Truth is costly in Germany and its history of arrest
Berlin journalists and political figures are quoted describing the harsh repression in Germany during the war era. The piece cites Dr Hermann Ekneyer and Dr Rosemeier along with Rosa Luxemburg and other leaders jailed or imprisoned for antiwar or anti-government actions. It notes Lichknecht, Bebel, and Lichnowsky figures under threat, with references to preventive arrest and confinement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Hermann Ekneyer
Grake
Rosemeier
Morgenport
Germany
Lichknecht
Rosa’ Luxemburg
Nicolai
Paasche
Imperial German Navy
Reichstag
Maximilian Harden
Baron von Eckardstein
London
Lilly Jannasch
New Fatherland League
Great General Staff
Iron Cross
Prince Lichnowsky
Lichnowsky
August Bebel
Conaci
Junkers
Loyal Russian Officers Seek Allied Roles Amid Turmoil
A lengthy account describes loyal ex-officers of the former Russian army, stripped of rank and funds, fleeing to Yokohama, Vladivostok, and China ports. Many aim to join American forces or serve as interpreters and instructors, despite risk of execution by their countrymen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Yokohama
Harbin
Vladivostok
America
Stars and Stripes
Red Guards
China
Suez
Italy
France
Alles
Tokio
United States
Canadian Miner Enlists After 4000 Mile Siberian Journey
Bruce Lindsay, a Canadian miner, says he traveled 6000 miles from a platinum mining camp on the Anadir river in Siberia to join the Canadian army. He claimed he survived a party of 23 that left on January 6, with several companions killed by Russian bandits and others dying from exposure on the Bering Sea voyage to Alaska.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bruce Lindsay
Anadir
Siberia
Siberian
Lindsay
Bering Sea
Alaska
Six Days in a Cellar in War Patrol
Lieutenant S. Smith McLean and his Australian patrol faced a sudden assault as they surrounded a garrison. He dashed into a house but was struck by an enemy bomb and knocked unconscious losing his revolver. His men carried him to a cellar and he survived six days on iron rations with limited sighting and danger lingering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. Smith McLean
Fragmentary header and garbled lines from a newspaper page
OCR fragment shows unclear text and inconsistent phrases possibly from a column or note. No coherent event, person, or place can be determined beyond generic newspaper content remnants.
Britain’s Brave Boy Fred Clements Remembered at Enfield
The body of Fred Clements, a young British sailor, washed ashore on the Scottish coast after a life of daring wartime service. He survived torpedo attacks and even saved a fellow sailor on wreckage, earned a letter from Lord Jellicoe, and was later killed in action while serving on special duties. His funeral drew a full naval crowd and a subscription tombstone is planned. his story embodies Britannia’s claim to rule the waves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred 5
Cletmenis
Blue Jackets
Southbury Road
Enfield
Enfield Highway
Fred Clements
von Tirpitz
Lord Jellicoe
Clements
Zeebrugee
Dunkirk
England
Scotland
Jutland
Britannia
Drake
Nelson
Toronto Globe
Labor Shortage for Farm Work May Bring Six Day Week
A Leslie's article cites United States officials weighing farm labor shortages as a six day work week potential remedy. Government experts aim to quantify losses caused by part time laborers and may seek nationwide cooperation among employers to employ six days weekly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Employment Service
Department of Labor
United States
Thomas F. Logan
Leslie
Carrots Ranked High Among Root Vegetables
A historical note states carrots are a top three nourishing root vegetable behind potatoes and parsnips. It claims carrots have high sugar content suitable for puddings and meals and warns that much nourishment leaches into cooking water, which should be reused as stock.
Start Easy With Tractor
A tractor may be made or ruined during its first week of life. Give the machine time to reach all parts and come to full power. Do not try to climb hills on high speed early on. Take care in the first days to ensure it lasts for years.
