New Agreement Denied Over Siberia Invasion
Washington reports say the United States did not assent to Japan sending a military expedition into Siberia or protest it. Officials say the shift in stance stems from Ambassador Francis and doubts over a German-imposed peace on Russia. President’s January 8 address framed U S aims toward Russia and a free, independent development.
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Washington
United States
Japan
Siberia
Far East
Siberian
David R. Francis
Germany
Francis
Root
White House
Russia
Congress
Society of Free Nations
Petrograd
M. Trotzky
America
Moscow
Vologda
Clarkson Led National Defense Agencies in War Preparations
Grosvenor B. Clarkson served as secretary of the council of national defense and its advisory commission. A New York businessman, he helped head the naval consulting board's committee on industrial preparedness, which in five months identified 25 000 military needs before U S entry into the war.
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Grosvenor B. Clarkson
Council of National Defense
Clarkson
New York
Naval Consulting Board
United States
Naval Camps Impose Five Mile Dry Zones Around Bases
Secretary Daniels ordered five mile dry zones around eight permanent naval training stations and camps excluding incorporated towns. Liquor sales or giveaways are barred near Great Lakes station Chicago Norfolk Hampton Roads Mare Island Vallejo Quantico and Port Royal Marine bases. Daniels cited Vallejo’s “short business street with 25 saloons” run by a German brewer as a prime objection.
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Washington
Daniels
Great Lakes
Chicago
Norfolk
Hampton Roads
Mare Island
Cal
Quantico
Port Royal
Daniela
Vallejo
Soldier Given Thirty Years
William Nimke of Torrington Conn a sergeant in company F Three Hundred and First engineers at Camp Devens was sentenced to thirty years for unpatriotic utterances. He was tried by a general court martial February 15 at Fort Jay N Y and found guilty on two counts. He said if placed in charge of a party on the other side he would surrender to the Germans and that he would act independently if sent to the other side. One count alleging his father and brothers would take up arms was dismissed.
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Ayer
Mass
William Nimke
Torrington
Conn
Three Hundred
Camp Devans
Nimke
Fort Jay
N. Y
Tie
United States
Atlantic
Europe
Parliament Meets March 18
Ottawa reports the first session of parliament under the new government is called for Monday March 18. The notice sets the date for legislative work and official proceedings in the capital.
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Ottawa
Ont
Army dismissals for immorality announced at Washington
Washington March 6. Officers found guilty of immorality will not be kept in the service. First Lieut George R B Kinne of the Ohio Engineers N G was dismissed after a Fort Benjamin Harrison general court martial for visiting a room with a woman not his wife in El Paso Texas. The decision was approved by the president. Kinne's home is Cleveland. Other dismissals were announced.
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Washington
George RB
Kinne
The
Ohio Engineers
N. G
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Indiana
el Paso
Tex
War Department
Cleveland
Casualties Reported Among American Forces in France
Washington reports war department figures showing forty three American soldiers killed in action in France by March 2, with 252 wounded and 85 captured or missing by that date.
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Washington
France
War Department
Bank Robbery near Serena Illinois Nets $2000
Robbers in a five passenger car believed from Chicago dynamited the State Bank of Serena safe and escaped with 2000. Posses scoured the countryside as authorities launched a wide search.
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Serena
Ill
Chicago
Turks and Huns Ravage Russia Despite Peace Pact
London reports through neutrals that German forces captured Jamburg east of Narva and the Turco German offensive pushes beyond Trebizond despite the peace treaty. Jamburg lies on the Reval Petrograd line about 68 miles from the Russian capital. Trebizond is on the Black Sea coast in Turkish Armenia. Banks reportedly reopen, landlords regain property, and other old regime conditions return in towns occupied by Germans.
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London
Jamburg
Narva
Trebizond
Reval
Petrograd
Black Sea
Turkish Armenia
American balloon unit first complete air service in field
American troops in France report a new observation balloon unit in action. A fully manned American balloon company ascended after days of readiness, with guards and heavy anti aircraft protection. German planes attempted reconnaissance but were repelled. trenches extend about eight miles with three divisions in depth.
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American Air Service
Oman
Wisconsin Assembly Breaks Deadlock Over La Follette Censure
After 24 hours of self-imprisonment in the Statehouse the Wisconsin assembly compromised to condemn Senator Robert La Follette. The resolution passed 52 to 32 with remarks from Smith Rosa and several assemblymen criticizing his war record and loyalty. The vote followed a lengthy session and mixed calls on patriotism and government support.
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Wis
Statehouse
Assembly
Labollette
Smith
Rosa
Donnelly
O'Brien
Red Cross
Bhols Labollette
Wisconsin
Robert la Mollette
Yeas
Anderson
Armstrong
Aulenbacher
Battis
Begs
Bernardy
Bradley
Buckley
Campbell
Carpenter
Carter
Chapple
Chinnock
Chipman
Clark
Edwards
Engbretson
Mugel
Everson
Frohmander
Gotttenon
Greil
Hager
J.C. Hansen
Hinemann
Danssen
Jeske
Kundutseh
Kubatzki
Kurtenacker
Lawson
Martett
Dell Miller
Otto
Peterson
Poole
Kappel
Rogers
Ruka
la Smith
Stone
Szewczykiwski
Thomas
Vaughan
Vincent
Webster
Wittingham
Williams
Young
Whittet
Nuys
Casperson
Duffy
Lvvine
Veldhausen
Freehoff
Galbrath
Garmper
F. L Blassay
Hemmy
Hess
Jensen
Jordan
Invent
Liehis
Marth
Melvin
Metcalf
V. Miller
Nordmann
Obl
Poor
Langen
Schindler
Schroeder
Milwaukee
Turner
van Doran
Wickert
Wittmann
Johnson
la Pollette
Assemblyman
Evjue
Senate
la Follette
Theodore Roosevelt
Russians Prepare to Fight Teutons in Global Struggle
The official news agency reports a supreme military council for defense and a decree to arm the entire population. Leon Trotzky says Bolsheviks will resist defeat, even retreating to the Urals, and Moscow will become the new capital as Petrograd is made a free port.
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Petrograd
Commssioner For
Lzvesta
Lenine
Pravda
Moscow
Russia
Nizhni-Novgorod
Kazan
Krylenko
London
Russ Lan
Ensign Krylenko
Freese
High Coursmand
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Kaiser
Trotzky
Urals
Ural Mountains
Leon Trotzky
Kerensky
M.trotzky
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