Wilson to guest of the King and Queen of England
London reports definite news that President and Mrs. Wilson will arrive in London next Thursday and be guests of King George at Buckingham Palace. Paris notes Wilson plans to visit London four days, then head to northern France and Belgium to survey relief work and postwar reconstruction.
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Queen OF
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Buckingham Palace
Italy
Paris
George
France
Belgium
Pinchot
England Eager for President Wilson Visit
Newspapers express satisfaction over President Wilson and praise his idealism and steadfastness. They note King George will honor the President in London but hope the ceremonial aspect remains restrained.
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Engli
Acton
Wilson
England
Daily News
George
London
Wilson Holds Talks With Italian Leaders In Paris
President Wilson spent the day in Paris conferring with Premier Orlando and Foreign Minister Sonnino on Italy’s claims to be presented to the peace conference. He and Col. House reviewed Italy’s admitted aims and later attended a reception at the Murat residence for ambassadors and ministers to France.
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Paris
Noc
Wilson
Italy
Orlando
Sonnino
Col. House
Murat
France
Spanish Premier Arrives for Talks in Paris
Count Romanones arrives in Paris for talks with President Wilson and allied representatives. He travels to discuss war aims and diplomacy amid ongoing negotiations.
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Paris
Count Romanones
Wilson
Wilsons London Visit Shapes Russian Peace Talks
London reports suggest Wilson aims to consult Britain on the Russian situation before peace conference preliminaries. Former Premier Kerensky and ex foreign minister Milukoff are in London with Viscount Milner indicating a broader policy shift. Rumors of an aggressive approach to Russia grow as labor and commercial circles grow tense about future action.
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London
Manchester Guardian
Wilson
England
Kerensky
Milukoff
Viscount Milner
Ana
Russia
President Wilson and Mrs Wilson Sightseeing in War Zone
Paris reports President Wilson slipped from the Murat residence and walked through the city shopping district unseen. Mrs Wilson has been shopping alone at times as the couple prepare for Christmas. Santa is expected to visit the President’s special train en route to Chaumont.
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Paris
White House
Turkey
Wilson
Murat
Santa Claus
Chaumont
Poles Aim for Peace Talks With Czechs Over Silesia
Vienna reports Poland seeks an amicable agreement with Czechs on claims to Austrian Silesia. A Polish delegation will travel to Prague to discuss the matter, while Ukraine will not pursue Galicia claims by diplomacy. The southeastern frontier of Poland is viewed as serious.
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Poland
Silesia
Prague
Cracow
Galicia
Ukraine
Hoover to gain millions of German ships for relief
Paris dispatch says Herbert Hoover, the American food administrator, will soon control millions of tons of German shipping seized for revictualing war‑ravaged France, Serbia, Belgium and Romania. The ships were wrung from Germany without pledges of food for Germany, and no supplies will be sent there.
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Paris
Herbert Hoover
France
Serbia
Belgium
Rumania
Germany
German supply limits threaten Allied provisioning plan
Paris reports German authorities can only supply two million tons for provisioning, far short of the two and a half million tons demanded by the Allies. Prague notes Czech troops have cut German Bohemia off from German Austria, leaving German Bohemia unable to resist as the Austrian army has demobilized.
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Paris
Germany
Geneva
Prague
Eger
Reichenberg
Bohemia
Austria
President Wilson’s English visit hailed as peace pledge
The Daily Mail comments that Wilson’s London visit is not political but an act of international consecration to cement the English speaking peoples and bring a Christmas of joy, with a full honor display planned for the notable guest.
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London
Wilson
England
Daily Mail
Food administration cancels flour milling rules
Washington announces the cancellation of all flour milling regulations including fair price schedules and wheat flour sale limits. Officials expect cheaper flour as mill feeds rise sharply on Minneapolis markets, and price drops in flour follow. Profiteering hoarding and unfair practices remain prohibited and subject to enforcement.
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Food Administration
Food Administrator
S Grain Corporation
Minneapolis
The
Foad Administration
Demobilization districts completed for convoy home units
Washington reports that eight major demobilization districts have been completed forming casual companies for convoy home. Army command bases the districts on Florida Georgia and Mississippi troops to assemble units for departure.
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Washington
Ini
Army Command
Florida
Mis
Bissippi
Savannah under martial law amid street car curtailment
Savannah Ga December 23 street car service was cut back with city line cars watched by police and home guards along lines. The move followed motor men and conductors leaving posts after the company refused to recognize the union. morning activity reported without disorder.
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Savannah
Chatham Home Guards
Martial law declared in Savannah amid streetcar strike unrest
Reports from Atlanta say martial law was approved in Savannah after disturbances tied to streetcar workers leaving their jobs. Official notices state the situation is quiet, though authorities enforce order.
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Savannah
Atlanta
Ambassador Fletcher says Mexican government denies Eckhardt recall
Washington dispatch reports El Pueblo denies that Von Eckhardt, the U S minister to Mexico, has been recalled. Mexican panels, however, say his mission has terminated though he has not decided whether to depart the country.
