Indemnity Debate Divides Peace Conference Delegates
Paris reports that leaders clash over including total war costs in reparation demands. Capt. Andre Tardieu cites France’s bill for 450000 destroyed houses and argues Germany must pay to capacity, while allies weigh adding war expenses to the indemnity.
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Clemenceau
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Council of the Great Powers
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Wison
Andre Tardieu
France
M. Tardieu
Germany
Committee On
Stephen Pichon
Tardieu
Robert Lansing
America
Conference invitations to be issued by allied powers
Consent to participate in the conferences noted. Another invitation to the conference will be issued formally by allied and associated powers within a few days for a meeting about March 15.
United States Gains Major German Ships for Troop Transport
An American commitee on public information report states the United States has acquired several large German merchant ships to move American troops homeward. Included are the Imperator Leviathan Graf Waldersee Pretoria and others, though the Imperator cannot exit Hamburg due to a war time channel blockage.
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Yaris
United States
American Committee On Public Information
Impérator
Vaterland
Leviathan
Graf Waldersee
Pretoria
Hamburg
War Tourists Not Wanted In Britain And France
Washington reports that the state department will refuse passports for travel to Great Britain and France except for essential business. The move follows formal requests from both governments to curb travel due to transportation issues and abnormal conditions. An official denial says there was no request to block prohibition supporters specifically.
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Washington
State Department
Great Britain
France
House Starts Wheat Talk
The wheat guaranty bill was taken up by the house with a five hour general debate. It would authorize the president to appoint agencies to purchase 118 wheat at 82.26 a bushel and set prices by supply and demand.
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Washington
House
Senator Sherman Moves Gag on President Over League Plan
Senator Sherman introduces a resolution to prohibit President Wilson from publicly discussing the league of nations until the plan is detailed to the Senate foreign relations committee. Senator Borah denounces the proposal as a radical departure and Taft comments are called misled. In Montreal eight people die in a fire at a small hotel in St Jovite Laurentian mountains.
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Wilson
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Borah
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Foreign Relations Committee
Taft
Montreal
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Laurentian Uous Lalus
President Wilson to Return March Fifth from France
President Wilson plans a homecoming in Boston on Monday after arriving with the George Washington and North Carolina task force. He will meet Massachusetts lawmakers, speak publicly, then proceed to Washington. Naval units and committees arrange a Thursday homecoming for returning soldiers.
President Wilson to speak at Mechancis Building Monday
Boston February 22 President Wilson will deliver his address at eight oclock Monday afternoon in Mechanic Building Mayor Peterson announced from a message by the George Washington The wireless greeting plan is abandoned as the navy department refused to sanction communications with the transport vessel Stenmer by a commercial radio station in the First Naval District
Wilson to Have New Home in Paris Return
President Wilson will not live at the Murat mansion in Rue de Monceau when he returns to Paris Col M House inspected a residence in Place des Etats Unis under consideration as the presidents home It is nearly opposite the Paris home of A J Balfour the British foreign secretary
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Wilson
Murat
Rue de Monceau
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Place Des Etats Unis
Almaust
A. J. Balfour
Bavarian Premier Eisner Shot in Munich Conflict
Munich reports say Kurt Eisner premier of Bavaria was shot during a landtag session. Auer Bavarian interior minister was wounded, deputy Osell killed, two officials seriously hurt as shots rang out from the public battery. Eisner’s death followed rapid dispatches warning of a political crisis.
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Bavaria
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Landtag
Auer
Kurt Eisner
Osell
Chamber of Deputies
Diet
Amsterdam
Area Valley
Kurt Elsner
Europe
Prussia
Germany
Berlin
Fisner
Premier Clemenceau Expected to Return to Duties
Paris reports scientists see Premier Clemenceau out of danger after surgery. He met with the Supreme Council and officials say his pulse and temperature are normal. Doctors caution vigilance for 48 hours, but express confidence in his robust health and potential resumption of political duties by Monday.
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Paris
Georges Mandel
Clemenceau
Kaiser's Son Sent to Prussia for Suspected War Role
Copenhagen February 22 Prince Joachim and his wife were arrested in Bavaria and deported to Prussia according to a Munich dispatch received here. The report connects the royal couple to direct responsibility for starting the world war.
