Plans for Portland harbor expansion unveiled at half a million
The annual report of Major F A Pope US Engineers outlines Portland harbor improvements. Dredging would bring mean depth to 30 feet and create a 300 foot channel up the Fore River with a 1900 foot breakwater, enlarging the deep water anchorage off Casco Bay opposite the city.
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Portland
Portland Harbor
Casco Bay
F. A. Pope
United States Engineers
Fore River
Russian Premier Resigns. Golitzine Appointed Leader
Jan 10 report from Petrograd notes Premier Trepoff and Minister Ignatieff resign. Prince Golitzine, Senator and Council of the Empire member, takes over as premier.
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London
Reuter
Petrograd
Trepoff
Count Ignatieff
Prince Golitzine
Council of the Empire
Kulchitsky
M. Neratoff
Trepoff Leads as Premier Amid Duma Dissension
Alexander Feodorovich Trepoff became premier in November 1916 and declared the entente had agreed to Russian rights in Constantinople and the Straits. His tenure saw dissension in the Duma and a strong obstructionist movement among members.
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Alexander Feodorovich Trepoff
Boris V. Sturmer
Premier Trepoff
Duma
Constantinople
Straits
Trepoff
China Sympathetic With Wilson’s Peace Note
Wu Tingfang, China’s foreign minister, replied to President Wilson via Dr. Paul Reinsch. He says China is likely the greatest neutral sufferer from the war due to needed reforms and expresses sympathy with Wilson’s peace aims and a system upholding equality among nations to prevent further injustice and violence.
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Pekin
Wu Ting Fang
Paul Reinsch
Wilson
China
Germans Press On Invasion Of Moldavia And Romania
Berlin reports the central powers advance into Moldavia from Transylvanian Alps as Russian and Romanian forces resist. Von Mackensen’s troops push northward in Moldavia and reach the Putna River sector, gaining ground step by step.
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Rumania
Berlin
Moldavia
Transylvanian Alps
von Mackensen
Putna
Teutonic Allies Report Record Prisoners and Skirmishes
Berlin says Teutonic allies hold 5499 prisoners and seized three guns and 10 machine guns. Petrograd notes Russian retreats along Putna Sereth and near Oituz while asserting repulsed central power attacks south of Lake Babit and near Riga. Greece faces 48 hour ultimatum to withdraw troops in Thessaly, reduce forces elsewhere, release prisoners, and apologize.
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Berlin
Petrograd
Putna
Sereth
Kassina
Oituz
Rekoza
Suchitza
Russia
Riga
Friedrichstadt
Mitau Olai
Dvina
Iloukst
Lake Babit
Greece
Thessaly
German chancellor to make mid month statement on war aims
A dispatch from Berlin says Chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg may issue an important declaration about Germany's war aims around mid January. The Entente reply to President Wilson is awaited, after which Germany will refine its Reichstag position and address neutrals who supported Wilson’s proposals.
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Amsterdam
London
von Bethmann-Hollweg
Berlin
Wilson
Reichstag
Germany
Tague Opens Tube Fight Over Pneumatic Service
Congressman Peter F. Tague battles to retain the pneumatic tube system amid House debate. Postmaster General Burleson pushes scrap for automobiles, with allies and dissenters clashing in committee rooms during calendar Wednesday adjournment.
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Washington
Peter F. Tague
Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Chicago
St. Louis
Burleson
Tague
Moon
Post Office Committee
Stafford
Wisconsin
Garner
Texas
Gallagher
Illinois
Gordon
Ohio
Coal pocket plan claimed to save Massachusetts citizens millions
Joseph A. Conry, former congressman and Port Directors member, told the Jewellers' Club banquet at Copley Plaza that establishing a coal pocket for distribution to Massachusetts housekeepers could save citizens more than 3 million dollars annually and over 5 million overall.
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Massachusetts
Joseph A. Conry
Board of
Port Directors
Jewellers’ Club
Copley Plaza
War News In Brief From Western Front
Reports say little fighting near Riga and Jacobstadt with Russian attacks failing. French artillery in Alsace hit an enemy supply depot near Iffurt. Reciprocal artillery fire across the Belgian front from Pervyse to Steenstraete. German air raids hit barracks west of La Panne and at Nieuwport. Our trenches entered opposite Hulluch and artillery active along the Ancre Gommecourt Souchez Armentieres and Ypres regions.
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Riga
Jacobstadt
Berlin
Alsace
Rhone-Rhine Canal
Iffurt
Paris
Pervyse
Dixmude
Steenstraete
la Panne
Nieuport
Belgium
Hulluch
Ancre
Gommecourt
Souchez
Armentieres
Messines
Ypres
Bombardment at a Strong Point North of Wieltje
Official London reports a bombardment of a strong point north of Wieltje causing large explosions. Continuous artillery action indicates a sustained assault with heavy impacts observed by frontline observers.
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Wieltje
London
Japan Adheres to Allied Economic Agreement
The foreign office announces Japan has formally signified adherence to the Paris conference economic agreement. The pact unifies laws regulating trade with hostile nations and provides commercial, industrial, agricultural, and maritime reconstruction measures plus permanent collaboration among the allies after the war.
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London
Foreign Office
Japan
van Dyke clarifies Wilson note handover to Dutch minister
London Jan 9 The Dutch foreign minister is correct that Henry van Dyke handed President Wilsons note of December 18 without asking for Dutch support van Dyke stated that he delivered the note without any request or suggestion from The Netherlands government to back it.
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The
Hague
London
Wilson
Henry van Dyke
van Dyke
Netherlands
Government Instructions On Transmitting Informational Note
A quoted statement explains that the note was sent as information with no request attached, reflecting adherence to government guidance. The speaker describes following orders to transmit the note simply for informational purposes.
Somerville Man Heads New Universal Order
Dr. George R. Marshall of Somerville Massachusetts was elected president of the newly formed Universal Order of Humility and Perfection created by the consolidation of the Imperial Order of Muscovites and the Oriental Order of Humility and Perfection Members are drawn from the Independent Order of Odd Fellows A meeting in Boston on August 13 will approve a ritual and conduct business
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ST. Louis
Imperial Order of Muscovites
Oriental Order of Humility and Perfection
Universal Order of Humility and Perfection
Independent
Order of Odd Fellows
George R. Marshall
Somerville
Mass
Boston
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