British Front Line Trench At Ypres Is Breached In Attack
German artillery and infantry combined to push into a British trench near Ypres, advancing 600 to 800 yards. Berlin and London report heavy defender losses, with officers and numerous soldiers captured. French actions in Artois and Champagne claim mine crater occupations and repulsed reconquest efforts. Italians continue assaults on Austro Hungarian lines near Monte Obben with heavy losses. Russians press Turks in the Caucasus, while Mesopotamian fronts around Kut and Velahic remain largely unchanged.
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London
Artois
Champagne
France
Ypres
Berlin
Lens
Bethune
Lille
Vie- Sur-Aisne
Soissons
Argonne
Tahure
Voges
Obersept
Dvinsk
Pripet River
Stripa
Monte Omben
Vienna
Sissera
Seebach
Fella
Viesh Mountain
Caucasus
Constantinople
Mesopotamia
Kut-Ellamara
Velahic
Entente Allies Within Their Rights Says U S Officials
Washington reports that state department authorities affirm the entente allies are within their rights under international law to seize merchant ships for defensive purposes. If allies reject the American disarmament proposal, the United States may withhold approval of German and Austrian torpedo plans after February 29, warning armed vessels accordingly.
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Washington
United States
State Department
Germany
Austria
Sanction Sought for Fresh Canadian War Budget
Ottawa reports the Canadian government will ask Parliament for an additional war appropriation of 240000 and other measures to raise funds for military needs. Finance Minister Sir Thomas White noted existing borrowings totaling 150000000 and warned expenditures rise rapidly with more troops and operations planned for the coming year.
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Ottawa
Thomas White
Thomas
Canada
Republican candidate J Deems withdraws Iowa nomination
Burlington Iowa February 16 J Deems a Republican candidate for the Iowa gubernatorial nomination withdraws his name from consideration after strong backing from northeastern Iowa farmers. The move removes a potential contest in the party race.
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Burlington
Iowa
J. Deems
Representoutheastern
British Report Admits Breach
London February 16 The British official communication issued Tuesday night says that Monday night after a heavy battle on the front south of Hooge along the Ypres salient the enemy made several infantry attacks and broke into our front trench on about 600 yards between the Ypres Comines canal and the Ypres Comines railway while all other attacks failed
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London
Ypres
Hooge
Ypres-Comines
Making Threats And Failing to Make Them Good
New York February 16 Former United States Senator Elihu Root as temporary chairman of the Republican state convention opened here with a keynote speech attacking Wilson administration policy especially on foreign affairs He praised Roosevelt on Belgium while denouncing the United States for not protesting the invasion Belgium and warned that world opinion would turn silent on peace and justice if the nation failed to act to defend neutrality and liberty.
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New York
United States
Elihu Root
Root
Theodore Roosevelt
Belgium
Germany
Ten Million Dollar Sisal Corporation Probe
Washington reports that American financiers promoted a ten million dollar sisal hemp venture to control Yucatan production. Western farmer groups urge the FTC to investigate, alleging stifled competition and higher binder twine prices. Michigan state prison twine makers are named in the complaint.
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Washington
Yucatan
Federal Trade Commission
State Department
Department of Justice
Michigan State Prison
Bids to open for two 1500 ton submarines in navy plan
Washington Feb 16 bids will be opened Wednesday for two 1500 ton sea going submarines the largest ever designed by the navy department. Boats must reach 20 knots on surface with possible 25 knot speed and cost not to exceed 1.5 million dollars each. Steam propulsion is not required as department may accept 20 knot speed instead and has dropped the steam plan.
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Washington
Navy Department
Department
Oregon On Retired List
VALLEJO Calif Feb 18 The battleship Oregon known as the bull dog of the navy was retired and turned over to California's naval militia at Mare Island Navy Yard. The ship earned fame for a Cape Horn cruise that culminated in the Battle of Santiago on July 3 1898.
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Oregon
Vallejo
Calif
Navy
Naval Militia of
California
Mare Island Navy Yard
Cape Horn
Santiago
Asquith Sums Up The War In Westminster Speech
London reports the new parliamentary session opened with scant public interest aside from several ladies listening to the king's speech. Asquith noted limited war changes, highlighting Anglo French cooperation and the Serbian army's Albania withdrawal, and praised allied unity and coordinated direction among Entente powers.
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London
Queen Victoria
Westminster
George
House of Commons
Great Britain
Ian McPherson
Asquith
Nerbert H. Asquith
France
Albania
Police hunt for crones continues in Chicago inquiry
Chicago police pressed a nationwide anarchist conspiracy probe tied to a banquet for Archbishop Mundelein victims. Jean Crones, alleged poisoner and chef, remained at large with police visiting his Chicago haunts repeatedly. Joan Allegrin was charged with conspiracy to murder and attempted murder as details emerged of close ties between Crones and Allegrini.
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Chicago
Mundelein
Jean Crones
Joan Allegrin
Crones
Allegrini
Nicholas Hunt
Iowa Jury Convicts Woman of Murder in Winterset
An 11 man jury in Winterset, Iowa finds Ida Mever guilty of second degree murder for complicity in the killing of her daughter in law, Mrs. Ethel Meyer, last July. Sentencing expected next week before District Judge Applegate after bail set at 30,000 dollars. Mever, reportedly the oldest woman convicted of murder in Iowa, showed composure as the verdict was read. Only two ballots reportedly were cast.
