation
The
Berlin Socialists in Bitter Council Debates Split
In Berlin a big clash within the Socialist movement features the Spartacus group clashing with independents over a call for a national assembly. Liebknecht and Luxemburg leaders face a subdued response as delegates vote and a tumultuous session unfolds amid protest and disrupted plans.
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Berlin
Germany
Spartacus
Karl Liebknecht
Rosa Luxembourg
Doctor Liebknecht
National Assembly
Bown
Herr Mueller
Executive Committee
Congress
Diet
Red Guard
Liebknecht
Simmons Urges Germany to Pay War Costs
U S Senator Simmons chairman of the finance committee urged using the German wartime costs as reparations. He argued for including damages for noncombatant killings and ship destruction plus U S war conduct expenses. He noted 10 billion dollars advanced to the Allies as security and possible tax relief.
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Simmons
Finance Committee
Washington
Germany
United States
North Carolina
Senate
Penrose
Senator Simmons
Mecklenburg Election Results Reported in Berlin
Copenhagen December 18 reports Mecklenburg’s national assembly results: Socialists two seats Liberals sixteen Handicraftmen eight and the peasant party one. The figures were announced to the congress of soldiers and workers councils in Berlin and reflect the political balance in the former grand ducal region.
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Mecklenburg
Copenhagen
National Assembly
Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg
Congress of Soldiers’ and Workmen’s Councils
Berlin
Liberals
Handicraftmen
Peasant Party
Civic guards formed by wealthy Dutch burghers urged
The Hague reports a ministerial circular urging burgomasters to subsidize civic guards led by prominent citizens. Started after Troelstra’s parliamentary warning, the guards are drilled by retired officers and resemble medieval burgher wacht, defending towns against inland threats.
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Hague
Holland
Inmedi
M. Troelstra
Army
Rembrandt
First American Negro Soldier Reaches the Rhine
Gabe Jewell of Louisville Kentucky arrives in Coblenz with the Army of Occupation. He serves as a cook and is the first African American soldier to reach the Rhine, prompting curiosity from locals as he travels with HQ units and faces language limits and crowds.
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Coblenz
Gabe Jewell
Louisville
Rhine
Gabe
Army of Occupation
Germans Killed Three U S Prisoners at Tharly Camp
Norman Zimmerman of Company C testified that German soldiers machine gunned helpless American prisoners at the Tharly detention camp, killing three. Returned POWs also shared additional alleged atrocities against captives by German forces.
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Berne
Tharly
Norman Zimmerman
Company C. One Hundred and Tenth Infantry
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Hungary
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Ebert
Fleet Corporation
Berlin Council
Independent Socialist Party of Germany
Independent Socialist Party of Berlin
Berlingske Tidende
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