Peace Terms of Huns Are Expected Today
A Brest-Litovsk dispatch says the four Teutonic allies will reply jointly to Russian peace proposals, to be delivered tomorrow. Germany backs peace without annexations or indemnities, with no compulsory territorial gains and immediate evacuation. Russia proposes restoring independence to occupied regions and referendums to decide status for non‑independent national groups.
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Associated Press
Amsterdam
Brest-Litovek
Terrtory
Russia
British Casualties Reported in Six Days
London reports 13 419 British casualties for December 1924 period. Killed or died of wounds include 208 officers and 2 714 men, wounded or missing total 827 officers and 10 162 men.
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London
San Francisco Strike Looms Over Wage Demands
In San Francisco bay region, 10 000 metal trades unionists face an inevitable strike as two large employers refuse a 10 percent wage increase beyond the 31 percent rise approved by the federal shipbuilding wage adjustment board.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
San Francisco Bay Region
Federal Shipbuilding
British Capture Palestine Towns
LANDON December 24. General Allenby continues advance in Palestine and occupies four more towns on the Sharon plain north of Jaffa. The advance follows persistent maneuvers in the region as British forces push toward strategic targets.
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Associated Press
Landon
Allenby
Palestine
Plain of Sharon
Jaffra
Shave
German Captives Flee U S Prison
German civilian prisoners at Fort Douglas flee the U S prison in Salt Lake City crawling free with gumpersacks around them. The military authorities report the escape of Ferdinand Kube a miner and Kurtz Wilkin a laborer during the incident.
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Salt Lake City
Ferdinand Kube
Kurtz Wilkin
Fort Douglas
Here
Liberty
Red Cross Makes Christmas Merry for French Children
The American Red Cross funds Christmas festivities for American and French troops in hospitals and trenches in France. Plans include Christmas trees, bags for soldiers, and 100000 socks with gifts for French soldiers in trenches plus 50000 bags for wounded French soldiers. In two towns Red Cross hospitals arrange parties for French refugee and crippled tubercular children.
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Red Cross
Washington, D. C
American Red Cross
France
Paria
American Red Cross Hospital
To Face Trial for Killing Greek Taxi Driver
Four men linked to the December killing of Gust Kondaks, Greek taxi driver, return to Cheyenne after confessing on a train from El Paso. Brown Frisbie Hamilton Hadly face murder charges. details show plan to rob, dispose of body, and escape toward Socorro and beyond.
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Holland
el Paso
Cheyenne
Jack A. Bristol
Gust Kondaks
Ed Schoel
Tom Holland
Willam L. Brown
Normandie Hotel
W. J. Frisbie
Joe Hamilton
L Troop
First Cavalry
Walter Hadly
Gust Kondakis
Taskab
Schoel
Brown
Tadley
Frisbie
Hamilton
Sechoel
Socorro
Denver
Pueblo
Hadley
Puebla
Sam McKengle
Company
Texas Rangers
BE Paso
Kondaks
Sviowl
Baker to Tell of War Policy
Washington December 24. Secretary Baker may outline a definite military policy before a congressional committee, likely the Senate Military Affairs Committee. Supporters urge a clear statement of policy and manpower plans to reassure allies, deter Germany, and satisfy the American public without revealing secrets.
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Baker
Washington
Congressional
Senate Committee
War Department
Germany
United States
Generals to Tell Probers About Army Equipment
Senator Chamberlain said the senate committee investigating army conditions will hear three major generals who served in France about front line equipment. They will be asked to state if American troops were well equipped and specify any lacking items. The food commission outlined plans to probe food control and price issues nationwide starting in eastern centers then moving west to farms stockyards and canneries with hearings planned in Chicago and Kansas City.
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Washington, D. C
Chamberlain
Senate Committee
France
Food Commission
United States
Heney
West
Chicago
Kansas City
Food Trust
Newlands Dies in Washington D C Senator Francis G Newlands
Senator Francis Griffith Newlands of Nevada died of heart disease at his Washington home after a brief illness. At 69 he had worked for war time transportation probes while remaining active in the Senate. Newlands, elected to multiple terms since 1904, led transportation and railroad concerns and pressed for national waterways development.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Francis Griffith Newlands
Nevada
Senate
Capitol
Newlands
Joe P. Jones
Benator Newlands
Literatate Commerce Comunities
Ohwbrnnin
Joint
Congressional Committee On Transportation Problems
Congress
Americon
State Leader Declares Christmas Holiday Observed
Cheyenne officials announce a rare Christmas holiday observed by the State Leader. The proclamation notes all employees receive a day off, with wishes for a merry season and good cheer.
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Chieistinis
Nenders
Tekstas
Italian Offensive Recaptures Monte Asolone in War News
Washington dispatches report Italian forces recaptured Monte Asolone and stabilized their lines near Monte Grappa after three days of heavy artillery and gas attacks. Austrian divisions suffered heavy losses, with commanders Pfeifer and others wounded or captured as German forces press in the Balkans and Greece mobilizes Greek troops near Soluniki.
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Washington
Bret
Teuton
Col
Bennetta
Vonte Asoione
Rome
Pfeifer
Iowers
Monte Asolone
Siente Asolone
Monte Grappa
Berretta
Pfeiffer
Germany
Macedonia
Cerna
Balkans
Soliniki
16 Killed in Trolley Crash
Pittsburg dispatch reports a streetcar crash in a tunnel linking the South Side business district with Soul bill. Sixteen people died and many were injured among 114 passengers as the low-floor steel car ran away, overturned on Carson Street after emerging from the tunnel.
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Pittsburg
Knoxvill Street
Southside
Carson Street
German Baroness Is Helds Spy to Federal Grand Jury
A German baroness linked to espionage allegations was held without bail for the federal grand jury in Chattanooga. Testimony connected a New York officer and others to a plot to gather information and aid operations, with investigations extending from Washington to Minneapolis and references to naval and army training ties.
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Federal
Chattanooga
Tent
Dee
Zollner
New York
Flanders
Eharean
Tobe W. Spaulilig
United Skoetes Army
Owelethorpe
Countey
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M. J. G. Evans
England
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Hen. Tynd Hurst Bruce
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Royal Flying Corps
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