World News in Brief From Fronts and Mediation Moves
World war updates report Norway weighing a naval base for Britain and the United States, risking German occupation of Denmark, and Sweden’s king meeting Danish leaders. Italian front sees Anglo French troops on the Piave Brenta line with Bourlon village and wood captured. Austro German gains noted in the mountains while British French action to resume soon. General Byng promoted to general by King George for his drive.
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Norway
England
United States
Germany
Denmark
Berlin
Sweden
Copenhagen
Scandinavia
Italy
Piave
Brenta
Bourlon
Cambrai
Bourlon Wood
Byng
King George
War review notes Teutonic wastage in Cambrai victory
Secretary Baker reports British victory near Cambrai as a major wastage of Teutonic manpower. The State Department hints at US declaration of war against Austria Hungary and possibly Germany’s other allies. New England seeks coast artillery recruits as drafts loom toward 2,000,000 army with 5,000,000 in sight.
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Cambrai
Italy
Baker
United States
Austria-Hungary
Germany
Turkey
Bulgaria
State Department
New England
Coast Artillery
War Department
Congress
Wilson
France
No Man’s Land
Washington Forms War Council to Unite Federal Agencies
Washington creates a unified war council for all federal branches to boost wartime efficiency and speed. Appropriations of 12.701 billion dollars for the 12 months ending June 30, 1919, will be sent to Congress at the December session. Officials consider federal operation of all U S railroads for the war. A force of marines stands ready to defend Tampico oil fields if wells are threatened by Carranza troops or German agents. President Wilson forecasts no railway wage strike and relies on employee loyalty to support the war effort. Bishop Hayes named chaplain general to lead Catholic Army Navy chaplains. A conference with union leaders removes the immediate risk of a nationwide railroad strike. The Signal Corps seeks thousands of chauffeurs and mechanicians. Wilson disputes Lord Northcliffe remarks about the Alles War Council and says the United States will speak when its army is complete.
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Washington
United States
Congress
Tampico
Carranza
Mexico
Wilson
Hayes
Four Brotherhoods
Signal Corps
Lord Northclitte
McAdoo
Alles’ War Council
Loyd George
Allenby
Jerusalem
Palestine
Jaffa
Piave
Brentz
Upper
Belluno Alps
Lower Hungary
Europe
Pershing
America
Tn Maet
Dante Willard
War Industries Board
Frank A. Scott
Colonel House
Lloyd-George
Asquith
Russia
Petrograd
Bukhonin
Bokhonin
Ensign N. Krylenko
Pays
Kaiser
Czar
Constitutional Assembly
Kaledines
Don Cossacks
Moscow
Nicholas
Kerensky
Luga
Ukraine
Sialand
District of Columbia
Panama
Austria-Hungary
American Federation of Labor
Buffalo
Gompers
Senator Lewis Calls for Shootings of German Plotters
General Senator Lewis of Illinois urged executing several German bomb plotters to halt outrages. T. B. Hobler spoke in New York claiming thirty nine German submarines sunk in fifteen days. Government agents seized over 100 Italian anti war plotters in Washington. Codfish prices doubled since the war. Mail carriers to vend war savings stamps as campaign opens. New York state suffrage majority reached 88 840.
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Lewis
Illinois
T. B. Hobler
New York
New York City
Washington
United States
New York State
War and reform notes from 1917 era headlines
The piece reports on the New York Worn Suffrage party spending 279174 for votes, Red Cross and YMCA fundraising of 4000 for soldiers abroad, 22 militant pickets freed in Washington, a new war order restricting enemy aliens near New York piers, and a 25 percent fabric saving move by the Federal Economy Board. It also covers burley tobacco prices, a $200000 damages verdict against the United Mine Workers in Fort Smith, the food administration power bill, and Colonel House signaling progress for the inter allied conference and war council.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Red Cross
Woman's Party
Washington
Federal Economy Board
Louisville
Fort Smith
Ark
Bache-Denman ‘Syndicate
United Mine Workers of America
Fred Fulton Wins Technical Knockout in Minneapolis Bout
Fred Fulton of Minneapolis defeated Gun boat Smith of New York by a technical knockout in the seventh round in Minneapolis. The report notes other sports and world events, including baseball exemptions and military service impacts on major leagues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Fulton
Minneapolis
Gunboat Smith
New York
Fred Anderson
Giants
Manager Mathewson
The
Reds
Leslie Mann
Camp Logan
John K. Tener
National Baseball League
Madison Square Garden
British Tank Drive Sinks German Line at Cambrai
Edward W. Pickard summarizes a week of Allied offensives led by General Byng. British tanks broke German defenses near Cambrai, with rapid infantry advances and nerve-wracking surprise. Allenby pursues Jerusalem encirclement. Italians hold Piave. Russia faces armistice moves as Wilson imposes enemy alien restrictions.
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Hindenburg
Cambrai
Julian Byng
Third Army
Keels for ten ships at Hackensack meadows project
New Jersey briefs report ten standardized steel ships to be laid at the Federal Shipbuilding Company plant on Hackensack Meadows. Edison Storage Battery Co of West Orange increases capital from 600000 to 5 million. A colored N G soldier is killed in a craps game at Camp Merritt.
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Emergency Fleet Corporation
Federal Shipbuilding Company
Hackensack Meadows
Edison Storage Battery Company of
West Orange
Fifteenth Infantry
Camp Merritt
Princeton Board of Health
T. W. Margerum
Lawrence
Monfmouth County
Houghton
South Jersey
Woodstown
Edge
New York
Matthew Smith
Hackensack
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Montclair High School
John Randor
Fassate County
Patarson
National Council of States
Councl
Newark
James PR. Nugent
George W. Anderson
Nugent
Gummere
John A. Matthews
John F. Monahan
Wille
Oscar Berley
John Berry
Seaville
Plainfield
Joseph O. Higgins
Cunberland County
South Vineland
Washington Township
Morgan
Gloucester County
Meyer
Camden
Wenonah
Salem County
Ervin Matthias
Kates Incamden
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Sporting Syneste
Coun Vou Luxburgio
Buenos Aires
Martin Garcia
Ami Jacques Magnin
Neuilly
Army
Lenine
Actaeon
Port Camarinas
Hindenburg Line
Edward W. Pickard
St. Quentin
Scarpe
Diaz
Pisve River
Aisne
Kaiser Wilhelm
Somme
Mesnieres
Marcoing
Ribecourt
Havrincourt
Graincourt
Flesquieres
Crown Prince
Rupprecht
Bourlon Rood
Fontaine Notre Dame
Saloniki
Flanders
Juvincourt
Chemin Des Dames
Laon
Anglo-American War Council
British Isles
Four
Brotherhoods of
Brazil
Brazilian
Rio de Janeiro
Rio Gironde Do Sul
New Jersey State
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