Russians Sign Peace Pact Under German Demands Amid War
London reports the Bolshevik government capitulated and agreed to a peace on terms dictated by the quadruple alliance at Brest-Litovsk. German forces advance 400 miles from Vaiga to Lutsk with little Bolshevik resistance. Trotzky named food controller as chaos and shortages grow.
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London
Germany
Teutonic
New Russia
Vaiga
Lutsk
Galician
Dvina
Dvinsk
Petrograd
Smolonesk
Volhynian Triangle
Kiev
Nikolai Lenine
Leon Trotzzky
Russia
Brest-Litovsk
Krylenko
Livonia
Esthenia
Trotzky
Russia may use guerrilla warfare against invasion
Bolshevik sources indicate Russia would adopt guerrilla warfare if Germany pushes further. Leon Trotsky stated the plan for a bushwhacking campaign to hinder German advances and grain profiteering along the border, amid Kiev peace talks.
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Russia
Trotzky
Ukraine
Rada
Kiev
Third Court Martial of Houston Raiders Starts
Forty enlisted men of the 24th infantry are on trial here on charges of murder and mutiny. It is the third court martial convened for crimes at Houston during a riot by the third battalion, leaving one man shot to death and others injured.
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San Antonio
Texas
24Th Infantry
Houston
Government to draft soldiers for beet fields in Colorado
Judge John O. Belt, head of the food administration commission, said at Sterling that if other measures fail the government will be asked to provide enlisted men to work in beet fields due to labor shortages in northern Colorado beef areas.
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Sterling
Colo
John O. Belt
Federal Food Administration
Colorado
Ready for Big West Front Offensive in World War I
London teams report allied forces in France and Belgium prepared for a German big offensive with no immediate sign of its approach. British raids succeed near Lens Arras and in Flanders with prisoners taken and casualties. Sixteen German planes shot down. Zeebrugge air and naval bases bombed.
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London
France
Belgium
Flanders
Lens
Arras
Houtholst Wood
Zeebruge
Viscount Ishi Named Japanese Ambassador to United States
Viscount Ki kujio Ishi has been appointed ambassador for Japan to the United States and will soon reach Washington. He succeeds Ambassador Sato on the unassigned roll of diplomatic representatives in Tokio. Ishi led the imperial mission to Washington last August to thank the United States for entering the war. The mission evolved into a major diplomatic event in U S Japan relations.
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Washington
Viscount Kikujio Ishi
Japan
United States
Sato
Tokio
Viscount Ishi
Wilson
America
Ishi
Loyalists Shoot In Hillsboro Hit By Armed Raid
In Hillsboro Illinois on February 18 city marshal Seaton Em eroy was wounded and two other men were seriously hurt when a group of loyalists tried to force entry at the home of miner Clifford Donaldson where labor agitator L C Irwin, suspected of I W W activity, was thought to be sheltering.
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Hillsboro
Ill
Seaton Emeroy
Clifford Donaldson
L C. Irwin
Express earnings rise but trail last year
Express companies report October earnings up from prior months yet well below year ago levels. Only Adams Company shows a deficit. Data referred to the railroad administration which weighs taking over express firms to operate with railroads.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Adams’company
Railroad Administration
American Patrol Survives German Electric and Gas Hoax Actions
An American patrol in France narrowly escapes electric entanglement beneath barbed wire after entering German trenches. The unit returns to safety once the current is cut. German rocket signals attempt to trigger a gas attack and a false barrage, quickly countered by alert American observers and artillery, reflecting improved response and rising German shell resistance.
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France
Fritz
Vernon Castle Killed in Plane Crash at Benbrook Field
Fort Worth Texas February 16 Captain Vernon Castle of the British Royal Flying Corps was killed in a collision avoidance maneuver at Benbrook field. His trainee was slightly hurt and another aviator nearby could not see the planes due to engine noise. Castle known as a famed dancer had joined war aviation with Mrs Castle. Born Norwich England May 2 1887 his right name was Vernon Blythe.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Vernon Castle
British Royal Flying Corps
Benbrook Field
Castle
New York City
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