Azores Barred Zone Declared By Germany In WWII Context
A Berlin memo reports a German barred zone around the Azores to curb neutral shipping routes and pressure Allied power cargo flows. It notes U S fortifications at Punta Delgada and German fears over Atlantic navigation and colonial links as the hunger blockade intensifies.
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Berlin
Azores
North Atlantic
United States
Europe
Portugal
Kirchhoef
Neueste Nachrichten
Punta Delgado
Germany
Great Britain
Rail workers tell Wilson they will discuss any solution
After a two hour White House session with President Wilson the four railway brotherhood chiefs pledged no suspension of transportation and willingness to consider any proposed remedy. They emphasized pay standards since 1912 and 1918 are inadequate to current costs and urged cooperation with the government to avoid war-time disruption. Wilson echoed the stance saying representatives were ready to accommodate a just solution for maintenance of families. The talks extended several hours as leaders came at the president’s request. Montreal reports 4000 Grand Trunk workers will gain eight hours and higher pay under a new accord with the company.
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Railroad Brotherhood
Wilson
Brotherhoods
Stone
Lee
Carter
Garretson
Railway Brotherhoods
Tiny
Montreal
Can
Grand Trunk
Cambrai Breakthrough Near German Lines In France
British forces push within three miles of Cambrai after breaking through the final German defense near Anneux and Cantaing. More than 10,000 prisoners taken, with cavalry tanks and infantry driving toward Cambrai as left flank gains widen the breach.
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Cambrai
Anneux
Cantaing
Bourlon Wood
Novelles
Ruilly
Bullecourt
London
Arras- St. Quentin
Reuter
F. B. Maurice
War Office
Maurice
Ypres
Gambrai
Has Million Soldiers President Wilson to Ask Expansion of War Plans
Washington reports that President Wilson will expand the war program beyond hopes held at adjournment. He seeks data to quickly grow fighting forces, with Pershing commanding a force already surpassing early projections. The War Department notes U S troops in France plus planned arrivals exceed one million, challenging earlier estimates.
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Kansas City
Kansas City Life Insurance Company
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Treasury Department
Washington
Wilson
Pershing
America
Lloyd George
United States
Congress
War Council
France
War Department
Atlantic
Germany
Destroyer Chauncey Sunk After Collision With Rose
The destroyer Chauncey, sunk early Monday with 21 men lost, was rammed by the transport Rose as both ships steamed through the war zone without lights. The after portion of the Chauncey submerged, crewmen in that section drowned, while the Rose rescued the remaining officers and crew and took them to port.
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Washington
Chauncey
Rose
Navy Department
Sims
Daniels
United States
Hearing set for express rate rise by 10 percent
Hearings will be held in December on applications by express companies to raise rates by 10 percent. Inter state Commerce Commission announced the hearing date. The action affects express firms including Hear Express Mendec at 7 Ashington.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Ashington
Bomb maker Faust arrested after planned attack at Chicago opera
Reinhold A. Faust fifty two a German American and Chicago resident confessed to placing two bombs in the Auditorium during the Dinorah performance aiming to terrify Bankers James B. Forgan and Frank O Wetmore into paying one hundred thousand dollars He had written three threatening letters and kept dynamite nitroglycerin and other explosives in his basement a deadly gas pipe bomb was found and experts warned it could have killed hundreds after his arrest Faust claimed motive was hatred of the wealthy population
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Chicago
Reinhold A. Faust
Schuettler
Federal Department of Justice
James B. Forgan
Frank O. Wetmore
First National Bank
Faust
House Reports Satisfactory Interallied Conference Arrangements
Colonel House states that all arrangements for the interallied conference and war council are satisfactory. Diplomatic sources indicate the US has won key points, with Britain dropping earlier opposition and France ready to proceed as the United States desires. Anglo American press warns America acts for freedom, not merely to aid France or Britain.
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Colonel House
War Council
State Department
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Council
Great Britain
France
Clemenceau
London
America
Daily Express
Germany
Kaiser William
England
Lord North
Bomb Found on Second Avenue Elevated Bridge in New York
A large dynamite stick enclosed in insulated wire with a detonator was discovered on the center span of the Second Avenue Elevated railroad bridge over the Harlem river. Police say it was designed to explode upon contact with the third rail.
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Harlem Bridge
Second Avenue
New York
Second Avenue Elevated
Harlem River
Manhattan
Bronx
British Forces Reach Suburbs of Jerusalem
London reports British troops push toward Jerusalem with anticipation that General Allenby’s advance could capture the Holy City with little resistance.
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London
Palestine
Jerusalem
Holy City
Allenby
Berlin Reports Narrow Cambrai Stand Still in War
Berlin says the southwest Cambrai battle continues with no breakthrough by the enemy, who gained a little ground beyond the German front line. The British Somme attack left tanks wrecked on both flanks, while Germans pushed the British back to Anneux and Fontaine on the Scheldt's western bank and to positions south of Rumilly on the east bank.
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Bullecourt
Graincourt
Hindenburg
Bapaume-Cambrai
Scarpe River
War Office
Berlin
Somme
Scheldt
Anneux
Fontaine
Rumilly
Two Die In $150000 Fire In Osceola District
A blaze in Osceola Iowa on November 23 killed two people and seriously injured two others. The fire caused an estimated $150,000 in losses across the business district.
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Blaz
Osceola
British Warship Seizes Seeadler Raiders Prize
Captain McClements reports the British steamer Matunga, believed seized by the German raider Seeadler in the South Pacific, was captured by a British warship near Rabaul. He says the last of Seeadler’s crew have been captured and the prize recaptured.
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Matunga
Seeadler
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City of
Clemenceau Meets Pershing at War Ministry in Paris
Premier Clemenceau held a long cordial talk with General Pershing commander of American forces at the ministry of war in Paris yesterday. The discussion was conducted in English as Clemenceau spoke the language fluently.
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General Conter
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Paris
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