Halifax Explosion Devastates City and Harbor
Halifax N S December reports say 2000 killed and 3000 plus injured as Mont Blanc and Mont Blaine munitions ships collide in Bedford Basin causing a massive explosion. Fire sweeps north end and Dartmouth ruins, with millions in damage and isolation across the city.
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Halifax
N. S
Dee
Bedford Basin
Dartmouth
North Street
Africville
Richmond
Rockingham
Mont Blanc
United States Atlantic
France
Atlantic
Halifax Explosion Devastates City Extending From Citadel Hill
A massive blast near Halifax causes widespread destruction across Richmond and surrounding districts. Reports say several hundred killed and thousands injured as fire, debris, and collapsed buildings cripple the harbor and core facilities including the Queen's Hotel and railway terminals.
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Smithereens
Halifax
Citadel Hill
Amherst
Richmond
Queen’s Hotel
Hollis Street
Sackville Street
Niobe
Let 'Er Wave Disaster Strikes City Casualties Reported
Shock devastates the city leaving many killed outright and hundreds crushed by fallen buildings. Wounded roam the streets as hospitals overflow. Ambulance crews and volunteers from Halifax and the countryside assist the dying and injured. The permanent garrison helps restore order and aid victims. No Canadian soldiers were present.
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Halifax
Seven killed in London air raid and German raids
London reports seven killed and 21 injured in an air raid with about 20 German planes involved. Two raiders were shot down and their crews captured. fires were quickly controlled. British forces report naval air raids on Belgian targets and several enemy aircraft engagements with three shot down. Berlin confirms German bombing of southeastern towns.
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London
Bonar Law
House of Commons
Lord French
British Home Forces
Kent
British Admiralty
Belgium
Sparappelhoek
Engel
Berlin
Sheerness
Gravesend
Chatham
Dover
Margate
War Office
Boxing Instructor Charles White Transferred to Camp Custer
Charles White boxing instructor at Camp Grant has been transferred to Camp Custer Battle Creek Mich to provide Camp Custer with an official boxing instructor. Camp Grant previously had two instructors while Camp Custer had none.
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White
Camp Custer
Camp Grant
Rockford
Charles White
Battle Creek
Mich
Teutons Open Drive on Italy From Asiago Front
Eleven thousand Italians were captured as Austro German forces push along a ten mile Asiago front. Meletta positions fell with over 60 guns seized while fierce hand to hand fighting and heavy losses marked the assault. Fresh German divisions pour in as milder weather aids operations.
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Berlin
Italy
Meletta
Teutonic
Asiago
Monte Monte Tondecar
Twenty-second Corps
Washington
Rome
Vallarsa
Quarantine Confines 1500 Jackies at Great Lakes Camp
Spinal meningitis has confined more than 1,500 sailors in quarantine at the Great Lakes station. Barracks A B and C of the main camp are sealed from the rear of the camp. Six men are actually afflicted, but the three barracks housing them are now closed.
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Great Lakes, Ill
Ten day armistice stalemate at Brest-Litovsk talks
Berlin and Petrograd report a ten day armistice starting noon today on the Russian front. German Austria-Hungary Turkey and Bulgaria say they can only discuss armistice terms. Russians present a plan for a general ceasefire on all fronts.
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Berlin
War Office
Petrograd
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Turkey
Moon Sound
Russia
Baltic
Americans In Cambrai Rescue Fight Wounded
Washington reports 18 casualties among U S engineers in the Cambrai area. 12 severely and 1 slightly wounded amid a rear area fight after being cut off by German counterattack. No deaths or prisoners. Officials say they were railway engineers attached to the British army.
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Washington
Ded Fairtient
Cambrai
Allie L. Cone
Faether
L. G. Cone
Atartada
R. F. Dy No
Artemiza
O. Sergi
Frank Haley
J. A. Frank
East Ninety-seventh Street
New York City
Patrick A. Long
Joseph Long
Broadway
Bayonne
N. J
Corp
Philip A. Berk
Bertha Kinginer
Walworth Street
Brooklyn
N. Y
Charles J. Critchley
Rose Critchley
West One Hundred and Forty-ninth Street
James Angus
Devanche Gardens
Aberdeen
Scotland
J. James A. Grogan
Mary F. Grogan
Lott Street
N.Y
Isidor S. Eisenbigel
David Regan
Coatesville
James A. Eagen
John Fagan
Great Neck
L. T
William L. Barnes
Agnes M. Barnes
East Broadway
Portland
Ore
Charles A. Geiger
Elizabeth Geiger
Dayton Street
Chicago
George FE. Jones
Thomas H. Tones
Ferdinand Street
Scranton
Louis Hh. Rohland
AL AR Nohland
Clifton Place
Pershing
War Department
Qustion
Byng
Gouzencourt
Tar Dutsch at Hugo Colo A mob strips man and feathers him
Henry W Dutsch a Denver man was seized by Hugo citizens after alleged pro German remarks. He was tarred and feathered, dressed in a coat, placed on a Denver bound train, and turned over to a guard Kaiser for federal authorities.
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Hugo
Colo
Henry W., Dutsch
Denver
Kaiser
No Peace for Roumania Stated by British Official
London reports an Austrian claim that Romania proposed armistice negotiations. A British official counters the statement as false, calling it shameful and untrue.
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London
French Medal To Wilson
Ambassador Jusserand presented to President Wilson a bronze medal from the people of France to commemorate the entrance of the United States into the world war.
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Washington
Jusserand
Wilson
France
United States
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Truro
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Ocean
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Wellington Barracks
Admiralty House
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Canadian Pacific Railway
Halifax Harbor
Bernstorff
Marquis of Lansdowne
England
Teutons
Ous Front
Great Lakes Station
L. C. Palmer
Bureau of Navigation
Navy Department
U.S
Tar Dutsch
Hugo, Colo
Kaiser Convoys
Roumania
Britain
America
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