Italians Repel Austro German Attacks On Asiago Front
Rome reports a Franco British force has arrived on the Italian front. Italian first army on Asiago plateau repulsed furious enemy assaults and counter attacked, with two machine gun sections captured. Piave river crossings repelled, pontoons destroyed. heroic actions noted along Brenta valley and Monte Per tic a.
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Romef
Asingo
Italian War Office
Asiago
Meletta
Monte Grappa
Brenta
Monte Pertica
Italy
Piave
Meletta d'Aventi
Military zones to seal Chicago waterfront under army rule
Washington reports next step in wartime measures extending military control to Chicago river docks and Great Lakes terminals. Regular army patrols will enforce orders, wearing standard dress and armed, with sentries authorized to use deadly force. John L O'Brien notes Chicago will be guarded as tightly as New York piers.
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Washington
Water Front
New York
Chicago
Great Lakes
Lake Front
Chicago River
John Lord O'Brien
New York City
Milwaukee Bomb Disaster Prompts Rewards and Suspects
Milwaukee leaders pledge city and state rewards for arrest of bombers after a blast killed ten and injured two at the central police station. Chicago experts and local officials assist as investigations target Italian anarchists with iconoclastic aims amid a list of ten dead including detectives and a station employee.
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Milwaukee
Bom
Central
Chicago
Herman Schuettler
Mike Mis
Julian Bernacchi
E. L. Philipp
William S. Greene
Louis Wells
Wisconsin
Wilsons Attend Fort Myer Cavalry Drill
President and Mrs Wilson watched an Army Relief Society exhibition drill by cavalry and artillery at Fort Myer in Washington on November 26.
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Washington
Wilson
Fort Myer
Army Relief Society
Riot ties to Italian church bombing in Milwaukee
Detective Charles Zehaner says initial reports were wrong about a fatal bombing at a Milwaukee church. Chief Janssen blames an archist Italian faction in Bay View for deaths of officers and a woman, while eleven Italians face rioting charges and a church trail set for Wednesday.
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Janssen
Sam Mazzone
August Agiuliana
Bay View
Mr. Giuliana
Third Ward
Apostles of Force
Giuliana
Milwaukee
Police Department
Maude Richter
Rochester
N. Y
War Railroads to Operate East as Single System
War board orders pooling of eastern railways from Chicago to coast as a unified unit to speed freight. Officials vow no delay in implementing rules and plan to curb luxuries and passenger travel to ease congestion and preserve coal and steel movement.
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War Operating Board
Railway War Board
War Board
Chicago
Edwin N. Hurley
The
Shipping Board
H. A. Garfield
Lovett
Interstate Commerce
Clark
National Fuel Administration
Eastern Railways
Baker
U-Boat Crew Captured After Depth Charge Sink
Forty German sailors were captured and two died after American destroyers sank a crippled U-boat in European waters. Officials disclosed the capture followed a depth charge and attempted tow, with a later sinking after valves were opened. Admiral Sims reported the action to Secretary Daniels.
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Washington
Teutons
Admiral Sims
Navy Department
Admiralty
Daniels
War and
Navy Departments
Sims
British Capture Bourlan Village and Bourlan Wood
British troops on the Cambrai front take Bourlan village and most of Bourlan wood, with high ground, after stubborn fighting. German counter-attacks fail to retake the positions as British, Welsh, and Scottish units hold the line with dismounted cavalry support.
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Bourlan
Camprai
London
Navy
Cambrai
France
Bourlan Village
Bourlan Wood
Field Marshal Haig
Bourlars Wood
Berlin
Bourlon
Invhy
Champagne
Verdun
Alsace
Cuban Soldiers to Train in the United States
One hundred Cuban army men were reviewed by the chief of staff before traveling to the United States to receive instruction in handling heavy artillery. This marks a collaboration for military training and equipment guidance between Cuba and the United States.
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U. S
Havana
United States
Staf
German Front Forces Counted by French Officials
Official French statistics reveal German divisions on the western front in 1917 by sector. Aisne Champagne line 57 divisions, Aisne Vigny and Messines 78, Verdun 21, Lens 7, Flanders 90, Aisne October 1917 18.
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Washington
Western Front
Aisne-Champagne
Aisne-Vigny
Messines
Verdun
Lens
Flanders
Aisne
Pacific Boat Goes Ashore Off British Columbia Coast
The Alaska Maer Spokane of the Pacific Steamship company ran aground off the British Columbia coast near a Pacific port but reports say the ship was not in immediate danger.
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Pacific
Alaska
Maer Spokane
The
Pacific Steamship Company
British Columbia
French Hold Ground Against German Raids on Aisne Front
Paris reports another German attempt to recapture ground taken by the French along the Aisne front was repelled. French artillery engagements persisted in the Cerny and Juvincourt sectors and our fire stopped an enemy attack against positions we seized on November 21.
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Paris
Aisne
War Office
Cerny
Juvincourt
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Uatins
Asiago Plateau
Rome
Ital
Ian Front
Hindenburg Line
Sir Julian Byng
Third Army
St. Quentin
Scarpe
Milwau
Kee
John T. Sullivan
Frank M. Caswin
Henry Deckert
Fred W. Kaiser
David O’brien
Stephen H. Stecker
Edward Spindler
Albert Templin
Paul Weiler
Catherine Walker
Pietsch Dye Works
Charles Zehaner
New York Central
Pennsylvania
B. & O. Erie
the Railway War Board
Judge Lovett
Priority Board
Maj
Kendall Banning
Signal Corps
Committee On Public Information
Division of Pictures
Major Banning
Official American News Pictures
Foe
Meuse
Haig
Bourlar Wood
French War Office
Kaiser’s Great War Force
Germany
Parle
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