Wilson Expands Draft System With New Registration Plan
President Wilson launches the second draft call by publishing the foreword to the new regulations. Nearly ten million registrants will be classified into five service classes with questionnaires sent to local boards. Crowder notes daily mailings and a full classification to begin December 15, aiming for completion within sixty days and no retroactive effects.
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Washington
Wilson
War Department
Crowder
Kerensky Forces Move Toward Russian Capital
Tsarskoe Selo occupied by Kerensky forces as their troops head toward Petrograd. Rebels retreat in disorderly mobs while the central radio stations are in the hands of the advancing forces, according to a wireless message from Petrograd.
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Kerensky
Committee
M. Kerensky
Standardized One Pound Bread Proclaimed War Measure
President Wilson will issue a proclamation declaring a standardized loaf of bread to weigh one pound with permitted larger sizes. One pound loaf price set at seven cents per Hoover. Regulations take effect December 10 and aim to save flour sugar and lard while ending many sweet rolls. Public urged to adopt wheatless meals daily and a wheatless day weekly.
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Washington
Wilson
Hoover
Food Administration
Turkish army in Palestine retreats under air assault
British planes pursue the Turkish army retreating in Palestine as Ottoman positions yield. Forty Turkish guns are reported captured in the British official statement. British and French naval forces aid Mediterranean communications while unrest grows in Petrograd with reports of street fighting and the Red Guard’s defeat in Moscow.
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Mediterranean
Wilson at Buffalo declares labor war policy at AFL session
President Wilson to speak at the opening AFL session in Buffalo on the war labor problem and speeding up production. The convention considers barring foreign born workers, while Samuel Gompers faces a pacifist challenge over his wartime stance as labor and capital seek a unified plan.
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England
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Building Trades Department
Samuel Gompers
Gompers
Foe Fears U S Raid and Vosges Battles
In France American forces report normal sector conditions with intermittent shelling and small actions around dawn including a French patrol capturing four Germans. Paris reports German attacks in the Vosges repulsed near Hartmans-Weller Kopf and Reich Askerkopf with strong artillery fighting near Chaume wood and Verdun. British and German actions in Flanders see no recapture of ground despite rain and continued raids and artillery.
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Chaume Wood
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Tlartmans- Weillerkopf
Reich Askerkopf
Berlin
Flanders
Paeschendaele
London
Passchendaele
Warneton
Italians Halting Teuton Advance on Trentino Front
Berlin reports Austro German troops pushed back by Italian detachments on the Trentino front with a stand on the lower Piave. Belluno captured by Teutons as Paris notes mass reinforcements to Trentino and Tyrol. French Premier Painleve pledges unwavering Entente victory amid war dispatches.
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Tyrol
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Cordevole
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Lugana
Painleve
Forces of Freedom
Six Rear Admirals Added by Navigation Bureau
Washington November 12 Six rear admirals will be added to the list of officers by a recommendation from the bureau of navigation approved by Secretary Daniels.
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Washington
Bureau of Navigation
Prniels
Football Scores from the West and East and a Villa Siege Report
Northwestern tops Michigan Aggies 80 to 6 while Ohio beats Wisconsin 46 to 3 Illinois Wesleyan defeats Bradley 14 to 0 and Nebraska shuts out Missouri 52 to 0. In the East Penn defeats Dartmouth 7 to 0 and Army beats Carlisle 28 to 0 with Navy 28 Georgetown 7. Villa forces besiege Ojinaga near Presidio Texas as Villistas gather south of the border.
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Cardinal Issues Warning To Catholics Over Peace Prayer Chain
Cardinal Gibbons in Baltimore warns Catholics to disregard a peace prayer chain of letters he views as German propaganda. The warning was issued on November 12.
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Cardinal Gibbons
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