Train collision kills 38 near Shepherdsville
Thirty-eight people died and about thirty-nine were injured when Louisville and Nashville passenger No 7 crashed into the rear of a Bardstown Louisville and Springfield accommodation train just south of Shepherdsville Kentucky. The fast train plunged into the lighter train after leaving the station. A relief train rushed to the scene, with many passengers transported to Louisville. The operator reported he signaled red as the fast train neared and attempted to warn passengers. Eyewitnesses included twenty former passengers on the platform who narrowly escaped. No cause was given pending investigation.
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Shepherdsville
Louisville and Nashville
Cincinnati
New Orleans
Bardstown
Louisville
Springfield
W. F. Sheridan
Sheridan
Jesse Wetherford
Senate completes ordnance inquiry in Washington
Senate military committee nears next phase of its probe into army supply gaps after hearing testimony on delays in gun production. Quartermaster General Sharpe to testify. Major General Goethals slated to succeed him. Colt Arms officials praise the Enfield rifle and ammo as equal to or superior to German arms. Colvin cites three months delay from efforts to raise interchangeable parts.
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Washington
Senate Military Committee
Sharpe
War Department
New War Council
Goethals
B. W. M. Hanson
Colts Arms Company
F. FT. Colvin
Hanson
Enfield
Colvin
Christmas for Waifs of France
Associated Press reports the American army begins buying thousands of dollars in toys and clothing for French refugee children in its zone. 300 overcoats for refugees. toys from drums to dolls. Christmas trees in hangars and towns with gifts chosen per child. funds raised by soldiers total nearly 7,000 pounds. football games and a midday dinner accompany the holiday effort.
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Associated Press
France
Army
Britain Sets War Aims For Peace In Commons Speech
David Lloyd George declared the war aims as full restoration of territory held by the enemy and compensation for destruction as the price for peace. He rejected territorial gains for Britain or allies and said Jerusalem would not be restored to the Turks. Rumors of German peace proposals and Russian outreach circulated as Ukraine, the Don Cossacks, and Bolshevik forces clashed across frontiers, while Italian front fighting continued near the Brenta and Piave and two German submarines were sunk off southern Italy.
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Teutonic Alles
Russia
Great Britain
House of Commons
David Lloyd George
Mr. Lloyd George
Germany
Lloyd George
Jerusalem
Dufoff
Tehelahinsk
Grand Duke
Nicholas
Carpathians
Caucasus
Brenta
Piave
Italy
Monte Asoione
Berlin
Fiere
Teutons
Rome
Tasson-Co] del Orso
Tragedy near Jacksonville claims 11 year old
Walter Bostick aged 11 was instantly killed in Jacksonville as Mrs Grace Nunes accidentally discharged a revolver. She intended to send the weapon for repair and did not know it was loaded.
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Jacksonville
Walter Bostick
Grace Nunes
French destroyers sink submarines in Gulf of Taranto
Athens dispatch reports French destroyers sank two enemy submarines in the Gulf of Taranto. The action occurred as part of ongoing naval operations in the Mediterranean theater.
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Athens
Gulf of Taranto
Teuton attack repulsed by Austro German forces
Rome reports a complete repulse of the attack on the Tasson Col Del Orso front between the Brenta and Piave with heavy enemy losses. Attempts to cross the Piave Vecchia were frustrated as Italian headquarters note a more serious northern situation with Monte Asolone in enemy hands and surrounds.
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Rome
Tasson-Col-Del Orso
Brenta
Piave
Piave Vecchia
Associated Press
Italy
Monte Asolone
Bassano
Shipping Board Policy Allows Private Wooden Shipbuilding
The Shipping Board announced a policy allowing private construction of wooden ships if they do not interfere with the government program. It will refuse permission for private steel cargo and passenger ships, prefer American owners, and encourage private building of barges and tugs while generally not promoting new shipyards. The plan aims to conserve steel for the government effort and to boost inland and coastal tug and barge capacity.
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Washington
Shipping Board
Senate Commerce Committee
School Boys to Aid Farms, Insull Says at Conference
Chicago December 21 farm labor solution hinges on country youths, Samuel Insull chairing state council of defense told high school principals. He cited last summer's 6,000 boys earning $40,000 plus board with few complaints as proof. Conference aims to enlist principals to train students in agricultural work to speed up food production, with Governor Lowden to issue a formal call January 7. enrollment January 1 to 20.
