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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1917
Page
9
The report highlights a dramatic incident where Antilles sinks while Beaker’s daughter helps save thousands of Frenchmen. Mrs Anns Morgan, daughter of the late DP Morgan, provides funds to enable a controversial drug to be produced after doctors refuse to listen to Mr Edwards.
The Antilles, a former Ward liner homeward bound, was torpedoed Oct. 17 in the war zone with around seventy lives lost. Among the 33 aboard were three ship officers and sixteen American soldiers who perished. Navy and some officers survived. The loss also included several merchant crew members. Details, including casualty lists and soldier identities, will be released by the War Department as available.
Frank Farrington, state president of the miners union, ordered local charters revoked for mines not back by Oct. 22. Illinois faces a 70,000-strong strike and fuel shortage estimated at 1,250,000 tons as leaders seek to avert a wider coal crisis.
Petrograd reports government plans to move the capital to Moscow soon with the Kremlin as government offices. Preliminary parliament to convene in Petrograd Saturday before relocation, citing war zone danger and a French precedent in Bordeaux.
William G. McAdoo, secretary of the treasury, urged a Denver auditorium crowd to back liberty bonds as essential to victory in the war. He said in a democracy the appeal must be to the people and emphasized fighting for ideals and self preservation rather than conquest.
Local and federal officers probe a suspected German espionage plan to ruin cattle and sheep herds in Wyoming and Nebraska by poisoning water at the Pathfinder dam reservoir near Casper. James Melrose and Roland K. Goddard lead DOJ and Secret Service teams across the western district.
Bulgarian officials abroad press for favorable peace terms with the Entente, hoping to avoid a solely German postwar alignment. The appeal comes amid fears Germany and Austria Hungary may not defend Bulgarian interests at the peace conference. Federal officials report a cattle plague case and spy suspicions in Casper, Wyoming, heightening tensions.
At midnight six or seven aircraft raided eastern and northeastern England dropping bombs at various points including the London area. An official statement describes the raid as ongoing at the hour reported with activity in several counties.
In Copenhagen October 19 German socialist Herr Hoch said Chancellor von Hethmann Hollweg could not promise peace terms and would seek only what benefited Germany. He warned that without peace soon revolutionary convulsions could follow as people grow frustrated with the war. Independent socialists backed defense but refused to vote for credits unless peace demands were promised and constitutional changes pursued.
Secretary Daniels reports the Antilles, an army transport, was torpedoed October 17 while returning from foreign service. The vessel sank within five minutes. 167 of about 247 aboard were saved, about 70 missing. Seventeen army enlisted personnel were saved among roughly 33 aboard. several officers and merchant crew unnamed. Further casualty details to be released.
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