Italian Front Crisis Deepens As Crossings Reported
Austro German forces cross the Tagliamento river on the Italian front and take 6,000 prisoners as they threaten the left wing near Pinzano. A mass northward assault is anticipated in the Giulicaria valley while Germany reports intensified pressure. A new poisonous gas attack is claimed at Goritz, described as vastly more deadly.
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Friuli
Giulicaria
Trentino
Red Cross
British Red Cross
Rome
Berlin
War Office
Teutons
Amsterdam
Goritz
Budapest
Pesti-Hirlap
Germany planned world domination years before 1914
Washington reports that the United States Patent Office holds German inventions linked to war, including flame projectors, gas shells, submarine improvements, aerial ordnance, grenades, and heavy cannon. Under the trading with the enemy act these could be licensed to American manufacturers. More than 20 000 such German inventions exist in records.
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Washington
Germany
United States Patent Office
United States
Patent Office
Kenyon Sees Victory Through Destroyers Against U Boats
London Nov 6 Senators Kenyon Iowa and Kendrick Wyoming completed a tour of English shipyards and conferred with Vice Admiral Sims. Kenyon said destroyers are the best antidotes for U boats and that more destroyers and new shipping will overcome the menace. They visited a munitions plant where 36 Americans produced munitions.
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London
Kenyon
Iowa
Kendrick
Wyoming
Sims
England
United States
Senators
Six Die as Car Hits Auto Near Lafayette
Six people were killed when a Terre Haute Indianapolis and Eastern Interurban car struck a car driven by Hugh Ellis two miles north of Lafayette Indiana on Sunday morning. The victims were Hugh Ellis Ella Ellis Mrs W G Ellis Maxime Rillis Fdna Ellis and Evelyn Ellis. Three Ellis children survived with injuries and were taken to a local hospital. The family had lived in Frankfort Indiana and were formerly residents of Lafayette.
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Lafayette
Ind
Hugh Ellis
Here
Ella Ellis
W. G. Ellis
Maxime Rillis
Fdna Ellis
Evelyn Ellis
Frankfort
Americans Trapped by German Raid On French Front
Washington reports eight Americans killed or wounded and twelve captured after a trench raid on November 8. Private Gresham of Evansville Indiana and Private Hay of Glidden Iowa died. several others were wounded or taken prisoner as German artillery isolated a small post and dugouts offered shelter.
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Evansville
Ind
Hay
Glidden
Smith
Ludington
Mich
Washington
Pershing
France
Thomas F. Enright
Mary Irwin
Premo Street
Pittsburgh
James B. Gresham
Alice Dodd
West Ohio Street
Merle D. Hay
Harry D. Hay
Iowa
J. J. Smith
S. D. Smith
Mic
North Ridgeway Avenue
Chicago
Ill
Harry Loughman
Ada R. Loughman
Oakwood Boulevard
Seret
Edgar M. Haryburton
George B. Haryburton
Stony Point
N. C
General Bingham Returns to Federal Service in Port Administration
Brig. Gen. Theodore Bingham retired former New York police commissioner resumes public service as the War Department’s representative in the administration of the Port of New York.
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General Bingham
Theodore Bingham
New York
War Department
Port of
German War Practices: Soldiers Denounce Atrocities
The pamphlet German War Practices to be issued by the committee on public information reveals that German soldiers appealed to Ambassador Gerard for mercy and protested atrocities ordered by commanders as they were forced to participate. The pamphlet notes Russian victims and the soldiers’ plea to Washington.
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Washington
Gerard
Committee On Public Information
Reopen Hearing on 15 Percent Rate Advance Before Commission
Eastern railroads argue transport facilities and financial stability are at risk due to current rates. Samuel Rea of the Pennsylvania Railroad says rising expenses and deferred maintenance require a rate increase, amid war labor and material costs. Counsel for 38 systems says higher charges are needed to handle war traffic and avoid financial disaster.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Samuel Rea
Pennsylvania Railroad
Mississippi
Ohio
British Kill 100 in Raid Near Cavrelle
London dispatch reports field Marshal Haig describing a trench raid in Cavrelle that killed about 100 German troops. Fourteen prisoners and several machine guns were captured, with two trench mortars destroyed. Casualties were light for the British as Sherwood Foresters raided northeast of Loos and reconnoitering parties were dispersed near Hollebeke and Reutel.
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Cavrelle Neighorhood
Haig
Loos
Sherwood Foresters
Hollebeke
Reutel
Arts
Belgium
Upper
Alsace
Upper Couey Forest
Fires blamed on German incendiaries in Utah ranch blaze
The Utah blaze at Joseph F. Smith’s Taylorville ranch destroyed hundreds of tons of hay and 1000 bushels of grain and damaged buildings. Letters from German soldiers pleading for mercy in World War I were published, urging protest against brutal acts and questioning militarism.
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Utah
Salt Lake City
Joseph F. Smith
Mormon Church
Taylorville
Cuba Eyes Draft Law To Expand Military Force
Havana reports the Cuban congress will consider conscription or selective draft. Leaders from both parties back building a large army and militia, potentially doubling current forces of 25 000 plus, and strengthening naval units and personnel.
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Havana
Mail Clogging Plot Under Secret Service Probe
A plot to flood the mails with millions of letters, each a link in one of many chains, is under investigation by the secret service. The scheme, said to have originated in Boston, targets both domestic and foreign mail.
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New York
Secret Service
Boston
Attacked Troop Train in Feather River Canyon
Twenty five armed men alleged to be I. W. W. members attacked a Western Pacific troop train in Feather River canyon. They cut two cars from the train and were beaten off by soldiers after a stubborn fight. The attackers fled to the hills as posses scour the region for traces.
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Margavillé
Cal
Western Pacific
Feather River Canyon
Regien
German Planes Downed In Major Malmaison Air Battle
Paris reports an unprecedented air fight over Malmaison with 16 German machines downed, three captive balloons set ablaze, and fifty damaged planes back in their lines. The action included attacks on enemy troops and bombardment of stations amid 611 aerial engagements.
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Paris
Malmaison
Russians Drive Turks From Front Lines Along Black Sea
Petrograd reports Russian forces have driven Turks from their first line on the Black sea coast and penetrated to a third line in places, with substantial booty seized and advances announced by the war office.
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Black Sea
Petrograd
War Office
Italian pilot breaks speed record to Langley field
Newport News Virginia November 5 Lieut Baldioli of the royal Italian flying corps piloting a Pomilio airplane flew from Mineola New York to Langley field near here at an average speed of about 1485 miles an hour
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Newport News
Baldioli
Four Explosions Kill Man and Injure Dozens at Aluminum Plant
One man was killed four are expected to die and sixteen others are seriously injured after a series of four blasts at the Aluminum Company of America powder plant in New Kensington Pennsylvania on November 6.
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New Kensington
Aluminum Company of America
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