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Washington
Fletcher
State Department
el Puabollo
von Eckhardt
Ue Reciuan
Mexico
Walter Hines Page, Former Ambassador, Dies in Pinehurst
Pinehurst N C Dec 23 Walter Hines Page former ambassador to Great Britain died after a long illness He gave up the post in the summer and returned to the United States in October He edited The World’s Work and was a partner in Page and Co Garden City He was celebrated as a scholar diplomat and helped facilitate Belgian relief during World War I He resigned due to ill health and leaves a widow and three children including Katherine Alice Page who married Charles Loring in London
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N. CG
Hines Page
Great Britain
Page
United States
New York
Walter Hines Page
the World's Work
Doubleday
Page and
Garden City
Wilson
A.s
Great Britaan
England
Germany
Auguste
London
Sto. New York
Alice ‘Wilson
William Wilson
Michigan
Katherine
Alice Pageas
Charles ‘Loring
Hindenburg Concentrates Large German Force in Poznan
Zurich dispatch reports General Von Hindenburg has concentrated a large force of soldiers in Posen German Poland as the war continues.
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Zurich
von Hindenburg
Germany
Posen
German
Poland
Berlin crisis deepens as Ebert cabinet faces resignations
Zurich dispatch reports the minority cabinet members resigning in Berlin signaling a new government crisis. Rumor says General Groener may threaten to seize Berlin with troops if the order not restored, shaking political circles.
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Zurich
Ebert
Berlin
Groener
Ludendorff
Berlin Elections Cast by Bourgeois Front Against Socialists
Berlin on Sunday December 22 reports bourgeois and center parties strive for a united front four weeks before national assembly elections. The Socialists maintain a strong organization and political advantage as they control government in effect, while the Ebert-Haath government gains from revolutionary congress actions expanding central committees and workers councils.
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Germany
National Assembly
Ebert- Haat
Congress
Berlin denies report of separate dealing with U S
Berlin officials reject claims that Germany continued to address notes only to Washington after a request to send official communications to all hostile belligerents. Vorwaerts criticizes the U S for demanding that a peaceful people withdraw.
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Berlin
U. S
United States
Washington
Vorwaerts
Mazaryk Takes Oath as Czecho-Slovak President
Prague reports Prof. T. G. Mazaryk was sworn in as president of the Czecho-Slovak republic in the Diet building. He arrived from the United States to a formal address by Premier Kramarz on behalf of the first freely chosen parliament.
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Prague
T. G. Mazaryk
Diet
United States
Mazaryk
Kramarz
Wilson opposes sinking German warships under armistice terms
Washington officials say President Wilson is opposed to plans to sink the warships Germany surrendered under the armistice. The president reportedly finds the proposal undesirable and has not disclosed his position prior to today.
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Washington, D. C
Wilson
Germany
Senate Abolishes Twenty Percent Luxury Tax
Washington reports the Senate, in handling the war revenue bill before adjournment, eliminated the twenty percent tax on luxuries. The measure would remove taxes on costly clothes shoes and other wear items.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
French pontoon bridge across the Rhine completed in hours
In Mayence on Friday December French troops built a pontoon bridge across the Rhine at Nietasen. The bridge extended over a thousand feet and was completed in five hours.
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Mayence
Rhine
Nietasen
Pershing Army Rank Grants Sought by Baker Cuomo
Washington officials report Secretary Baker asked Congress to bestow permanent general ranks on Pershing, March, and Bliss and permanent lieutenant general ranks on Liggett and Bullard, commanders of the first and second American armies. Paris notes Wilson’s planned peace groundwork and growing US role in food and shipping questions ahead of a League of Nations framework. Wilson’s Corsica address draws wide public attention to his League vision.
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House Committee
Pershing
Washington, D. C
March
Bliss
Liggett and Bullard
Dent
House Military Committee
Paris
Wilson
England
United ‘States
League‘of Nations
League of Nations
United States
Corbonne
Supreme Court upholds AP injunction against INews piracy
Washington D C December 28 The Supreme Court sustains the injunction granted to stop piracy of news by the International News Service. Justice Pitney doubts whether uncopyrighted news can be fought but notes a property interest between rival news gathering organizations. The record shows no proof that AP financed from bulletins or used such practices by the defendants.
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Washington, D. C
Associated Press
International News Service
Supreme Court of the United States
Justice Pitney
Associated
Press
Christmas Snow Forecast for Southern States
Weather bureau predicts possible Christmas eve snow in Tennessee, Virginia, and northern Mississippi. Rain expected in other southern areas Tuesday with colder air moving into the South Atlantic states tonight.
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Washington, D. C
Weather Bureau
Tennessee
Virginia
Mississippi
South
South Atlantic
Ocmulgee River Flood Rises With Crest Expected
Macon reports the Ocmulgee River rose above flood stage yesterday and continued rising this morning. Crested water expected this afternoon with no lives lost but substantial property damage along the river shoreline.
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Ocmulgee River
Macon
Ocmulgee
Allies to discuss future of international aerial navigation in Paris
Reports from Echo de Paris say allied powers and the United States will hold a Paris conference early next year on international air travel. They aim to prevent cross border flights, and the transfer of postal or commercial planes into bombing craft, with agreements to be accepted by Germany and its former allies.
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United States
Paris
Echo de Paris
Germany
Bavarian Industries Shut Down For Coal Saving
Munich December 23 Bavarian industries employing over ten workers ordered to close from December 23 to January 2 to conserve coal. Workers will receive ninety percent of their usual wages during the shutdown.
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Munich
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