House Praises Allies After Paris War Conference
Col. House reported the inter allied war conference in Paris accomplished its aims with three sittings and a supreme war council forming to coordinate efforts. He praised Allied morale, noting U S influence in England and France and described committees on food embargo finance and other topics. House plans to return to Washington and present a personal report to President Wilson.
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BE. M. House
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State Department
Washington
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England
France
House
Colonel House
Inter-Allied War Conference
Supreme War Council
London
Dines
Great Britain
Italy
Russia
Pershing
War council formed to coordinate Army supplies
Secretary Baker announced a war council within the War Department to coordinate supplies for home and overseas armies and manage military relations between field armies and department. members include the secretary, chief of staff, quartermaster general, chief of coast artillery, ordnance chief, and provost marshal general. Additional generals with experience will join as needed to plan and support fighting fronts. Gen Bliss to retire Dec 31 but may remain on council for his front-line knowledge.
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Washington
War Council
War Department
Baker
Henry G. Sharpe
E. Rasmus M. Weaver
Coast Artillery
William Crozier
Enoch N. Crowd
France
England
British Airships Lost and Destroyer Sunk in War Update
London official bulletin reports a non rigid British airship destroyed by a hostile seaplane off the North Sea and a second airship forced to descend in Holland due to engine failure Also a Royal Navy destroyer was sunk with all but two men saved Despatches say an airship believed English landed in a Dutch village
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Holland
Admiralty
North Sea
Colliston
Draft resistors caught by deputy
Phoenix Arizona December 16 One altered draft evader died instantly and two others were wounded and later captured after an armed escape attempt near Sasco Pinal County deputy Ennis Thurman confronted the trio armed with a shotgun and attempted to arrest them. They opened fire injuring Thurman and wounding the other two before a posse captured the pair Enrigue Carral and Ensbri Yellis.
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Ariz
Enrique Carral
Ensbri Yellis
Ennis Thurman
Pinal County
Sasco
Thurman
Growth of ads marks Whig issue achievement
The Whig presents a record advertising load for a Quincy newspaper issue, totaling 2,652 inches. Paid circulation exceeds 8,080 with about 3,650 in Quincy and 4,430 in surrounding territory. Weekly daily totals ranged from 7,074 to 7,166.
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Red Cross Seeks 15 Million Members by Christmas
A biographical wartime appeal urges 15 million American Red Cross members by Christmas to supply hospital gear dressings medicines and nursing for troops and civilians. Quincy aims for 23000 new or renewed members this week as the drive highlights the front line needs and France relief efforts.
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Red Cross
Quincy
Central Division
Chicago
Nicholas Romanoff Falsely Feared To Escape From Tobolsk
Reports from Bolshevik headquarters claimed Nicholas II escaped Siberia, but officials denied it. The rumor linked to Harbin and a possible Siberian asylum, while Tsar Nicholas was reportedly viewed as a potential imperial figure in Petrograd’s unsettled power landscape. Some correspondents speculate Bolsheviks aim for a monarchial shift in France after consolidating control at home.
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Harbin
Manchuria
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Moscow
Lenine-Trotsky
France
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Korniloff
Tiflis
Red Guard
London
Zurich
Japan
How Americans In France Get Freight Moved
How American officers in France move trains and cranberries by rail. An artillery battery commander commandeers a powerful passenger engine to haul his artillery on time. Another officer buys passenger tickets to have cranberries delivered in time for Thanksgiving dinner.
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France
Associated Press
Oficer
Vigorous Efforts to Relieve New York Coal Shortage
On December 16 1924 vigorous efforts were made to relieve New Yorks coal shortage but results were not expected to appear before Monday. Between 250000 and 300000 families were said to be urgently in need of fuel. Fuel Administration officials hoped to move quantities across the North River as plants and large offices closed until Monday to ensure ample fuel when business resumed.
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New York
Fuel Administration
North River
Nicholas II Escapes Tobolsk Rumor Sparks Bolshevik Pursuit
Reports from Smolny indicate former Emperor Nicholas II has escaped confinement at Tobolsk. A special train of sailors was dispatched from Petrograd to pursue him, with official denials noting no confirmation of the escape.
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Nicholas
Russia
Tobolsk
Smolny Institute
Smolny
Nicholas Romanoff
Tiflis
Russian Caucasus
Washington
Reorganization and universal service urged for war department
Washington reports General Ilusl L Scott laments the paucity of general staff officers due to 1916 limits and slow staff growth. He urges Congress to raise the staff, adopt universal military service, and empower the chief of staff as the army's sole command organ for discipline recruiting training mobilization and officer actions.
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War Department
Ilusl L. Scott
Café
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Congress
Pershing Says Entente Victory Assured in France
General Pershing told Charles W. Whitehair that American troops and the Entente allies were united in the belief they would break through German lines in France. Whitehair, returning from Europe, spoke at a Life Underwriters luncheon in New York.
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France
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Whitehair
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Henry P. Davison
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Belgium
Grayson M. P. Murphy
Bolsheviki
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