President Wilson Urges War Declaration on Austria Hungary
President Wilson calls for a formal declaration of war against Austria Hungary as part of a broader war aims doctrine. The address is distributed rapidly by telegraph to major cities and abroad, with translations into French and Spanish. Congress plans swift action, with House and Senate preparing resolutions and committees convened to draftthe Austrian war measure, while public and congressional support runs high.
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Senate
Germany
House
LaFollette
Stone
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Austria
Terrible Price Paid by Germans for Small Gain
Russian General Staffs Headquarters on the Northern Front fell to the Bolsheviks. General Dukhonin was killed after being thrown from a train by Bolshevik troops. German casualties rose as they gained little, with more than 6,000 British prisoners reported but heavy losses. British and Italian fronts show limited gains while fighting continues around Cambrai and Asiago.
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Dukhonin
Eral Byng
British War Office
Qam
Brai
Cambrai
Asiago
Piave
Palestine
Jerusalem
Krylenko
Russians Prepare Battle Near Vitebsk Amid Turmoil
Petrograd dispatch reports an impending clash between detachments of the Petrograd garrison led by Ensign Krylenko and surrounding cossacks at Vitebsk. A telegram claims cossacks sit on Krylenko’s rear flanks while rumors say General Kornilov escaped custody last night after a failed revolt.
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Petrograd
Krylenko
Vitebsk
Korniloff
Kerensky
Naval Surgeon Dies By His Own Hand In Norfolk Hotel
Lieutenant Commander Richard B. Williams naval surgeon, aged forty two, committed death by his own action in a Norfolk hotel after relief from duty for eye treatment. His body was found during a family search. he had feared losing his eyesight and had been appointed to the navy from Virginia in 1900, with home in Norfolk.
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Norfolk
Richard B. Williams
Williams
Navy
Virginia
World wide broadcast of president's address wows nations
New York December 4 President Wil son's congressional address is hailed as a historic publicity feat. The government employed express trains telephone telegraph wireless and submarine cable to transmit the speech. Operators in New York transmitted to San Francisco then to San Francisco to the orient and to Central and South American capitals via Panama Canal Zone. Wireless relays reached Caribbean sea points and ships in the region learned the words from Washington.
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Creel
Public Information Committee
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Wilson
United States
San Francisco
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Tokio
Perkin
Atlantic
London
Panama
Paris
Stockholm
Copenhagen
Christiania
the Hague
Petrograd
Algiers
Lisbon
Madrid
Rome
Berne
New York
South America
Rio de Janeiro
Colon
Bogota
Valparaiso
Quito
Lima
Dima
la Pas
Santiago
Buenos Ayres
Wiilson
Congress
Orient
Panama Canal Zone
Caribbean
Declaration of War With Austria-Hungary Predicted by US
Washington reports a war declaration with Austria-Hungary would cause little readjustment since hostilities with Austria have effectively existed for months. The entry notes Austrian-diplomatic and consular services aiding German war aims, and hints that some sunk ships’ crews were Austrian, linking acts to both powers.
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Austria- Hungary
Sweden denies Bolshevik recognition by its legation
The Swedish foreign office denies a Paris published report that the Swedish legation in Petrograd recognized the Bolshevik government and Germany. It confirms the Swedish minister to Russia joined neutral envoys in acknowledging Trotsky's note on armistice and peace talks, but this was only a courtesy and not recognition of the Leninists.
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Stockholm
Associated Press
Paris
Petcem
Maximalists Plead for Peace Manifesto Sent to Front
London reports that the Maximalist government issued a peace manifesto to German and Austrian soldiers. Aerial and other dispatches will distribute it to the Austro German army, outlining Poltreviki aims and measures and urging soldiers to aid peace with promises of a soon nationwide peace settlement.
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London
Petrograd
Poltreviki
Russian Breakdown Prolongs War Says Huysmans
Camile Huysmans secretary of the Socialist Internationale now via Gothenburg condemns Russian events as darkening the peace outlook. He argues Germany would still lack material superiority even if eastern front troops withdrew, making a prolonged war likely for months.