Rural Ireland coffins ordered for father
In a County Limerick village four sorrowful youths visited the local undertaker to order a coffin for their father. The undertaker expressed surprise thinking Pat was dead, while the youths clarified he was not yet deceased.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ireland
Limerick
Pat
Ireland's Opportunity Speaks Against German Tyranny
From the Kansas City Star, a call to Irish unity against German influence urging repudiation of Sinn Fein and any German agent posing as Irish. It argues that German rule would enslave Ireland more than English rule and calls for Ireland to join liberty and democracy, accepting conscription as America has done.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ireland
Sinn Fein
England
Despoiler
Belgiam
Finland
Ukraine
Germany
Lithuania
Friends of
Amish Liberty
LWW
Free Land
France
America
The
Kansas City Star
War Garden Bulletin urges Canada to grow potatoes for wheat substitute
The Canada Food Board urges wartime gardens across the Dominion to replace bread with vegetables. It notes Europe faces a 500 million bushel wheat shortfall and calls for doubling Canada’s war garden output, emphasizing potatoes as the logical substitute and urging careful tool care and seed management.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
United States
Canada
Ottawa
Delivered From Bondage The Emperor hails letter
A London Daily Express piece argues Austria resents Prussia and fears losing provinces. It says victory for Germany would fail to compensate Austrian sacrifices and suggests a readjustment of northern frontiers could benefit Austria if Berlin weakens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Daily Express
German aims in war plain as ever say Daily Mail
The Daily Mail states Germany intends to seize channel ports to mount long range guns and to enforce indemnities in cash raw materials and territory, while the population focuses on brothers fighting near Dunkirk Calais and Boulogne against German hordes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geomany
Channel
Straits of Dover
Dunkirk
Calais
Boulogne
Loedon Daily Mail
Call For International Commission On St. Lawrence Power
A Canadian call argues for an international commission to manage St Lawrence power. Sir Clifford Sifton provides a 1917 conservation review and reports on peat fuel, Canada’s fuel situation, Niagara power, and railway electrification. The issue includes wildlife, fisheries, water power work, town planning, mining, and a chart on German metal control before the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ser Clifford
Niagara Power
Clifford Sifton
Eugene Haanel
Canada
C. A. Magrath
St. Lawrence
A. White
Niagara
S. T. Dodd
General Electric Company
W. F. Tyees
C. Gordon Hewitt
J. P Babcock
Fraser River
Commission
War Lords of Germany and a Call for Democracy
A Minneapolis Tribune editorial condemns German war policies that devalue old age and childhood as economic cogs. It cites Field Marshal von Hindenburg’s claimed August peace with 400000 deaths and the Nazi warlords’ offer of 25 to 35 dollars per Polish youth. It argues democracy must oppose such cold calculations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Marshal von Hindenburg
Hindenburg
Russia
Knights of Democracy
Minneapolis Tribune
Allies Reach Our Hands to America War Call Echoes in New York
Henry P. Davidon, chairman of the Red Cross, spoke at a New York meeting after returning from Europe. He described war conditions and declared that America is at war for its lives, urging support and solidarity with Italy and the war effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Red Cross
New York
Euros
Henry P. Davidon
Sant
Italy
Spectators to Players as Nation Prepares for War
The piece argues war is a colossal test demanding all citizens train and act. It contrasts athletic spectatorship with total mobilization, saying in France no one sits on bleachers while Americans should move beyond passive patriotism to decisive action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hort
France
E. A. Taylor
Saturday Evening Post
Army cooks in France mistake bread type during bake
Soldiers in France inaccurately labeled bread as Bourne during a kitchen mishap. The error involved confusing the bread product for a similar name, prompting a corrective note and retraining in the mess.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Canadian Cavalry Leader Saves Position in Daring Charge
Lieutenant Flowerdew of the Canadian Cavalry led a two-line assault against entrenched enemy machine guns, dismounting a troop under Lieutenant Harvey VC to execute a special movement. Despite heavy casualties, the squadron broke the enemy and maintained a pivotal position, Flowerdew wounded but rallying his men for the capture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liest
G. M. Flowerdew
Harvey
Fife
Flowerdew
Germans Claim English Starving Amid War Loot
Berlin press bureau reports English prisoners say Britain is starving while German forces celebrate captures. Narrative touts seized tins of food, white bread, marmalade, wine, tobacco, uniforms, blankets, and gear. Describes railways down and claims Allied losses exceed repair by American aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Berlin
England
Going Over at 48: John Hancox Enlists with Canadian Forces
