Saltillo May Be First City Attacked by Rebels
Zapata is to command anti Carranza forces in the south while Villa moves his force north toward Irapuato. Reports indicate major fighting with Carranza troops could begin at Saltillo and Monterey within a fortnight. George C. Carothers accompanies Villa as a State Department agent.
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Mexico City
el Pana
Tex
Dee Spett
Cieneral Villa
Buena Vista
Irapuato
Jundalijara
General Villa
George C. Carothers
State Department
Washington
Villa
Carranza
Saltillo
Monterey
Zapata
General Cabral
Sonora
Carranza Troops Reported to Seize Town in Chihuahua War
El Paso dated December 11 reports heavy fighting south of Parral Chihuahua between Carranza and Villa forces. Carranza under General Louis Herrera is said to have captured Balen and wiped out a Villa garrison of about 500. Villa reinforcements of roughly 2,000 attacked Carranza troops numbering 1,808, with refugees noting ongoing combat and a Villa denial that Carranza captured any towns.
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el Paso
Tex
Carranza
Villa
Parral
Chihuahua
Louis Herrera
Balen
Tlerrera
Investigation of Charges Against Minister Sullivan
President Wilson discussed sending a special investigator to Santo Domingo to probe charges against American Minister James M. Sullivan. Secretary Bryan to conduct a full inquiry, with statements from insular bureau employees cited by Walker W. Vick as able to substantiate the accusations.
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Washington
Wilson
Ryan
State Department
Santo Domingo
James M. Sullivan
Walker W. Vick
Paul Fuller
New York
Mexico
Bryan
Sullivan
Million Pounds Of Flour Shipped From Denver To Belgium
A million pounds of Colorado milled flour donated to Belgian war sufferers is shipped from Denver to New York for immediate dispatch to Europe. A twenty car special train carried the cargo. officials and commercial groups witnessed the departure. An additional million pounds is planned for shipment in a few days.
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Morning Journal Wre Tay
Denver
Colorado
Belgium
New York
Euroape
Congress Actions and Hearings Move in Noon Session
The Day in Congress met at noon with Chairman Hitchcock signaling that the independence bill would be pressed for passage this session. Testimony continued on railroad rate discrimination against South Atlantic ports, while hearings on leasing land for water power sites persisted before the lands committee. Senator Weeks spoke on national defense. Adjournment at 1 30 p m until noon Saturday as a mark of respect to State Representative Payne.
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Hitchcock
Philippine Committee
South Atlantic
Weeks
Payne
Funeral arrangements for Serena FF Payne announced
Noon meeting arranged a funeral service in the hall at 10 30 a m Sunday with a committee to transport the body to New York. Adjournment set for 11 am Saturday after planning.
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Tace
Serena FF. Payne
New York
Weather forecast for New Mexico from Washington report
Partly cloudy Saturday and Sunday fair conditions expected in New Mexico according to the Washington weather bulletin.
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Washington
New Mexico
Midnight Darkness Over Philadelphia
A Philadelphia weather anomaly led to an all city illumination by street lamps from early evening as traffic slowed and businesses dimmed. The calm, windless event produced no rain with a steady barometer and a reported low breeze while suburbs remained normal.
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Cormier
Viiladelphia
Philadelphine
Philadelphia
General Film Company profits cited in antitrust case
Assistant attorney general Koward P. Grosvenor argued in the U S district court that in the first eighteen months the General Film Company spent over 2 million dollars on independent exchanges and suppliers and paid 12 percent on common stock to shareholders. He said ten manufacturers earned 600 percent profit on a 16 thousand dollar investment. The case concerns an alleged moving picture trust and a decision will follow.
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Ourtal
Philadelphia
Dee l
General Film Company
Koward P. Grosvenor
Moving Picture Trust
United States District Court
Combine
Lewis H. Swaah
Dickinson
Noted Gambler Dick Canfield Dies After Subway Fall
Richard Canfield a New York and Saratoga figure famed for gambling and art collected Whistler works valued at $800000 and chippendale pieces. He died at 56 from a cerebral hemorrhage caused by a skull fracture after a fall on a subway stairway. He faced legal battles starting in 1902 and was fined $1000 in later prosecutions.
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Gamester
New York
Richard Canfield
Saratoga
Quanfield
Canfield
New York City
Saratoga Springs
Whistler
Charles J. Breer
Detroit
Aart
Chippendale Furniture
Mast Forty-fourth Street
Jerome
David W. Bucklin
John Doe
Europe
Criminal Courts
Bullets Fired Across Border Hit In Waco
Gen Tasker H Bliss awaits orders from Washington as shots are sent into American territory. News notes bullets fired across the border and two additional hits reported in Waco, detailing military tension and potential actions.
