United States Declares War on Austria in Wider World Conflict
President Wilson signed the war declaration as the Senate approved the measure 84 to 0 with La Follette absent. The House vote stood 368 to 1 with London of New York casting the negative. Senators Stone and Lodge argued the broader implications and urged swift, unified action as Austria-Hungary aligns with Germany.
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Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Austria
Germany
United States
Italy
France
Belgium
Senator Stone
Austria-Hungary
Austria- Hungary
Bulgaria
Lodge
Turkey
Hitchcock
Nebraska
War Declared: US Enters Conflict with Austro-Hungarian Empire
Joint resolution announces a state of war between the United States and the imperial and royal Austro-Hungarian government. It authorizes the president to use all naval and military forces and national resources to wage war and bring the conflict to a successful termination. Signed by Champ Clark, Thomas Marshall and President Woodrow Wilson on December 7, 1917.
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Italy
England
France
Austria
Germany
Lodge
Turkey
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United States of America
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House of Representatives
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Thomas Marshall
Woodrow Wilson
Germans Make Large Break in Cambrai Sector
Berlin reports a four kilometer German advance over a ten kilometer front in the Cambral sector. British withdrawals to the Flesquires heights left villages destroyed. more than 9,000 British prisoners and 148 guns captured.
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Graincourt
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Flesquires
Cambrai
Escape of former Czar Nicholas from Siberian prison
Washington dispatches report former Czar Nicholas has escaped his Siberian castle prison. The United States Consul at Tiflis has forwarded the information to the state department.
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Tiflis
State Department
US Destroyer Jacob Jones Sunk by U-Boat
Washington announced that the U S Destroyer Jacob Jones carrying 97 crew members was sunk by a German submarine in the U boat menace. Lifeboats with 37 survivors have been rescued.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Jacob Jones
German plot exposed linked to 25000 transfer coup
Letters and coded messages seized in Merkel case point to a German defense organization in the United States. Trial evidence in New York links Albert Kaltschmidt and accomplices to plans to blow up munition ships with a 25000 transfer from a joint account of Count von Bernstorff and Dr H F Albert.
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Naval Intelligence Bureau
Otto Julius Merkel
Merkel
Hillis Island
Washington
Germany
General von Mackensen
Occa
Detroit
Mich
Dee
United States
Albert C. Kaltschmidt
Kaltschmidt
Count von Bernstorff
H. F. Albert
Wolf von Igel
Capt. von Papen
Edwin A. Lee
Chase National Bank
New York City
Albert
Count Bernstorff
J. H. Kitchin
Knauth
Nachod & Kuhne
Big Gains on Farm Front as War Demands Rise
Washington reports that Secretary of Agriculture David F. Houston says farmers produced over five and a half billion bushels of cereal crops, surpassing the five year average by about one billion. Meat dairy and oil figures are not complete, but overall output is higher than 1916 and 1915, though cereal yields lag 1915 and livestock exports pressure supplies. Paris notes French submarine losses for the week ending December 1 include ships over and under 1,600 tons and two fishing boats. two vessels attacked but not sunk.
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David F. Houston
Europe
Paris
British Hold Hindenburg Line Amid German Offensives
British troops repelled two German assaults on the Hindenburg line near Bourlon and Vinalwood as Berlin massed about 375,000 troops for a major push. Byng’s withdrawal repositioned defenses, while French forces repelled two Meuse east of Verdun attacks after heavy bombardment.
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Cambrai
Bourton
Paris
Meuse
Verdun
War Office
Halifax Suffering after Catastrophic Ice and Fire
Halifax faces a vast disaster after a deadly explosion and fire. Snow hampers relief while aiding fire crews as 2000 dead and 8000 wounded are feared. relief trains arrive from Canada and the United States as authorities prepare a special tribunal to probe the incident.
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United States
Truro
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