President Wilson Hears Italy’s Claims at Paris Peace Talks
President Wilson met Italian leaders in Paris and discussed Italy’s aims for the peace conference with Premier Orlando and Baron Sonnino. He reviewed material on Italy’s claims alongside Col. House and noted he could back only just outcomes. The day included a diplomatic reception and a formal welcome by the French Senate committee.
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Paris
Wilson
Italy
Orlando
Sonnino
HOUSE
Ata
Col. Eland House
Ate
Orlands
Baron Sonnino
Murat
France
Mr. Wilson
Stephen Pichon
England
Emassy
Victor Emmanuel
Prince of
Piedmont
Wallan
THREE SHIPS AT WY WITH YANKS BRING MEN AND WOUNDED
The Army transport Henry R. Mallory arrived with 1,461 American soldiers from Bordeaux. Of these, 901 were sick or wounded, with units including headquarters, ordnance, supply, and field artillery detachments. The Manchuria also arrived from Brest carrying 158 officers and 4,003 men, with multiple artillery and infantry components aboard.
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New York
United States Army
Henry R. Mallory
Bordeaux
Aand
143Rd Regiment Field Artillery
65Th Field Artillery Brigade
Manchuria
Brest
Sha
46Th Field Artillery
116Th Field Artillery
117Th Field Artillery
Caval
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Livesey
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Redross
Two Beach
Newport News
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France
Stuart
Hill
118Th Field, Artillery
First Marine Aviation Force
Toul
310Th Field Artillery
John G. Butler
National Army
Georgia
Wineis
Michigan
H.C. Dodges
President Wilson's London Visit After Christmas
The president will travel to London after Christmas to meet with Col. House, Capt. Andre Tardieu, and the American embassy staff to discuss the Russian situation and the preliminary steps for the allied conference. He plans to visit northern France and Belgium before returning to Paris around January 4, ahead of the January 6 alliance talks. The conference aims to craft a common basis for the peace congress, not a negotiated peace, with Germany present later.
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Paris
Wilson
Andre Turdieu
United States
France
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Great Britain
London
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House
Andre Tardieu
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Belgium
Ger
Orlando
Italy
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Russia
The
Manchester Guardian
England
Y M C A to give gifts to soldiers in France
New York December 20 The Young Men Christian Association announced plans to supply 30 000 000 cigarettes 4 000 000 chocolate bars 2 000 000 tins of tobacco 2 006 000 packs of gum and 5 000 000 Christmas postcards to American Expeditionary Force soldiers for 1400 Y M C A huts in France Each hut will host a Christmas tree entertainment with 1500 Red Triangle Santa Clauses A French audience of children will be invited to the huts to share in Christmas Eve and Day events The plays minstrels and films will be staged with soldiers performing and Y M C A crews providing costumes sets makeup and coaching
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Associated Press
New York
Young Men's Christian Association
America
France
Red Triangle
Thomas Cushing
Allies Must Stick to Armistice Terms
London dispatch notes Senator Lodge’s peace terms will gain attention and reflect American public sentiment. The News says the plan is flawed for arriving six weeks late, since Wilson’s Nov 5 note set guarantees and Germany’s armistice followed, leaving the bilateral contract intact unless Germany repudiates.
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Courier
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da News
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Wilson
Germany
Rhinelridgeheads
Paper delivery warning and contact notice
A fragmented notice warns that delivery by 6 o clock failed due to carrier error and instructs readers to call WHONE 8830 or pick up a copy at the paper. It requests calls reach the office before 0:30 p.m. for resolution.
Hog Island shipyard inquiry finds no criminal liability
Washington December 20 The Justice Department report on Hog Island shipbuilding shows no criminal fraud or profits, but urges a board of arbitration to determine any excess costs beyond reasonable need. It notes cost estimates rose from 21 million to about 61 million and cites chaotic conditions at Hog Island before February.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Department of Justice
Hog Island
White House
Wilson
Board of Arbitration
Emergency Fleet Corporation
American International Corporation
Plez
Senate Commerce Committee
G. Carroll Todd
Mark Hyman
FLEET
Emergenscy Fleet Corporation
American International Corporation of
New York
Feet Corporation
Fleet Corporation
Jonzer Ways
Old Santaleaves Monster Gift Drive in Waterloo
A Waterloo Christmas fund collection grows near a thousand dollars as Good Fellows at 24 Fayette Street prepare 130 gift baskets for needy children. Toys, dolls, candy, and nuts will be distributed next Tuesday and Christmas eve, with focus on shoes, stockings, and warm wear amid influenza hardships.
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Good Fellows Headquarters
S24
Fayette Street
Santa Claus
Toy Reconstruction Hospital
Manual Training
East High
Good Fellows
Paris
Waterloo
Ukrainian Commission Head Killed by Ukrainian Troops
Geneva dispatch reports Lieut. Col. Honey Miaine, lead of the French Krenek commission, shot by Ukrainian soldiers while gathering evidence on the Libran Licran border dispute. The commission arrived at Kaimberg amid recent Polish Ukrainian fighting. its inquiry chief was to finish the mission and return to France.
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Associated Press
Geneva
Honey Miaine
Krenek Commission
Couniet
Licran
Heer
Iwcordinng
Lum Hers
Wurich Ao Larusaaure
Kaimberg
France
French See Wilson As Good Bourgeois In Paris Life
Paris readers praise President Wilson for simple living and democracy. They note his meals, Sunday rituals, and private drives with Mrs. Wilson, while admiring his informal style and absence of pomp at the Murat residence.
