Amazing Fact of America War Work Revealed in France
American forces in France on Armistice Eve show nearly 2,000,000 men and 750,000 combat troops in the Argonne. The logistics include 667 locomotives and 13,174 freight cars, 143 miles of new standard gauge railway, 43,000 motor vehicles, and vast canned and staple rations including 200,000,000 rations of beans and 183,000,000 rations of flour.
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America
France
United States
Argonne
Department of Light Railways
The
Americnans
Europe
Berlin Quiet After Revolution as Streets Stay People Unmoved
Berlin reports a week of revolution with streets unchanged aside from missing front news. The public appears fatigued and indifferent as Ebert Haase cabinet gains control while managing chaotic new structures and party involvement.
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Berlin
Germany
William
Ebert-Haase
Demobilization at Camp Grant Discharges 1200 Troops
At Camp Grant Illinois on November 22 twelve hundred men were discharged as the demobilization of American troops in training camps began. Most are limited service men inducted into the general service last September. Some will return home for Thanksgiving. The process started at eight o clock this morning.
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Camp Grant
Entent Troops March on Kiev in Ukraine
Basel reports Entent forces advancing toward Kiev with little resistance. General Hkoroposki has surrendered to General Denikine, who leads anti-Bolshevik forces.
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Kiev
Basel
Entent
General Denikine
Prince Leopold Interred by Bolsheviks
Berne reports the bolsheviks have interned Prince Leopold of Bavaria who led Germany's eastern front and General von Hoffmann, Germanys military spokesman at Brest Litovsk. The princes held at Raudanwarts near Kovno and the general in the same fortress.
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Berne
Leopold of
Bavaria
Germany
von Hoffmann
Brest Litovsk
Berner Bund
Raudanwarts
Kovno
Hungary Names Official Title as Hungarian People's Republic
Budapest Nov 21 The government has decided that the official title of Hungary from now on shall be the Hungarian People's Republic. This change marks a new constitutional naming choice for the state.
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Hungary “People’s Republic
Budapest
Hungary
Kolchak Declared Supreme Governor Over All Russian Forces
A coup at Omsk installs Admiral Alexander Kolchak as virtual dictator and commander of the all Russian army and fleet. Ministers Avksentief and Zenzenoff are arrested, while support comes from the Ufa directors. Allied officials in Vladivostok see the move as surprising and many local bodies question recognition.
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Vladivostok
Council of Ministers
Omsk
Alexander Kolchak
M. Avksentief
M. Zenzenoff
Kolchak
Ufa
Siberian
Directorate
Bolderoff
Renault
Enott
Zemstvo
Provisional Council
Pressmen Awarded $6 Weekly Wage Boost
Washington reports the national war labor board granted New York pressmen and press feeders an increase of 86 a week over existing wages, effective immediately.
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Washington
New York
National War Labor Board
Mrs Jerome Do Travers Dies in New York
Mrs Jerome Do Travers wife of the amateur golf expert died at her home in New York from pneumonia following influenza.
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Jerome Do. Travers
New York
Telegraph Companies Merge Under Government Control
Washington announces consolidation of Western Union and Postal Telegraph under government control effective December 1 1918. The telegraph systems will operate as one with all classes of messages accepted at standard tariffs. Government possession of marine cables is proclaimed with instructions for continued operation through regular channels.
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Washington
Western Union
Postal Telegraph Companies
Westmaster
Burleson
United States
Wilson
Beseler Hidden on a Barge Escapes Warsaw
German General Hans Beseler reportedly escaped Warsaw by concealing himself aboard a Vistula river barge. The Munich newspaper cites this unheralded exit as Beseler, governor general of occupied Russian territories, departing the Polish capital. Berlin’s Vorwärts notes German socialist program favors state monopolization of banks and large industries.
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Zurich
Novy
Hans Beseler
Russia
Munich
Warsaw
Vorwaerts
Berlin
Message for U S Girls from Fort Leavenworth
Gen Eben Smith who returned from France says American soldiers sent home by him told to wait for home and not marry older men. General Swift also noted for service in Italy and France.
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Leavenworth, Ren
Eben Smith
Fort Leavenworth
France
General Swift
Italy
Prince Axel of Denmark On Economic Mission In New York
New, unpublished photograph shows Prince Axel Christian George of Denmark in New York on an economic investigation mission. Sailor Prince heads the Danish navy at age thirty, is unmarried, and son of Prince Waldeman and Princess Murie.
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Axel Christian George
Denmark
New York
Prince Axel
Prince
Prince Waldeman
Princess Murie
Bone Day Bill Law Ends Wine Beer Manufacture Early
President Wilson signed the bone dry prohibition measure at 4 59 PM. The act ends manufacture of beer and wine by May 1 next year and bans sale after June 30 until demobilization completes. Importation is allowed until May 1 with postponed full ban. European wine producers protested but won concessions.
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Washington
Navy
Wilson
Europe
U S Casualty List Revised
Washington reports revised estimates of American army casualties in foreign service up to hostilities end. About 10,000 casualties identified with details pending, and officials note no reliable battle loss ratio to project totals.
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Washington
Pro-Hon Preacher Sentenced in Liberty Loan Case
Rev. David Gerdes, pastor of a Whiteside County Brethren church, received a ten year federal prison term after pleading guilty to opposing the Liberty loan and Red Cross. In a related case, John D. Manus was sentenced to three years for sending pro German communications to a Freeport newspaper.
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Rockford
David Gerdes
Brethren Church
Whiteside County
K. M. Landis
Gerdes
Liberty Loan
John D. Manus
Freeport
Premier Clémenceau and Marshal Foch Elected to Academy
Paris reports Premier Clemenceau and Marshal Foch were unanimously elected as members of the French Academy. The historic announcement marks a high honor for both figures in French intellectual and national life.
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Marshal Foch
Paris
Premier Clemerceau
German fleet surrenders to Allied forces in North Sea
An Allied grand fleet, including British, American and French ships, accepts the surrender of about 71 German vessels off Scotland near the Firth of Forth. The armistice terms list 50 destroyers and numerous battleships and cruisers, with internment beginning after the ceremony aboard the USS Wyoming.
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Harwich
England
Wyoming
North Sea
Scotland
Forth
Admiralty
O'Cloeck
London
Gunnet
Germany
Ning
Grand Fleet
May Island
Firth of Forth
Sir David Beatty
Amsterdam
Berlin
Frammer
Vrankfurt
Koeln
Dresden
Arden
Aviator Burned to Death in New Jersey Crash
Seut. Ellsworth Gaskell of New York an army aviator was burned to death and his companion Hobson Tupper seriously injured when their airplane burst into flames and plummeted to the outskirts of Avention New Jersey. The men had been dropping pamphlets while circling low over the United War Work campaign.
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Avention
N. J
Ellsworth Gaskell
New York
Hobson Tupper
United War Work Campaign
Tidal Wave Forces Consulate Staff From Quebec Office
The staff of the American consulate in Quebec were forced to evacuate in canoes after a tidal wave damaged the lower town, with losses pegged at 1.9 million dollars.
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Quebec
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Red Cross
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United States Squadron
Lieut
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