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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1919
Page
1
Germanys socialist leaders signal acceptance of terms as they move toward signing a treaty. Officials expect a formal agreement soon with opposition voices muted by the accord.
Paria May 13 the Austro-Hungarian peace terms aim to reduce the former empire to a third class state while offering economic rehabilitation. Boundaries will create Hungary and new republics of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, with German Austria independence. Tyrol becomes Italian. Transylvania goes to Romania. Banat to Yugoslavia. access to the sea via Fiume for Austria and Hungary. Military pacts limit armies to police forces. conscription ends. Naval weapons largely surrendered. Reparations and prewar debts to be shared among successor states. Danube navigation supervised by a League of Nations commission. Italy stands firm on Fiume and Dalmatia. Wilson’s position unchanged.
The text notes the allies intend to go on record with their demands as Austria-Hungary's defeat appears total. It states the defeat is so complete that few guns or munitions remain and that no organization is left, with Hungarian fortifications described as practically useless.
In Coblenz Germany on May 13 a Sixth division team captured the army championship by defeating the Fifth division after a three hour match. A Third division team led by Lieut Paul of Boston also won the tennis championship of the Third American army.
In Nice on May 13 an American military police officer Herbert Larsen was fatally wounded during a gang assault. Five shots were fired at the MPs. Larsen died several hours later. The assailants remained at large.
Edith Cavell, the nurse shot by Germans, arrives home for final rest in Norwich. Her burial in the diocese’s shrine town honors her wartime heroism and public rallying cry in Britain.
Plan calls for a gambling corporation with $100,000,000 capitalization to duplicate the Prince of Monaco style Monte Carlo in Havana Cunha and Juarez opposite El Paso Texas Tex McLoud states the venture.
Irish American delegates Walsh Dunne and Ryan left Ireland for London after visiting Westport where armored cars and soldiers blocked entry. They declined to comment and promised a later statement. They were greeted in Dublin by the lord mayor and cheering crowds. They praised the Irish freedom movement and leadership.
Allied powers reveal three secret German directives detailing intensified munition production and a strategy to recapture contested eastern territories including Posen and Upper Silesia. They report Junker backing, aims to maintain victories on the eastern front, and to paralyze peace conference actions. The Noske circular orders night and day output at state plants and continued ammo production at private firms through November 9, 1919.
A March 2 letter from the chief of the general staff urges immediate disbanding of returning troops and homeward redeployment, citing unreliability and a plan to call up 600,000 men from classes of 1897 and 1901. A March 15 directive to the Sixth army corps commander seeks discreet provocation of Polish elements in Upper Silesia to incite incidents and incite insurrection.
London reports a weekend of limited but steady success for British forces in Afghanistan. The British drove Afghan tribesmen from Ashrasiakbel on Friday and aircraft bombed positions at Loidatta with good results. Afghan resistance remains west of Loidatta.
Washington May 123 Secretary Baker announced a complete and comprehensive settlement of all claims between the United States and Great Britain arising from military operations. The British government will pay the United States 25 500 000 dollars as a net and final adjustment.
Akron reports the first balloon in the large race cleared the area and crossed over Lancaster Pennsylvania at seven o'clock after traveling 300 miles in 15 hours. seven entries competed in the event noted as America’s first of its kind since 1914.
President Wilson told the French Academy that Americans are not merely materialists noting that freedom of speech guards democracy. He argued exposure checks folly and urged listening to individual voices while praising France for constitutional liberty.
Washington reports the War Department has turned over locomotives cranes railroad cars and other equipment valued at 18 million dollars to the Railroad Administration for sale at market prices. The batch includes 1 366 cars and will go to railroads.
An Omsk government report says Admiral Kolchak’s Siberian army captured 10 000 Bolshevik prisoners and seized 88 guns 200 machine guns 2 armored trains 50 locomotives and 200 river craft in fighting west of Ufa. Other dispatches note Entente forces plan to attack Petrograd with Helsingfors as a base.
Paris reports the formation of a new international consortium by American French British and Japanese bankers to finance loans to China. A reservation was made for further participation by Belgian bankers in the arrangement.
Special to Evening Journal reports Doctor Navay former President of the Hungarian Reichstag was killed on a train in Berlin on May 13. The German Central Committee of the Independent Socialist Party in Germany urges signing the Versailles treaty despite expected changes. The appeal appears in Die Freiheit, the party organ.
Milan report says Doctor Navay former president of the Hungarian Poeichstag was killed on a train traveling from Vienna to Budapest. Police investigation underway as details emerge about the attack on the journey.
Five planes remain grounded in Newfoundland as crews await improved weather. The Martinsyde and Sopwith teams near St Johns wait for favorable reports, the Handley Page is being assembled at Harbor Grace, and the two American seaplanes are not expected to start within 24 hours.
Big demonstrations erupted in Berlin Hindenburgstadt Danzig Koenigsberg Cassel Bochum and other places against the signing of the German peace treaty. Deputy Traub warned parents would raise children in hatred if the treaty succeeded. Dr Gustav Stresemann opposed demands to surrender the former Emperor William.
Washington officials predict over subscriptions to the Victory loan will total at least 1 billion dollars as 15 million Americans buy Victory notes. Complete district tallies are not yet in and final figures may not be known until May 16.
Madrid reports maritime authorities take charge of interned German ships to prevent sabotage. Six vessels prepared with crews and flying the flag are ready in Spanish ports.
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