Germans Prepare to Attack as Armistice Ends
Reports from Petrograd state the armistice with Germany expires at noon today and fighting will resume. Berlin says German forces mass in Ukraine to strike Bolsheviks while Lenine and Trotzky are busy with urgent business delaying talks. A general Warsaw strike is reported with Polish cities observing mourning borders.
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Trotzky
Kaiser
Warsaw
Berlin
Petrograd
Frankfurther Zeitung
Russia
Germany
Amsterdam
Ukraine
Rome
Count Czernin
Austria
Riga
Dorpat
Kronstadt
Brest-Litovsk
Weser Zeitung
Bremen
London
Reuter
Lokal Anzeiger
Cracow
Lemberg
Bolsheviki Take Ukrainian City Kiev in Battle
Petrograd reports Bolshevik forces capture Kiev after a bloody fight that leaves four thousand dead and seven thousand wounded. City streets filled with casualties and chaos.
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Bolsheviki
Petrograd
Kiev
Shutdown details reveal 2,000,000 tons of war supplies shipped
Fuel Administrator Garfield outlined the effects of the five day wartime suspension. He said 480 ships carrying over 2 million tons of food fuel munitions and war materiel were sent to sea January 17–26 from Atlantic ports. He noted rail shortages and weather hindered production and logistics but exports rose.
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New York
Garfield
Williams College
United States
Atlantic
France
Russia
Ukraine Civil War Atrocities Report From Kiev
A Kiev dispatch says White guards killed about 1,500 workmen at the Petchersk arsenal after defeating Red guards. Ukrainian troops under Kebinbinsky vow merciless action against bourgeois mercenaries as shootings and pillaging spread through Petrograd. Stockholm reports Red Guard atrocities in southern Finland with refugees describing mutilations and executions.
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Petrograd
Kiev
Petchersk
Revolutionary Military Committee
Council of Soldiers
Kebinbinsky
Vormessensky
St. Ikane’s Cathedral
Galernaya Street
Red Guards
Stockholm
Red Guard
Finland
Bjoerneborg
Kotka
Helsingfors
Russia Leaves Allies in Brest Litovsk War
Leon Trotsky reports to Russian soviet councils that Russia has withdrawn from the war and rejected coexistence with peace. Berlin claims bolsheviks move troops to Ukraine as central powers vow to press on against Petrograd. Emperor Charles issues army order amid the war termination crisis.
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London
Russia
Leon Trotzky
Brest-Litovsk
M. Trotsky
Germany
Imperial
Fjolland Eay
Trotzky
Protzivy
Great Russia
Petrograd
Ukraine
Berlin
Koelnische Volkszeitung
Amsterdam
Charles
Crippled Freight Cars Block Rail Tracks In East
Reports to Director General McAdoo show thousands of damaged freight cars occupy miles of eastern tracks due to railroad neglect. The cars could have been repaired quickly with prepared repair tracks, easing car shortages and congestion.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce
McChord
McAdoo
Train Fire Disaster in Galicia Kills and Drowns Passengers
A crowded passenger train from Stanislau to Lemberg Galicia caught fire at midnight on a bridge over the Dniester between Jezupol and Wodniki. Panic caused many to leap into the river and drown while others perished in flames and many were injured.
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Zurich
Stanislau
Lemberg
Galicia
Jezupol
Wodniki
Dniester
German Plant Seized From Fort Dupont in War Asset Action
Adalbert Fisher, president of the Schutte Koertling company, had the plant seized by A Mitchell Palmer as a enemy alien asset. The $2,000,000 facility, located near Fort Dupont, was removed after DOJ agents raided Fischer's home and papers were seized. The firm, tied to Kaiser relatives, produced ship vital parts since the war began.
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Philadelphia
Adalbert Fisher
Schutte Koertling Company
A. Mitchell Palmer
Alew
Fort Dupont
Fort Oglethorpe
Department of Justice
Fischer
Kaiser
United States
Labor War Policy Commission Formed for War Industries
Secretary of Labor Wilson names a bipartisan labor and employer commission to craft a national war policy. Twelve members will study all aspects of the labor situation with a goal to eliminate strikes, with meetings starting February 25 at the Labor Department offices.
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Wilson
Labor Policy Board
Washington
National Industrial Conference Board
American Federation of Labor
Frank W. Finges
Indianapolis
United Mine Workers of America
William L. Hlutcheson
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America
J. A. Franklin
Kansas City
Kan
Brotherhood of Boilermakers and Iron Ship Builders of America
Victor Olander
Chicago
National Seamen's Association of America
T. A. Hickert
United Garment Workers of America
Secretary of Labor
Troop Move To Camp Gipcn Leaf Under Crowder Order
Provost Marshal General Crowder sets March 4 for moving 741 white troops to Camp Greenleaf at Fort Oglethorpe Georgia. States sending whites in quota include Delaware 261 New Jersey 140 Michigan 1500 Ohio 1500 West Virginia 1520.
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Washington
Jury Acquits Hennig on Treason Charge
New York February 15 Paul C H Hen nig is acquitted by a jury in United States Judge Chatfield's court after a treason trial.
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Hennig
New York
Paul C. H. Hennig
United States
Chatfield
Wilson says ship strikers aid enemy in war effort
President Wilson telegraphed William L Hutcheson, urging no further talks until the strike by shipyard carpenters yields to essential national needs. He warned that striking under present conditions harms the war effort and that no body of workers has the right to strike before all adjustment methods are exhausted.
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Washington
Wilson
William le Hutcheson
The
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joinsers
Auteleson
Shipping Board
William L. Hutcheson
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America
New York
Woodrow Wilson
Blast on U S Battleship Utah Kills Officer
An explosion on the battleship Utah in an Atlantic port injures several sailors. One officer dies after transfer to the hospital ship Solace, while Lt. Commander Robert O. Baush dies at Norfolk naval hospital from a skull fracture. No other details released.
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Atlantic
Utah
Solace
Washington
Robert O. Baush
Naval Hospital
Norfolk
Navy Department
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Workmen’s and Soldiers’ Councils
Commerce
Losall A. Osborne
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company
Charles F. Brooker
Ansonia
General Crowder
Hints
Hutcheson
U. S
R. C. Baush
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