Jerusalem Surrenders to British Forces in World War I
London reports Jerusalem, long surrounded by British troops, has fallen. Gen. Allenby is to enter the city with French and Italian contingents as British, French, and Mohammedan forces advance. Relief groups anticipate expanded Jewish aid, while the end of Muslim domination over the Holy City marks a pivotal wartime shift.
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Great Desert
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Holy Land
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Hebron
Explosion on submarine A-2 kills seaman
Navy department reported an explosion on board submarine A-2 causing the death of Joseph Schaeffer chief electrician at 23. He enlisted March 6 1912 in Omaha Neb as an apprentice seaman. After service aboard Iris he reenlisted May 19 1916 as an electrician. sister Mrs Clara Amen lives at Nastings Neb.
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Gale Rages In Halifax Amid Blizzard After Explosion
Halifax Nova Scotia endures a third blizzard since the Mont Blanc explosion wrecked the city leaving 260 casualties. Military and relief workers sheltering in shattered buildings while hundreds search for the dead amid ice and flying glass. A strict embargo bars nonrelief entrants as American and other aid arrives late on the stormbound Calvary Austin and the Picton steamer is towed to sea after fear of further blasts.
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Chicago Runaway Found in Galena
Bernice Middleton, 14, of Chicago, who ran away from home, was found working at a boarding house near a mine in Galena. She bought her Galena ticket with money from selling her school books and told officials she preferred not to return home. The chief of police holds her awaiting word from Chicago.
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President to seek power to unify railroads
President Wilson plans to ask Congress for authority to unify railroads amid wartime needs. He discussed options with Senator Newlands and faces divided advisers on government operation versus private control with possible government aid. The railroads claim unification is already in progress and oppose broad repeal of anti trust rules.
Death toll rises in Halifax munitions disaster
Halifax N S December 11 figures show 280 dead and 910 unidentified, 1820 unaccounted for, 6000 wounded, and 25000 homeless after the munitions explosion. Washington meanwhile reports the federal farm loan board raises government farm loan rates from 4 1 2 to 5 1 2 percent in anticipation of later hikes.
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What the Railroads Ask and Do Not Seek
Newlands argues the American railroad system has not broken down and in recent months carried 50 percent more traffic than in 1915 without large plant expansion. He outlines seven points: no demand for immediate $1B government aid, continued voluntary unification, a traffic office for government coordination, more locomotives and cars with 3,800 locomotives and 33,000 cars on order, additional 2,000 locomotives and 150,000 cars for next year costing about $500 million, need for treasury and Fed support to secure capital, immediate rate increases in the East to cover rising costs, and draft railroad workers for military service.
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Open Shop Ruling Upholds Open Shops and Labor Rights
Washington December 11 Supreme Court decisions define labor rights in open shop terms. It affirms workers' rights to organize for lawful purposes while allowing employers to operate plants as open shops to deter non union organizing. The Hitchman Coil and Cone and Eagle Glass Manufacturing cases are central. Dissenting Justices Brandeis Holmes and Clark. Contempt actions against miners union officials remain pending. President Gompers calls the ruling far reaching and unwarranted. John Mitchell and William Wilson are labeled conspirators.
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American Federation of Labor
John Mitchell
Wiliam B. Wilson
M °Ers’ International Union
Spanish steamer Claudio bombarded by U boat
Madrid Dec 11 Premier Alliance was made official announcement Monday that the Spanish steamship Claudio had been bombarded by a German submarine eight sailors were killed and others wounded The Claudio was sailing from an American port to Spain with a cargo of sulphates for Spanish use The government is preparing a protest to Germany.
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Teutons sacrifice thousands in failed breakthrough
Washington dispatches from Rome on December 11 confirm reports of a lull after ferocious fighting in which the Teutons could not pierce Italian lines. The Austro German commander sacrificed hundreds of thousands of his best men without gaining ground.
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Fall of Jerusalem Ends German Dream in Palestine
War summary notes Jerusalem in British hands after twelve centuries under Moslems. Allied forces including British French and Italian troops surrounded and compelled capitulation to General Allenby. The report traces related Bolshevik revolts in Russia and ongoing Allied and Central power maneuvers across Europe with calls for renewed offensives. The piece links Jerusalem’s fall to broader strategic aims and counteractions on fronts from the Caucasus to Italy as winter approaches.
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Suez Canal
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Mediterranean Sea
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Austrian Aliens Attack Speaker in Joliet Hall
Maurice P Lennon, a Joliet attorney, was attacked by about twenty Austrians as he spoke to a crowd of Croatians and Serbians about US Austrian alien status since the war declaration. Serbians formed a shield, preventing injury as Austrians fled and authorities were notified in Chicago.
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Chicago
British Garry Out Raid on Outposts
Report from Field Marshal Maig’s headquarters in France says a local operation was conducted early Monday along the Cambrai front east of Boursies. Scottish troops drove the enemy from positions with several German killed or captured. Allied artillery activity increased southwest of Cambrai and near Polygon Wood and Passchendaele, with more fire east and northeast of Brest.
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