Great World Events Chronicle Highlights German Retreat and Global Shifts
The report details the German withdrawal in France with heavy Allied advances, estimates January German losses at 177,534 and total war deaths at 4,087,692, and notes Russia’s resolve to crush Prussian militarism. It also covers Missouri ending capital punishment, Morgan House fire in Poughkeepsie, Kuhn Loeb joining Morgan in Allied financing, Patten becoming New York postmaster, and rail workers’ eight hour day accord amid Thaw’s lunacy ruling.
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France
London
Marne
Scarpe
Oise
Missouri
Gardner
Morgan House
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Kuhn, Loeb & Co
J. P. Morgan & Co
National City Bank
First National Bank
Guaranty Trust Company
Common Pleas Court of
Philadelphia
New York
Frederick Gump, Jr
Kansas City
Thaw
St. Mary's Hospital
Pennsylvania
German American Crisis Drives Navy Expansion Initiatives
War departments convene with Council of National Defense and telecom officials as 60 submarine chasers are ordered within 80 days. Navy contracts total 10 million dollars for shells and 115 million for patrol craft. Submarines sink Vigilancia City of Memphis and Illinois. five yachts offered to Naval Reserve. Newport RI station reports recruiting surge with 2875 enlisteds.
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War Department
Council of National Defense
New York Navy Yard
United States Navy
Venera Electric Company
Germany
Vigilancia
City of Memphis
Illinois
Vigilansic
City of
Memphis
Naval Reserve Committee
Naval Training Station
Newport
R. 1
Rail rate, farm loans, and court ruling touch 1917 policy
Washington announces a 5 percent rate on all Federal Land Bank farm loans. Lovett urges immediate nationalization of railroad control before Congress. Supreme Court upholds the Adamson eight hour law as a valid interstate commerce power. U S trade falls amid Germany’s submarine warfare. Cuba’s State Secretary Desvernine meets State Department counselors. Ten Argentine naval officers study in the U S Navy. Naval Academy practice squad includes Missouri Ohio Maine Wisconsin. to depart Annapolis in early June.
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Farm Loan Board
Robert S. Lovett
Union Pacific
Congressional Committee
Supreme Court of the United States
Congress
Germany
Pablo Desvernine
Cuba
Polk
State Department
Argentine Republic
United States Navy
Naval Academy
Missouri
Ohio
Maine
Wisconsin
Annapolis
Trail actions and daylight saving move through early reports
General 2500 students and several professors joined Billy Sunday services at Ithaca New York. A Boston chamber committee urged daylight saving year round. Mrs James Hamilton Lewis announced a bid for president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution. German Peter Han Rimers was arrested at Yuma Arizona after a meeting with Mexicans near the Southern Pacific bridge. Negroes at a Asheville North Carolina mass meeting funded 50 Belgian babies for three months. German sailors at Philadelphia Navy Yard to be moved to Georgia forts under marine escort. Austrian Frank Koucher, employee of Aetna Explosive Co at Emporium Pennsylvania, under arrest for a deadly blast. Fifteen mail bags aboard the Saxonia were rifled, likely by a spy, addressed to the United States government and the British Embassy.
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Cornell University
Ithaca
N. Y
Boston Chamber of Commerce
James Hamilton Lewis
United States
Illinois
The
Daughters of the American Revolution
Peter Han Rimers
Yuma
Southern Pacific Bridge
Asheville
N. C
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Forts McPherson
Oglethorpe
Georgia
Frank Koucher
Aetna
Emporium
Saxonia
Cunard Line
Washington
Kilbane defeats Shannon in featherweight title fight
Sporting Johnny Kilbane, 127 pounds, defeats Eddie Shannon, 131 pounds, at Olympia Philadelphia. The article also notes Chick Gandil’s return to the Chicago White Sox and other sports items including a New York commission head replacement, a pitcher transfer to Richmond, a golfer’s claim tied to a national championship, and Colgate naming Ellery Huntington Jr. as football coach.
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Johnny Kilbane
Eddie Shannon
California
Olympia
Philadelphia
Chick Gandil
Chicago White Sox
Wenck
New York State Athletic Commission
Whitman
New York
Commission
Earl C. Ainsworth
Chicago Americans
Richmond
Alexa Sterling
Colgate
Ellery C. Huntington, Jr
Laurie Bankart
Foreign John Dillon Sees Ireland Home Rule Hope
John Dillon asserts that the Russian revolution boosts Ireland's bid for home rule. Portuguese press reports Japan buying Macao from Portugal near Hongkong. Charles H. Boynton travels to Petrograd to foster U S Russia commerce. Villa's advance guard nears Ortiz ahead of Chi Huahua attack. Czar Nicholas abdicates, ending Romanoff dynasty, followed by Grand Duke Michael. New government acts quickly to reorganize democratically.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Dillon
Ireland
Macao
Hongkong
China
Japan
Portugal
Charles H. Boynton
New York
Nicholas
Michael
Czar and Regent Abdicate as Russia Moves to War Reform
The Petrograd government announces abdication by Emperor Nicholas II and Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich, transferring power to a Duma Executive Committee and a newly formed Council of Ministers. A sweeping program calls for universal suffrage, amnesty, press freedom, and the creation of a constitutional assembly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Petrograd
Navy orders speeded up as war talk grows
President Wilson signals possible state of war with Germany as U boats sink three American ships. Funds of 115 million dollars to speed navy build up include 60 000 to 70 000 enlisted, early graduation of Naval Academy classes, and calls for private builders to submit bids for 200 35 knot submarine chasers.
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Washington
Wilson
Germany
Congress
Evenls
Daniels
Navy Department
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Navy Yard
Navy
Naval Academy
United States
Vigilancia Crew Loses Fifteen In Torpedo Attack
Fifteen crew members die when the Vigilancia is torpedoed without warning by a German submarine. Survivors drift in open boats for two days and nights amid the sea.
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Washington
Vigilancia
Petrograd
Russia
Oyster Bay
Theodore Roosevelt
Cary T. Grayson
Senate
Amsterdam
Belgium
Kaiser
Glasgow
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Michael Alexandrovitch
Idd
Duma
Brusailoff
Ruszky
Alexieff
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Rumania
Berlin
Tsar-Selo Palace
Soukhomlinoff
Grand Duke
Galicia
St. Peter and St. Paul
Soukhominoff
Protopopoff
Interior
Prince Golitzine
Justice
Holy Russia
Russian Empire
Secret Police
Third
Goremykind
Nicholas Maklakoff
Home Secretary
Tauris Palace
Stuermer
Prince Shakovsky
Czarina
M. Protopopoff
U. S
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