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Waco
Tasker H. Bliss
Washington
Mexico siege crosses border as stray bullets wound two
In the border clash near Nae Sonor, two more people are struck by stray Mexican bullets. A trooper is lightly hurt and Teresa L. Fonseca is hit in the head at her home. Total fatalities and injuries on the American side reach fifty one in two months.
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Noew
Ariz
Dee
Nae
Sonor
Border Patrol
Teresa L. Fonseca
Villa
Martorena
Ife
el Paso
Tasker H. Bliss
Gutierrez
Mayterena
Maytorena
War News From Yesterday Report on Eastern Front and Allies
An official Petrograd dispatch reports German and Russian actions near the eastern front with German field marshal von Hindenburg’s forces failing to deliver a decisive blow. Russian lines hold near Lowiez and Cracow, while Serbians claim a crushing Austro-Hungarian defeat and Austrians reorganize near Servia. In France and Belgium fighting continues with trench losses recaptured by the Allies at Ypres. France trains 400000 youths for spring campaigns as Pope Benedict’s truce proposal meets opposed Russian consent and Emperor William’s health shows signs of improvement.
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Petrograd
Muarehal von Itivedenberg
Minne
Lavwieg
Pfieeners
Lowiez
Cracow
Germany
Bield Marschal von Tlindenberg
Warsaw
East Prossian
Laois
Servia
France
Belgium
Ypres
Paris
Bordeaux
Nerlin
Pope Benedict
Russia
William
General Bliss Establishes Field Battery Near Line
Advices from General Bliss report setting up a field battery three miles from the front to protect American troops if needed. Officers say these guns are most effective at three to five miles and shielded from Mexican fire while covering trenches. General Bliss will stay in wireless contact with bomb-proof camps along the boundary near Nace Arizona. Field signal gear and wireless equipment were sent from Fort Sam Houston to Nace.
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San Antonio
Bliss
Army
Miss
Arizon
Nace
Fort Sam Houston
Woman Shoots Daughter Then Tries Suicide in Redding
Mrs James W Burke shot her six year old daughter Benita after buying Christmas toys in Redding California. She then attempted to kill herself, firing at her chest but surviving likely mortally wounded. Burke offered little explanation saying only that he had been planning this for a long time.
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IBY Morning Journal
Redding
Calif
Dee
Benita
James W. Burke
War Bulletins From Amsterdam And London
Front line notes describe Servian relief by Russian forces as of late October with arrival near Vienna by December. German honors awarded to General von Morgen for Poland efforts. Russians retreat from Saros Galicia and Bartha region. Austrians regain Bartha. British report Falkland Islands battle casualties seven dead four wounded. Austrian HQ notes no major southern war events with troop regrouping. Pope Benedict’s Christmas truce proposal declined by Russia. Germany shown open to truce if others agree.
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London
Deeth
Secretary of the Admiralty
Sturdee
Falkland Islands
Gneisenau
Leipzig
Berlin
Dee
Sayville
Pope Benedict
Rusela
Germany
Nations Invited to Peace Congress by American Peace Society
Washington dispatch reports the American Peace Society will invite all nations including warring powers to its biennial peace congress. The board denounces armament and urges a broader appeal beyond conflict, with Washington favored for the meeting and Benjamin Trueblood resigning as secretary after 25 years due to ill health.
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Washington
Europe
American Peace Society
Slayden
Texas
United States
America
Executive Committee
San Francisco
Benjamin F. Truebloood
Trueblood
American steamer George Hawley detained at Falmmouth
The American steamer George Hawley sailing from New York to Copenhagen November 14 reached Fal mouth November 36 and is listed by the London Gazette as one of the vessels whose cargoes or parts of them have been detained. Captain Moses commands the George Hawley, registered to the Boston and Virginia Shipping Company.
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Morning Journal
London, Dee, Ll
George Hawley
New York
Copenhagen
Falmouth
London Gazette
Moses
Boston & Virginia Shipping Company
Effort to Relieve Cracow Stalls as Front Lines Check
Five Austro German columns in Poland show improving and deteriorating trends with three checked by Russian counterattacks. Cracow relief effort stalls while Wyse east moves pause and Berlin aims decisive eastern success before Russian superiority dominates. Servian victory confirmed as Austrians retreat from Ushliza and Valjevo. Western fronts report limited gains by French and German forces. British losses at Falkland Islands noted as minor. Churchill confirms allied Pacific collaboration with Japan and Australia.
