War News Review Highlights Allied Pressure and U S War Tax
A weekly digest notes Haig’s advance near Ypres, British reprisals and German counters, progress at the front, and Austro Hungarian diplomacy. It covers policy shifts, Britain and France air raids on German targets, the sinking of ships, press crackdowns on antiwar agitation, Wilson signing the war tax bill, Liberty Loan momentum, and political fallout over suffrage and La Follette.
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Eqward W. Pickard
Marshal Haig
Thureday
Ypres
Prince Ruprecht
Beitieh
Mary
Poncesson
Dows
Beck
Reprisals Talked By War Cabinet Liaison
A war cabinet member Lieutenant Geowril Siete, once a forces commentator in North Africa and adviser to the president of the chamber of commerce of the United Kingdom, discussed possible reprisals in a serious briefing. The remarks reflected government strategy amid ongoing tensions.
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Lomdeo
Geowril Siete
Qerino
Mast Africa
Aitress
Carebark of Commerce
United Kingdien
War to Grow Less Costly Says Officials Forecast
A wartime budget outlook suggests the 1919 cost of the war will not rise sharply. Representative Sherley notes projected next year spending around 54 billion with major cuts to spending on maintenance and equipment. General Smuts cites London’s morale shift and reduced sub marine threat as factors easing pressure.
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Washington
Sherley
Kentucky
General Smuts
London
Measures 10 raise money under war revenue plan
Conferees finish draft of war revenue bill raising total to about 2.7 billion dollars. New excess profits tax rates, investment definitions, intangible asset allowances, and postal and transportation taxes are outlined to fund wartime finances.
War Tax Provisions Finalized By Senate House Conferees
War revenue bill sets total approx 2.01 billion in new taxes including 3 per cent motor vehicle levy 2 per cent normal income tax on higher earners and stepped surtaxes up to 50 per cent on top incomes. Inheritance tax rates 2 to 10 per cent plus steep levy on spirits beer wines and cigarettes. stamps licenses and amusement taxes also reshaped.
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Washington
Senate
Shumens
Semite Finance Committee
House
Postal
Totel
Manu
Dewelry Festa
Senate Federalicense
Ronterers
Senate DI
Customs House
United States
Canada
Mexico
Garfield Fixes Coal Prices and Margins Nationwide
Fuel Administrator Garfield announces immediate rules for retail coal pricing. Dealers may add up to 30 percent to wholesale costs, but margins cannot exceed July levels. Example shows a 1915 price of $2 skipping to $2.60 under new rule, with caps tied to prior margins.
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Washington
Garfield
Gartieri
Revenue Bill Praised by Conferees as Best Yet
Washington conferees led by Senator Simmons and Representative Kitchin hail the revenue bill as among the best ever drafted. The plan shifts tax burdens between rich and poor, with rates from 20 percent to 60 percent on profits, expands the income tax to more people, and broadens the manufacturers and other excise taxes.
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Washington
Simmons
Representative Kitellin
Kitchin
Senate
McAdoo Opens Campaign for Second Liberty Loan Funds
Secretary McAdoo formally launches the Second Liberty Loan drive seeking from Americans about eight to ten billion in bonds. He urges lending to the government with 4 percent interest and notes bonds are safe, easily convertible to cash, and essential for wartime support.
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Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo
Washington
Cleveland
Issan
Secoud Liberty Ioan
Peace conference data task to prepare for postwar terms
Colonel House leads a data driven effort with Dr John H Finley to gather European war conditions and economic facts for American use at a future peace conference. The work aims for objective analysis without bias and excludes immediate peace talks.
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New York
M. House
Wilson
United States
John H. Finley
Finley
Europe
House
Manor
Lord Northcliffe
American Bankers’ Association
Atlantic City
Peuce
America
State Department
Department
United Sint
Peace Council
Burt
Uiat
Colonel House
Germany
Entente
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Great Britain
Austria
Russia
Prussia
Nepeiian
Prince Talleyrand
Vienna
Talleyrand
France
Harapa
Congress of Vienna
Italy
Austria-Hungary
Strikes of Innovation and War Era Projects Across Continents
During 1916 17 reports describe Whitman era Leaves of Geass influences and banana land clearings in Straits Settlements experiments in How olla Hawaii with banana stalks for sugar bag making. European studies on radio activity and glow. A big bell foundry in Apollo Hanover received 70 000 church bells destined for war use. Hamburg American sale in Cocksyar street London to P O Steamship for 901000 dollars. Magnesium alloy costs and Victoria wheat storage plans 3 505 000. Afterwar grain elevator system planned. 2000 pounds cocoons produced in Texas experimental silk farm. Mulberry trees expansion next year 12000. Bronze durability linked to tin content. California janitor invents pressed desk cupboard cover. Millions of horses destroyed in war. 750 000 sent to Europe. 33 000 drop in US. Rubber oil experiments in Federated Malay states. Wolfeboro N H telephone inspector overhears spy talk. European cotton shortage boosts stinging nettle textile use. Diamonds in former German Africa fields softer than British mines. Aluminum drain board for barber shampooing without leaving seat. Iceland adopts compulsory national service six months.
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Whitman
Straits Settlements
Howolla
Hawaii
United States
Europe
Apollo
Hanover
Cocksyar Street
London
America
P. & O. Steamship Company
California
Federated Malay States
Wolfeboro
N. H
Africa
Iceland
Igber
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