Brest-Litovsk Talks Stretch as Germany Demands Reval
Berlin reports Count von Hertling pledges quick Brest-Litovsk settlement while German terms threaten to seize Reval within a week if Russia refuses to concede Corland and Baltic provinces. Hoffman delivers ultimatum mapping frontier from Gulf of Finland to Brest-Litovsk. Moscow riots leave forty dead and 200 wounded in Bloody Sunday anniversary unrest.
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Hoffman
Russia
Gulf of Finland
Moon Sound
Valk
Minsk
Brest-Litovsk
Courland
Baltic
Leon Trotzky
Council of Workmen’s
Chelmtchina
Ukrainian
Moscow
Constituent Assembly
Bliss Arrives in France for Inter Allied War Council
Maj. Gen. Tusker H. Bliss chief of staff of the American army arrived in France to represent the United States at the supreme inter allied war council. He is accompanied by a large technical staff as the council begins sessions to plan the spring offensive and assign tasks to each nation. The move is seen as a political victory and a culmination of unity against Germany.
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Washington
Tusker H. Bliss
France
United States
Supreme Inter-Allied War Council
General Bliss
Interallied Council
War Council
Germany
Hertling scoffs at Wilson peace terms in Reichstag
Berlin reports Chancellor von Hertling in a Reichstag address rejects American peace terms and vows Germany will keep conquered territories including Alsace. In Washington, Senator Chamberlain defends war policy, denounces officials, and criticizes the War Department over epidemics and cantonment overcrowding.
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von Hertling
Berlin
London
Count von Hertling
Reichstag
America
Wilson
Germany
Wll
Alsace
Count Montgelas Detained as Alien Enemy in Chicago
Count Albrecht von Montgelas once an art critic for a Chicago newspaper was seized under a presidential warrant by Marshall Bradley's secretary William H. Hanley Jr. The warrant accuses him of being an alien enemy and orders his internment as dangerous to public peace and safety.
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Chicago
Albrecht von Montgelas
William H. Hanley, Jr
Marshall John J. Bradley
Retreating Axis Forces Fall Back Behind Monte Tomba
In northern Italy on January 25 Italian HQ reports the enemy evacuated territory behind Monte Tomba extending to Monte Spinoneia with lines moved back. The retreat follows a French victory on Monte Tomba and signals a temporary halt to a land passage toward the Venetian plains.
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Italy
Monte Tomba
Piave River
Monte Spinoneia
Plave
Washington
von Aur
Liebeskid
Rome
Ordie
Flanders
Germans Sink Own Steamer Owasco Near Spanish Coast
Survivors arriving by a Spanish liner report the American steamship Owasco formerly the German Allemannie was sunk by a submarine in early December while in Mediterranean waters near the Spanish coast. Two crew members died. The Owasco had been among three vessels sunk while passing a lighthouse with a submarine off shore picking ships from the beam. the others were a Norwegian and a British vessel.
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Atlantic
Allemannie
United States
Roosevelt Combats Stone Attack Over War Policy
Colonel Roosevelt defended his wartime conduct criticisms by Senator Stone in a National Press Club speech. He labeled Stone’s address as pro Germany and partisan while backing Chamberlain and the military committee probes of the war department. He said the navy deteriorated early in the war but is now improved.
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Washington
Chamberlain
Kirby
Arkansas
Senate
Hitchcock
Wilson
Senate Committee On Military Affairs
War Department
Oregon
Roosevelt
Stone
National Press Club
Missouri
Germany
Mail Administration
United States
Rebellion in Austria Reports Mutiny in Vienna Garrison
A wireless bolshevik report from Smolny claims Vienna hosts a revolution with a provisional cabinet. Geneva stock reports say Vienna soldiers refused to fire on mobs destroying property as food shops were pillaged amid war weariness and strikes.
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Petrograd
Vienna
Smolny Institute
Trotzky- Lenine
New York
Stock Exchange
Geneva
Brest-Litovsk
Wilson
Copenhagen
Exchange Telegraph
Budapest
Vossische Zeitung
Berlin
Labor conference opens with war aims debate
Nottingham January 24. Frank Purdy, president, argued if Germany rejects the terms set by Wilson Lloyd George and the labor party the fight must continue. He warned peace by negotiation while Germany occupies other lands would aid Germany. The gathering includes 800 delegates from about 2,500,000 union members, with a tense climate over whether labor members will resign from the cabinet.
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Nottingham
Frank Purdy
Germany
Wilson
Lloyd George
Labor Party
Purdy
Italians Win in Raid on Monte Spinoncia and Piave
Italian and French units conduct recommissances against the enemy line between Monte Spinoncia slopes and the Piave right bank. A successful surprise south of Quayo yields prisoners and no machine gun. Reports speak of atrocities by Austro-German invaders against Italians and civilians, including executions near Codriopo and abuse near Plaven and Case Rotte.
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Rome
War Office
Monte Spinoncia
Quayo
Washington
Codriopo
Plaven
Case Rotte
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Ukraine
John Lind
Minnesota
Department of Labor
Bliss
Army
U. S
Supreme Allied War Council
Late Telegraphic
Senator Chamberlain
Greble
Camp Bowie
Tex
Gorgas
Congress
Baker
Lloyd-George
England
Congressional
Teutons
Bolsheviki
Mme. Kellville
T. R.”” Assails
Col. Roosevelt
Press Club
Senator
Austria
MOBS
New York Stock Exchange
Piave
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