Destruction of Shipping by Submarines Threatens Britain
A weekly review notes German submarine losses and the British food crisis. The Mongolia gun crew boast a Roosevelt-named weapon that sank a U boat in the Irish Sea. Britain seeks rapid shipbuilding, food imports, and American aid as famine fears rise. US loan aid and food shipments are arranged, with Joffre hoping for American troops to join the front. Russian turmoil, Spain's warnings to Berlin, and ongoing European war actions are summarized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward W. Pickard
America
Germany
Mongolia
Irish Sea
Theodore Roosevelt
Great Britain
Admiralty
Lord Davenport
London
France
United States
Agricultural College of the University of Illinois
Canadia
Dominion
Canada
War news and U S actions in World War I
Reports from Washington detail U S support for France and Britain in World War I. President Wilson congratulates French leaders, while U S naval actions include the Mongolia sinking a German submarine. Convoys, losses, and dispatches from Berlin and The Hague shape early 1917 era coverage.
World War I Food Control Moves At Washington Conference
United States signals a food policy shift as Elihu Root agrees to chair a commission to Russia while Treasury Secretary McAdoo prepares for a large war finance bond issue. Reports note entente financing needs and a surge in the first security offering, with food shortages flagged in several ally nations and Houston urging stronger government control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
England
France
Great Britain
Treasury
McAdoo
Herbert Hoover
Wilson
Washington
Elihu Root
White House
Russia
Treasury Department
Houston
Congress
German Wartime Address Promises Peace Details
European war report from Amsterdam Tijd signals Dr. von Bethmann Hollweg will outline Germany’s peace terms in a Reichstag speech. Dunkirk bombarded by German destroyers. French torpedo boat sunk. British and French patrol ships engaged. Civilians flee Petrograd. one permit office besieged by about 200 people. British destroyers Swift and Broke, damaged, return to port after clash with six German destroyers in English Channel. Battle of Arras flares as British seize Gaxtelle and surrounding trench system. 1,200 Germans captured.
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France
Arras
Bapaume
Cambrai
von Hindenburg
Teutons
Meny von Hindenburg
Royal Flying Corps
Aly
Haig
Nivelle
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Palestine
Gaza
Beersheba
Portugal
Europe
Rance
Straits of Dover
Dunkirk
Russia
Spain
Germany
Alfonso
Turkey
United States
Bethmann-Hollweg
Scheidemann
Thompson
Chicago
Joffre
Iin
Amsterdam
Tijd
von Bethmann- Hollweg
Reichstag
Paris
Petrograd
London Express
English Channel
London
Swift
Broke
Gaxtelle
Rouex
Guemappe
Monchy
Trescault
Croissiles
War era farmer pledge and western Canada land push
The piece urges Americans to boost farming as national service during World War I, cites two dollar wheat and rising prices, and calls for widespread land ownership. It highlights Western Canada as a model for affordable homesteads, abundant grain yields, and incentives to settle prairie lands with good wages, roads, and ownership. It frames Allied victory, US-Canada cooperation, and agricultural expansion as essential to a lasting peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Journal
United States
United States Navy
Canada
Europe
Western Canada
Marital Graft and a Honeymoon Plan
A humorous fragment depicts Mose Johnsing joking about bribing a parson to marry him and Melindy with a two dollar fee, then suggesting to charge five and send the excess to Lake Squeedunk for their honeymoon. The line ends with a quip about repealing gravity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mose Johnsing
Melindy
Parson Jackson
Puck
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Regal
Constituent Assembly
Edward T. Hurley
Daniel Willard
Sen
U.S
Teutonic War News
M. Rene Vivianl
Marshal Joffre
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Percy Birdsall
New York
State Department
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U. S
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Andy
Time Line
Atlantic
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Hague
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Frank Raguse
Milwaukee
Wisconsin Senate
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United States Weather Bureau
Springfeld
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National Congress of Mothers
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