Covenant of League of Nations outlined in official summary
Paris April 14 official summary explains the league's purpose to promote cooperation and peace. It includes criteria for membership and withdrawal, a two-tier structure with an Assembly and Council, voting rules, and a permanent secretariat and court. It details armament limits, dispute arbitration, enforcement, and amendment provisions.
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Paris
League of Nations
League
Counell
Court of International Justice
Mrs Phoebe Hearst Dies at 76 in Pleasanton
Mrs. Phoebe A Hearst mother of William Randolph Hearst died at the Hacienda Pleasanton after a period of illness Her husband was former Senator George Hearst of California She was seventy six years old
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San Francisco
Phoebe A. Hearst
William Randolph Hearst
Premier Lenine Asks For Food Negotiations Reported
Paris reports say Bolshevik Russia would suspend executions and punishments in exchange for goods and recognition. It would halt campaigns to extend bolshevism but refuse democratic elections or a new constituent assembly while demanding recognition of the de facto and de jure government and Soviet rule.
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Paris
Russia
Lenine
American Peace Commission
Hjalmar Branting
Paris Deputation Offers Home Rule to Ireland
Paris reported that a Dublin correspondent claimed a Paris delegation offered Edward de Valera a dominion status for Ireland if Sinn Feiners abandoned republican policy.
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Paris
Dublin
the Post
Edward de Valera
Ireland
Sinn
War SLAIN BY SAXON MOB KILLS NEURING IN Dresden
In Dresden on April 14 a mob killed War Minister Herr Neuring after storming the Saxon war ministry. Soldiers fired on Ministry defenders as crowds demanded action over war wages for wounded. Five to six hundred demonstrators pressed the siege, a state of siege was proclaimed, and casualties mounted.
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Copenhagen
Herr Neuring
Saxony
Dresden
War Ministry
Elbe
Theater
Herr Nenring
Saxony Likely to Proclaim Soviet Government
Demonstrators dispersed after a ministerial pledge to form a deputation for soldiers demands. The dispute centers on pay reductions now in peace rates, not yet in Saxony, as the Saxon government seeks Berlin's withdrawal of the order. A soviet move is considered probable with a general strike in coal regions of Zwickau and Lacan.
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Empire
Saxony
Berlin
Weimar
Germany
Zwickau and
Lacan
Liggett's First Army to be dissolved April 20
Word from Third Army headquarters states Lieut. Gen. Hunter L. Liggett will dissolve his First Army on April 20. The move concludes a major World War II command reorganization as forces shift under new strategic layouts.
Girls Robbed by Red Soldiers In Budapest Streets
Dutch travelers describe famine in Budapest under Soviet rule. Reported robberies occur as two soldiers forcefully seize earrings from women in the street. Food is scarce with flour rationing and secret access to milk fats remains. Bela Kun accuses the Roumanians of abducting his family while seeking to form a larger army.
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Amsterdam
Budapest
Oldensen
bolshvist=s
Bela Kun
Hungary
Form of loan announced by Sec Glass detailed terms
Secretary Glass finalizes Victory loan terms for three and four year gold notes. Two note classes: 4 percent taxable and 3 percent tax exempt, convertible any time. Total issue set at 4.5 billion with no heavy oversubscription. full allotment up to 10 thousand, Chicago district quota 625 million.
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SEC. Glass
Washington
Secretary of the Treasury Glass
Treasury
Glass
Chicago
Federal Reserve District
Towhich
Federal Victory Loan quotas for twelve districts announced
The notice lists subscriptions totaling 969 million dollars across twelve federal reserve districts. It specifies district quotas including Chicago and Cook county at 189.225 million, minors outside Cook county at 84.825 million, with Iowa and Michigan at 110.925 million each, Indiana 81.563 million, and Wisconsin 75.038 million.
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Chicago
Cook County
Iowa
Michigan
Indiana
Wisconsin
Melbourne Trades Hall backs 40 hour work week plan
The Trades Hall council of Melbourne recommends a 40 hour week to create jobs for the unemployed. It notes wartime productivity and postwar demobilization have raised unemployment, with Australia averaging 48 hours in unions and some industries already at 44 hours.
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Trades Hall Council
Melbourne
Trades Hall Council of
Australia
Army Disease Death Rate Drops in U S and Overseas Forces
Washington reports a continued decline in serious diseases among troops for the week ending April 4. The death rate from disease in the United States fell from 7.9 to 7.5 per thousand per year while overseas forces dropped from 7 to 5. Pneumonia and tuberculosis account for the majority of deaths.
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Washington
United States
Reign of Terror Reported in Hungary by Refugees
About 500 Budapest refugees describe a brutal crisis with wholesale robberies and frequent street battles. They report daily machine gun fire, closed businesses, and a shift away from communists amid gun shortages. Russians head toward Budapest as censorship tightens and a general fund gathers valuables.
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Berlin
Hungary
Budapest
Moscow
New Zealand Prohibition Vote Reported by Cablegram
New Zealand cities largely support prohibition with Wellington excluded. Prohibition tally stands 298 749 for versus 226 133 against, with about 50 000 votes remaining from soldiers, servicemen and absent voters in Vancouver World dispatch via Sydney Nova Scotia.
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Vancouver
New Zealand
Wellington
Sydney
N.S. W
Wilson to Attend Talks Between April 26 and May 5
President Wilson will remain in place and participate in negotiations during the period between April 26 and May 5.
Victory Fleet Near New York Harbor Arrival
The van guard of 103 American war ships heads toward New York with a planned reception as it steams up Ambrose Channel, while reports place a Peace Congress at Versailles between April 26 and May 5 with President Wilson to participate.
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Paris
Wilson
Versailles
New York
Ambrose Channel
Berlin Crisis Sparks Bavarian Pact and Strikes
Berlin reports quote Frank Lipp saying Prussia would face a general strike if soldiers are sent against Bavaria. Wuerttemberg forms alliance with Bavaria against Prussia while Brunswick battles troops amid Soviet recognition talks. A peasant leader denounces bolshevism urging work, food, peace, and material supplies.
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Berlin
Prussia
Bavaria
Frank Lipp
Munich
Gunderfer
Hanson to Tour Country for Victory Loan Appeal
San Francisco April 14. Mayor Ole Hanson of Seattle will accept a government invitation for a coast to coast speaking tour in behalf of Victory loan. His subject will be Americanization and he will attack any plan to pander to or conciliate anarchists, saying the class must be crushed as they were in Seattle in their attempted revolution.
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San Francisco
Ole Hanson
Seattle
Hanson
Debs Begins Sendoff Journey to Federal Prison
Terre Haute Ind April 14 Eugene V Debs boarded a Big Four train beginning a trip to Moundsville West Virginia to begin ten year federal prison term for obstructing national efforts. He will surrender to authorities in Cleveland Ohio after a speech at Canton.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Eugene V. Debs
Moundsville
W. Va
Cleveland
Cantona, O
Treasury Pays Occupied Peoples About 10.9 Million Marks Monthly
Berlin reports the imperial treasury is providing an average of 10,900,000 marks monthly to support the peoples of occupation. The figure translates to about 827,000,000 in earlier currency terms.
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Berlin
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