Bolsheviks Move Troops Against Kale dines Cossacks Across Fronts
The report details major artillery duels from the North to the Adriatic as Teutonic forces reinforce fronts and air battles rage on the British fronts. In Russia Kale dines grows stronger while Moscow experiences street clashes and Bolshevik resistance amid mounting famine and garrison mutiny rumors.
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Teutons
Brenta
Viave
Italy
War Office
Piave
Cape Sile
Russia
Kaledines
Moscow
Suffragists Plan Capitol March During National Convention
Four hundred women from the National American Woman Suffrage Association gathered in Washington for the forty-ninth annual convention. They will march to the capitol to urge support for the federal suffrage amendment and its consideration by state delegations. If defeated this session, the group plans to push for electing favorable members to ensure passage in the next congress. The convention opened with a reception for Carrie Chapman Catt and Anna Howard Shaw. Guests in the receiving line included Mrs. W. G. McAdoo and other prominent figures.
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Opeca
Leseedmer
Washington
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Capitol
House Judiciary Committee
Executive Council
Carrie Chapman Catt
Anna Howard Shaw
W. G. McAdoo
Newton D. Baker
Josephus Daniel
Franklin K. Lane
David F. Houston
Thomas W Gregory
A. 8. Burleson
Austrian battleship Wien torpedoed and sunk
Vienna reports the Austrian battleship Wien was torpedoed and sunk Sunday night. Most of the crew were saved according to an official Vienna statement received in Amsterdam and forwarded by Central News.
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London
Wien
Vienna
Amsterdam
Central News
Weather Forecast for Denver Begins Warm Then Cold
Denver weather bulletin forecasts fair conditions for Wednesday and likely Thursday. Temperatures to rise in eastern portions on Wednesday and drop in eastern portions on Thursday.
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Denver
Colo
Weather summary for twenty four hours ending 6 pm
Local weather report shows maximum 61 degrees and minimum 18 with a 42 degree range. At 6 pm the temperature was 35 with a south wind and clear skies.
British casualties for 7 days lead week report
London reports 23 256 British casualties for the week ending today down from 28 822 last week. Breakdown shows 359 officer and 5 052 enlisted dead or killed in action and 978 officers with 16 967 enlisted wounded or missing. Chicago women carry mail in cold test service nine women named to test feasibility of women postal carriers.
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Morning Journal
London
Killeger
Chicago
Dee
Carrier Pigeon Traced After Halifax Blast
Halifax Nova Scotia police and military authorities investigate a exhausted carrier pigeon that sought refuge in a house near the burned area day after the explosion. An early report said the bird bore a message in German or Austrian, but a later denial came from the homeowner. The pigeon wore a band 29-29 and was found by Mrs. McKell a quartermaster sergeant's wife.
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OY Morning Journal
Halifax
Dartmouth
Italian Army Clears Bridgehead on Piave River Threat
The Italian Third battalion of the Arezzo brigade relieved a threatened position on the lower Piave river. Austrians occupied a small bridgehead at Cape Sile before dawn but were surprised, bayonetted or captured, and the bridge destroyed. The lower Piave area is now secured.
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Piave River
Venice
Eraci
Italy
226Th
Arezzo
Cape Sile
Dona Piave
Sile Canal
Porto Grande
Piave
Success by Violence Would Be Useless
The Pravda weekly quotes Bolshevik stance on resisting any German imposed peace. It says a disloyal peace would ignite Russian resolve and defend the revolution with arms, while proving loyalty of allied governments in deeming a peaceful settlement with Germany impossible.
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Morning Journal
Petrograd
Pravda Today
Russia
England
France
Germany
Kaledines Declares Cossack Government in Donetz Region
General Kaledines proclaims the Cossack government has seized power in the Donetz region of southern Russia. He asserts the Cossacks can maintain order and will oppose the Bolsheviks with full force. Protests against the Bolsheviks appear from seven army corps. Turkestan mobilizes men 16 to 45 to fight Bolsheviks in Tashkent.
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Stockholm
Kaledines
Donetz
Russia
Yuzhnykrai
Kharkov
Turkestan
Tashkent
German Peace Terms At Brest Litovsk Reported By Times
A Petrograd Times correspondent cites a source from Brest Litovsk talks saying Germany would control the Russian wheat market for fifteen years and admit all German goods tariff free in any armistice negotiations. No Russian territory occupied by Germany would be surrendered. Bolsheviks discouraged by German patience seek an armistice at any cost if allied aid fails.
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London
Petrograd
The
Times
Brest- Litovsk
Germany
Russia
Cold Wave to Return to Rockies with Snow Forecast
Denver reports another cold wave headed for the Rocky mountain region after a brief relief. Local forecasts warn of snow across northern Utah southeastern Colorado and Wyoming with the system expected to reach Colorado tomorrow and bring fair weather only in the south.