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Chicago
Samuel Insull
State Council of Defense
Lowden
Slavs and Czechs Push for General Peace
A Vienna dispatch says the Unterhaus backed a Czech and South Slavic plan for general peace with no annexations or indemnities, to use Russia as broker. Washington reports outline Kaiser's “Christmas peace terms” proposing plebiscites on Alsace Lorraine, German control of annexed finances, and redrawn borders including an independent Poland under Austrian suzerainty. Some observers see the armistice hints as propaganda or a potential peace feeler, while allies question the terms as a basis for lasting peace.
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Amsterdam
Vienna
Unterhaus
Russia
Kaiser
Washington
von Kuehlmann
Newlands Held Talks With Wilson On Railroads War Policy
Senator Newlands chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission spoke with President Wilson at the White House about railroads during the war. He said the discussion was full and comprehensive and related to the commission's wartime operation recommendations. He indicated the Cummins inquiry plans would proceed with a meeting of his committee.
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Washington
Newlands
Senate Interstate Commerce Commission
Wilson
White House
Interstate Commerce Commission
Cummins
Kerensky Army Attacks Moscow In Russia War News
A dispatch from Haparanda reports Kerensky with an army marching toward Moscow while Grand Duke Nicholas mobilizes royalist forces in the Caucasus. In Petrograd Trotzky denies Japanese occupation of Vladivostok and says the Bolshevik government seeks foreign troop withdrawals from Harbin Manchuria.
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London
Exchange Telegraph Company
Haparanda
Kerensky
Moscow
Grand Duke
Nicholas
Caucasus
Petrograd
Leon Trotzky
Vladivostok
Har _bin
Manchuria
The Luxburg Letters German Minister to Argentina
German envoy in Buenos Aires sent reports to Berlin detailing South American activities. The correspondence reveals Berlin’s awareness of Argentine and regional developments and strategic interests in the late 19th century.
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Berlin
Argentine Foreign Affairs Telegrams From Luxburg Controversy
In a Dec 21 statement the Argentine foreign minister explains three unpub lished telegrams from Washington concern Chile and Uruguay. The documents, sent July to September 1917, reveal clashes over neutrality, contraband, and submarine warfare with Germany. Luxburg’s messages discuss threats of rupture, ship accords, and possible changes in Argentine ministers.
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Ashington
Luxbury
Ministry For Foreign Affairs
Washington
Department of State
United States
Chile
Uruguay
Berlin
Luxburg
North America
Brazil
South America
Legation
Paraguay
Santiago de Chile
Dodero
France
Iquique
Peace terms and war aims from major powers
Lloyd George vows complete restoration of territories with compensation. Russia seeks no annexations or indemnities and plans peace overtures via allies. German proposals to Washington include plebiscite for Alsace Lorraine, colonial indemnities redirected to Belgium, a standalone Poland, disarmament, and seas freedom left to conference with intact Balkans and Turkey. Washington calls the terms improper yet notes some allied elements.
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Alsace- Lorraine
England
Germany
Belgium
Serbia
Rumania
France
Baltic
Black Sea
Prussia
Poland
Romania
Montenegro
Turkey
Russia
Wilson
Washington
Alsace-Lorraine
Balkan States
Australia votes against conscription in plebiscite
First returns from the Australian conscription plebiscite show a majority of 120000 votes against conscription out of about half of the 2,000,000 votes cast. The one million votes yet to be counted include the soldier vote, per a cable from Sydney to the Vancouver World.
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Vancouver
B.C
Australia
Sydney
Vancouver World
Count Luxburg in Argentina Hospital
Washington reports Count Lunxburg remains in Argentina as safe conduct was secured earlier. He is said to be treated for a nervous disorder in a sanitarium after a period in detention, due to public anger making it unsafe to keep him at large.
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Washington
Count Lunxburg
Argentina
German retreat checked at Monte Asolone and adjacent works
Berlin dispatch reports from general headquarters that repeated Italian attacks against Monte Asolone and newly captured positions to the west and east were repelled.
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Berlin
London
General Headquarters
Monte -Asolone
Diplomats Examined in Latin American War Secrets
Washington reports reveal telegrams between Count Luxburg and Berlin outlining Argentina Chile and Bolivia talks on a mutual defense against the United States and a potential Latin American neutrality conference. The disclosures stir Argentine war sentiment and show tensions with President Irigoyen and the foreign minister.
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Washington
Count Luxburg
Argentina
Berlin
State Department
Shec
North America
Carranza
Mexico
Buenos Aires
Trigoyen
League of South American Nations
Germany
Congress
Luxburg
Luxbury
Irigoyen
Bolivia
Chile
Santiago
Naon
United States
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