Kerensky flees as Bolsheviks gain control in Petrograd
Nov 17 reports from London and Petrograd detail Kerensky's flight after defeat by Bolshevik forces. Cossacks form their own government in Kuban and Don regions, Kiev sees bolshevik gains with arrests at the palace, and city street battles cause hundreds of casualties. Barricade fighting persists in Petrograd.
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London
Kerensky
Petrograd
Russia
Caucasus
Kuban
Astrakhan
Don Region
Kerenky
Gatchina
Tsarskoe-Selo
Pulkova
Gatcchina
Reuter
Alexandrofsky Station
Kiev
Moscow
Kretchka Street
Copenhagen
Politiken
Haparanda
Sweden
War Savings Campaign Acknowledged By President Wilson
President Wilson meets the national war savings committee led by Frank Vanderlip along with federal and state directors. He notes learning value in saving despite war costs and commends volunteers joining the effort.
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Washington
National War Savings Committee
Frank Vanderlip
Fedral
State
Wilson
Student flyer fatally injured in splashdown at sea
James P. Farman of New York, a naval air station student, probably died after losing control of his sea plane at 500 feet and crashing into Discayne Bay in Miami Florida on November 17.
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James P. Farman
New York
Miami
Fla
Naval Air Station
Discayne Bay
Norwegians Adopt Boycott of Germany in Oslo
The Norwegian Water Association has adopted a resolution calling for a complete boycott of Germany German shipping German trade and German citizens in Norway The association chairman warned that if food was refused to German subjects they would depart the country
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Germany
Christiania
Tidené Tegn
Norwegian Water Association
Norway
President Wilson Urges Northwest Support In War
Wilson sends patriotic telegram to Northwest leaders in St Paul praising unity across states and professions. He declares the war for democracy a national effort and vows Americans will fight, farm, mine, manufacture, conserve, and endure to force Germany to rue the day it challenged the republic.
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Washington
Wilson
Northwest
St. Paul
Germany
M. W. Hargudine
Great
America
Europe
Prairie
Forest
Republic
Woodrow Wilson
Flood as Piave and Sile opened water barriers save Venice
Italian engineers breached Piave Sile floodgates. inundation creates a twelve mile wide triangle delaying Austro German advance. Venice population falls to about twenty thousand as authorities rush to move residents and protect monuments while hotel cafes endure limited openings.
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Italy
Piave
Sile
Grisiera
Dona di Piave
Venice
Stle
Doges
Royal Daniels
Grand Canal
St. Mark
Rialto Bridge
St. Mark's Square
British Seaplanes Raid Bombards German Depot
London reports two German planes shot down and two forced out of control by British seaplanes in a raid. The British bombarded the Handzaema aviation depot and returned safely.
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London
Handzaema
Brazil Names War Delegate
Rio Janeiro November 17 Antonio Olyn the de Magalhaes has been named as Brazil s delegate to the allies confer ence.
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Brazil
Rio Janeiro
Antonio Olynthe de Magalhaes
Peril Not Yet Past In Submarine War
Washington officials insist the lull in U boat activity does not prove elimination of the threat. Navy experts see progress but urge caution before declaring the menace ended. Secretary Daniels says the submarine danger has not been decisive and has caused harm, but failed to starve England as Germany planned.
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Washington
Navy Department
Daniels
England
Maj
Benedict Crowell
Cleveland
William M. Ingraham
General Munitions Board
Council of National Defense
Panama Canal
German coal plan shifts Sunday holiday to weekdays
Copenhagen reports the Bavarian government will move the Sunday holiday to another weekday to save coal. Catholic clergy protest strongly with Protestant support. Catholic labor unions organize a large protest meeting. Only socialist unions accept the change.
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Copenhagen
German Retreat Predicted As British Advances Expand Front
American Field Headquarters reports German newspapers in captured trenches hint at a strategic retreat on the western front as Crown Prince Rupprecht’s forces exhaust divisions defending Passchendaele and Somme. American artillery repelled a German raid while a captured German paper balloon dropped Gazettes Des Ardennes with anti Wilson, munitions sale, and German defense notes.
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Flanders
West Front
Rupprecht
Bavaria
Passchendaele Ridge
the Somme
France
Noy
Gazette Des Ardennes
Charleville
Wilson
Germany
General Pershing
Gompers Urges Speeded Industry to Win War
President Samuel Gompers of the AFL addresses a joint executive and Greater Buffalo club meeting in Buffalo. He says capital and labor problems are virtually insoluble but industry must be accelerated for victory, urging shared patriotism and a new conception of labor rights while ensuring supplies and comfort for soldiers at the front.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Executive Club
Greater
Buffalo Club
Mr. Gompers
Spies Warned as Navy Yards Stamp Secrecy
Renewed warnings against enemy spies posted at all navy yards and stations with placards urging silence on naval matters. Plans to broaden registration and extend barred zones were approved at a cabinet meeting and accelerate enforcement due to recent fires along Atlantic fronts.
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Washington
Wilson
Department of Justice
New Y
Atlantic Coast
Seaboard
England
France
Germany
FoE of U S kills three in Virginia Minn
Three people, Mr and Mrs Paul Alar and Peter Trepich, were killed by an ax murderer in Virginia Minnesota. A note warned Austrian families who bought Liberty bonds or supported the Red Cross. Police offer two theories: feud over war aid or robbery, with Mrs Alar rumored to have $2000 and bonds at home. Wholesale arrests reported.
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Virginia, Minnn
Aul Alar
Peter Trepich
Virginia
Red Cross
Wnasnee
Yankee Wins Medal and Dies in France Action
William Parringfield of San Francisco, a member of the French Foreign Legion, dies from wounds received in a Lorraine action. He had already earned the War Cross at Verdun and is praised in a letter from Oscar Monvet conveyed by Jack Barry of Brooklyn.
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Paris
William Parringfield
San Francisco
French Foreign Legion
The
Herald
Parringfield
Jack Barry
Brooklyn
Legion
Oscar Monvet
Lorraine
Verdun
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Carlo Porro
Allied Nations
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U.S
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Diaz
Berlin
Cismon
War Office
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Piave River
Cioia
Rome
Asiago
Pinave
Navy
Belgium
Minn
Yankee
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