Antilles Sunk By U Boats. Seventy Killed
The army transport Antilles was torpedoed October 17 while returning from France under convoy. About 70 soldiers and 16 sailors died. 167 of roughly 237 aboard were saved. All naval and army officers aboard were saved except three engineers and four enlisted Navy personnel.
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Navy
de. Stroyers
Washington
Daniels
Department
Sims
Antilles
Peet
France
General Pershing
State, War and Navy
White House
Baker
Navy Department
Antilles Torpedoed While Convoyed By Warships
The Antilles a passenger liner turned troop transport was struck midships by a torpedo as it steamed westward in a daylight attack. The blast disabled engines and sank the ship within minutes. 80 of 130 crew were saved with 88 aboard.
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Cans
Kinsey and
Hunt
Navy
Ausburn and
Watson
Antilles
Army
Antilles Ship, Once Southern Pacific, Taken for War Transport
The Antilles a 5878 ton S P Steamship once a luxury liner on the New Orleans to New York run was seized by the U S government early in the war. Capt H F Boyde remained captain in government service as officers and crew were drawn from the merchant ship lineage. Built 1907 by the Cramps Philadelphia the ship operated at Genoa 1914 before returning to New York September 26. Survivors are believed safe ashore in France or England and many other workers and troops are safe in transit.
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United States
Antilles
Admiiral Sims
France
England
New York
Southern Pacific Steamship Company
Morfan Line
New Orleans
H. F. Boyde
Quartermaster’s Department
Cramps
Philadelphia
Genoa
Italy
Nio
Europe
L. F. Loree
Delaware & Hudson Railway Company
Boyde
Navy sees risk from undersea boats in patrols
The transports report encounters with the undersea boats and have escaped by their precautions. Navy men acknowledge the danger, saying they are bound to lose a ship once in a while during these patrols.
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Navy
Submarine Exhibit Sails to New York for Liberty Loan
A German submarine captured by the British will be viewed in New York. It arrived in three sections and will be assembled in Central Park as an exhibit to aid the Liberty Loan drive. The submarine is the 9.5, of the flying-laying type, captured by a British destroyer in April 1916.
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Central Park
Liberty Loan
Liberty Loan Committee
North Sea
Kaiser
Government to move capital to Moscow amid Baltic war advances
Berlin reports 5000 Russian troops captured on Moon Island in the Gulf of Riga as German forces press on in the Baltic. Petrograd confirms evacuation of Reval and talks of moving the government to Moscow, while fighting continues at Moon Sound and in the Gulf of Riga.
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Gulf of Riga
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Gulf of Finland
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Russia
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Reval
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Riga
Oesel
Moon Islands
Esthenia
Finland
Three U S Ships Attacked by German Submarines
A French liner carried crews from three American sailing vessels to port after reported U boat attacks near Brest. The bark Paolina of 1195 tons was looted and sunk, the schooner Crockett was torpedoed but remained afloat, and the four masted Henry Lippitt of Philadelphia was reported sunk earlier.
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Crockett
Atlantic
Mortensen
Brest
Holvin
Whitney & Bodden Company
Philadelphia
Henry Lippitt
Kaiser William remarks on Alsace Lorraine and food fair share
London reports a Berlin Lokal Anzeiger correspondent aboard the emperor's train notes William I remarks on Painleve's Alsace Lorraine policy and a lunch with royal praise for Roumanian royals. He says hunger for gold and power harms diguters and urges fair division of food to sustain the fatherland.
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Berlin
Lokal Anzeiger
William
Balkans
Daily Chronicle
Amsterdam
Elis
Professor Painileve
M. Painleve
Alsace-Lorraine
Carl
Elizabeth
Roumania
Sleighs Replace Wagons on Gogebic Range
Snow has come to stay in Tronwood Michigan as farmers store wagons and haul farm products to cities on sleighs marking an early harsh winter on the Gogebic range.
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Tronwood
Mich
Gogebic Range
End Coal Tieup or Be Ousted by Union Edict
In Clinton and Jackson districts 3100 coal miners return to work as mines produce 465 cars daily. Illinois UMW president Frank Farrington warns locals to resume work by Monday or risk charter revocation. He cites relief for wage talks and a push against industrial conscription. John White affirms that miners will honor agreements and return to duty.
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Danville
Clinton
Jackson
Springfield
Frank Farrington
United Mine Workers
Middle West
Farrington
Mr. Farrington
Garfield
Tom
Ilinois Miners’ Union
Indianapolis
Ind
Oet
John VP. White
United Mine Workers of America
Egg Dealers Seek Army Ration to Save Cold Storage Surplus
Chicago reports a large surplus of eggs in cold storage with 888 175 cases 26 615 250 dozen. Dealers warn of a $400 loss per car as prices fall from April purchases 87 5 to 87 percent cents a dozen to 31 4 cents. They urge making stored eggs part of army rations to stabilize demand.
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Chicago
Bonar Law to move credit vote in Commons
London reports Chancellor Bonar Law will soon present a vote of credit for 560 million pounds in the House of Commons. The news notes the sum in dollars and cites it as part of wartime finance measures.
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London
Bonar Law
House of Commons
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