California Sinks After Nine Minute Torpedo Sinking
The steamship California of the Anchor Line, an armed liner from New York to Glasgow, was torpedoed off the Irish coast. It sank in nine minutes with 41 lives lost, five killed ashore, and 36 drowned after failed lifeboat launches. Captain Henderson commended passengers and crew for discipline and drills amid the rapid disaster.
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Germany Refuses To Reaffirm U S Treaty
Realix Feb 8. German foreign office asked Ambassador Gerard to sign a proposal reaffirming treaties of 1799 and 1828. Gerard, now private, refused and suggested Swiss mediation. Washington says no negotiations while Spain and Switzerland handle American interests in Berlin. The issue concerns nine month exit rights for nationals and effects of the Seamen act. Germany declined to act. others agreed.
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Weigh Evidence on German U-Boat War Crisis
The United States weighs whether Germany’s submarine campaign justifies presidential authority to protect American seamen and citizens. President Wilson tours state, war, and navy departments while officials report no conclusive act yet, amid detentions of diplomats and protests from neutrals.
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Coast Forts Arm to Repel Huge Submarines
A Union township family receives a long letter from Glenn Adams of Fort Wright Long Island Sound describing wartime preparations to face German submarines off the U S coast. He notes orders to move families, armaments readiness, tripled guards and potential first engagements near New York City. He expresses readiness to join expeditions if called and supports Wilson, while recalling another son with General Pershing in Mexico.
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British troops advance in Somme region near Sailly Saillisel
British forces push toward Bapaume in the Somme, taking Sailly Saillisel hill and seizing German troops and machine guns. Progress also reported along the Ancre west of Bapaume, including a trench capture near Grandcourt. Teutonic allies active in Macedonia, while on the Eastern Front a relative calm persists. In the Carpathians near Kirlibaba, German allied trenches reportedly fall to Petrograd. Rome claims Austrian attack failure in Lugana valley and Austrian batteries silenced by Italian heavy guns.
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Mexican War Veteran John Lyttle Dies in Brazil Indiana
John Lyttle aged 86, a Mexican War veteran, died today at his Centerpoint home. The Rev John Givene is the sole surviving veteran of the conflict in Clay County. Lyttle is survived by a widow and one child.
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Sweden Rejects Wilson Plan To Join U S In Break With Germany
Stockholm reports that Sweden will remain strictly neutral and will not join other neutrals or the United States in severing diplomatic relations with Germany. The reply to the American ambassador was delivered today.
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Chile Rejects Submarine War Note Neutrals Rights Guarded
Santiago Chile February 8 The Chilean government replies to the German note on submarine warfare declaring such a measure restricts neutral rights and Chile cannot accept it as it conflicts with long held principles. Chile says acceptance would compromise neutrality and reserves liberty of action to protect its interests against hostile acts.
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Pan American Union Meeting Called in Buenos Aires
La Prensa reports a Pan American Union meeting has been called in Buenos Aires on Feb 8. Argentine ambassador Romula Naon proposes an international conference in Madrid to discuss broader cooperation among American states.
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First official probe calls Ravestone a provisional British collier
Dispatches from US Consul Frost at Queenstown establish the Ravestone sinking as a provisional British collier incident. American Richard Wallace died when the submarine that sank the Ravestone shelled a life boat in which he and others were fleeing.
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Navy Yard War Preparations Surge in Philadelphia
Philadelphia experiences brisk war prep as navy yard staff, marines, and auxiliaries boost activity. Ammen destroyer in drydock, anti aircraft guns foundations finish, 170 marines arrive, 300 more expected, and guards for the Delaware river bridge are set. Women plan hospital readiness and Red Cross enrollment expands. naturalization rush by German and Austro Hungarian subjects continues.
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