Latins win in desperate fight on Asiago plateau
Berlin reports 9000 Italian prisoners taken after Austro German attack. Italian front held with heavy fighting on Monte Val Bella and Col del Rosso. British war office notes no change on British front and severe cold with good troop spirit.
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Rome
Asingo
War Office
Asiago
San
Bertico
Malga Castalunga
Monte Val Bella
Col del Rosso
Berlin
Monte Pertica
London
British War Office
John D Rockefeller and Mrs Sheppard Distribute Cash Santa Claus
In Tarrytown on December 26 Rockefeller and Mrs Finley J Shep ard played Santa Claus distributing five and ten dollar bills due to gold shortages. All railroad station telegram office and telephone exchange workers were given gifts.
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Tarrytown
N. Y
John D. Rockefeller
Finley J. Shepard
Santa Claus
Plan to let farmer boys in army return home periodically
Secretary Baker proposed a program allowing farmer boys in the army to go home at intervals to help with crops. He spoke to a delegation of New York farmers who protested ongoing labor shortages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Baker
New York
Pershing Telegrams Holiday Greetings to Army in France
General Pershing cabled holiday wishes to President Wilson and the secretary of war, praising the American expeditionary forces in France and renewing devotion to the sacred cause. General Bliss replied with Christmas greetings and strong confidence that Allied troops will secure victory and lasting peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
General Pershing
France
Tasker H. Bliss
Pershing
General Bliss
United States
Celebrate in Camp Christmas Carols at Houston Training Ground
Houston Texas December 26. Christmas carols filled every section of the training ground with regimental choruses and Houston singers. The One Hundred Twenty second artillery held a midnight mass around a 75 foot tree with a white star while troops admired lights and outdoor altar decorations.
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Houston
Tex
Great Training Ground
One Hundred and Twenty-second Artillery
John J. O’hearn
British air raid on Mannheim uses ton bombs start fires
London reports Mannheim on the Rhine bombarded by a British air squadron early Monday. A ton of bombs was dropped with fires started in the main works and town, while five enemy aircraft were shot down and others driven off. Our unit losses were one damaged machine. Paris notes a German aircraft shot down and Dunkirk area bombarded with casualties.
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London
Mannheim
Germany
Rhine
Mannheim-on-the- Rhine
Paris
War Office
Dunkirk
John Skelton Williams to Be Federal Railroad Dictator
Washington December 26 reports in executive circles say John Skelton Williams Comptroller of the Currency will be appointed by President Wilson as Federal Railroad Dictator. He would command the operation of all railroads nationwide with little expected opposition from the railroads.
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Washington, D. C
John Skelton Williams
Wilson
Williams
Admiral Sims Receives Personal Home Movie Gift
Mrs. William R. Sims wife of Rear Admiral Sims commander of American naval forces in European waters presented him with a motion picture film as a Christmas gift. The film shows herself and family in activities that will give the admiral a vivid intimate picture of home.
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Sims
Newport
R. L
William R. Sims
Lenine Preparing to Flee Petrograd Amid Siberian Fights
Reports from Peking and Stockholm say Nikolai Lenine bolsheviki premier plans to flee Petrograd as fighting intensifies across Siberia and the Trans Siberian railway is cut near Irkutsk. Leon Trotsky reportedly stays in Petrograd while peace talks may fail.
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Nikolai Lenine
Petrograd
Peking
Irkutsk
Siberia
Kerensky
Revolutionary Party
Stockholm
Nikolai Leniné
Lenine
Leon Trotsky
Bolsheviki
Parrot Saves Family From Fire in Cedar Rapids
A parrot in the home of Mrs. Mary Cleator cried fire and woke the family, allowing them to escape an smoke filled house on December 26 in Cedar Rapids Indiana.
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Cedar Rapids
Mary Cleator
Germans Flee U S Camp At Fort Douglas
German civilian prisoners Ferdi nand Kube and Kurtz Wilkinson, interned at Fort Douglas near Salt Lake City, crawled to liberty with gunny sacks wound around them, according to military authorities.
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Fort Douglas
Salt Lake City
Ferdinand Kube
Kurtz Wilkinson
Here
Liberty
Fifty six cadets recommended for commissions at Taliferro Field
Fort Worth Texas December 26 fifty six cadets who trained at Taliferro Field have been recommended for commissions as first lieutenants in the aviation section of the reserve corps.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Taliferro Field
Reserve Corps
Notable De Saulles Death in Bethlehem Pa
Maj. Arthur Brice De Saulles dies in Bethlehem aged seventy eight. death linked to tragedy as his son John I. De Saulles was shot by his former wife.
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Bethlehem
Arthur Brice de Saulles
John I
Nea de Saulles
Pershing Honors Brave Engineers at Christmas in France
One hundred American soldiers earned promotions for Christmas gifts as engineers and other troops celebrated the holiday under fire. The U S Army distributed candy and toys to French refugee children while mail and packages poured in. In the first division HQ area a large Christmas tree was set up by American officers and men, with a Santa Claus visit bringing joy to local children and refugees as drums of gift items were piled at the tree base.
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France
Cambrai
Santa Claus
Pershing
Tragedy Leaves Whitman Family Dead in Fire
In Greenwood Delaware County a house fire killed Mrs. J L Whitman and her six children aged three to thirteen. Firefighters found the six youngsters dead inside the home and Mrs Whitman perished from burns. The blaze occurred late at night, investigators report no immediate cause.
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Greenwood, D. C
J. L. Whitman
Here
Alleged Deserter Slain in Detroit Shooting
Alphonse St. Pierre aged 25 was shot and killed while attempting to escape from Fort Wayne Detroit. He had been in custody about a week on a charge of deserting from a New Jersey engineer regiment.
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Detroit
Mich
Dee
Alphonse St. Pierre
Fot Wayne
St. Pierre
New Jersey
Dangerous German Spy Arrested on Pacific Coast
Federal officials announce the arrest of Franz Schulenberg on a presidential warrant. He is described as one of the cleverest and most dangerous German spies operating on the Pacific coast and allegedly planned to destroy government docks and shipping at major coastal ports.
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San Francisco
Franz Schulenberg
Pacific Coast
Worldwide Plot Alleged by Federal Agents
Federal officials disclose evidence of a world wide plot to overturn social orders, linking American IWW operatives Russian Bolsheviks Irish agitators and allied revolutionaries. Reports say rifles and ammunition found on the Russian freighter Shilka may have supported IWW activities in the United States.
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Washington
Germany
Shilka
Pacific
United States
Russia
America
1. W. We
América
Boris Bedel
Chicago
Cut Red Tape Says Wilson War Efficiency Slogan
President Wilson has distributed Secretary Redfield’s letter urging executive departments to cut wasteful procedures. The message insists on wartime efficiency and to forget prewar methods as delays aid the enemy and the war won’t wait.
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Washington
Dec
Wilson
Redfield
Lay
Santa visits Newport garrison for Christmas gifts
Dec 26 Newport naval training station personnel staged a Christmas tree festival for enlisted men and officers families. French Vanderbilt distributed gifts and coal to many poor families and children attended by sailors and officers.
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Newport
R. L
French Vanderbilt
Naval Training Station
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Francis G. Newlands
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John D
Rockefeller
Mrs. Shepard
U. S
Bliss
Late Telegraphic
City of
de Saulles
Cape
Fort Wayne
Federal
Executive Department
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