Bolsheviki Fight Germans Take Minsk and Rovno
Bolshevik forces report heavy fighting as German troops press toward Petrograd and Dvinsk. Minsk and Rovno are claimed captured with large booty and thousands of prisoners. Advancing units reach toward Pskov and Mohilev as fronts shift across Estonia and White Russia.
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Petrograd
Red Guard
Bolsheviks
Russia
Vitebsk
Minsk
Pskov
Reval
Regisa
Dvinsk
Gvil
Berlin
Wenden
Riga
Wolmar
Rovno
Cound
von Hichfoma
Moon Island
White Russia
London
Dvyinsk
Reuter
Haosal
Esthenia
Mohilev
Novaia Viedomsty
Molodechno
Resistance declared as German forces mass near Petrograd
An agency dispatch from Moscow reports the Chief of the Women's Overseas Hospital Unit states that German resistance is futile and forces are preparing to occupy Petrograd.
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the Women’s Overseas Hospital Unit
Germany
Petrograd
Women’s Overseas Hospital
France
Women’s Overseas
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Guiscard
Aisne
Alice Gregory
Bliss Urged Change In Plan For Mobile Army
Premier Lloyd George praised Maj. Gen. Tasker H. Bliss as the U S representative in Paris for the interallied war council plan to form a mobile reserve army from American and allied forces. The War Council would direct a mixed emergency force with Haig and Pershing limited to the extent of emergency control.
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Washington
Tasker H. Bliss
United States Army
War Department
Lloyd George
England
Foch
War Council
Bliss
Wilson
EB. M. House
General Pershing
General Haig
Lord Curzon
Paris
Premier Lloyd-George
American Troops Engage Germans From Aisne to Alps
Paris reports a large battle along the front from the Aisne to the Alps. American forces in the Chemin des Dames area have killed and captured a number of German troops as the fighting intensifies across the line.
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Aisne
Alps
Paris
Chemin Des Dames
Bolsheviki Call Soldiers to resist German Invasion
Petrograd reports Bolsheviki commissioners issue proclamation ordering soldiers to resist the Teutons to the death as the capital endures a siege.
British Take City of Jericho in Palestine Campaign
British forces capture Jericho and take possession as part of the Palestine campaign reported from London. The report dated February 21 notes the city changed hands in the ongoing operations.
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City OF
Jericho
London
Wilson Plan Indorsed Urge Immediate Peace Negotiations
Vienna dispatches report Austrian socialist party interpel lation urging Premier von Seydlers to back President Wilsons peace principles and open negotiations between Austria Hungary and the United States. The Wiener Zeitung notes imperial rejection of resignations by Polish ministers Owiklinski and Twardowski, while confirming imperial confidence.
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Zurich
Karl
Vienna
Amsterdam
Austrian Socialist Party
von Seydler
Wilson
Premiser
Austria-Hungary
United States
Wiener Zeitung
Doctor Owiklinski
Herr Twardowski
Galicia
Officers and 5 Men Wounded in Action
General Pershing reports an officer wounded February 12 and five enlisted men wounded February 17. The injured are Second Lieut. John J. McNeely of Washington and Privates Frank Wolfe of Ashland Wisconsin Elmer Wise of Fairview Ohio Charles W. Durant of Sheridan Wyoming Irwin C. Sutton of Lansing Michigan and Corp Ellie L. Tapley of Adrian Michigan.
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Washington
General Pershing
War Department
John J. McNeely
Frank Wolfe
Ashland
Wis
Elmer Wise
Fairview
Charles W. Durant
Sheridan
Wyo
Irwin C. Sutton
Lansing
Mich
Corp
Ellie L. Tapley
Adrian
Three U.S. Soldiers Held in German Camp
Washington reports three American soldiers missing after a February 9 action have been located in a German prison camp. The prisoners are Corp. Nicholas Mulhall of Jersey City New Jersey Private Edwin H. W. Haines of Woodward Oklahoma and Private Frank B. McDougal of Maryville Pennsylvania.
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Washington
Corp
Nicholas Mulhall
Jersey City
N. J
Edwin HW. Haines
Woodward
Okla
Prank FB. McDougal
Maryville
Double Tragedy in West Texas Sheriff Kills Man Then Self
Reagan County Sheriff Henry Japson shot and killed rancher James Belcher at the Big Lake rail station and then killed himself. Both men were prominent West Texas cattlemen facing financial troubles. Belcher was boarding a train when shot.
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San Angelo
Tex
Flenry Japson
Reagan County
James Belcher
Big Lake
Here
West Texas
Belcher
Double profits condemned by food administration
Washington reports the food administration condemns double middlemen profits on foodstuffs that raise consumer prices. It notes replenishing supplies from another dealer may be necessary, but there is no justification for two wholesale profits on the same goods.
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Washington
The
Food Administration
Russell Takes Lead Role in National Food Campaign
Dr. H. L. Russell dean of the college of agriculture and director of the agricultural experiment station at the University of Wisconsin joins the United States Food Administration as a liaison with the U S Department of Agriculture. He coordinates with these bodies the extension agencies of agricultural colleges nationwide.
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H. L. Russell
College of Agriculture
Agricultural Experiment Station
University of Wisconsin
United States Food Administration
United States Department of Agriculture
Five Million Dollar Army Cloth Fraud Indictments
Eight clothing manufacturers and several city employees face federal indictments for extensive army uniform cloth frauds. Authorities say about five million dollars of cloth and supplies were stolen in a nationwide plot, with Louis Davidson and others charged including theft of 2000 belts valued at eighty eight thousand dollars.
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New York
Quartermaster's Department of the Army
George D. Bernitz
Federal District Attorney's Office
Louis Davidson
Universal Cloth
Davidson
Hyman Horwitz
Benjamin
Horwitz & Muskowitz
Barnet Tietz
B. Tietz & Co
Jacob Weinstein
Abraham Pursch
Leon Levine
Pursch & Levine
Barney Robinson
Morris Alewitz
New York Manufacturers’ Co
Ira L. Janowsky
Quartermaster’s
Robinson
Alewicz
Janowsky
Frank M. Roosa
United States
Barnitz
German Independent Socialists Plan Munition Strike
The German independent socialists arrange a demonstrative strike in the empire's munition factories starting March 1, according to Berlin information forwarded by the Amsterdam correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph company.
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London
Empire
Berlin
Amsterdam
Exchange Telegraph Company
Hoover warns nation faces food crisis as rails slow
Herbert Hoover, head of the U S food administration, warns the next sixty days are the most critical for feeding allies and the nation. He cites shortages of cereal, meat, and potatoes due to railway congestion and calls for public cooperation to load cars, cut consumption, and speed shipments to seaboard ports.
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Washington
United States
Herbert Hoover
Caroy
Chicago
Agreement toil long hours modernize rail work force
Washington on February 22 an agreement between Director General McAdoo and A Wharton president of the railway employees department AF of L extends working hours improves apprenticeship programs and preserves open shop conditions. The pact affects more than 300000 workers in locomotives rolling stock repair and related tasks.
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Washington
McAdoo
A. ©. Wharton
Railway Employees’ Department
American Federation of Labor
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Teutons
War Board
Council
U. S
Pershing
Texas
Russell
U.S
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