Germany to send Bernstorff to peace talks and outline disarmament
Weimar reports Count von Bernstorff will attend the peace conference as Germanys delegate. President Ebert says Germany will have a defense army by conscription and work toward universal disarmament with a commission handling disarmament details. He notes severe food shortages and limited foreign securities for purchases, as gold reserves have diminished.
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Germany
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Ebert
Nine powers represented on executive council of league
United States Great Britain France Italy Japan and four other states will be represented on the executive council. The president reads the initial report detailing the first year of the league’s work and the council's annual meeting plan.
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Great Britain
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League of Nations Covenant Outlined by Wilson
Paris Feb 14 details show executive council including United States Great Britain France Italy Japan plus four others. Council meets at least once a year and handles peace matters with immunity and extraterritorial rights for league officials. Admission of non signatory states requires two thirds consent and guarantees on obligations and armament limits.
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Bandit Bands Put Hamburg in Panic
Hamburg endures a citywide panic as bands of thieves operate in motor cars, heavily armed, pillaging merchant shops. Berlin reports police helpless, according to Handelsblad dispatches from Amsterdam dated February 14.
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Handelsblad
Southern Troops Sail for States From France
New York report details arrival of the steamship Finland carrying 3 333 men with 92 sick or wounded and base hospital No 18 plus brigade HQ of the 34th coast artillery. The Charlestons brought 1 271 personnel mainly from the 50th coast artillery. Washington dispatch notes the 64th regiment aboard three transports and battleships Rhode Island and Virginia with 470 officers and nearly 13 000 men, including many Southerners.
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Virginia
President Wilson Reads First Report on League of Nations
Paris Feb 14. At the plenary session of the preliminary peace conference Wilson will read and explain the opening report of the league of nations charter. The document outlines aims to promote peace, international law, and cooperation through regular meetings, an executive council, and a permanent secretariat.
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League of Motions
League
New Spartan Plot Foiled by Arrest
Copenhagen reports papers and letters found at Karl Radek’s home indicate a Spartacan uprising planned for March in Berlin and across Germany. Dispatches say a Bolshevist army was to attack the eastern frontier on the fixed date. Radek allegedly wore a German officer’s uniform on several occasions.
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Radek
American observers depart Paris for Black Sea region
Colonel E. Francis Riggs former military attaché at Petrograd and nine American observers leave Paris to visit the Russian governments around the Black Sea region.
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Paris
E. Francis Riggs
Petrograd
Black Sea
Pershing's Aide Carl Boyd Dies in Paris Pneumonia
Colonel Carl Boyd, Pershing's principal aide de camp, dies in Paris after pneumonia. A native of Adama ville, Georgia, he long served as military attaché to the American embassy here.
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