Germany Seeks Peace Basis Map Says Britain Should Yield
Berlin reports the German chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg argues for a guaranteed peace based on a map and says Britain has been militaristic, charging that England provoked two other conflicts and could have prevented the present one. He urges real talks on war end and notes only frank discussions will lead to peace. Continued on fourth page.
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von Bethmann-Hollweg
Britain
Pathette
Sir Edward Gray
Infantas Brataar
Ilestre
Germany
Nanas
Ireland
Peace Possible If Statesmen Recognize Facts In War Map
German Chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg tells The Post Berlin correspondent that peace is possible only if warring nations accept the war map as fact and are willing to discuss war and peace practically. He questions English democracy hindering secret arrangements with Russia and France and warns against polemics that deepen hatred while urging arbitration and disarmament.
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Feldmann Hollweg
Imperia
Mane
Han Elloar
Boneat
Sincere Wittl
von Bethmann-Hollweg
Berlin
Karl H. von Wiegand
Germany
Europe
England
Russia
France
Edward Grey
Prese Publishing Co
Waite Trial Opens In Peck Murder Case At New York
Dr Arthur Warren Waite, a young dentist, stands trial in New York for murdering his rich father in law John H Peck of Grand Rapids Michigan. The prosecution claims Waite bought arsenic and used chloroform to kill Peck after marriage. Witness Dr Albertus Moore testifies Waite admitted buying arsenic.
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Waite
New York
Arthur
Warren Waite
Clarence J. Shearn
Esupeme Court
John H. Peck
Grand Rapids
Mich
Edward Swan
Swann
Peck
John E. Peck
Margaret Horton
Albertus Adair Moore
Walte
Roosevelt
C. C. Glover
Mr Glover
William J. Flather
Henry H. Flather
Riggs National Bank
Justice Siddons
Frank J. Hogan
Nicholas Longworth
Col
White House
Riggs Bank
Taft
Glover
Laskey
United States
Hogan
Owen T. Reeves, Jr
Drevers’ National Bank of Chicago
District of Columbia
Maryland
Accounta
Austrians Sweep Lavarone Plateau and Tyrol Front
London dispatch reports heavy fighting as Austrian forces push through the Tyrol front against Italy. Vienna claims Italians dislodged on Lavarone plateau with captures of Fima Mandrido and the adjacent heights. Updated tallies show over 23,000 Italians taken prisoner and 172 cannons seized as Austrian offensive tightens toward Vicenza and the Venetian plain.
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Tyrol
Trent
Lavarone
Vienna
Fima
Mandridlo
Astadi
Astico
Rome
Plateau
Berlin
Sayville
Lavaronea
Austrian War Office
Armentara
Graz
Mandrido
Agtach
Charles
Francis Joseph
Monte
Taormino Monte Majo Inu
Italy
Paris
Autstria
Alps
Vicenza
Udine
Belluns
Sazes
Adige
Brenta Rivere
Itel
Janes
Fears Britain Faces Food Shortage Amid War Strain
In London May 2 the financial secretary to the treasury warned that home food production may fall below last year as more men join the army. Farmers’ reluctance to hire female laborers hastens risk of famine unless labor or imports rise. A rationing plan, if imposed, is seen as likely to conserve scarce supplies for munitions and essential needs.
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London
Francis Dyke Acland
The
Treasury
House of Commons
England
Acland
Germany Ready to Talk Peace
Article notes Germany prepared to initiate peace discussions, with other items listing trials, military actions, political shifts, and local theater attractions across the issue.
Brokers See Peace Nearer They Seek 50 Percent Insurance
London May 23 The underwriters yesterday charged 40 percent to insure against a declaration of peace between Great Britain and Germany before January 1. The rate shows insurers believe prospects for early peace are better than two months ago when the rate was 30 percent.
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London
Great Britain
Germany
Sibley’s Men Return From Mexican Chase After Ten Days
Marathon Texas May 22 Maj Gen Frederick Funston’s flying columns of the Eighth and Fourteenth Cavalry returned to American soil near Boquillas after a ten day expedition into Mexico seeking the Green Springs and Boquillas marauders. Col Frederick W Sibley led the pursuit, rescuing Jesse Deemer and Monroe Payne, capturing four raiders, with two wounded. Langhorne’s Troops A and B aided, but the main band split up. the return was ordered for strategic reasons and to guard communications as Yaqui reports mounted. The expedition covered about 100 miles from El Pino to Boquillas in three days and rested at Boquillas awaiting orders.
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Marathon
Tex
Eighth
Fourteenth Cavalry
Frederick
Funston Trayoire
Green Springs
Boquillas
Frederick W Sibley
Rio Grands
Fourteenth
Fort Clark
George T. Langhorne
The
Mighty
Fort Bliss
Mexico
Big Bend
Jesse Deemer
Monroe Payne
Deemer and
Payne
Col. Sibley
Maj
Langhorne
Deemer
Stuart W. Cramer
Elz
Sibley
Langhorna
el Pino
Col Sibley
Col Sible
Lansing
Eliseo Arredondo
Redgers
Carranza
United States
Scott
Obrigon
State Department
Texas
Baker
Lcaneine
Col
Ington
Funston
Famine in Mexico Deepens Crisis and U S Plans
Reports to the State Department describe grave Mexican conditions with famine and labor strikes crippling rail lines. Consul Letcher reports from Chihuahua City as Carranza weaknesses deepen and debate over intervention and border raids continues in Washington.
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Chihuahua City
U. S
Washington
Mexico
State Department
Mexico City
A.d
Chile
Panag Te Acestes
Carranza
Letcher
Chinvahua City
Thea
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