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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1917
Page
5
Washington reports the latest Russian upheaval does not alter Allied plans. Officials say radicals seek immediate peace and land reform, but mass opinion remains against a separate peace. A strong general or Cossacks could shift power, yet war in the west remains decisive.
Amid a city under siege, government forces clash with revolutionaries at the Winter Palace in Petrograd. The cruiser Aurora fires on the gates and engages near the palace while SS Peter and Paul fortress shells reply. Bridges and Nevsky Prospekt remain under government control after heavy fighting.
Russia faces a new civil war as Lenin and Trotsky led rebels seize power in Petrograd after forcing Premier Kerensky to flee. The Winter Palace fell and authorities surrendered. 560 delegates convened a great Soviet to organize power and negotiate peace while abolishing front line death penalties and freeing political prisoners.
The Military Revolutionary Committee proclaims the deposition of Kerensky's government and calls on army and workers to support a new authority. It urges detachment officers to join or be arrested and says force may be used against unwilling detachments. Camp Logan reports Capt. Oscar Hogstedt killed by accidental firing near Sour Lake.
Peking Nov 9 The American gunboat Palos was fired upon by Chinese bandits on the Yangtse River near the mouth of the plain, causing no report of casualties. The vessel returned fire as a precautionary measure.
French officer and American troops honor the first three American soldiers killed in the trenches in France. Private Enright Gresham and Hay rest in French soil beside a guard of French infantry and American detachments. The officer pledges to leave their mortal remains here Forever. The tombstone inscription honors their sacrifice for liberty and justice.
Lieutenant De Vere Hl. Harden of the signal corps, the first American officer wounded in France, lies in Johns Hopkins base hospital. He is from Burlington Vermont and is recovering with his right knee bandaged after a minor operation to remove shell fragments that damaged a muscle and grazed a bone.
The American steamship Rochester was torpedoed and sunk on November 2 near dusk, with four sailors dead and one lifeboat missing. A freighter report says an American naval gun fired on a German submarine in the Mediterranean, sinking the sub after a stern gun shot struck the periscope base.
Austro-German forces crossed the Livenza river in northern Italy and trapped about 17 000 Italian troops, including a general, with more than 250 000 prisoners taken overall and 2800 guns seized. Rome reports continued retreat and five enemy aircraft shot down as Italian forces fight rear actions and bombard fronts along the Tagliamento.
Otto Wangerin of St Paul Minnesota was sentenced to fifteen years at hard labor in a federal penitentiary by a general court martial at Camp Dodge. Maj W A Graham division judge advocate announced the conviction for refusing to obey an order to report for uniform issue and to drill on September 24.
Buenos Aires dispatches say Madrid sources report U S forces are strengthening positions in the Azores. Lisbon papers are said to protest and demand explanations as cited by La Nacion.
A plan to free Herbert Ramm, alleged German secret service agent, sparked a shooting at Camp Logan in Houston. Guards fired, no injuries reported, as the attempt occurred in the guardhouse area amid the storm camp activities.
Swiss monetary experts report Austria faces a precarious financial position as the Imperial bank notes in circulation rise to 15.5 to 17 billion crowns. The metal reserve stands at 0.85 to 0.4 billion crowns, signaling a fragile economy amid Hungary’s cabinet leader Weckerle’s remarks.
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