Belgium Seeks Seven Billion Dollar War Damages
Belgium places war damages at 7.0 billion dollars in a central industrial committee report. The claim covers state property railroads and telegraphs, war expenses, and damage to industry, with detailed tallies for destruction and requisition of property. Berlin to press indemnity and potential trials of former officials feature in related dispatches.
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Brussels
Belgium
Germany
Central Industrial Committee
Belgium seeks justice not revenge in Kaiser case
The Belgian delegation says they want only justice and would find little satisfaction in a brief imprisonment of the Kaiser. They note personal responsibility is clear for deportations and forced labor, and the Entente expects Germany to take about a week to digest the peace treaty with four days needed for travel. They estimate Germany’s response may not come before May 6.
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St. Gille
Germany
Entente
Berlin
Versailles
Mrs Hearst Will Filed for Probate in San Francisco
The will of Phoebe A Hearst disposing of an estate valued at several million dollars was filed for probate in San Francisco Superior Court. Bequests favor family and friends with the University of California named as the sole institution. Principal beneficiary is William Randolph Hearst. In Venice California an aviation instructor Andrew Curry and an unidentified pupil died when their plane tail spinned into a residence area.
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Phoebe A. Hearst
Superior Court
San Francisco County
Charles Stetson Wheeler
Hearst
University of California
William Randolph Hearst
Venice
Cal
Andrew Curry
German officer fires U S ship on patrol voyage
A German agent aboard the Patricia, a Hamburg America liner turned transport near Boston with about 3000 American soldiers, attempted to ignite a fire in a stateroom by manipulating electrical wires. The guard found the blaze and Fisher was placed in irons. The Patricia carried units from the One Hundred and Second and Third machine gun battalions, the Signal Battalion, and casual detachments from several states totaling 2813 officers and men.
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Patricia
Frank W. Cavanaugh
One Hundred and Second Field Artillery
Fisher
Hamburg
Servier
Brest
First Vermont Infantry
One Hundred and
Hungarian Girls Seek U S Mates Amid Postwar Woes
In Vienna April 18, Hungarian families offer attractive foreign marriages to save fortunes tied to exempt property. Nobles suffer poverty. Count Esterhazy sells belongings, while Count Karolyi begs for milk and laments Allied treatment and aristocratic distrust as socialism looms.
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Vienna
Count Karolyi
Yankees Ambush Reds Near Front in Forest
Archangel April 18. An American scouting party ahead of the Allied lines surprised and wounded a Bolshevik patrol in a forest four miles east of the railway. The front has been quiet in recent days as thawing roads hinder transportation.
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Archangel
Poles to Buy $450 Million in U S Supplies This Year
The Polish government plans to purchase 450 million dollars worth of supplies in the United States this year. FE Levinski Corwin, a Polish economist, stated this at a meeting of Polish engineers and merchants in America in New York on April 18.
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United States
New York
FE. Levinski Corwin
America
All Bourgeois Executed by Reds in Russia War News
Stockholm reports Bolshevik terror targeting bourgeois elements with executions on the Hasen island in the Dvina river. Victims total about seventy thousand including women and children. no food or money allowed on the island. Reports from Libau to Svenska Dagbladet detail the purge.
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Libau
Svenska Dogolast
Hasen
Dvina
Womer
London
Baltic
Black Sea
Copenhagen
Russia
Moscow Red Cross Committee
Lenine
Trotzky
Petrograd
Ireland Peace Delegates Invited to Parley at Paris Conference
In Paris, a Philadelphia Irish peace delegation member predicts Ireland's case will be presented to the big four within a week to ten days. He says President Wilson may support self-government under the 14 points and warns Ireland’s unaddressed status risks broader consequences. Wilson reportedly listened sympathetically to Walsh and the delegation.
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Paris
de Valera
Griffiths
Horace Plunkett
Universal Service
M. J. Ryan
Philadelphia
Ryan
Wilson
Tennot
Tenn
France
Great Britain
America
Frank P. Walsh
Samuel Gompers
Walsh
Dunne
Illlnois
Peace Conference
Sion Fenners
New York
British Demand End to Huns Strike in Rhine Zone
In Cologne district the British commander Lieutenant General Sir Herbert Plumer ordered immediate return to work and warned of strong measures against strike supporters. He offered military mediation if needed. A squadron of British aircraft flew over the area.
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Cologne
Herbert Plumer
Rhine
Crown Prince Accused by Wife of Cruelty and Escape
The former German crown princess Cecilie seeks divorce from Frederick William, alleging repeated cruelties and infidelities. Anastasie of Mecklenburg Schwerin, Cecilie’s mother, asserts Berlin attempted to halt Cecilie’s escape to Switzerland and describes injuries to her face from her husband’s blows.
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Zurich
Switzerland
Cecilie
Frederick William
Anastasie
Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Berlin
U. S. Sells Wooden Ships
Washington, April 18. The Shipping Board began selling the wooden steamship fleet transferring 15 ships to the Neu t rema Steamship Company of New York at 150000 dollars each. This averages 145 dollars per dead weight ton.
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Washington
The
Shipping Board
Nuetrema Steamship Company of
New York
Bolshevists Repulsed by Soldiers at Parliament
Soldiers repelled Bolshevist assault on the parliament building with several wounded reported amid ongoing clashes.
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Bolshevists
Fighting in Ukraine report of excesses against Jews
Bolshevik sympathisers attempted to storm the Austrian parliament building but were dispersed and the city was quiet again. In Paris a report said troops under Ukrainian peasant leader General Petiura have been carrying out excesses against Jews in Galicia with twenty five hundred Jews killed or wounded at Husiatyn and Pastov.
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Evening Journal
Vienna
Paris
Petiura
Galacia
Husiatyn
Pastov
German Forces Seize Libau and Arrest Lithuanian Officials
Allied dispatch reports German units overwhelmed Lettish reserves at Libau after dispatching regulars to the front against Bolsheviks. Government officials have been arrested in the turmoil.
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Copenhagen
Libau
German troops occupy Brunswick and arrest Eichorn
Government troops seize Brunswick and arrest Robert Eichorn former Berlin police chief who led the communist revolt before Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg deaths. Eichhorn tried to flee by airplane but the craft was forced down.
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Evening Journal
Copenhagen
Brunswick
Robert Eichorn
Berlin
Liebknecht
Rosa Luxemberg
Eichhorn
Eleven story leap ends life of James Miner in New York
Explorer reports James Miner, a lumber firm salesman from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, leaped from an eleven story window before a crowd of onlookers in a loft building facing Broadway and Twenty Fifth Street. His stenographer noted illness prior to the act.
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New York
James (. Miner
Rome
N. Y
Miner
Oshkosh
Wis
Broadway
Twenty-fifth Street
Return of Checks Surpasses Sixteen Million Dollars
Washington reports more than 16 million dollars in returned checks now held by the war risk bureau. Many are marked unknown or unclaimed due to allottees failing to notify address changes. The Red Cross has joined a campaign to locate recipients and has taken over more than 30,000 checks.
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Washington
War Risk Bureau
The
Red Cross
Swiss to Recognize New German Government
Berne April 18 The Swiss federal council reportedly decided to recognize the new German government as elected by the national assembly chosen by the people. The report has stirred discussion in political circles here.
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Federal Council
National Assembly
Berne
German Cabinet Sets Referendum On Peace Terms
The cabinet agrees to hold a referendum in Weimar on peace terms if terms diverge from President Wilson's fourteen points. The move signals heightened political tension as the government seeks public validation.
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Hans
Weimar
Wilson
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