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Prussia
Copenhagen
Joachim
Bavaria
Munich
Ukrainians Fire on Envoys Traveling to Lemberg
Members of the allies' commission to Poland traveling on an armored Polish train from Cracow to Lemberg were fired upon by Ukrainian soldiers. Seven Poles aboard were wounded as the delegation, including Professor Lord, aimed to negotiate an armistice between Poles and Ukrainians.
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Poland
Cracow
Lemberg
Professor Lord
Allies Win in Russia as Forces Reach Sogoja Line
London reports American and allied troops advance in northern Russia reaching Sogoja on the Marmon railway. Bolshevik losses are 60 killed and 50 prisoners with light allied casualties. substantial matériel and rolling stock captured amid severe weather.
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London
Russia
War Office
Sogoja
Marman
Twenty in jail on criminal anarchy charges in Seattle strike
Twenty men are jailed in Seattle awaiting trial in state courts on charges of criminal anarchy tied to the recent organized labor general strike. Authorities seek arrest of six more men on similar complaints.
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Seattle
Wash
Germany to Return Loot from France and Belgium
Rasle February 22 The German national assembly voted to return material seized from France and Belgium according to a dispatch from Weimar.
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France
Belgium
Rasle
German National Assembly
Austria
Weimer
Taft replies to Borah on Monroe Doctrine and league plan
Former President Taft at the Pacific coast congress of the League to Enforce Peace rejects Borah’s open letter challenge on the Monroe Doctrine. He says Article X of the Paris covenant extends the doctrine and would back a world League, while inviting Borah to vote if explicit recognition is required in the covenant.
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League of Nations
United States
William EK. Borah
Idaho
Borah
Paris
Povo
Trouble in Munich takes serious form
Riots escalate in Munich as shops are damaged and citizens report clashes resembling a civil conflict. Police struggle to restore order amid widespread destruction and tense street confrontations.
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Munich
Budapest in Uproar Blamed on German Russian Agitators
In Munich, ten thousand workers loot shops amid shootings and near civil war conditions after the assassination of Kistner. In Budapest a communist revolt led by German and Russian agitators seizes Neptava newspaper, telegraph and move station. provisional president proclaims martial law and government troops retake the railway station.
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Munich
Kistner
Paris
Budapest
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Raiilway
Dr. Mary Walker Dies at 87 in Watertown
Civil war surgeon and suffrage pioneer Dr. Mary Walker died in Watertown New York last night at the age of eighty seven. She was renowned for her medical service during the war and her advocacy for women’s rights.
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Mary Walker
Watertown
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Wild remarks of Hess Reed and Poindexter criticized
The passage denounces bold statements by Representative Hess and Senators Reed and Poindexter as cynical and improper, arguing they presume the public will accept unverified claims. The author labels these utterances as humorous only to the extent they come from supposedly eminent and learned gentlemen.
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Enant
Hess
Reed
Poindexter
Call Painters To Strike In Nationwide Labor Standstill
New York Feb. 22 officials of the Building Trades Employers Association and labor leaders prepared for talks to end a nation wide strike by basic building trades workers. William L Hartcheson president of the International Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners said painters and paper hangers employed by the association had been called on sympathetic strike.
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New York
Prioer
Building Trades Employers’ Association
Basie Building Trades
William L. Hartcheson
International Brotherhood of Carpentera and Joiners
Big Rail Bill Passed by House With $1.25 Billion
The House approved a railroad control appropriation of 750 million dollars by 272 to 1, adding to the 500 million already allocated for a total of 1.25 billion in federal rail control funds. Director General of Railroads was cited as supporting the request.
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Washington
House
Isiues
Big Strike in Buenos Aires Reaches Political Stage
Washington reports serious conditions in Buenos Aires as a nationwide strike grows sharper. Dispatches say the stoppage has entered a political phase and is being used against President Irigoyen.
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Buenos Aires
Southern Republic
Washington
Irigeven
Forty three central aliens barred from the United States
A U.S. court ordered forty three central aliens who refused military service during the war be barred from the United States after claiming freedom under the neutrality act. The action follows their wartime stance and provides a legal outcome affecting their residency status.
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