Austria and Turkey News Cut Across War Fronts
Vienna dispatches report Austria’s reply to the United States over the Ancona sinking hints at talks on international law while rejecting a principle exchange. Meanwhile Turkish efforts under German direction push toward Egypt with a grand rail link and a plan to threaten the Suez Canal as Allied forces regroup near Saloniki.
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Federal League to End Business in Baseball War
New York Dec 16 Negotiations to end the two year old baseball war between the National and American leagues and the Federal league are expected to be completed tomorrow The plan provides for the abandonment of the Federal league with magnates receiving compensation by being allowed to buy certain clubs in the two established leagues Also mention notes of townspeople suffering from the grip.
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French Is Relieved Of Active Service
London dispatch reports Sir John French, commander in chief of the British expeditionary force in northern France and Flanders, relieved at his own request. No stated reason, but public dissatisfaction with campaign conduct cited. King accepts removal, honors French with viscountcy and full command in the United Kingdom. Sir Douglas Haig named his successor.
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French
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Radical changes proposed to broaden income tax reach
Secretary McAdoo urged radical income tax changes in his annual report to Congress to fund defence. Proposals include lowering exemption thresholds to tax married incomes of 8,000 dollars and single incomes of 2,000 dollars, expanding the collection force, taxing gross income, and ending withholding at source. He cited inspections showing substantial unpaid taxes.
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Increase in women workers in England since the war
London reports a government study showing 150000 more women employed in industrial jobs, a rise of about six percent since the war. The figures indicate a notable shift in the labor market with women entering a larger share of industrial work.
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No Yellow Fever on Isthmus of Panama in Ten Years
Panama reports no locally originated yellow fever cases on the Isthmus in the past decade. While several deaths occurred in Ancon and Santo Tomas hospitals, officials say those patients contracted the disease outside Panama.
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England wealth to fund war taxes, Clarke says
London December 16 Sir Edward Clarke a leading English legal authority asserts that England has wealth ample to pay for four or five times the war’s estimated cost yet this wealth is not contributing its proper share to war taxes and the burden should be increased.
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London
Sir Edward Clarke
France Orders Rails From Pennsylvania Steel
The French government ordered eighty five thousand tons of steel rails from the Pennsylvania Steel Company. Rail shipments will aid rebuilding roads damaged by invasion as far as the Marne and some rails will go to Saloniki for operations against Bulgaria.
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Bulgarians Near Greek Border In Neutral Zone Plan
Sofia reports the Bulgarian army has captured Monastir and Rosnam and moved toward the border. To prevent friction with Greece a plan to form a neutral zone was proposed to Athens with frontier outposts set two kilometers from the line. Greece accepted the proposal.
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Montenegrins Facing Strong Austrian Push Near Lim River
Berlin dispatch reports Austrian troops pressing the attack on Montenegrin forces with advances toward Bjelopolje on the Lim river. Montenegrins offer stubborn resistance but lack long range guns, while invaders gain ground in the region.
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Bulgarians Capture Guns and Ammunition in Serbia
Official notice from Softa dated December 16 reports Bulgarian troops have driven Anglo-French forces from Serbia. Bulgars halted at the border, freeing pressure from pursuit. About twelve hundred prisoners taken, including eighteen officers. Fourteen cannons, sixty-two ammunition cars, and other war materiel captured.
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Serbia
Serbian Guards Escort 18000 Austrian Prisoners to Tirana
A Serbian army division escorted eighteen thousand Austrian prisoners into Tirana and Elbassan Albania. The prisoners, exhausted from a long forced march, were closely guarded by Serbians who feared German rescue efforts. Both sides appeared battle ready despite dire conditions.
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Elbassan
Many Japanese Soldiers Deserting Amid War Strain
In Tokio on Dee 16 reports show a rise in army desertion and some self-inflicted deaths among deserters. Last year recorded 956 desertion cases, 93 percent of them common soldiers. Tokio led with 184 cases, Osaka 112, 256 soldiers faced military court, 698 deserters surrendered within the grace period.
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Oldest German Army Officer Aboard 87 at War
Berlin Dec 16 The man likely the oldest active German army member is 87 year old Chief Hospital Inspector Engel of Thale. He served in 1870 71 as hospital inspector, then barracks inspector, retired five years ago, and re enlisted for the present war. He organized a hospital at Oschersleben and then headed the Thale institution with 468 beds.
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Defense fight in Senate over Pacific coast defense
Senator Works of California addressed the Senate on national defense focusing on Pacific coast coastal defenses. He ridiculed them as potential barriers to an enemy and warned an Asiatic invasion could find the coast at its mercy. The speech signals national preparedness as a main issue before Congress.
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Postmaster Seeks Immediate Relieft From Federal Duties
Postmaster Steel wired the postmaster general in Washington reporting his resignation six weeks ago and requesting immediate relief. He asks who can run the office temporarily until a successor is appointed, noting the local postmaster’s desire to be freed from service for a deserving Democrat to take the job.
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Washington
Uncle Sam
Wilson's Name On Nebraska Lot Ballot
The Democratic party placed Woodrow Wilson's name on the Michigan primary ballot by petition for the presidential nomination. The item notes the action as part of today’s Real News in the Times.
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Lansing
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Attorney General Urges New Laws for Neutrality Violations
Washington Dec 16 Attorney General Gregory calls for amendments to neutrality statutes to criminalize placing bombs on ships leaving U S ports and escaping from belligerent interned ships. He also proposes government power to seize arms exports and tighten the commodities clause to curb railroad shipments of company manufactured goods.
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Young Harvard Lieutenant Garners Grenadier Guards Commission
London Dec 16 The army lists include Lionel De Jersey Harvard descendant of John Harvard who graduated last June from the American college founded by his ancestor Harvard has been granted a lieutenancy in the Grenadier Guards Three battalions have served in Flanders and a fourth is now in training in England
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England
England to Raise Telegraph Rates
London reports government telegraph authorities may raise the charge for a twelve word message from twelve cents to eighteen cents. Address and signature counted as words, and the higher rate would follow a thirty year status quo.
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London
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Great Britain
Anti-Typhoid Vaccine Cuts Deaths Among French Troops
Paris report by Doctor Leon Bernard shows 800 typhoid cases with mortality at 5.12 percent for vaccinated soldiers versus 17 percent for unvaccinated. Surviving cases showed less severe disease in the vaccinated group, with a gravity ratio of 19 to 29.
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Scarcity of copper reported in Austria
Vienna reports copper and brass shortages affecting trains with fittings removed and replaced by iron or wood. Austria has begun copper and brass days, mobilizing all citizens from schoolchildren up to adults to contribute. Denmark election results show Radicals 2 percent, Socialists 207000, Conservatives 193000, Laborites 2 with disarmament plank in Socialist platform.
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