Allies to Save Poles From Hun War Blockade
Paris reports a supreme inter allied war council discussion on German threat to Poland. Germany prepares to occupy Polish ports and rail lines, while the armistice renewal and League of Nations draft move forward with civilian economic control and new international commissions.
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League of Nations
War Council
Danae
Danzig
Thorn
Marshal Porch
Gen Weygand
Frame
Rosslyn Wemyss
Great Britain
Bliss
United States
Gen Rabielant
Associated Press
Paris
Supreme War Council
Quart d'Orsay
Wilson
Unions Hit Lockout With Sympathetic Strike Call
New York Feb 8 Amid a lockout by the Building Trades Em ployers' Association United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners president William E Hutch eson announced a sympathetic strike Monday morning. Bricklayers and hoisting engineers in cities across the country will join to pressure for a $1 per day wage rise on contracts held by association members affecting more than twenty cities including Bridgeport Hartford Boston Providence Camden Washington Buffalo Cleveland Columbus Detroit Chicago Terre Haute Mobile and New Orleans.
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New York
Building Trades Employers’ Association
William E. Hutcheson
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
Employera* Association
Carpenters
Hutcheson
Bridgeport
New Haven
Hartford
Norwich
Conn
Boston
Lawrence
Mass
Providence
R. I
Camden
N. Z
Washington, D.C
Buffalo
Cleveland
Columbus
Detroit
Chicago
Terre Haute
Ind
Mobile
Al2
New Orleans
Hungarians Demand Return of Monarchy Movement Spreading
A resolution demanding the reestablishment of the kingdom of Hungary was adopted at a Budapest public meeting. Enthusiasm followed the vote as agitation for restoring the monarchy spread, and the government moved to suppress the movement amid unrest.
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Associated Press
Copenhagen
Kingdom of
Hungary
Budapest
Navy Plans Transatlantic Air Flight Under Towers
Commander John H Towers is ordered to lead plans for a proposed transatlantic airship flight. The Navy aims to map a route, arrange voyage logistics, and select the crew, with British interest noted and large seaplane tests planned. Prevailing winds favor Newfoundland to the Azores route.
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John H. Towers
Navy Department
Daniels
John H Towers
Office of Naval Operations
Navy
Towers
Ocean
London
British
Air Ministry
Washington
Atlantic
Toters
Newfoundland
Azores
Army Air Servie
London Strikers Refuse To Return To Work
London February 8 The London underground railways report no workers returning and no clear restart date The board of trade had claimed a settlement earlier but both sides remained apart The National Union of Railwaymen urged men to return but many are not ready until Monday Electrical works showed mixed readiness as plants closed and workers told to reapply next week
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London
London Underground Railways
Board of Trade
War Department
The
National Union of Railwaymen
Trade protection notes amid British embargo debate
The United States seeks to protect American trade in Britain France and Italy by asking governments about discrimination while not challenging their embargoes. Officials defend U S actions as lawful and warn anti British propaganda seeks to sow ill will. The article also covers Alsace claims and Germanys assembly debates.
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Wilson
United States
Belgium
France
Andre Tardieu
Washington Post
Great Britain
Italy
State Department
Senate
Hitchcock
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
New York
Britain
Weeks
Massachusetts
England
Allied drive on Archangel front risks flare in vet war
British and Russian troops with American support attacked the Bolsheviks along the Petrograd road south of Kadia at 10 this morning. The operation aimed to shield American positions at Sredmakrenga, about 30 miles east, as Bolshevik shelling of the Vaga sector continues. No final battle result reported. Typhoid ravages Petrograd Moscow and other cities with 12 doctors and 40 nurses dying in one Petrograd hospital. The Black Plague rages in Kiev and Kovel with Ruthenian soldiers affected. Bolshevik government orders universal military service for males in Russia.
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Associated Press
Archangel
Bol‘shevixi
Petrograd
Kadia
Sredmakrenga
Vaga
Stockholm
Moscow
Russia
Warsaw
Klet
Kovel
London
Bollahevik
Copenhagen
Bachange Telegraph Company
Abolish Right to Make War Urged by French Women
Paris Feb 8 The French Society for the Interests of Women calls for an international women’s charter in a world peace organization. They urge equal rights for women, including the abolition of the right to make war, and seek protection of children and motherhood plus better physical and mental conditions for children.
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Weimar
Associated Press
Alsace
Seceuch
National Assembly
Mayor
Paris
Women of
France
French Society For the Interests of
Society of Nations
Third Suspect Laskey Says Evidence May Warrant Case
The investigation into the Wong murders continues with two suspects held and a possible third or fourth pending. United States Attorney Laskey says warrants haven t been issued yet as police build a prima facie case and guard key witnesses including a dancer named Jeanne LaMar whose possible link to Wu remains under review.
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T T Wong
C H Hate
Washington
New York
New Jersey
S Wen
W T ‘An
Edward Kelly
Dewey Hotel
Mach
Ma Pullman
United States
John £. Laskey
Clifford Grant
Guy Burlingame
Laskey
Maj Pullman
Wan
Ormy
Mr Laskey
Uris
Wayne
Jeanne-LaMar
laMar
J Wu
British rebuke troop disorder in London delay
A War Office statement says 1000 soldiers accumulated in London due to weather delaying channel crossings. Nine thousand dispatched. about 256 demonstrated, eight ringleaders arrested for insubordination while others sent to France. Gen Sir William R Hobbs orders food, quarters, and six shillings extra pay.
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London
War Office
Iordaraami
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Allied High Command
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Busitti
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Hetgummi Leon Bourgeois
Hubert Cecik
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Greece
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Pans
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Society of Narious
Europe
U.S
HM Assembly
America
Albert W. Fox
Tim
Great American Center
Enterprise
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George Rothwell Brown
Washington Post Co
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Romorantin
Tours
Orleans
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Romordatin
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Dijon
Is-sur-Tille
Chaumont
Eduard David
Social Democratic Party
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Wennur
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Kautsky
Berne
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Haussmann
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Fehrenbach
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Alsice-Lorraine
Lucie Hartmann
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Imperial Treasury
Imperial Treasury Department
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Inihe
Philipp Scheidemann
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Terr Pfeiffer
Reichstagzg
Miveca
Prussia
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