John Hancox, 48, of the Third Battalion Rifle Brigade, has enlisted at the Philadelphia recruiting station for Canadian forces after 14 years in America. Born in India, he recalls battles in the Himalayas and expresses resolve to serve, despite mixed views on fellow Englishmen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Hancox
Rifle Brigade
Prince Consort’s Own
Philadelphia
America
Hancox
de Hancox
Queen Victoria
India
Flancox
Himalayas
Greenland Ex Explorer Rasmussen Reaches Longs Firths
Danish explorer Enud Rasmussen reports from Copenhagen via Exchange Telegraph that he has reached Long’s Firths with the Arctic expedition and chartered all frils of northern Greenland. Two party members, Hendrie Olsen and Dr Wulff, died during Tas expedition. Rasmussen says they faced hardships on return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enud Rasmussen
Copenhagen
Long
Greenland
Rasmussen
Thule
Denmark
Keuter
Hendrie Olsen
Wulff
Alterig Oo
Olsen
Laod
Agassi
Saya
Posig
Young Officer Trips Over Chair in New Uniform
A young officer, proud in his new uniform, trips on a chair and bruises his shin as his wife rushes in. She asks if it hurts badly, but he tells her to go away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George
Securing Lands for Settlers Faces War Driven Reforms
The piece discusses how wartime conditions stimulate farming, machinery adoption, and cooperative systems. It calls for better rural leadership, improved social and recreational services, and stronger taxation of unused land to curb absentee ownership and mobilize land for productive use. It references provincial and federal powers in taxation and land laws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto Globe
German army returns millions to fight as sick rates fall
Nearly 3,000,000 wounded and sick men have been sent back to the front and 692,000 discharged as unfit, per Surgeon-General Schulze in a Reichstag report cited by Berliner Tageblatt. Digestive diseases from food quality and quantity dominate, with respiratory and nervous diseases next. Deaths among the wounded range from 1 to 11 percent. cripples total about 98,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reichstag
Schulze
Sultan Mohammed and Attendee Toast End of War Claims
A Constantinople despatch quotes Charles of Austria at the imperial palace praising the BrestLitovsk and Bucharest treaties as proof of desire to end the war. The Sultan concludes with expressed confidence in the righteousness and inevitable triumph of their cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sultan Mohammed Cof
Charles of
Austria
Imperial
Constantinopl
Brest- Litovsk
Bucharest
Russia
Roumania
Ordnance keeps troops equipped as they ship overseas
The ordnance department reported that American soldiers abroad will be fully armed as they board transport. Artillery and machine guns are already in France in sufficient quantities to meet immediate demands.
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Ordnance Department
U. S. Ordnance Bureau
France
Mistress Requests Special Dish for Soviet Friends
A mistress asks a cook to prepare a notably nice dish for visiting Soviet friends, expressing confidence in the cook's ability to manage a refined, impressive meal. The exchange shows cordial dining expectations and social courtesy in a domestic setting.
Preparing for Canning Regulations in Sugar Use
Regulations limit sugar consumption in Canada to save about 100000 tons annually. Officials say restrictions are essential to preserve fruit crops and support war efforts. They note Cuba has sugar but transport ships are needed elsewhere, and curtailment will bring hardship yet benefit health and reduce foreign spending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Cuba
Kaiser to Rule by Puppet Kings in Europe
A London Spectator writer claims Kaiser Wilhelm seeks to imitate Napoleon by installing relatives or loyalists on thrones across conquered lands. The article cites Wilhelm’s sons and other Hohenzollerns as potential rulers of Courland Lithuania Poland Finland Roumania and related thrones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Napoleon Bonaparte
Europe
London Spectator
Kaiser Wilhelm
Aited ‘Fritz
Courland
Lithuania
Poland
Clacar
Finland
Hohnaollern
Roumanis
Jan Ow
Need for Men in War Crisis Urges Action
A fragmented wartime plea stresses the need for soldiers amid a great crisis. The text evokes battlefield duty and national sacrifice, urging men to step forward to meet wartime demands.
Ukraine's Lesson Against Evil in Germany's False Friendship
The Cleveland Plain Dealer remarks that Ukraine has learned a harsh lesson about Germany's professed friendship, warning that there can be no greater evil than such duplicity. The piece reflects on international cautions drawn from Ukraine's experience.
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Ukrainia
Germany
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Fragmentary quote on girls learning manners and maturity
Readers encounter garbled dialogue about what little girls should learn and when they will outgrow bad habits. The text preserves quoted lines with uncertain attribution and broken syntax.
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Committee OF Agriculture and Colonization
Dean Klinck
Agricultural College
Agricultural College of
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Turkey
Kaiser's
Krainia
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