German intrigue revealed money used to influence U.S. Congress
Washington officials disclosed that Count von Bernstorff directed funds to influence members of Congress to prevent war with Germany. The telegram dated January 22 sought authority to spend up to 850000 for this purpose, linking to a broader pattern of German influence operations and pacifist networks in the United States.
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Washington
Congress
United States
Lansing
Tele-Gram
Count von Bernstorf
Foreign Office
Germany
State Department
Count von Bernstorff
Bernstorf
Ireland
India
Teutons
Bernstorff
Berlin
America
ROIN
Roger Casement
England
Treland
Teutonic
Capitol
Heflin
House
Senate of the
Bernstorff Telegram Outlines Funds to Influence Congress
A 1917 telegram from Count von Bernstorff, released by Secretary Lansing, asks for authority to spend up to $50 000 to influence Congress via a known organization to prevent war. It notes a German public statement favorable to Ireland to sway Irish influence.
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Berlin
Count von Bernstorff
Lansing
Congress
Ireland
Bernstorff
Remarkable War Dogs Speed Behind French Lines
A wartime report notes dogs sent with a cavalry squadron reached a designated point minutes ahead of the riders. Patrol dogs, famed for their keen smell, detect foes up to 150 yards away. By day they rest in trenches. at night they work with patrols to guard hundreds of yards of front, sounding alarms to prevent surprise attacks.
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Dred
Senate approves vast wartime funding bill with record size
The Senate passed the 8.0 billion urgent deficiency bill in under five hours after House origin. It limits the 6 million dollar exam fund to the number the War Department can feed clothe and equip, suspending broader draft examinations until December. Key allocations cover ships army and navy funds fortifications subsistence clothing and ordnance totaling about 7.99 billion.
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Washington
Senate
House
Appropriations Committee
Martin
Crowder
War Department
Baker
Congress
Foreign Service
Seace Naval Aviation
Naval
Naval Reserve Ordnance
Guynemer Believed Dead After Flanders Flight
World news notes Captain George Guynemer is believed dead after a reconnaissance flight over Flanders. Other items report the Sheppard-Hulbert bill advancing aviation governance, German executions in Ghent, an urgent deficiency bill near eight billion dollars, Argentina mobilizing navy near Buenos Aires, and Cambria Steel raising linen wages by 10 percent at Johnstown.
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Faris
George Guynemer
Guynemer
Kiet
Flanders
Dunkirk
Washington
Department of Aviation
Aircraft Production Board
Ghent
Senate
Buenos Aires
Pittsburgh
Cambria Steel Company
Johnstown
Government War Orders Fix Steel Prices for War Time
The War Industries Board and American steel producers agreed to price cuts from 43 to 70.5 percent for iron and steel products until January 1, 1918. Iron ore remains at 5.05 dollars per ton. Government purchases and general markets will follow these rates, with no wage reductions and production kept at maximum under government oversight.
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Washington
Ent Wilson
War Industries Board
American Steel Producers
Shipping Board
Navy Department
American
War Board
Congress
Federal Trade Commission
Texas Governor Removed by Senate Impeachment
The Texas Senate, acting as an impeachment court, found James B. Ferguson guilty and removed him from the office of Governor by a 17 to 9 vote adopting the committee on civil jurisprudence majority report.
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Texas
Austin
Senate
James B. Ferguson
Committee On
Solvay Process Company Seeks Women Chemists Nationwide
The Solvay Process Company announced it will hire women chemists for its plants across the United States, breaking a long-standing pattern that confined graduates to teaching. The company sent university appeals seeking women graduates skilled in picric acid.
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Solvay Process Company
Syracuse
Solvay
Nsts
Law HITS PRO GERMAN PRESS Senate pass sweeping measure
Senate approves a law enabling the Postmaster General to bar non-mailable papers from any transport or circulation. The measure, 48 to 6, targets the pro German press and could effectively shut certain newspapers from distribution.
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LAW Hits
Washington
Burleson
Senate
Central Powers Agree With Pope on Peace and Armament Cut
Copies of German and Austro Hungarian replies to Pope Benedict XV’s peace proposals show Kaiser Wilhelm and Emperor Charles of Austria Hungary backing a mediated settlement. Both note readiness to submit international disputes to arbitration and support simultaneous reduction of armaments to reopen high seas to all.
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Amsterdam
William
Vatican
Benedict
Charles
Austria-Hungary
Austria
Teuton Plot Bared Attacks Romania With Germs
State Department disclosed German intrigue extended beyond the United States before entry into the war. In Bucharest the German embassy garden held explosives and phials of microbes for poisoning horses and cattle. American Minister confirms the find and charges German diplomatic brutality.
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Roumania
Washington
United States
State Department
Rumania
von Bernstorti
D.plon
Atic
Romania
Germany
Bucharest
Andrews
Pith of the War News
British raid near Epehy captures prisoners while Canadians remain in Lens grip. London bombardment causes narrow American escapes as German air raids target Essex Kent London and northern coasts. Six killed in raids. American troops train near a British line amid shell fragments. Russians resume the offensive on the Riga front.
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Epehy
Lens
London
Essex
Kent
Lincolnshire
Yorkshire
Pskoff Road
Riga
England
Exposes German Intrigues Tied to Bernstorff Influence
The Government through the Committee of Public Information releases an official expose of German intrigue in America. It targets violations of law, attacks on vessels, Irish plots, anti US sentiment in Mexico, propaganda funding, and a spy network. Names include Justice Cohalan Jeremiah A. O Leary Edwin Emerson James Archibald John Devoy C J Waldron T J Dowling Marcus Braun Viereck Otto West Paul Koenig Carl Heynen and others.
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Justice Cohalan
O’leary
Viereck
Bernstorff
Washington
United States
Committee of Public Information
America
Germany
Great Britain
Mexico
Count von Bernstorff
Daniel F. Cohalan
New York Supreme Court
Jeremiah A. O'Leary
American Truth Society
Edwin Emerson
James Archibald
John Devoy
New York City
Gaelic American
C. J. Waldron
Medusa
N. Y
T. J. Dowling
Hartford
Conn
Marcus Braun
Fair Play
George Sylvester Viereck
AIR RAIDERS BOMB LONDON
London suffers the second air raid in twenty four hours with twenty casualties. Anti aircraft guns engage in two attacks, the first lasting ten minutes and menacing the outskirts, while the second raid pauses briefly before resumed fire in the London district.
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