French Troops Recoil on Vardar Front in Balkan War
War bulletin from December reports Bulgarian forces pushing along the Vardar river in southwestern Serbia. Resna and Dibra are claimed captured. Serbian retreat widens toward Albania as Montenegrin resistance persists and French positions face heavy pressure amid advancing German and Bulgarian units.
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Vardar
Resna
London
Monastir
Cerna
Saloniki
Ipek
Montenegro
Albania
Iby
Stramitsa
Tor
Sretire
Decided Victory Aim of Germans
Berlin reports from a Reichstag caucus where Free Conservative members urged peace only with Germany strengthened and enlarged holdings, while arguing against concessions. A second dispatch notes discussions by President Von Payer on offering peace only after enemies acknowledge defeat. Hungary’s Andrassy urged earliest possible peace, warning against premature surrender to allied aims. In Champagne, Allied forces pressed with grenades and counterattacks to recapture won positions near St Souplet and Butte de Souain as fighting continued.
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Associated Press
Berlin
London
Germany
Hungary
Amsterdam
Julius Andrassy
Budapest
Count Andrassy
Champagne
St. Soupiet
Butte de Souain
Pacific torpedo flotilla joins Winslow expedition at Topolobampo
Five destroyers of the Pacific torpedo flotilla under Commander F N Freeman join Admiral Winslow's Topolobampo expeditionary force. General Munoz orders Carranza forces to restore stolen property to American settlers and Sugar Company. Offices north of Guaymas move to Nogales for safety amid talks with General Obregon. Admiral Winslow seeks protection for railroad workers repairing the Yaqui River bridge and for American settlers in the Yaqui Valley.
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Associated Press
Topolobampo
Mexico
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Calif
Pacific Torpedo Flotilla
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Munoz
Carranza
Sinaloa
United States Sugar Company
Guaymas
Nogales
Sonora
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Admiral Winslow
Dieguez
Southern Pacific Railroad
Yaqui River
Corral
Yaqui Valley
St Louis wins bid for 1926 Democratic national convention
Washington reports the 1926 Democratic National Convention will begin June 14 in St Louis after a second ballot from the national committee. Chicago and Dallas had contested, but St Louis secured the site unanimously as delegates shifted support. Republicans likely pick their convention date late in June in Chicago.
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Democratic National Committee
Woodrow Wilson
National Democracy
Chicago
Dallas
Soen Texas
Louis
John T. McGraw
West Virginia
Missouri City
Sun Worshipper Sentenced at Work House
Otoman Zar Adusht Hanish head of the Mazda nan cult of sun worshippers was sent to the house of correction for six months for sending obscene material across state lines. His appeal to the U S supreme court was denied.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Otoman Zar Adusht Hanish
House of Correction
U. S. Supreme Court
Ford Peace Party Opposes Wilson Defense Plea
Associated Press dispatch from New York reports on a mass meeting aboard the peace ship Oscar II where extracts of President Wilsons message to Congress were read. Ellis O Jones called the message reactionary while Dr Charles F Aked urged a humanist appeal and urged action to end war.
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Associated Press
Tenata Wire
New York
N. Y
Henry Ford
Wilson
Congress
Ellis 0. Jones
United States
Charles F. Aked
San Francisco
McAdoo urges broader income tax to fund national program
Secretary McAdoo in his annual Congress report proposes expanding the income tax to reach thousands currently untaxed. He recommends lowering exemptions to tax married individuals with 3000 dollars and single earners with 2000 dollars, boosting the collection force, and shifting to gross income returns. He cites 63 percent of examined returns showing additional due and notes potential billions in overdue personal and corporate taxes, plus evasion concerns. He also urges retaining the stamp tax.
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Associated Press
Washington,d.c
Congress
McAdoo
National Defense
Eno
Fixed policy on coast defenses urged for harbor fortifications
Washington dispatch reports a proposed maintenance policy to replate at least four percent of older harbor battery emplacements annually. Only ten percent of current harbor defenses have been built or rebuilt since 1969. The annual cost estimates include 15.37 million for continental fortifications and 292 thousand for insular possessions. Secretary Redfield urged a broader U S transportation system by expanding waterways and dismissed the idea that river and harbor improvements compete with railroads.
