Stormy Day Amid World War Front Reports
Yesterday's battles across France and Belgium featured artillery duels and repulsed German assaults near Autreches and Bourevilles. Allied forces claimed gains in the Pont-A-Mousson forest while reports from Berlin and Petrograd described mixed progress, counterattacks, and heavy snow in the Vosges region with Russian forces retaking trenches near Goumine.
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Belgium
Autreche
Vie-Sur-Aisne
Soisons
Rheims
Perthes
Argonne
Ill
Bourevlles
Pont-A-Mousson
le Pretre
Zain
Vosges
Thann
Berlin
London
France
la Boisselle
Pont -Ar Mousson
Nieuport
Albert
Alsacea
Hast
Sruaala
Poland
Wkra
Badzanow
Vistula
Petrograd
Care of War Prisoners Casts Heavy Burden on Serbia
Vienna reports large Austrian and Prussian casualties with thousands killed wounded or missing. Russian forces claim success against Turks in the Caucasus while Serbia wrestles with feeding and housing enemy prisoners, including a captured Austrian dragoon serving near his brother.
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London
Vienna
Amsterdam
Vistula
Zakhczyn
Galicia
Carpathians
No Advance Reported By British In France
London reports from January 18 state the observer with the British army disputes a recent claim of British forces capturing positions near La Bassee and advancing a mile. The dispatch notes no attack on La Bassee has been attempted, though earlier Paris reports cited St Omer.
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France
Iia, Bassee
St. Omer
Paris
la Bassee
Kaiser bars honors to dead prisoners
Amsterdam January 18 The Han delsblad reports an imperial order by Emperor William forbidding untrained German reservists from serving as guards of honor at the burial of prisoners of war The emperor is quoted saying that while last honors are desired the troops main task is to quickly obtain needed military training
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Amsterdam
London
William Han
Handelsblad
Adrianople Abandoned by Turkish Forces
London dispatch cites Reuters from Athens stating Adrianople, second only to Constantinople in importance in European Turkey, has been abandoned by the Turkish garrison.
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London
Reuter
Athens
Constantinople
Turkey
Publishers deplore killing of Hinman in Chattanooga
The Southern Newspaper Publishers association meeting in Chattanooga elected W T Anderson president to replace FW Hinman slain on a ship by Boston architect George B Perkins. R B Jones was named vice president. The group voted to aid Mrs Hinman in her damages suit, sending a check to her attorneys. The resolution mourns the president and pledges support for the widow and two sons.
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Tenn
Southern Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Macon
Telegraph
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Jacksonville
George B. Perkins
Boston
R. 8. Jones
Asheville
Hinman
Moroccans Repel Germans at Soissons in Fierce Fight
At Soissons on January 14 15 Moroccan rifle regiments held Crouy and held off German advance with stealthy fire. French forces later broke German ranks at trenches near Crouy railway station taking prisoners before the enemy withdrew to the village. The French maintained control of the Soissons suburbs and riverbank despite heavy bombardment.
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Paris
Crouy
Bruyne
St. Paul
Vregny
Bitter British reaction to Dacia request on flag transfer
Great Britain likely to reject an American request allowing the Hamburg American liner Dacia now under the American flag to make one voyage from the United States to Germany. Officials doubt an exception can be made. The Dacia dispute fuels bitter street discussion in England as other ships are examined for contraband. Four ships await prize court decisions and three more are detained for inspection.
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Great Britain
United States
Germany
England
Sigrun
Fridland
Bjornstjerne Bjornsen
Alfred Worbel
Augusta
Kansas
Kentucky
Henderson Takes Oath as Alabama Governor
Charles Henderson was inaugurated governor of Alabama at noon in Montgomery. He took the oath on the capitol veranda and swore allegiance on the same Bible used by Jefferson Davis. Chief Justice John C. Anderson administered the oath as a parade featuring the state militia passed in rain crowded capital streets.
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Ala
Charles‘ Henderson
Alabama
Capitol
Jefferson Davis
Confederate States of America
John C. Anderson
Alabama Supreme Court
Henderson
What the Germans did to Cardinal Mercier
Rome, January 18. A Belgian church authority report to Pope Benedict details German actions against Cardinal Mercier after his Christmas pastoral. It notes 15,000 copies seized, a 600 marks fine, bans on readings, interrogations of Mercier, and detentions from January 2 to 6, with Germans demanding a retraction he refused.
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Belgium
Cardinal Mercier
Benedict
Berlin
Dessain
von Bissing
Antwerp
Stroempel
von Stroempel
Brussels
von Streempel
Re~main
Confidence Is Passing From Kaiser's Troops
London reports a British observer in France noting a shift in German morale and the difference between German rank and file from weeks ago. He cites German prisoners realizing a victory is unlikely while condemning the German doctors' lack of surgical experience. The piece also praises British aviation and detailed German discipline and preparedness, despite soldiers ready to sacrifice life.
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London
France
Germany
General Tompkins Dead in Washington at 84
Brigadier General Charles H. Tompkins U.S. Army retired died in Washington aged 84. A native of Fort Monroe Virginia he had been awarded the congressional medal of honor for gallantry in action at Fairfax Courthouse in 1861.
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Washington
Charles H. Tompkins
Fort Monroe
Fairfax Courthoue
Prohibition Rider Barred by Senate Vote
Washington January 18 The Senate defeated a motion to suspend the rules to admit Senator Sheppards amendment for absolute prohibition in the District of Columbia. The chamber had required a two thirds majority to suspend. Sheppard will press the issue as a separate measure or in another bill. Eighteen Republicans nineteen Democrats and one Progressive voted to suspend.
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Senate
Sheppard
District of Columbia
Bishop Sumner Sued for Alleged Libel
Bishop W T Sumner of Oregon was served in Clinton Iowa with a $40000 libel suit filed by John Calvin Murray of Iowa. The case stems from a Chicago Episcopal minister whose earlier marriage to Murray ended in divorce plus a later statement denying the divorce. The suit arose during Sumner’s Omaha stop en route home from Chicago.
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Neb
W. T. Sumner
Oregon
Chicago
Clinton
Iowa
John Calvin Murray
Crimy
Murray
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