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  • World War. Visitors. 1918-03-13
  • Northwest history; World War 1; visitors; Secretary of War Newton D. Baker; President Woodrow Wilson; General John J. Pershing; Paris, France; London, England, Great Britain ;
  • Secretary Baker's letter to President Wilson asking for permission to absent himself from his office long enough to make an inspection trip of the American expeditionary forces in France and a visit to London and Paris was made public here today,...
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  • World War. Treaty of Versailles. 1920-07-16
  • Northwest history; World War 1; Treaty of Versailles 1919; peace treaty; treaties; peace negotiations; post-war; St. Germain treaty; ratification; Austria; Austrian delegation; Czechoslovakia; Czechoslovakian delegation ;
  • The exchange of ratifications of the treaty of St. Germain, which established peace between the allies and Austria, took place this morning in the clock room at the foreign office. Jules Cambon presided over the ceremony.
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  • World War. Treaty of Versailles. 1920-02-12
  • Northwest history; World War 1; Treaty of Versailles 1919; peace treaty; treaties; peace negotiations; post-war; Germany; German delegation; President Alexandre Millerand of France; French occupied territories; French-German relations ;
  • German foreign office authorities have not as yet received the note which is reported to have been forwarded by Premier Millerand threatening Germany with an indefinite occupation of the Rhineland province because of the non-fulfillment of treaty...
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  • World War. Treaty of Versailles. 1920-01-14
  • Northwest history; World War 1; Treaty of Versailles 1919; peace treaty; treaties; peace negotiations; post-war; Hungary; Hungarian delegation ;
  • The treaty of peace with Hungary will be delivered to the Hungarian delegates at the foreign office at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. The ceremony will not be public.
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  • World War. Treaty of Versailles. 1920-01-08
  • Northwest history; World War 1; Treaty of Versailles 1919; peace treaty; treaties; peace negotiations; post-war; ratification; Germany; German delegation ;
  • The exchange of ratifications of the peace treaty with Germany will take place on the coming Saturday, January 10, it now seems certain. The supreme council today fixed this date for the ceremony and decided that it should be held in the French...
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  • World War. Treaty of Versailles. 1919-11-15
  • Northwest history; World War 1; Treaty of Versailles 1919; peace treaty; treaties; peace negotiations; post-war; France; French government; Germany; United States. Congress. Senate; American government; ratification ;
  • The French foreign office considers the reservations to the German peace treaty in the American senate as constituting a question of extreme delicacy, and the office is not disposed at present to make any official statement on the subject.
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  • World War. Submarine warfare. 1917-12-28
  • Northwest history; World War 1; submarine warfare; naval warfare; German u-boats; submarine ships; submarines; Germany; Norway; Norwegian sailors; sunk; sinkings ;
  • Thirty Norwegians, sailors, are believed to have been killed in the sinking of five Norwegian steamers by German submarines, according to a statement issued by the Norwegian foreign office and forwarded by the Copenhagen correspondent. The steamers...
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  • World War. Submarine warfare. 1917-04-25
  • Northwest history; World War 1; submarine warfare; naval warfare; German u-boats; submarine ships; submarines; Germany; sinkings; sunk; Norway; Norwegian ships; steamships; sailing ships ;
  • A statement from the Norwegian foreign office as forwarded from Copenhagen by Central News, reports the sinking of the following Norwegian vessels.
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  • World War. Statistics. 1919-01-04
  • Northwest history; World War 1; statistics; hospitals; United States army; American soldiers; Colonel W. H. Smith; wounded soldiers; casualties ;
  • Wounded men or soldiers remaining in hospitals overseas number about 104,000, Colonel W. H. Smith of the surgeon general's office today today the senate committee conducting an inquiry of hospital facilities and construction. Many of these wounded,...
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  • World War. Statistics. 1918-01-08
  • Northwest history; World War 1; statistics; Great Britain; British army; losses; captures; prisoners of war; POWs; weapons; guns; front lines ;
  • The war office has issued a summary of the British captures and losses in the war during 1917. The total captures on all fronts numbered 114,544 prisoners and 781 guns. The losses numbered 28,379 prisoners and 166 guns.
