Britain Urges 75 Million Bushels More Wheat From U S
London reports Lord Shondda food controller tells AP Britain faces serious wheat shortage but not to health. with United States aid the country can pull through. He cites Germany's hardship and Italy and France bombardment as hurdles, stressing endurance and substitutes while awaiting victory.
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London
Great Br
United States
Shondda
Associated Press Today
Great Britain
Germany
Britain
Italy
France
England
Unclear fragmentary regional news card
Readable items include miners entombment, ship losses near Miniawa, high school grad Wal, thrift stamps, court cases, a kidnapped Albanian girl, street railway schedule, and Bishop McGoldrick death among scattered mentions.
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Miniaware
Prija
Lewis
Labor Party
Bishop McGoldrick
Butte
Bozete
Chamberlain to Reply Today to Wilson Charges
Washington dispatch says Senate military committee war cabinet and munition director proposals will be debated tomorrow. Senator Chamberlain plans a lengthy personal reply to President Wilson. Cabinet plans and procedural moves across committees shape the fight over the administration’s war bureau bill.
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Washington
Senate Military Committee
Senate
Chamberlain
Dithard
Martin
Auin
Chamby
War Cabinet
Embargo On Freight Except Food Fuel And War Supplies
Washington reports an unofficial freight embargo east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio and Potomac rivers. Only food fuel and war supplies are exempt. railroads redirect eastward traffic to essential needs and coal priority rises. Weather limits movement as coal stocks and rail capacity constrain recovery, with possible zone distribution of coal plans awaiting Garfield’s talks.
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Washington
Mississippi
Ohio
Potomac
Pennsylvania
Baltimore&_ Ohio
Pittsburg
Philadelphia & Reading
Fuel Administration
Garfield
Tulle
Atlante Seaboard
New England
Seven Hundred Lives Lost Announced by Admiralty Official
The House of Commons was told today by Thomas McNamara the financial secretary of the Admiralty that seven hundred lives were lost in a Mediterranean incident three weeks ago.
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Mediterranean
House of Commons
Thomas McNamara
The
Admiralty
Seventy Nine Entombed After Nova Scotia Mine Disaster
Seventy nine men believed dead after an explosion in the Arcadia Coal Company's Atlan shaft at Stellar Nova Scotia. Eleven workers on a higher level escaped. eight bodies recovered as rescue teams labored amid dense smoke. The incident recalls a similar disaster in the same vicinity fifty years earlier.
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Halifax
Nova
Seoul
Enty
Atlan
Arcadia Coal Company
Stellar Nova Scotia
Huns Building Great Liner Amid Turbulent Seas
German papers report on the sinking and renaming of vessels as Turkish sea power weakens. Hamburg Nachrichten notes partial destruction of the great transatlantic liner Von Hin denburg under construction at Danai, with damage estimated at 1,000,000 marks. Frankfurt Zeitung mourns neutral tonnage gains and Sweden's cabinet in a march forward.
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Amsterdam
Hreslau
S Selim
Cologne
Hamburger Nachrichten
von Hindenburg
Danai
Frankfurter” Zeitung
Swedlish Cabinet
Military operations begin on Western Front report says
Allied reporting notes renewed activity across the Western front amid heavy snow and thaw, with large units engaging in intensive duels in several sectors. Austria and Hungary face acute unrest as wartime labor and political strife affect production and peace prospects.
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Austria
Ger Ny
Minimum Ship Losses Reported In Britain Wartime Salvo
London says in the sinkings of British merchantmen by mine or submarine have been held at Tow Point Only six vessels of 1 600 tons or over and two under that tonnage were destroyed in the past week according to the admiralty report tonight The sinkings of British merchantmen for the past week duplicate the sinkings of the large ships and small ones In the previous week two fishing vessels were sunk while in the last week the fishing craft escaped entirely The admiralty reports of Jan and Jan 9 gave the sinkings of 21 merchantmen of which 18 were over 1 400 tons in each case wan ayn cons Washington Jan 28 War time conditions have affected enrolment of the nations high schools in war announced today by the federal bureau of education Figures from 84 towns and 98 counties show the annual increase is only one fourth of the usual 8 per cent.
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London
Jun
Admiralty
Wan Ayn
Washington
Jan
Federal Bureau of Education
Stail
Meat Consumption Cut Twenty Five Per Cent
Armour & Co reports a substantial drop in meat consumption by 25 percent. The 1917 U.S. business totaled 9,000 with profits per dollar of sales at about 22 cents. Domestic and foreign meat product sales rose by 50 million, while overall profits on invested capital reached about 20,100.
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Armour & Co
United States
Fem
Armour
Build Sacrifice to Beat That Beast
Rousing wartime speech by Major Murphy of the American Red Cross urges building and sacrifice to defeat the enemy. He cites horrors reported by British officers and calls for unity behind Allied efforts, condemning any peace based on German territorial gains.
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New York
Jan
M. P. Murphy
Itnes
Murphy
Red Cross
Star of General
Europe
Ted Cross
Gray
Rmany
Germany
Eunea
France
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