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Newspaper
Warren Evening Times
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1919
Page
1
Unarmed people killed and hurt as fighting rages in Berlin today. Snar tacides clash with government troops amid a bloody battle in the eastern town. Stray hand grenades kill two in a postoffice as authorities struggle to restore order.
Report from March 11 notes the 65th Congress has ended and both parties remain at the Capitol. Leaders press plans to shape reconstruction and other key issues before the new session to avoid delays, while some say a brief stay in June may follow.
New York March 11 A large group from the Twenty-seventh Division aboard the Mount Vernon arrives after quarantine. The ship brings 2 75 of Ryan s warriors and the Agamemnon follows with 614 more New York guardsmen. The 202nd Engineers and other regiments are listed with officers and men including numerous trains and medical personnel. Two men die en route from pneumonia. Corporal Blanding and Sergeant Johnson are named. Reverend Royal Tucker earns a distinguished service cross for rescuing wounded under fire.
Reports from Berlin describe artillery shelling of barricades and street clashes as government troops quell Spartacist resistance. The fighting, near Alexander Platz, leaves hundreds killed or wounded with widespread destruction and evacuations amid a general strike mood.
Lieutenant Colonel Samuel T. Ansell, former acting judge advocate general, will file a written reply to Judge Advocate General Crowder's defense of the partisan system and his charge that Ansell was appointed without Secretary of War Baker or Crowder knowledge. The War Department awaited its release and decision on timing.
Pope Benedict IV urged spreading the Catholic faith through the Holy Land during a Vatican consistory. He warned it would be a misfortune for the region to fall again to infidels, noting the area had recently seen liberation from Turkish rule under General Allendr's forces.
Enclosed cable from Tracvan el dateline Conenhagen March 11 reports that many Americans and others are funding William Flohn a man who spent three years in a Russian prison and now dedicates his life to fighting Bolshevism.
The notice states an estimated liability of one hundred billion dollars for damages attributed to German troops in occupied areas including France and Belgium. Comprehensive incalculable damages are noted beyond the stated sum.
The Pall Mall Gazette estimates war losses to the Allies at 5100.006.006.090. It argues reparations to be set by the peace conference, noting Germany’s moral obligation may never be repaid and that the total damage is beyond repayment. The piece cites authority from the paper and discusses the historical context of postwar liability.
London reports the Allied and German armistice commission will review transferring German merchant ships. Payments to fund food for Germany come from three sources coal and potash credits in neutral countries and German foreign securities. About 100 million pounds sterling are needed. negotiators at Spa expect acceptance and release of ships, with a Brussels meeting on stalemate noted.
London March 21. A general agreement for the construction of three submarine tunnels connects Europe with Asia and Europe with Africa. One tunnel will span 30 miles linking England and France. A second under the Bosphorus joins Europe and Asia, and a third between Gibraltar and Africa.
Washington March 11 War Department announced that Allied Expeditionary Force units have been assigned for early convergence. Base hospitals numbers 8 21 41 58 and 115 are designated while transportation companies 801 802 113 and 114 and the 10th anti aircraft battalion receive assignments.
Washington and Great Britain reach a partial easing of the double censorship system on cable messages. The modified rules take effect at midnight, March 12. Amteia E. Barr, noted novelist, dies in New York at age 88.
In Denver at dawn two armed bandits opened fire on police after a chase through downtown. The duo abandoned a stolen car, held officers at bay, but escaped unharmed. The gang has operated in suburbs for three weeks, causing burglaries robberies and arson with losses around 75000 dollars.
March 11 schedule fixed for a debate at Symphony Hall between U S Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and President Lowell of Harvard on the proposed covenant of a league of nations. Governor Coolidge to preside as the hall seats 0.
Boston March 11 Returns from yesterday's elections show eight more Massachusetts towns shifted from dry to wet. Weymouth and Hingham joined the ranks with long dry histories ending as they went wet, part of a broader year marked by more than twenty communities changing status.
Washington March 11 Representative Frank Mende of Wyoming was nominated leader of the Republicans majority in the next House this afternoon by the Republican committee on Committees. The vote was 160 to 28 with as absent.
Newark March 11 strike action against Public Levay Company after vote among Amalgamated Street and Electric Tire members. Workers demand nine hour day with pay for ten hours. lines in Hudson Middlesex Camden Somerset and Bergen counties affected.
Silver Lake Wisconsin March 31 A posse led by Sheriff Meyer closed in on a bandit after a bank robbery for 88000. An exchange of gunfire preceded the man’s death in a wooded area. Clothing found on the corpse bore the names Herbert Cooler Mer Beck and Charles Beck with Milwaukee addresses.
Reports indicate the agreement between the union administration and railroad strikers may be canceled as workers idle on strike. The railroad administration is alleged to assist the owners, with the strike still in effect.
Secretary Baker has invited almost all members of the House and Senate military affairs committee to accompany him to Europe. The delegation plans to visit camps and occupied territories to assess needs of the overseas military establishment. The sailing date is not formally announced but a departure around April 1 is anticipated.
Major General Leonard Wood has accepted an invitation to speak in Dayton Ohio on April 7. The event is arranged by local veterans groups and will be held in Dayton. The article notes Patterson a local veteran who died in 1918 in Dayton.
March 11 John policeman of Hammond no longer sports his star gun or uniform. Yesterday a robber held up Patrolman Erkstein while he wore all his paraphernalia and took 312 dollars from him. The chief later seized Erkstein s gun star and uniform.
A soldier's arrest triggers investigation into a fatal shooting at Ghicags. Authorities detail the event with statements from witnesses and alleged involvement of in-law relations. The case centers on claims of a wronged in-law and subsequent admissions by a suspect connected to the altercation.
The report outlines that Germany will face strict terms including a 100 percent volunteer army, surrender of military aircraft, and no artillery beyond field guns. Allied supervision will oversee munitions and border occupation remains a possibility if reparations are unpaid.
A fire at the adjacent barracks building at Fort Sill endangered several wounded soldiers recently returned from overseas. The victims were removed from the structure before the fire spread, with an estimated loss of about 0.9 million in assets. An investigation was ordered.
London March 11 The report that Lord Curzon would succeed A. J. Balfour as foreign secretary continued to circulate today and was again printed by the Sketch.
March 11. No disturbance occurred after city authorities halted the proposed unemployed parade. Adjutant General Charles W. Berry met with Mayor Buck and Colonel Newton Turgin of the 74th Infantry, then returned to Albany reporting no need for troops to assist police in maintaining life and property.
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