Dardanelles Campaign Abandoned by Allies
London reports the complete evacuation of the Gallipoli peninsula with no casualties and only seventeen worn out guns left behind. News notes Turkish troop reinforcement and potential offensives, including actions toward Constantinople and invasion of Egypt, as well as reprisals against British subjects and attacks on Saloniki. Montenegro seeks armistice as fronts shift across the region.
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London
Gallipoli
England
Berlin
Saloniki
Conscription Bill Passes Amid Cabinet Resignations
Premier Asquith and his coalition approve the conscription bill causing rifts in the Labour party with several cabinet members resigning. Home Secretary Sir John Simon resigns after his appointment, while Lloyd George is tipped as a successor. The bill passes Commons fourteen to one with Labour resignations later withdrawn.
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London
Asquith
Labor Party
John Simon
David Lloyd George
House of Commons
Labor
Arthur Henderson
William Brace
George H. Roberts
British battleship King Edward VII sunk by mine
The battleship King Edward VII, a pre-Dreadnought of the Royal Navy, struck a mine off Britain and sank. The entire crew of 781 was saved. Built in 1905, she cost about $8,000,000, with a 19 knot speed and four 12 inch guns.
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London
Russians Seek One Hundred Million Dollar Credit in New York
Two prominent Russian officials travel to New York to obtain a credit of one hundred million dollars. The move signals Moscow seeking large foreign finance while the global response remains cautious.
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New York
Queen Sophia summoned to William's bedside in illness
London January 14 reports Emperor William is seriously ill and his sister Queen Sophia of Greece has been summoned to his bedside. The medical bulletin states the condition is grave and doctors monitor his health closely.
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London
William
Sophia
Greece
Lorimer to Stand Trial for Bank Coup Amidcity Death
Chicago January 14 Former United States Senator William Lorimer faces trial on charges of plotting to wreck the La Salle Street Trust and Savings Bank. State's Attorney Maclay Hoyne says the prosecution is ready. Also reported is the death in Oakland of Thomas F. Kell US inspector of boilers born near San Jose California and a World War veteran who served on the cruiser Baltimore during the Battle of Manila Bay. Kell was killed in a street car collision while his two children were injured and survived by his wife and two children. His career included service in Juneau and St Michael Alaska and later a return to California.
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Chicago
United States
William Lorimer
la Salle Street Trust & Savings Bank
Maclay Hoyne
Charles B. Munday
Morris
Til
Juneau
Oakland
Thomas FE
Kell
St. Michael
Alaska
Juneau Marine Inspection Office
Alameda
Cal
Seattle
Victoria
Nome
California
Iditarod
Smmer
Submarines Sink Two Italian Ships in Adriatic
In the Adriatic two Italian steamers, the Brindisi and Citta di Palermo, were sunk by mines with heavy loss of life on the Brindisi while the Palermo, an armed vessel, survived. The Leyland liner Huronion was torpedoed December 29 off the Irish coast while en route from Galveston to Liverpool.
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Rome
Brindisi
Citta di Palermo
Adriatic Sea
Palermo
New York
Huronion
Galveston
Liverpool
Irish
People of Dual Empire Suspect Germany
London dispatch reports Morning Post Hungarian correspondent says Austrian cabinet resignations protest Germany push for a tariff union with Austria Hungary. Resignations reflect opposition in both governments and fear economic danger from German policy.
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London
Morning Post
Germany
Austria
Hungary
Austria-Hungary
Rudolph Schuster von Bennett
Austria- Hun
Ammonition Depot Blown Up Near Lille
An ammunition depot near Lille in northern France was blown up killing seventy people. The blast occurred as tensions over the frontlines continued to rise with wartime activity affecting the region.
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Berlin
Lille
France
Fiendish Mass Casualty Event Sparks Call for Intervention
El Paso reports seventeen Americans abducted from a train near Chihuahua Mexico stripped and beaten by bandits. Carranza government confirms attack and calls for punishment. U.S. Secretary Lansing urged Carranza to swiftly punish those responsible.