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Congress
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United Staes
Insular
Redfield
United States
Germans Capture French Position on Hill No 193
German army headquarters announced the capture of a French position over 500 yards long on Hill No 193 north of Souain in the Champagne district. The report says four French counterattacks were repulsed and three machine guns were captured. Local Russian attacks elsewhere were also repulsed. Paris reports indicate Belgian and Arras fronts saw artillery and mine effects and destruction of Sainturn mill near Roye.
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Tondon
Souagin
Champagne District
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Champagne
Souain
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Arras
Hill
No. 140
Sainturn
Roye
Havas Attaches Kaiser’s Choice
Washington DC December 8 The impact of Emperor William’s personal interest in the withdrawal of Captain Karl Boy Ed and Captain Franz Von Papen, attaches of the German embassy, is noted by State Department officials as the rulers likely guiding orders. Officials believe Berlin officials prompted the move to explain why the United States declared the attaches persona non grata.
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Associated Press
Washington, D.C
Emperor William
Karl Boy-Ed
Franz von Papen
State Department
Berlin
Foreign Office
United States
English Squadron Sets Sights on Large Submarine
Rome reports British orders for Malta and Egyptian squadrons to pursue a reportedly large submarine said to have sunk the Communicaw. The Mediterranean submarine activity prompts questions about the American schooner Albania sailing from Gallipoli with relief supplies to Albania, carrying William H. Howard and Colonel Herbert aboard.
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Associated Press
Rome
Malta
Mediterranean
Albania
Gallipoli
Wm. H. Howard
Herbert
Republicans Back Strong Navy and Army Plans
U S tank steamer safe and identity of sunken American ship unknown. Republican leaders Gallinger and Mann seek stronger forces and co operation with Democrats. Gallinger opposes making defense plans partisan and plans substitutes for shipping bills. Chamberlain and Way delay formal bills, preferring informal committee distribution.
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Washington, D. C
Gallinger
Wilson
Reublicans
Merchantsman Marine
Mann
Representative Mann
House
Chamberlain
Second Peace Party Sails From New York
Twenty peace advocates forming the second Ford Expedition contingent depart New York for Copenhagen aboard the Frederik VIII. The group includes undergraduates from Yale Harvard Iowa State Vanderbilt Washington Minnesota Oregon and Stanford and representatives of Idaho Arkansas Alaska governors and fraternal benevolent societies.
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N. Y
Hague
Copenhagen
Ford
Yale
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Iowa State
Vanderbilt
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Minnesota
Oregon
Leland Stanford
Idaho
Arkansas
Alaska
Honolulu Seeks G O P Convention
Honolulu aims to host the national Republican convention pledging 100000 and ready to charter two special steamers to transport delegates. Lorrin Andrews, Republican national committeeman from Hawaii, states he will urge selecting Honolulu at the national committee meeting in Washington.
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Lorrin Andrews
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Washington
Andrews
National Committee
Second Chicago Baby Is Permitted To Die
A Chicago hospital allowed Grace Werder to die after doctors declined to operate. Julius Werder refused consent, agreeing with physicians that the hydrencephalic newborn with paralysis would be an imbecile if she lived. The case mirrors the Bollinger baby controversy and notes the Werder family has three healthy daughters.
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Julius Werder
Jacob Fallermayer
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Bollingers
Conflicting Reports Put Communipaw in Doubtful Fate
Washington officials faced uncertainty as Rome and London dispatches clashed over the American oil tanker Communipaw. A Rome report claimed torpedoing and sinking near Tobruk while a London message said she reached Alexandria safe, prompting questions about the Petrolite’s status and the true ship identity.
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Egypt
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Standard Oils
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London
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Communican
Petrolite
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The Weather Fair Tonight and Thursday
A brief weather note reports fair conditions tonight and Thursday with slightly colder air in the east and central portions.
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