Germans Ignore Russ Peace Plea Front Push Breaks Bolshivik Resistance
Berlin reports continue of German eastward advance into Russia with troops entering Estonia and pushing from Dvinsk to Lutsk and Rovno. Prisoners total about 2,500 with several hundred guns captured as Bolshevik resistance crumbles and peace efforts falter across Petrograd Berlin and Paris observers react with alarm and caution.
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Berlin
Russia
Esthenia
Riga-Petrograd
Inzeen
Dvinsk
Lutsk
Rovno
Forces take control in Astrakhan amid peace talks report
In a dispatch cited from Washington Feb 21 workers say forces dispatched to Astrakhan have won a complete victory over Cossacks and authority has passed to the workmen and soldiers group. Excess profits tax blanks have been received at the treasury and are being distributed to revenue collectors.
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Amsterdam
Russia
von Kuehlman
Reichstag
Germany
Petrograd
Stockholm
Finland
Chita
Trans Baikan
Siberia
Red Guard
Astrakhan
Washington
Corporation
The
Treasury
Mysterious 1915 Kayser Murder Cleared by Confession
Michael Schramm, arrested in Bridgeport Connecticut, confessed to the Tolleston Gary Ind murder of Rev. A H Kayser and several Chicago crimes. He said the motive was robbery and implicated an accomplice who later killed himself. Forbis said admissions emerged at a Christmas Eve gathering.
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Chicago
A. H. Kayser
Tolleston
Gary
Ind
Michael Schramm
Bridgeport
Forbis
Schramm
Mr. Kayser
Uie
Kayser
German Troops Capture Rovno in Major Victory
Berlin reports a victorious advance as German troops seize Rovno taking ten thousand prisoners. The assault also nets 1353 cannons large amounts of food and motor cars in the breakthrough.
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Berlin
Rovno
Otto Eidlitz Named Director of Housing
Otto Eidlitz, New York architect and builder, named director of housing by the department of labor. He will oversee government efforts to provide living facilities for industrial workers outside shipyards. Eidlitz led the Mason Builders' Association 1900 to 1904 and organized the Building Trades Employers' Association.
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Otto Eidlitz
New York
Department of Labor
Eidlitz
Ile
Mason Builders’ Association
Building Trade Employers’ Association
Secretary Baker Foresees Imminent Western Drive
Secretary of War Baker says both sides in the western front are ready for a long anticipated offensive after extensive silent preparations. He notes German forces shift to mobile warfare, risk of a crushing blow, and American patrols engaging near No Man's Land while rains hamper trench maintenance.
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Washington
West
Baker
Russia
Italy
Lorraine
No Man’s Land
Petrograd
Riga
First U S Battle Planes Reach France Early
Secretary Baker announces the first American built battle planes are en route to France nearly five months ahead of schedule. He warns the major remaining challenge is securing thousands of skilled mechanics to sustain the aircraft program.
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Washington
Brance
Baker
Western Front
France
Germans Gain Ground. Russians Lose Towns in Ukraine Front
German forces occupy the Russian cities of Hansas and Molodechno near Minsk and push cavalry toward Mohilev, the former Russian general headquarters at Novaia Viedomsty. Molodechno, a key railway junction, falls as Austrian advances on the Ukrainian front are reported by Pravda.
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London
Hansas
Molodechno
Mohilev
Novaia Viedomsty
Minsk
Pravda
Austrian Socialists Urge Peace Talks With Wilson Offer
Amsterdam February 21 The Austrian Socialist party submitted an interpellation to Premier von Seydler urging acceptance of President Wilson’s peace principle. They demand immediate steps to open negotiations between Austria Hungary and the United States.
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Amsterdam
Austrian Socialist Party
von Seydler
Wilson
Austria-Hungary
Dutton Dies Martyr to His Duty
Lieutenant Commander Robert M. Dutton United States Navy retired died in Colorado Springs from tuberculosis contracted in Belgium while aiding Herbert Hoover through the Belgian relief commission. His home was San Francisco.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Robert M. Dutton
United States Navy
Belgium
Herbert O. Hoover
Belgian Relief Commission
San Francisco
Second Draft Date Awaits Baker Signature In 1918 Plan
Washington February 21 1918 Secretary Baker authorized that no date had been set for the second draft and estimates varied between March and June The order may set May 1 as the start calling 500000 men weekly about 10000 to camps for training while others move to France Provost Marshal Crowder may issue details by April 15 The plan calls for 2500000 men from class 1 plus 1000000 reaching age this year with British subjects included.
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Washington
Baker
France
Crowder
Four U S Soldiers Wounded In Action
Washington reports four American soldiers were slightly wounded on February 12. Privates Frank M. O'Brien of Hamilton Montana Frank Siminski of Carleton Michigan Cook Henry Dion of Boston Massachusetts and Engineer Charles A. Clokus of McAdoo Pennsylvania were named by General Pershing to the War Department.
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Washington
Pershing
War Department
Frank M. O’brien
Hamilton, Mont
Frank Siminski
Carrelton, Mich
Cook Henry Dion
Boston
Mass
Charles A. Clokus
McAdoo
Hays to See Party Leaders in New York Dinner
Chairman Will H. Hays invites former Republican national chairmen to a Union League Club dinner in New York next Monday evening. He said he also plans to meet former President Taft and Charles Evans Hughes and possibly Colonel Roosevelt the following day.
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Indianapolis
Will Hl. Hays
Republican National Committee
Union League Club
New York
Hays
Fart
Charles Ek. Hughes
Roosevelt
British down four flyers in Belgium bombardment report
Lindon February 21 naval airmen bombarded docks and airdromes in Belgium and accounted for four German airplanes, according to an admiralty statement. In Wichita Kansas retired Governor W R Stubbs was injured, though not seriously, in an automobile accident near Hereford Texas.
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Admiralty
Lindon
Wichita
Kan
W. R. Stubbs
Kansan
Herefords
Tex
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