Austro German Forces Cross Tagliamento River Front
Reports from Northern Italy indicate Austro German patrols crossed the Tagliamento River and pressure on the Italian left wing intensified. Berlin reports 6 000 prisoners taken as German forces push toward the west with a new deadly poison gas reportedly deployed near Goritz.
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Italy
Tag-iamento
Friuli
Giulicaria
Trentino
Red Cross
British Red Cross
Rome
Berlin
Tagliamento River
War Office
Teutons
Amsterdam
Navy
Goritz
Budapest
Pesti-Hirlap
German wartime inventions found in U.S. patent records
A Washington investigation reveals that Germany plotted world domination and stored deadly war inventions in the U.S. Patent Office long before 1914. Records show over 20,000 German inventions including flame projectors gas shells and submarine improvements that could be licensed to American manufacturers under the trading with the enemy act.
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Washington
Germany
Jeast
United States Patent Office
United States
Patent Office
Six Die as Car Hits Auto Near Lafayette
Six people died when an Terre Haute Indianapolis and Eastern interurban car hit an automobile driven by Hugh Ellis two miles north of Lafayette Indiana on Sunday morning. The deceased were Hugh Ellis Ella Ellis Mrs W G Ellis Maxime Ellis Edna Ellis and Evelyn Ellis all members of the Ellis family. Three Ellis children were among the dead and other siblings were injured and hospitalized. The family had lived in Frankfort Indiana and were former Lafayette residents.
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Lafayette
Ind
Hugh Ellis
Here
Ella Ellis
W. G. Ellis
Maxime Ellis
Edna Ellis
Evelyn Ellis
Frankfort
Kenyon Sees Victory Over U Boats in visit to shipyards
Senators Kenyon and Kendrick of Wyoming toured English shipyards and a munitions plant after conference with Vice Admiral Sims. Kenyon asserted destroyers are the best antidote to submarines and that large new shipping capacity will defeat the U boat threat. They observed Americans assembling munitions with U S equipment.
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London
Navy
Kenyon
Town
Kendrick
Wyoming
Sims
England
United States
Cuba Considers Draft Law In Congress Debate
Havana reports that the Cuban congress will be urged to authorize either conscription or a selective draft. Leaders from both political parties agree on raising a large military force, potentially doubling the existing 25,000-strong regular army and militia, with strengthening of naval units and personnel.
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Havana
Mail Clogging Plot Under Secret Service Probe
New York reporters describe a plot to flood the mails with millions of letters as the Secret Service investigates a scheme said to originate in Boston. The plan would clog both domestic and foreign mail systems by linking letters in multiple chains.
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New York
Secret Service
Boston
I. W. W.'s Attack Troops Halted by Soldiers
Twenty five armed men alleged to be I. W. W. members attacked a Western Pacific troop train in the Feather River canyon California. They cut two cars free and were repelled after a stubborn fight by soldiers. The attackers fled into the hills as posses scour the region for them.
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Maryavillé
Cal
Western Pacific
Feather River Canyon
Regien
Americans Trapped in Frontline Trench Raid on French Sector
The casualty list shows Private Thomas F. Enright and Private James B. Gresham killed, Private Merle D. Hay wounded, and Private J. J. Smith wounded. Also listed are Private Charles J. Hopkins, George L. Box, Homer Givens, Charles L. Orr, and others as captured or missing or wounded in the November 3 trench raid.
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France
Thomas F. Enright
Mary Irwin
Premo Street
Pittsburgh
James B. Gresham
Alice Dodd
West Ohio Street
Evansville
Ind
Merle D. Hay
Harry D. Tay
Glidden
Iowa
J. J. Smith
S. D. Smith
North Ridgeway Avenue
Chicago
Harry Loughman
Ada R. Loughman
Oakwood
Sergi
Edgar M. Haryburton
George DB. Haryburton
Stony Point
Xu. S
Nicholas L. Mulhall
Bridget Mulhall
Ninth Street
Jersey City
N. J
Edwin H. Haines
Elizabeth Haines
Woodward
Okla
16 German Planes Downed in Malmaison Aerial Battle
Paris reports an unprecedented air fight over Malmaison with 16 German planes downed, three captive balloons burned, and fifty damaged within their own lines. The battle of Malmaison featured bold French attacks on enemy troops, bombarding stations and concentrations across 611 aerial engagements.
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Paris
Malmaison
Russians Drive Turks From First Line on Black Sea Coast
Russian forces along the Black Sea coast have driven the Turks from their first line and advanced in some places to the third line. The war office reports significant booty captured as evidence of the gains.
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Petrograd
Black Sea
War Office
Italian pilot sets pace across coast in Pomilio plane
Lieut Baldioli of the royal Italian flying corps flew from Mineola New York to Langley field near Newport News Virginia in about 135 miles per hour average speed.
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Newport News
Baldioli
Binger Rejoins Federal Service as Port of New York Officer
Brigadier General Theodore Bingham retired U S A former New York police commissioner returns as the war department representative in the administration of the port of New York.
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General Bingham
Theodore Bingham
New York
War Department
Port of New York
Reopen Rail Hearing Seeks 15% Rate Rise Support
Eastern rail counsel told the Commerce Commission that war costs require an advance over current rates to maintain transportation facilities and railroad credit. Samuel Rea of the Pennsylvania Railroad opened the case citing rising expenses and deferred maintenance while 28 eastern systems urged a higher rate to handle war traffic and ensure national mobilization.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Samuel Rea
Pennsylvania Railroad
Mississippi
Ohio
German War Practices Touched By German Soldier Letters
Washington reports excerpts from a forthcoming pamphlet by the committee on public information describing German soldiers appeals to Ambassador Gerard to protest massacres of Russian prisoners. Eyewitness testimonies from the eastern and western fronts quote soldiers calling for humanity, decryting bayonet killings and mass shootings under orders, and urging Christian protest.
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Washington
Gerard
Committee On Public Information
Berlin
Russian
Poland
U.S. A
British Kill 100 In Raid On Gavrelle Front
London reports a trench raid in Gavrelle left about 100 Germans dead with fourteen prisoners and machine guns captured. Sherwood Foresters raided northeast of Loos taking a few prisoners while Hollebeke and Tent positions were probed. Paris notes intermittent artillery and a repulsed enemy attack west of the upper Coney forest with prisoners held.
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Pershing
London
Gavrelle Neighorhood
Hate
Loos
Sherwood Foresters
Hollebeke
Tentel
Paris
Belgium
Alsace
Upper Coney Forest
Fires blamed on German incendiaries at Mormon ranch
Salt Lake City reports accuse German incendiaries of starting a blaze that destroyed hundreds of tons of hay and 1,000 bushels of grain and damaged buildings on the Joseph F. Smith Mormon church ranch at Taylorville Utah. Joseph E. F. Smith as church trustee recently subscribed 250000 dollars in Liberty bonds funded by tithing.
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Salt Lake City
Joseph F. Smith
Mormon Church
Taylorville
Utah
Joseph EF. Smith
Four Explosions in New Kensington Powder Plant Kill One
A sequence of four blasts at the Aluminum Company of America powder plant in New Kensington Pennsylvania leaves one dead four others fatally injured and sixteen seriously hurt. Investigators probe cause as emergency crews battle fires.
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New Kensington
Aluminum Company of America
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Hay
Smith
Ludington
Mich
No Man's Land
America
Canada
Borerona
Commerce Commission
Kaiser
Butthers
Haig
Gavrelle
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