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Lodz
Lowleez
Thorn
Cracow
Piotrkow
Ana
Czenstochowa
Warsaw
Ushliza
Valjevo
Cosnian
Argonne
Flanders
Ypres
Sturdee
Admiralty
Falkland Islands
Winton Spencer Churchill
Japan
Pacific
Admiral von Spee
East
Strong German Attacks Repulsed at Ypres
Paris reports a very violent German attack in the Ypres region has been repulsed. The official French communique notes that trenches previously reported as captured in the afternoon had been retaken.
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Ypres
Paris
German fronts and recapture reported by Allies
A brief Allied dispatch states German forces have been recaptured by U S troops and that the western front shows no notable new activity. The report notes no significant developments on the front line.
Regional banks may not clear checks in districts
The Federal Reserve Board decided that for now reserve banks will only clear checks for member banks within their own districts. A five governor committee will study clearance for outside banks and report next month. The decision reflects debates over reserve act aims to reduce dominance of large clearinghouse groups.
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Washington
Federal Reserve
Severners
Fortune telling banned across German empire
Lubeck reports that fortune tellers may not practice anywhere in Germany. The wartime surge of clients among soldiers' relatives raised tensions and tragic outcomes. News criticism targets the field postal service muddle and wartime uncertainty.
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Frese
Lubeck
Germany
German Empire
Churchill Cable Sees End of German East Fleet
London reports Winston Churchill thanking the Japanese minister of marine for pivotal aid in destroying the German squadron based at Tsingtau. He notes the sinking of Ltscharn horst, Gneisenau, Leipzig, and Nurnberg and declares the Pacific peace restored with German expulsion complete. He credits Japanese and Australian fleets for the joint victory and safe future commerce.
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OY Morning Journal
London
Falkland Islands
Winston Spencer Churchill
Admiralty
Pacific
Mozambique
South America
Japan
Great Suffering in West Flanders
Two Blankenberghe residents appeal to the Rotterdam representative of the American Commission for Relief in Belgium. They seek aid for Huest Wendoyne and surrounding communities, warning of famine if relief does not arrive. Blankenberghe, cut off from Bruges, has fed 1,600 daily but now exhausts its funds.
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London
Blankenberghe
West Flanders
Rotterdam
American Commission For Relief
Belgium
Huest
Wendoyne
Bruges
Miankenberghe
French Cabinet Meets in Paris Amid War Tension
The French cabinet gathered at the Elysee Palace in Paris for the first time since September when the government fled to Bordeaux as invaders closed within twenty miles of the capital. Today’s session opened with marked cheerfulness after a period of intense anxiety at the prior Paris meeting.
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Paris
Russians Hold Ground Around Lodz As Austro German Attacks Continue
Reports from Lodz zone say Russian defense remains firm with new lines near Miazga and Austro German assaults pressed to prevent Russian reinforcements. Vienna dispatches note failed Russian move into Zemplin and Ottoman occupation of Geda signaling Batum siege progress.
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Derlin
wWireleas
Sayville
Lodz
Miazga Eut
Lowiecz
Miazga
Poland
Piotrkow
Vienna
Budapest
Zemplin
Turkey
Geda
Batum
Alschara
German General Laughs At Death By Own Action
The official press bureau lists items from December 11 noting Field Marshal von Der Goltz’s amusement at a London Daily Mail tale about attempts to die by own action in Brussels. It also mentions Polish victory rumors, the Audacious loss, Greece’s neutrality, Ismal Yashija’s stance, and Swiss mediation over wireless use in war.
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London
Ireland
Rome
Greece
Constantinople
Ismal Yashija
Yemen
Switzerland
Berne
Mount St. Gothard
Federal Council
B. Grant Duff
Austrians Claim Progress in Carpathian Operations
An Austrian official statement from Vienna reports progress in the Carpathians, says enemy rear guard actions were repulsed, Emmerysl remains surrounded but not attacked, soldiers make sorties daily to keep the fortress area distant, and Polish front lines were quiet.
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Amsterdam
London
Vienna
Carpathians
Galleria
Poland
Russians Report Successes in Eastern Front Actions
Petrograd reports the general staff stating on December 10 German offensives near Mlana were repulsed as Russian forces counterattacked and pursued retreating columns. In the Locies area German assaults on December 9 through 10 were repulsed with heavy losses. Seven attacks were repelled with some Russian units allowing limited German proximity.
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Petrograd
Mlana
Locies
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Recial
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Refugee
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von Morgen
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Dukla
Carpathian
Southern War Theater
ALL Nations
Peace Congress
Miana
Prussian
Marine
Morning Journal Erecial
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