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Constant
Ty Phe Press Publistlog Co
New York Weekly
Varis
Wilson
Versailles
Bois de Boulogne
Murat
Hasta
Prince Murat
Indicted officials face trial over Mulbone Street wreck deaths
A King's county grand jury indicted Timothy S. Williams president of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit company John H. M. Hallock president of New York Consolidated Railroad a subsidiary and four subordinate officials for first and second degree manslaughter in connection with the Mulbone street tunnel wreck that killed more than 90 people. Trial set for January 4.
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Associated Press
New York
King’s County
Grand Jury
Timothy S. Williame
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
John HM. Hallock
New York Consolidated Railroad Company
Offit Ands
Mulbone Street
Grighton Line
German Election Tan in Berlin Report Dec 19
Berlin dispatch notes that the “Honoriss of soldiers” and workers groups backed elections. The national assembly will be elected on December 19. Opponents to summoning a national assembly polled only 40 votes out of 2409.
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Aviated Press
Berlin
Somneistas
National Assembly
Spanish Caravels May Become Junk At Jackson Park
Two of the Spanish Caravels, the Niaw and the Tut, may be junked unless city funds or private donors provide upkeep. The board blocked the move after noting the fleet has cost $49,104 to maintain. The Santa Maria, flagship of the fleet, will be preserved.
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Chivage
Jackson Park
Maida of
War Camp Community Service Brings Cheer to Soldiers
New York December 29 Thousands of soldiers and sailors on leave will find Christmas cheer through a nationwide program by the War Camp Community Service. The plan spends hundreds of thousands of dollars for dinners theatre parties dances and gifts for men who cannot go home for the holidays aiming to unite communities with the armed forces and foster cooperation and companionship.
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New York
Towa Red Cross to Exceed Million of Membership Standard
Central division memberships in Nebraska Iowa Wisconsin Michigan and Illinois grow rapidly. Frank Judson chair says Nebraska will reach 55 percent of state population and surpass its million membership. Illinois excluding Cook county leads pacing others as influenza battles continue in four-fifths of the state.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Red Cross
Nebraska
Iowa
Wisconsin
Michigan
Illneis
Frank Judson
Judson
Onsin
Illinois
Cook County
Alsace Exples More Each Day Erzberger Says
Mathias Erzberger, head of the German commission, via Berlin telegram, reports increasing exiles from Alsace. He notes the arrest of Deputy Rochin of Strasbourg and states Reichsrat, Strasbourg soldiers council chairman, is detained in a fortress near Strasbourg.
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Copenhssen
Mathias Erzberger
Irmigstive Commission
Berlin
Alsace
Kerr Erzberger
Rochin
Strasbourg
Herr Reichaltz
Soldiers’ Council
Hindenburg to Form New Front Inside Germany
Report says General von Hindenburg plans a new front farther inward with active army regiments sent to Frankfurt on the Main at an early date. Dispatches note his telegraph to Berlin and claim a counter revolutionary movement is behind the action, with the government seeking an explanation.
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Paris
Wield Marshall von Hindenburg
Berlin
Scheuch
Sone
Wield
Marshal van Hinby
A&denburg
Lequid
Ledourai
Zurich
Lenz
Leguis
Loday
Metz
Bolsheviks threaten Riga region as Germans retreat
Lettish government through Stockholm appeals to Washington for protection from Bolshevik advances. Left representatives accuse retreating Germans of aiding Bolsheviks by leaving armed bands to operate behind them, taking hostages and levying on the wealthy as Bolshevik forces move toward Riga, potentially overrunting Finland and Courland unless checked.
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Associated Press
Washington
State Department
Stockholm
Riga
Finland
Courland
Germany
No Piper Visitors Denied in Cell in Muskegon
Milo Piper, charged with the murder of Frieda Weichman of Chicago, was denied visitors in his Muskegon county jail cell. No explanation of the order was issued. Officers planned to go to Crown Point Indiana to verify a marriage license issued to Misa Weichman and a man named M. H. Piper, then move on to Remapselaer Indiana where the marriage occurred in March 1916.
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Associated Press
Muskegon
Mick
Milo Piper
Frieda Weichman
Chicago
Crown Point
Ind
Misa Weichman
M. H. Pper
Remapselaer, Ind
Germany Was Disappointed in Financing Propaganda Plan
Alfred L. Becker testifies before the Senate committee on German propaganda detailing the financing. He says Germany was gravely disappointed in Kuhn, Loeb & Co. New York after expecting influence via M. M. Warburg & Co. Hamburg through Otto H. Kahn. The bank's strict conditions forced the Germans to seek other financiers.
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Washington, D. C
Alfred L. Becker
New York
Senate Committee
Kuhn, Loeb & Co
M. M. Warburg & Co
Hamburg
Germany
Kahn, Loeb & Co
Otto Fr. Kahn
New States Rise From War Ashes Boundaries Topic
Frank H. Simonds writes in the Courier and Reporter about a looming peace conference challenge at Versailles. The issue is not forming new states but fixing natural and satisfactory borders for several nations born from the war. Simonds has sailed for Europe and will report from the proceedings and deliberations.
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Frank H. Simonds
Courier and Reporter
Versailles
Simonds
Europe
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