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Newspaper
New Mexico State Record
Location
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1917
Page
2
The United States begins a massive manpower inventory with a questionnaire sent to every man aged 21 to 31. Registrants are classified into five divisions based on eligibility for military service, with exemptions and local boards guiding calls.
1917 guidance outlines how registrants including aliens and resident aliens were to answer forms for military service exemptions. It lists occupations, personal details, education, income, property, dependents, and family questions, with separate sections for aliens and dependency groups. It notes advisory boards assess merits and exemptions granted or denied prior to this date.
A fragment from Popular Science Monthly explains shrapnel making with rare technical specifics, noting powder burning times and fusion requires precise timing for reliable explosions. It contrasts old and new production speeds and mentions a railway porter asking a passenger about an ax.
A U S destroyer was sunk in a collision in the battle zone with 21 dead. The patrol ship Chauncey was reported lost in the same event.
Reports from Berlin, London, and Paris describe a sinking of the American destroyer Chauncey with a probable twentyone killed. Rioting in Berlin causes heavy casualties as police clash, and an American headquarters area is shelled. Paris reports Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolayevich taking command of Cossacks in a plot to restore the Russian monarchy. Soldiers in Petrograd demand a constitutional assembly, while Russian maximalist sources claim Russia is out of the war. Copenhagen cites a German route indicating possible Entente defeat terms.
Rome reports Italian forces hold back the enemy between the Brenta and Piave rivers. Four attacks on Monte Tomba are repulsed. East of the Astago plateau Sallans press the offensive, capturing prisoners and weapons. In Palestine the British encircle Jerusalem as Lloyd George urges U.S. troops. Also reported, a roundup of I.W.W. agitators begins in the Midwest and ranchmen George Cope and John Lesler are killed near Douglas, Wyoming.
Premier Clemenceau addresses the Chamber of Deputies in Paris presenting the declaration drafted by the new cabinet. The session outlines policy directions and the government’s early priorities as the new administration establishes its stance.
In France on Nov 19 Gen Pershing toured front line and rear areas amid heavy shelling from German batteries. American artillery returned fire as casualties mounted from shrapnel and a shell strike on an American gun. Dying and wounded were reported among troops, with praise from a French general for fifteen Americans including three killed in a trench raid. Also, the steamship Rochester torpedoed in the war zone likely took nineteen lives, including six naval guarding crew.
Reports from Petrograd say Bolsheviki victory is secure in Moscow with White Guard and military cadets disarmed. Red Guard trains halted en route from Petrograd, Cossacks advance north, Bolsheviks panic. A new army near Gatchina rumors fuels hope of freeing the city. Kerensky may return with the army as a democratic congress of workers and soldiers is debated by unions and the town council.
Union labor backs Samuel Gompers in supporting President Wilson and prioritizing the war effort against Germany. The piece cites cooperation between labor leaders and the administration as central to mobilizing workers for total war.
Federal authorities impose new registration and monitoring requirements on Germans and aliens in America. The order tightens controls, expands surveillance, and mandates compliance across residences and workplaces. Officials say measures aim to safeguard security and public order during wartime.
President Wilson issues a travel restriction and registration mandate for all alien enemies in the United States and territories. The proclamation bans proximity to waterfronts and restricted areas, requires registration via the attorney general, and empowers federal and state agencies to enforce compliance nationwide.
Five members of a party of American congressmen and private citizens narrowly escaped injury in Belgian war zone near Dixmude as German machine gun fire erupted unexpectedly. The group included Congressman C. Dill, Congressman Charles B. Timberlake, Congressman John F. Miller, Congressman Albert Johnson, and former Representative Stout. No one was hit.
Paris, Nov 17 Two new ministries are created including a blockade and invaded regions portfolio. Georges Clemenceau presented the cabinet to President Poincare with names for war, foreign affairs, interior and other posts. Charles C A Jonnart is named minister of the new blockade ministry. Jeannon ey joins as under secretary of state and Jules Cels as under secretary of war focusing on submarine warfare.
Drastic actions by the food administration call for immediate sale of all storage poultry from last year to avoid hoarding penalties. About 1,769,196 pounds of frozen turkeys must be sold before Thanksgiving and a similar amount before New Year, with all cold storage poultry to be cleared by March 1, 1918. Reports from 275 warehouses show 46,206,059 pounds in storage, including 3,538,393 pounds of turkeys, up 242 percent from last year.
British forces seize Jaffa while German submarines suffer heavy losses. Lloyd George reports five U boats destroyed on the 17th. Italian and Austrian fronts show stiff fighting on Piave and near Quero Monte Cornelio. British gains in Flanders and Palestine noted. Rail workers seek 40 percent wage rise amid US allied unity calls.
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