Reds lose grip on Essen as government forces prevail
April 7 report from Essen details the fall of the last red center to Reichswehr forces after heavy street fighting. Reds retreat after being overrun on both flanks. some surrender at the city hall, others discard arms. Casualties mount on both sides. dozens killed or wounded, including a noted Munich hostage killer Marcus.
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Essen
Reichswehr
Marcus
Munich
Lokal Anzeciger
Radek and le- Vine
Red Central Council
Dortmund
Die Freiheit
Eberfeld
Red
Lhie Freiheit
Italian unions order cessation of strikes
Rome April 8 The general federation of labor and the socialist party leaders ordered a cessation of the general strike proclaimed in Bologna Florence Leghorn Modena Spezia and other places yesterday following meetings to end the nationwide stoppage.
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Associated Press
Rome
General Federation of Labor
Socialist Party
Bologna
Florence
Leghorn
Modena
Spezia
Clash Ends in Bologna as Seven Workers Die in Police Clash
Report describes deadly clashes near Bologna with seven workers killed and several wounded after unauthorized strikes by local action. attempts to organize in Rome and Milan failed. three workers killed in a police clash near Modena on Wednesday.
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Lowing
Bologna
Confederation
Rome
Milan
Modena
Slugging clash boosts Oakland over Los Angeles in opener
April 8 reports from multiple cities show Oakland defeating Los Angeles in a high scoring game. Key pitchers and catchers named include Thomas Pagssle. Sacramentos Geary Rohrer Kuntz Larkin Mails Schang. Seattle Geary?. Oakland Schneider Hill De vormer Seaton Anfinson.
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Rohrer
Kuntz
Larkin
Mails
Schang
Ro Ro Exhibition Games Roanoke April Score Report
Exhibition games across cities January to April show various batteries and lineups. Teams named include Washington Americans Cincinnati Nationals New York Nationals Boston Americans and Chicago Americans with rain delays noted in Memphis and Shreveport reports. Batteries listed include Johnson Shaw Charrity Fisher Smith Wingo Toney Nehf McCarty Gonzales White Harper Walters Vine Wisner Clark Na Pier Vann Robertson Mayer Salisbury Griffith Koob Decatur Wocher Mayer Causey Weinert Withrow among others.
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Norepoli
Its
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Robertson and Mayer
Salisbury
Griffith
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Tenn
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Memphis Southern Association
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Reore
Rh.of
Ass'ly
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Koob
Decatur
Wocher
Mayer
Causey
Weinert
Withrow
New York Americans Beat Brooklyn Nationals 3–2 in Raleigh Row
April 8 in Winston Salem reports New York Americans defeating the Brooklyn Nationals 3 to 2. Batteries Shore Sharkey and Ruel Conlan Miljus and Miller listed among players.
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Winston-Salem
N.C
ROW
New York
Soldier Kiles Nurse Who Nursed Him to Health
In wartime France crime runs high as Maurice Ducollet, a former soldier, murders a Red Cross nurse who once tended him in Abbeville on March 12. The case, reported from Bordeaux, highlights postwar turpitude amid ongoing unrest and hardship.
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Kiles
Associated Press
Bordeaux
France
Maurice Ducollet
Abbeville
Red Cross
Woman killed in Abbeville bar chief’s wife identified
The victim was Madame Bonjonnier wife of Abbeville bar head. She was killed by Ducollet and robbed. Ducollet, recently arrested, had a home in Talence near Bordeaux searched yielding jewels belonging to Madame Bonjon nier.
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Madame Bonjonnier
Abbeville
Ducollet
Talence
Bordeauyv
Syracuse Girl Escapes Crimean Turmoil for Red Cross Aid
Theodosia cinema reports Miss Elizabeth Hollinger of Syracuse has escaped two years of hardship in Soviet Russia and reached the Black Sea coast, seeking passage via southern Russia with aid from the American Red Cross. She is among thousands of refugees fleeing toward exits through Russia’s back door.
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Jedosta
Theodosia
Soviet Russia
Elizabeth Hollinger
Syracuse
South Russia
American Red Cross
Black Sea
Rusia
Miss Hollinger
Russian Refugee's Grim Flight Through Occupation
For 20 years in Russia she lived near Kiev until the Soviet army occupied the region. She hid in a cemetery by day and visited humble friends at night for food. Arrested because of nationality, she was released but barred from leaving. Conditions grew unbearable, so she escaped on foot to Vekaterinodar, walked to Novorossisk, and was cared for by the Red Cross in a state of extreme exhaustion and hunger.
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Russia
Kiev
Vekaterinodar
Novorossisk
Red Cross
Twelve Die in France Explosions Reported
In Cambria France on April 8 twelve people were killed and several others injured as a sequence of explosions rocked the area. Official dispatches state the blasts occurred in quick succession amid mounting casualties. Local authorities are investigating the incidents and assessing the damage.
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France
Tractors Trigger Shell Explosions Killing Two In Cambria District
In the Villars Guislain district near Cambrai two persons were killed and two injured when agricultural tractors plowing fields struck unexploded shells. The blasts occurred in a rural area during routine clearing and farming activity.
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Villars Guislain
Cambrai
Hoover Republican Club Organized in Missouri
St. Louis April 8 Organization of a Missouri Hoover Republican club began here today Roy F Britton Republican nominee for lieutenant governor in 1914 was chosen temporary chairman The organization is expected to be perfected Monday
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ST. Louis
Missouri Hoover Republican Club
Roy F. Britton
Girl killed in Frankfort shooting clash in Berlin
Berlin April 8 Lokal Anzeiger reports another shooting affray at Frankfort Thursday. A young girl was killed and a woman wounded according to dispatches.
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Berlin
Lokal Anzeiger
Frankfort
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