Germany Rejects Peace Terms in Final Plea to Allies
Washington Post reports Germany’s final reply to allied terms delivered May 29 rejects most major provisions. Count Brockdorff-Rantzau argues the treaty’s severity would force perpetual slave labor and warns peace efforts hinge on whether Allies insist on full execution or yield to German pressure.
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Brockdorff-Rantgau
League of Nations
Albert W. Fox
Washington Post
Germany
Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau
United States
Arrowane
State Department
Clemenceau
Count von Brackdorf
Rantzau
Aevel
Washington
German Note Outlining Counter Proposals At Versailles
The document dated May 1 from the German delegation to President Clemenceau outlines counter proposals to the peace treaty. It demands cession of vast territories including East Prussia and parts of Silesia to Poland, a plebiscite for Alsace Lorraine, and independence for the Hanseatic port. It calls for neutral mediation on responsibility for the war, demands exemption from costly reparations, and insists on preserving German economic links while severing others.
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Associated Press
Clemenceau
State Department
Versailien
Weert Prussia
Womerania
Danzig
Hansye
East Prussia
Memel
Silesia
Poland
Czecha
Slovakia
Germany
DRIVE RED FLEET INTO KRONSTADT
The Associated Press reports a morning clash in the Gulf of Finland near Krasnaia Gorka west of Kronstadt. A Bolshevik fleet including the battleship Petropavlovsk and three others fought seven British warships, then retreated to Kronstadt with no British casualties announced by the Admiralty.
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Associated Press
Helsingfors
Petropaslovak
Kkrasnaia Gorka
Kronstadt
Kronstad
Petrograd
Ont
Kronstandt
Three ships bring 4761 American Expeditionary Force troops
New York June 1 transports K 1 Luckenbach Lancaster La Lorraine arrived from France with 4761 officers and men. The Luckenbach carried 41 officers and 1595 men of the Twentieth engineers plus medical detachments and supply units. The Lancaster carried 36 officers and 1953 men of the 309th infantry with support troops. La Lorraine brought sections of the 201st supply train and the 249th military police. A purse with 45 in bills and a 50 liberty bond was stolen from James Gill’s suite yesterday afternoon.
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New York
Luckenbach
Lancaster
la Lorraine
France
Twentieth Engineers
Tenth Battalion
Winth Bakery
Philip E Hinkley
Boston
309Th Infantry
249Th Military Police
James Gill
W Street
Pogrons Stop Pans Conference Urges Action At Liberty Hut
A mass meeting at Liberty Hut votes protests against pogroms in Poland Roumania and elsewhere and urged the State Department to withdraw the U S minister to Poland. Speakers including Simon Wolf Senator Atlee Pomerene and Rep Madden press religious liberty and democracy. The resolution calls for cabled protest to Wilson and the peace commission and to the State Department the Vice President the Senate and the House.
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United States
Poland
Pomerene
America
Madden
Simon Wolf
Roumania
Liberty Hut
Auditorum
State Department
Atlee Pomerene
Oho
Washington
Martin B Madden
Illinois
New York
Argonne
Wilson
American Peace Commission
Senate
House
Finsk Lemberg
Proskuro
Pinsk
Lemberg
Proskurow
Read and crew to be received by King George
Special cable from London reports Lieut Comdr Read and his crew will be guests at several banquets in London after their sea plane’s safe Atlantic flight. King George sent equerry to the American ambassador with hearty congratulations to Read and the US Navy. Harry G Hawker also sent greetings from Hendon.
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The
Public Ledger
London
Iit
Read
King George
United States Navy
Harry G Hawker
Hendon
Givenm Hin
Mrs Hawker
Reyehair
Roekers
Plymouth
United States
Fire in French theater kills thirty and injures hundreds
In Valence sur Rhone France a blaze in a moving lecture house killed more than 30 people and injured 190 as 4000 spectators rushed for exitsMad panic saw children trampled and many thrown down during the fire in the operator's cabinet
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France
Valence-sur-Rhone
Havas
Pan German league urges inviting Kaiser back to empire
Berlin dispatch says Pan German League asks papers to push for Kaiser Wilhelm and his consort to be invited back to the empire with safe residence. It cites hopes of a new peace under a staged revolution, while Amerongen serenades Countess Bentinck for her birthday with Kaiser and court present. Memorial window dedicates in Maryland.
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Saar
France
Ane
Easer
Empire
Amerongen Choral Society
Bentinck
Hohenzollerns
Castle
Witheby
Pan-German League
German Natunal Peoples Party
Peoples Party
National Assembly
Prussian
Kaiser Wilhelm
German Empire
Wilhelm
Haiger
Amerongen
Amerongen Christian + heral society de loftsem
Lambeth Bentinck
Fanor
Tastra
Count Bentinck
Kaiser
Kaiserine
Wire strike nears as Atlanta walkout looms
Washington union leaders ok a nationwide walkout after Atlanta operators were allegedly discharged for organizing. The Commercial Telegraphers Union ordered a strike for 1 pm today if reinstatements with back pay are not granted, as Postmaster General Burleson orders probes and troops considered to back public safety.
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Commercial Telegraphers Union
Atlanta
Burleson
Burteson
Washington
Carine
District Council
Burleson Blirfting
Sa34
Hurleson
F H McDowell
J Bonenkamy
Montreal
Canada
Transatlantic NC-4 Flight Details From Cape Cod to Nova Scotia
The NC-4 long jump to the Azores and the crew's night time navigation are described. Commander Read reports the crew maintained confidence, engines ran on three after a center engine failure, and iced wings caused caution during the perilous leg toward Lisbon via Monomoy Point.
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A. C. Read
Mublehbie Cony
New York
Nova
Two Engines Left in Mid Atlantic Flight Tale
The NC-4 recounts a perilous journey after one engine failed and a second lost power. Torrential seas, repairs at sea, and a tense search by seaplanes marked the voyage from Capt Cod toward Halifax and the Azores before resumed progress toward Europe.
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Totaco
Wwe
Jinkel
Ape
Deestroyer
Cane Cod
Capt Cod
Naval Air Station
Chatham
Channel
Halifax
Trepassy
Azores
Europe
Newfoundland
25 000 WETS PARADE TODAY IN BALTIMORE
Baltimore June 1 More than 2 000 men expected to start the wet forces march protesting war time prohibition and the prohibition amendment. Judge James J Klecka says the line will be the largest yet. Soldiers, labor groups, and khaki men join in. Red roses, flags, and floats mark the event. Air saloons closed noon to 3 during the parade. Mayor Broening to review.
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Washington Post
Baltimore
Tames J. Klecka
Maryland Bhrawah
Anti Prohibition League of America
Kiecki
Broening
iD C MEN IN N Y HOSPITALS MAJ A Johnston LIEUT G B Stevenson
Special to The Washington Dost lists American expeditionary forces in New York hospitals. Patients include Maj Alexander Johnston Lieut G B Stevenson at Polyclinic Hospital and Sergt Augustus Nesbit at North Carolina avenue. Other names cited cover Greenwich Hospital Camp Merritt and base hospital.
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Alexander Johnston
G. B. Stevenson
Washington
New York
Edward Sill
Florida Avenue
William Hull
New York Avenue
H G Kermoston
Omaha Avenue
Harris Whitaker
Thirty-first Street
Wesley L. Hunt
Staple Street
Greenwich Hospital
Guy B Stevenson
Polyclinic
Augustus Nesbit
Caroling Avenue
Samuel M Howard
Base Hospital
Camp Merritt
J James A Penn
Washington Court
George T Shannon
Holmead Place
Clarence Milstead
Tenth Atreat
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London ‘Times
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