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Stockholm
Camile Huysmans
The
Socialist Internationale
Gothenburg
Afton Tidningen
Russia
Germany
Tartar Republic in Crimea Reported
The Times correspondent in Petrograd reports talks of a Tartar republic in the Crimea with details unknown. He notes reference to Caucasus independence and Siberia secession, and questions where disintegration may end as politicians pursue a peace program.
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Crimea
London
Petrograd
The
Times
Caucasus
Siberia
Escaped Convicts Recaptured Near Morris
Seven of the thirteen convicts who escaped from the State penitentiary were nabbed early today near Morris in a box car on the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific railroad. The remaining six are surrounded and expected to be taken soon. The prisoners offered no resistance.
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Joliet
State Penitentiary
Posies
Morris
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
Appeal for Medical Corps Recruits by Surgeon General
Washington December 3 1907 an appeal to men aged eighteen to forty to join the enlisted army medical corps was issued by Surgeon General Gorgas. Applicants should apply before December 15 to any army recruiting officer or to medical officers at any military post or encampment.
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Washington
Army Medical Corps
Gorgas
Army
Bolshevik Forces Claim Russian General Staff Surrender
Ensign Krylenko telegraphs that the Russian general staff has surrendered after refusing to recognize Bolshevik authority. Petrograd reports the move as a key Bolshevik victory in the ongoing power struggle.
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Petrograd
Krylenko
Germany's War Aim and Quiet Peace Talk Debated
Discussion in the article centers on Germany's stated war goal described as immediate and unalterable. It also examines the possibility of a premature peace, argued by figures who misjudge its nature and how it could be achieved.
Wilson unveils war aims and peace terms to Congress
President Wilson declared to Congress that the United States must declare war on Austria Hungary Germany while Turkey and Bulgaria may be included later. He said victory requires immediate action, denounced premature peace, and called for a peace based on mercy and justice with a partnership of nations to secure future peace.
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Germany
Austria
Congress
Turkey
Bulgaria
Washington
America
Wilson
United States
Austria -Hungary
West Virginia and Virginia Weather Outlook
West Virginia expects fair weather Wednesday and Thursday with warmer readings on Thursday. In Virginia the forecast remains fair Wednesday and Thursday with little temperature change.
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West Virginia
Virginia
Armistice Signed Between Russia and Germany
An armistice was signed at Prince Leopold of Bavaria's headquarters in London on December 4, valid for forty eight hours according to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Amsterdam.
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London
Russia
Germany
Leopold of Bavaria
Amsterdam
Rear Admiral Rogers Dead at Forty? Naval Builder Passes
Rear Admiral Charles Custis Rogers, United States Navy, veteran of Guantanamo Bay station construction, died tonight in a Washington hospital. He was sixty one, native of Virginia.
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Rogers
Washington
Charles Custis Rogers
Guantanamo
Cuba
Virginia
Arrests Planned Within Hours After War Declaration
Washington reports that hundreds of Austro Hungarian subjects in the United States may be arrested within hours of a formal war declaration. Unnaturalized aliens would immediately become enemy aliens and face registration, travel bans, and internment under the president’s order.
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Washington
Austria
Department of Justice
Congress
Wilson
Austria-Hungary
Germany
America
United States
Coal price protest hearing in Mercer county
Mercer county fuel committee held its first hearing on coal retail prices with Bluefield dealers accused of charging about forty cents above federal regulations. Princeton dealers reportedly price ten cents below their entitlement as the panel adjourned without firm action.
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County Fuel Administration
L. H. Dancan
J. T. Thornton
P. J. Alexander
Isadore Cohen
Bluefield
Princeton
Federal Fuel Administration
Mercer County Fuel Committee
Fuel Administration
Jresent
Thornton
C. 0. Stahlman
Inter Allied Talks Stress Unity and Naval Committee
Paris reports say the inter allied conferences ended with a pledge of complete understanding and solidarity among allies for wartime goals. A supreme inter allied naval committee was decided and the general staff is developing a definite military program to ensure unity of action.
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Paris
Foreign Office
United States
Inter-Allied
Inter-Allied General Staff
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