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OY Mosnin
Journal Special
Denver
Rocky Mountain
Weath
Utah
Colorado
Wyoming
Congress Begins Rigid Probe on War Handling
Senators confront wartime management as they inspect camps. They question why soldiers lack overcoats and why drills proceed with broomsticks, signaling scrutiny over equipment and training standards.
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Congress
Congress to probe war department needs and camps
Senate leaders ordered a general inquiry into war department operations to improve arming and equipping the national army. General Crozier will testify on ordnance. reports mention clothing shortages causing pneumonia in camps and improvised weapons and cannon.
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War Department
National Army
Senate
Capitol
House
Wilson
Crozier
Baker
Chamberlain
Congress
Wadsworth Frelinghuysen
Prohibition and Suffrage Bills Move Through Congress
The judiciary committee placed constitutional amendments for nationwide woman suffrage and prohibition before the House. The prohibition measure has passed the Senate and needs House approval to submit to the states. The suffrage amendment must pass both houses, with a seven year ratification deadline and a one year after ratification effective date for prohibition.
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Washington
House
Judiciay Committee
Senate
Judiciary Committee
Congress
Revolt Gains Ground in Coahuila as Cities Fall
Mexican state of Coahuila reportedly in revolution with Luis Gutierrez at the helm. Monclova about 150 miles south of the border and Mazauiz 70 miles south of Piedras Negras were captured from federals. Rebels said to be marching on Piedras Negras.
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Mexico
Eagle Pass
Tex
Coahuila
Luis Gutirrez
Monclova
Mazauiz
Piedras Negras
Slavic Assembly Faces Peace or Civil War for Russians
Foreign diplomats await the assembly as Bolsheviks hold about half the seats in a body representing 160 million people. The decisive vote could bring peace or ignite civil strife at home.
Russian Constituent Assembly Opens With 400 Members
A government wireless message from London reports that the second sitting of the constituent assembly was opened by an authorized official of the council of people's commissaries. At least 400 members attended. There is no received news yet of the first sitting, likely due to delayed cable transmission.
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London
Council of People’s Commissaries
Russian Constituent Assembly Decides Future Of Russia
Petrograd reports a national holiday declares the day for the assembly that will decide Russia's future. The Szevestia argues the workers will form a new government, while embassies wait for the assembly's decision amid Bolshevik opposition and foreign diplomatic caution.
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Petrograd
Russia
Petrograd Union For Defense Assembly
Szevestia
Constituent Assembly
Lord Lansdowne 72 Former Canadian Governor General
Lord Lansdowne aged 72, once governor general of Canada, served as minister without portfolio from 1915. A longtime political foe of Lloyd George, he also held the post of British foreign secretary before the coalition ministry was ousted.
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Lord Lansdowne
Britain
Canada
Lansdowne
Lloyd George
Bolsheviki Assembly to Decide on Armistice and Policy
The present Bolsheviki government demands an immediate decision from the government and says Germany awaits the assembly before acting on its armistice offer. Russian and German delegates will resume talks after the assembly opens. Reports suggest the assembly will include Bolsheviki delegates nearly equal to other parties, with Kerensky and Lenin among its members.
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Germany
Siberian
Caucasus
Petrograd
Odessa
Kerensky
Lenine
Railroads oppose federal control and seek unification plan
Washington reports the railroad war board and the American Railway Association favor unification without government control or anti-pooling repeal. Daniel Willard, B&O president, urged four railroad union leaders to a conference to discuss rail operations and possible federal oversight. Relief grows that the president may appoint a federal administrator to direct unified transportation.
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Washington
Railroad War Board
American Railway Association
Daniel Williard
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Government War Industries Board
Miss Stinson Sets Nonstop San Diego to San Francisco Record
Miss Katherine Stinson, Texan aviatrix, completed a nonstop flight from San Diego to San Francisco in about nine hours. Officials say the unofficial distance reached about 550 miles, surpassing Ruth Law’s 512 mile record from 1916. She landed at the Presidio with evident strain after the long flight.
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Miss Stinson
San Diego
San Francisco
Morning Journal
Calif
Dee
Katherine Stinson
Texan Aviatrix
Tehachapi Mountains
Ruth Law
Chicago
Hornell
N. Y
Miss Law
Pacific Aero Club
Misa Stinson
Presidio
Thirteen Negro Soldiers Hanged on Lone San Antonio Scaffold
In San Antonio Texas on December 11 thirteen soldiers of the Twenty fourth Infantry were hanged at dawn for complicity in the Houston riot. A night build scaffold in an arroyo hosted the execution with Army engineers and guards present. The condemned marched to the traps singing hymns and received last prayers before the drops.
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Jojanal Gpec
San Antonio
Tex
Twentyfourth
United States Infantry
Houston
Military Guard
Army
Company C
Twenty-fourth United States Infantry
Nineteenth Infantry
Camp Travis
Millard Waltz
Lhiey
John Tobin
Orn Eer Alll
Bexar County
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