Teutons Capture Cettinje Amid Balkan War News
Reports from Vienna via London say Austrian forces captured Cettinje the Montenegrin capital after pushing through Mt Lovcen. King Nicholas and officials likely fled to the mountains as Montenegro is hemmed in. Berlin papers call the seizure a historic dramatic military achievement with political significance for pan Slav aims.
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Cettinje
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Turkish Statement From Constantinople War Office Dispatch
The war office reports on the Caucasian front south of the Aras River and west of Olti. Turkish lines repelled enemy attacks with casualties and prisoners taken, while two Arak Gendiyi assaults were easily repulsed. On the Dardanelles front a cruiser, torpedo boats, and a monitor engaged near Tekke Burnu and Seddul Bahr. a Turkish airman forced the monitor to withdraw, engulfed in flames.
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Kilid Bahr
Cettinje
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Berlin
MacFarlane
Mediterranean
Malta
Givenchy
France
Caucasus
Foucault
Adriatic Sea
Rome
Foes Close In on Montenegro Amid War Movements
Reports from London Jan 14 describe Austro-Hungarian forces advancing toward Antivari while Montenegro faces encirclement. Austria’s advances threaten Cettinje as Turkish and German units push on in the region and Entente ships bombard Gallipoli.
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Cettinje
Antivari
Nicholas
Artillery and Mining Actions in Belgium and Artois
The French war office reports artillery actions north of Staenstraete and near Berry au Bac with camoufters exploding mining works. A revictualling convoy was targeted northeast of Chivy, and a blockhouse near Forges was destroyed. The Foucault submarine reportedly sank an Austrian cruiser near Cattaro. In lighter activity, a patrol party near Lihons suffered two deaths and one wounded. Champagne actions dispersed German troops in trench areas at Butte du Mesnil.
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Vaille
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Argonne
Meuse
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Lacaze
Foucault
Cattaro
Somme
Lihons
Champagne
Butte du Mesnil
German Front Sees Isolated Engagements in Rain Storm
German army headquarters reports a rain storm has limited action on the western front with only isolated artillery hand grenade and mine engagements. The statement was issued today.
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Berlin
Sayville
British bombing of trenches at Givenchy and active artillery near Kemmel
The British official communiqué reports heavy bombardment of the enemy trenches at Givenchy with significant parapet damage. Artillery was active on both sides around Kemmel and Hill 60.
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London
Givenchy
Kemmel
Hill 60
Austrian Scout Cruiser Sunk by French Submarine Foucault
Paris dispatch reports the French submarine Foucault, serving with the Italian fleet, torpedoed and sank Thursday in the Adriatic an Austrian Nova ra scout cruiser. The four Novara class cruisers displace 3384 tons and mount two 18 inch torpedo tubes and nine 3.9 inch guns. Foucault built in 1912 at Cherbourg, length 167 feet.
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London
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Saida
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Cherbourg
Berlin Cuts Bread Allowances and Bans Imported Butter
Berlin lowers bread rations from 1950 to 1900 grammes per week with reduced allotments for workers earning up to 2500 marks yearly. Supplementary cards drop to 350 grammes weekly. Butter imports from abroad are banned to prevent competition with the imperial butter bureau and curb foreign price pressures.
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Berlin
London
Imperial Butter Bureau
Evacuation at Gallipoli Reported With Heavy British Losses
An official Constantinople report on the British evacuation of Seddul Bahr disputes London's version. It says Turkish forces hit the retreating British, bombarded landing stages, and left battlefields strewn with dead. The Turkish account aligns with Berlin’s dispatch via Overseas News Agency.
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Gallipoli
Ford peace party selects alternates for board
The Ford peace expedition completed its American Peace Board by naming four alternates Dr George Kirchwey Emily Greene Balch Jenkin Lloyd Jones and Judge Ren Lindsey to serve if needed They held a public meeting in Rotterdam today as part of their mission in The Hague via London January 14 1920
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London
American Peace Board
George Kirchwey
Columbia University
New York
Emily Greene Balch
Wellesley University
Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Chicago
Ren. B. Lindsey
Denver
Rotterdam
Emperor Nicholas Defers Peace Talks in War Front Message
Czar Nicholas addressing troops on the western front vows no separate peace before forcing the enemy beyond Russia's borders and only with allied consent. He reviews units with General Evert at Zamarie aboard the imperial train and thanks officers and soldiers for their valor and endurance.
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Nicholas
Russia
The
War fuels juvenile crime among German boys
Berlin reports cite Professor Franz von Liszt asserting wartime conditions raise youth crime. A Cassel decree bans evening saloon visits and picture shows for boys 12 to 16, with war blamed for shifts in discipline and fathers away at front.
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Berlin
London
Germany
Franz von Liszt
Berlin University
Society For the Reformation
France Denies Milk Shipments to Germany for Babies
France refuses, on military grounds, to allow shipments of condensed milk by U S charitable groups to Germany and Austria Hungary for babies. Ambassadors Sharp and Page sought permission from Paris and London after the Red Cross offered supervision. State Department reports Sharp’s reply received. Britain expected to respond.
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France
United States
Germany
Austria-Hungary
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Paris
Page
London
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Great Britain
American Red Cross
Sherp
Rebellion in Yunnan Quelled by Chinese Troops
The Far Eastern Bureau reports that authorities deny warnings to foreigners about Yunnan provinces and confirm that government troops have practically quelled the Yunnan outbreak.
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Yunnan
China
New York
Far Eastern Bureau
Pekin
Sze-Chuen
Kwei-Chow
Kwang-Si
Russian Front Update From World War I Memo Speech
Official communique reports Western front no new developments. Caucasus front details include capture of over 800 enemy soldiers four cannons and munitions. A Kurd detachment attempting an offensive near Ardjich fled westward.
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Petrograd
London
Caucasus Front
Ardjich
Pope to Deliver War Allocution Between Cardinals
Vatican circles expect the Pope to issue a major allocution on the war at a consistory around late February or soon after. The ceremony would create new cardinals Scapinelli and Fruhwirth, nuncios at Vienna and Munich, who would be replaced by Locatelli and Aversa respectively as internuncios in Buenos Aires and Brazil.
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Vatican
Scapinelli
Fruhwrith
Vienna
Munich
Mer. Locatelli
Buenos Ayres
Sculptor's Son Killed in Battle in Champagne District
New York news reports Charles Sanford Ward, 22, son of English sculptor Herbert Ward, was killed in action in the Champagne district. Ward, linked by marriage to Charles H. Sanford of England, was among those mentioned as survivors of prior African relief expeditions.
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Charles Sanford Ward
Herbert Ward
Champagne
Paris
Africa
Charles H. Sanford
England
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