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  • World War. Statistics. 1917-12-15
  • Northwest history; World War 1; statistics; Secretary of State Elihu Root; military research; scientists ;
  • The entire personnel, equipment and laboratory facilities of the Carnegie institution of Washington are being devoted to government war service, it became known today at the annual meeting of the institution's trustees, of which Elihu Root is...
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  • World War. Statistics. 1917-01-10
  • Northwest history; World War 1; statistics; Great Britain; British army; British soldiers; wounded; deaths; death rates; casualties; missing in action; MIA ;
  • Casualty lists published by the War Office show that in October the British army lost 4378 officers, of whom 1459 were killed, 2736 wounded, and 183 are missing. In November, the total was 2305, of whom 806 were killed, 1386 wounded, and 113 are...
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  • World War. Spys. 1918-01-16
  • Northwest history; World War 1; spies; espionage; Frederick H. C. Spoermann; Lieutenant Walter Spoermann; Baltimore, Maryland; German agents; arrests; Marius Aisch; Norfolk, Virginia; mail; letters; communication; Louis Werner of Philadelphia,...
  • Lieutenant Walter Spoermann, charged with being a German spy, arrested on the aviation field near Norfolk last week, was brought to Baltimore today. He was rushed from the railroad station to the United States marshal's office and thence to jail....
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  • World War. Selective service draft. 1918-03-06
  • Northwest history; World War 1; selective service; military draft; General Enoch Herbert Crowder of United States; second draft ;
  • Announcement of the date of the next draft is imminent. The provost marshal general's office has prepared "an important announcement," which is believed to deal with the time and method of summoning the second levy. The best opinion is the first of...
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  • World War. Revolutions. Russia. 1920-01-08
  • Northwest history; World War 1; revolutions; Russia; Russian revolution; Bolsheviks; Bolshevik army; post-war; Great Britain; British army; General Anton Ivanovich Denikin of Russia; Krasnovodsk, Russia; Russian ports; Persia; Baku, Azerbaijan;...
  • The situation in Russia is about as bad as could be from an anti-Bolshevik point of view, according to British war office reports, and there are few signs indicating any timely improvement. There are two especially menacing developments. In the...
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  • World War. Revolutions. Russia. 1919-08-26
  • Northwest history; World War 1; revolutions; Russia; Russian revolution; Bolsheviks; Bolshevik army; post-war; General Anton Denikin; advances; offensives; Cossacks ;
  • The war office announced this evening that on the western front of General Denikine, the anti-Bolshevik leader in southern Russia, the advance is continuing with great rapidity along the entire line.
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  • World War. Revolutions. Russia. 1919-01-27
  • Northwest history; World War 1; revolutions; Russia; Russian revolution; Bolsheviks; Bolshevik army; post-war; allies; Archangel, Russia; Shenkursk, Russia; evacuations; withdrawal of troops; United States army ;
  • Allied forces on the front of Archangel, mainly American and Russian troops, have evacuated the town of Shekursk under Bolshevik pressure and withdrawn to a shorter line north of the town, according to an official statement from the British war...
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  • World War. Revolutions. Poland. 1919-08-19
  • Northwest history; World War 1; revolutions; Poland; Polish revolution; post-war; Prime Minister Ignace Paderewski of Poland; elections; photographs; portraits ;
  • Ignace Paderewski, famous pianist, now leading the republic of Poland in its fight for freedom, is cheerful over the outlook for that nation. He points to the union of the people as shown in the results of the recent election and the peaceable...
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  • World War. Revolutions. Miscellaneous countries. 1920-10-21
  • Northwest history; World War 1; revolutions; miscellaneous countries; Russian government; Russia; soviet union; Bolsheviks; Bolshevik army; Armenia; Armenian-Russian relations; transportation; treaties; treaty of Sevres 1920; Turkey; Turkish...
  • The Russian soviet government has issued an ultimatum to Armenia, according to advices received today by the French foreign office from Armenia, demanding permission for the immediate transport of Bolshevik troops through Armenia to effect a...
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  • World War. Revolutions. Miscellaneous countries. 1920-06-10
  • Northwest history; World War 1; revolutions; miscellaneous countries; Bolsheviks; Bolshevik army; Persia; Persian government; Teheran, Persia; soviet union ;
  • The Bolsheviki are rapidly extending their operations in Persia, according to advices received by the French foreign office today. Teheran, the capital is in danger of falling within the hands of the Bolsheviki in two or three days, it is declared....
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