Verdun Front Advances and Romanian Retreat Reported
French forces report progress on Verdun front including Bezonvaux village captured and 9,000+ prisoners taken. Meantime Romanian retreat continues with Russians forming defensive lines near the Sereth river as German offensives slow under Russian fire. Other fronts note German gains halted on the Meuse and Russian counteractions in Volhynia.
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Verdun
Teuton
Bezonvaux
Courieres Wood
Paris
Verdun Front
War Office
Meuse
Chambrette’s
Petit Paries
Sereth
Jassy
Bucharest
Ploeculine
Herdinand
Buzen
Rimnikasarat
Danube
Brondon
Rumania
Russian War Office
Felipechti
Dihbatogu
Qaurieres
Berlin
Sayville
Volhynia
Lutsk
War Ofice
Meuse Front Advances and German Attacks Reported
Paris reports on December campaigns with French gains on the right bank of the Meuse at Bezonvaux and Vacherauville. German pressure near Verdun and along the Chambrette farm sector is noted, while patrol clashes and a stalled German attack near Chauyoncourt are described.
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Paris
War Office
Meuse
Vacherauville
Bezonvaux
Chambrette
Verdun
French War Department
Champagne
Navarin
Souain
St. Mihiel
Chauyoncourt
Lloyd George hints at dissolution if any House split
London reports Premier Lloyd George health improving and bound to speak in the House of Commons Tuesday. A government note says he may declare no peace while Allied objectives are unmet and threaten to dissolve Parliament to seek public opinion if the Commons disagrees.
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London
Lloyd-George
House of Commons
Walter Hines Page
United States
Asquith
Rome
Paris
Benedict
Vatican
Holy See
Germany
Speace
Brutal murder shocks Camrose region near New Norway
A Syrian peddler from Edmonton was found murdered near New Norway. The body head and feet were discovered two miles north of the town after an extensive search. Police pursue a northbound suspect as clues remain scarce amid a wide-area hunt.
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New Norway
Camrose
Edmonton
H. Belby
Camrose -Calgary
Grand, Trunk Pacific Railway
Medicine’ Hing
Dominion Recruiting Totals Show Rise Across Provinces
Ottawa reports recruiting gains with a total of 81 438 enlistees so far, improving on earlier figures. Kingston leads districts with 630 enrollments while Toronto records 667 as Manitoba 421 and British Columbia 268 follow in the national tally. This brief item notes regional totals and overall progress.
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Ottawa
Kingston
Toronto
Manitoba
Mcreal
British Columbia
Londonkatchewan
Alberta
Bee
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Freérich
Onear Ransart
Southwast
Ain
Szonvaux and & Wood
I, Je Williams
Alexandra
Wgh” ‘School
Gercan
Bezon- Vaux
Thaen
Vacheraville
Ancre
Somme
Teutonic
Reid ‘Marshal
von Mackensen
Wallachia
Gemal Id ‘War Office
É Lower Dalmataly
Rivi Buzen
Leopold
Berlin War Office
Kovel
Uluksk
Petrograd
Valoputna
Carpathians
Brayonet
Huns
Bezongaux
la Belle France
Lloyd George
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