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Mexico
EL Paso
Texas
Chihuahua
Carranza
Washington, Jan. S
State Lansing
Fateful Landing at Gallipoli Told by Lt Cmdr Wedgewood
Lieutenant Commander Josiah Wedgewood, Liberal MP, describes the Gallipoli assault at Seddul Bahr, the River Clyde landing, and the brutal chaos of beach and ridge fighting. He praises Turkish fighters as highly capable, recalls doomed waves of troops, and honors fallen officers and sailors amid continual shelling and night combat.
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Gallipoli
Josiah Wedgewood
House of Commons
Dardanelles
Flanders
Wedgewood
V-beach
Washington grafters loot insurance fund and dope ring unearthed
In Olympia Washington investigators reveal that looters of the industrial insurance commission funded a large dope smuggling ring. J F Gillies, four year claim agent, was dismissed. Former Chief Hall provided information leading to a secret graft probe. Hall is jailed on graft charges. The probe aims to expose a remarkable smuggling conspiracy.
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Olympia
Wash
Industrial Insurance Commission Fund
J. F. Gillies
Hall
Germany Bows to Wilson Demands on Lusitania Indemnity
Count Bernstorff presented a plan to pay indemnity for Lusitania victims and promised Mediterranean submarines will warn before attacking non combatants. Lansing protested censoring US mail to neutrals as Britain censors. Wilson urges Congress to speed up bills for bigger armed forces amid Persia crisis.
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Washington
Count Bernstorff
Lansing
Mediterranean
Wilson
Congress
Ford Peace Expedition Reaches Europe For Norway and Sweden
Five Swiss delegates arrive en route to the Ford expedition traveling through Norway Sweden Denmark and Holland. Henry Ford telegrams he will rejoin the party soon. The Hague plans to elect five American members to a permanent peace board with William J Bryan Jane Addams and Henry Ford likely to win seats. A sealed special train with 150 Ford delegates starts sightseeing through Germany to The Hague.
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the Hague
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
Holland
Henry Ford
Hague
William J. Bryan
Jane Addams
Germany
Copenhagen
Ford
Russian Grand Duke leads rolling-back on 200 mile front
London reports Grand Duke Nicholas assumes supreme command and launches a major attack line against German forces. Czernowitz and Bukowina are captured as fierce fighting intensifies across a 200 mile sector. Casualties reach an estimated 175000 killed on both sides in two days around Czartorysk and Czernowitz.
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London
Grand Duke
Nicholas
Czernowitz
Bukowina
Czartorysk
Embargo Proposal Sparks Debate in House
Gardner of Massachusetts faced sharp criticism in the house from Stafford and Cooper as Congressman Longworth of Ohio urged an embargo on the shipment of war munitions amid wartime preparedness debates.
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Washington
Gardner
Massachusetts
House of Representatives
Stafford
Cooper
Nicholas Longworth
Ohio
Germans Promise Reprisals Over Mediterranean Sinkings
Berlin reports sinkings of the British steamers Glenogle and Stowswald and the Japanese Kenkaka Maru by submarines in the Mediterranean. Germany vows to retaliate by executing British officers equal in number to submariners lost. A separate note says Clan McFarlane sunk in the same region with no details. The Lafayette docked safely in New York after warnings, and Krupp works at Essen suffered a fire destroying two buildings.
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London
Glengyle
Stowswald
Mediterranean
New York
Lafayette
Amsterdam
Krupp Iron Works
Essen
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Idaho
Stone
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John Pershing
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Villa
Herman Today
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Vigor Washington
Alizeo Arradondo
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Troy
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Napier
Coaming
Asia
Drury
V. C
Stephen Crane
Lancashire Landing
Camber St Seddul Bahr
Allah
du Toit
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Doughty Wylie
Washington Grafters Loot Insurance Fund
Great Britain
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British Foreign Office
Persia
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Clan McFarnale
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