Wilson presses concert of power to end balance of power
President Wilson in London links to end balance of power and seek a concert of power to secure postwar order. He speaks at Guildhall and dines with Lloyd George at Downing Street, urging peace now by agreement, not conquest, amid bustling royal visits and crowded public interest.
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Petrograd Under Siege of Terror and Torture Regime
A London Times dispatch describes brutal Soviet rule under Trotsky in Petrograd, detailing mass bribery, false papers, private courts, and systematic torture. Officers, nobles, and dissenters face summary executions, with reports of casings, flaying, and drownings as terror consolidates the regime.
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Lloyd George Sees Wide Accord From Paris Peace Talks
Premier Lloyd George said conversations with President Wilson yielded general principles for peace and anticipated unity among Britain, America, and France and Italy ahead of the Paris conference. He noted Britain would send delegates after the new year and that two ministers were named as confirmed, with Bonar Law unlikely to attend. Sinn Fein gains in Ireland dominate election results, with coalition successes and Asquithian defeats shaping a new Commons landscape.
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Prisoners killed by bayonets at Langensalza camp
Repatriated prisoners from Germany recounted a brutal incident at Langensalza camp after World War I armistice. French workers breached a wooden blockhouse for fuel and German guards with fixed bayonets charged the prisoners, turning the camp into a battlefield. Casualties included three Englishmen, two Frenchmen, two Italians, and one Russian killed. others wounded.
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Ebert cabinet falls as new leadership forms in Berlin
Berlin reports confirm the Ebert cabinet has fallen amid crisis fears. A Liepknecht Ledebour Eichorn cabinet is to be formed as German politics pivot toward independent socialist and Spartacus League power struggles and potential new government.
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World War Death Toll Totals Reach Over Five Million
London December 28 British Wireless Service reports official French season figures allow an estimated toll of five million nine hundred thirty six thousand four hundred and four. National losses listed: British 706,726 French 1,071,800 American 58,478 Russian 1,706,000 Austrian 806,000 German 1,600,000. Berlin Vorwaerts cites German casualties at 6,330,000 and Austrian losses at 4,000,000 with Serbia totaling 320,000 killed wounded or prisoners.
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Peace Conference Divisions Outlined by Clemenceau
The first formal peace conference session is slated for late February with informal premeetings to map groundwork. President Wilson may stay in Paris eleven weeks, while a four-meeting plan includes a neutral conference, with aims to form a league of nations and address labor, armament, and treaty issues.
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