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Winterset
Vpeb
Ida Mever
Ethel Meyer
Mever
Applegate
Iowa
Witnesses Claim Brandeis Unfit for Supreme Court
Chicago February 16 witnesses charged Louis D Brandeis with unprofessional conduct before the senate judiciary sub committee investigating his fitness for the Supreme Court. Sidney W Winslow of United Shoe Machinery and Hollis R Bailey a Boston lawyer testified Brandeis attacked as illegal the systems he once helped create. Winslow said Brandeis conduct made him unworthy of honor. Mellen Beys telegrams said he knew nothing to testify and asked to be excused from appearing. Republican members debated calling him as the inquiry continued.
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Chicago
Louis D. Brandeis
Judiciary
Senate
Supreme Court of the United States
Sidney W. Winslow
United Shoe Machinery Company
Hollis R. Bailey
Boston
Bar of
Massachusetts
Brandeis
Mellen Beys
Senator Walsh
Charles S. Mellen
New York, New Haven and Hartford
Mr. Brandeis
Mr. Mellen
C. W. Barron
Wall Street Journal
New York and
New England
New Haven
Mellen
Winslow
Modern British Warships Sunk Off Dogger Bank
Berlin reports two new type British warships were sunk near Dogger Bank on Feb 10. They resembled small cruisers, had 16 knot speed, and crew of 78. The admiralty in London maintains only one vessel sunk and three others returned to port uninjured.
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Berlin
London
Dogger Bank
Syrian
Charner
Suffren
Admiralty
Clark Urges Prepared Nation at Arlington Memorial
Speaker Clark warned against reviving the 1898 unpreparedness seen at the Maine’s destruction. He said the US would have declared war at least 30 days earlier if ammunition had existed. He favored peace but not at any price, urging stronger national conduct to project American strength.
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Washington
United States
Clark
Arlington Cemetery
Maine
U.S
Nine Erzerum forts in Russian hands reported
Petrograd reports the war office supplement confirming nine Erzerum forts now in Russian hands, adding seven forts to the two previously announced captured, totaling nine forts secured by February 16 via London.
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Erzerum
Ford peace delegates meet in Rerne with Swiss leaders
A Ford peace delegation gathering occurred in Rerne on Tuesday with many prominent Swiss in attendance. Speeches by Harry Evans of Des Moines Iowa and Louis P. Lochner, general secretary of the Ford peace mission, were well received.
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Rerne
Paris
Ford Peace
Harry Evans
Des Moines
Towa
Louis P. Lochner
Ford Peace Mission
Orpet Asserts His Innocence In Poison Link
Chicago dispatch reports continued coroner inquest into Marian Lambert death. Will H Orpet, jailed for her murder, maintains innocence while investigators seek to link an emptied bottle found at his Madison trip to the poison vial carried to the woods. The finding of poison on Orpet premises is deemed pivotal as testimony from schoolmates and a deaf mute witness is expected. Orpet’s mother visited him in Waukegan jail after prior denial.
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Chicago
Marian Frances Lambert
Lake Forest
Will H. Orpet
Orpet
University of Wisconsin
Cady
Waukegan
Madison
David James
Miss Lambert
QO. E. Orpet
Church Opposed To Total Abstinence Move
London February 16. The movement for practical prohibition during the war, gaining advocates after King George set an abstinence example, is unlikely to win church support. The house of lords at the convention of the archbishop of Canterbury in London endorsed a modified resolution urging cessation of alcohol use for non medical purposes, signaling only a wish for strict moderation.
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London
George
House of Lawmen
Archbishop of Canterbury
T. G. Hughes
Austria's account of recent air raid
Vienna issued a Tuesday statement describing Austro-Hungarian air attacks on Milan and Schio. Eleven Austro-Hungarian planes bombarded Milan railway station and factories amid smoke, while several planes attacked a factory at Selyo with reported success. observers returned safely.
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Berlin
Savville
Milan
Schio
Asmy
Vienna
Selyo
Destructive Fall River Fire Destroys Store and Widespread District
A fast moving fire in Fall River Massachusetts began in a large department store and swept a quarter mile into the west district. The blaze reached tenement areas and threatened mill workers dwellings along the waterfront. Officials estimate losses could exceed six million dollars with no loss of life reported by 2 o clock. Also reported, three armed bandits forced a car to speed away with Mr and Mrs Edward F Beach after a pistol duel with a policeman in St Louis.
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Fall River
Mass
Wess
ST. Louis
Edward F. Beach
Mr. Beach
Wilson's Illinois Petition Filed
Charles Boeschenstein, Democratic national committeeman for Illinois, filed Woodrow Wilson's primary petition for the Democratic nomination for president with Secretary of State Stevenson in Springfield. The document includes more than 4,000 names.
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Springfield
Ill
Charles Boeschenstein
Illinois
Woodrow Wilson
Stevenson
Navy plans 183 submarines for Atlantic and Pacific defense
Rear Admiral Grant outlined to the house naval committee a plan for fleet and coast defense submarines totaling 183 vessels of various types. The current war-ready force is 27 subs with 10 more laid up for repairs. 33 subs are under construction or authorized. The plan would organize 30 divisions of six subs with bases planned at New London Philadelphia Norfolk for the Atlantic and San Diego San Francisco and the Columbia River for the Pacific. Grant argues boats should be 750 to 1500 tons and cites German U boats as model. Representative Stephens pressed for Pacific coverage, asking how many subs are needed for full defense and Grant replied forty eight.
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Washington
Atlantic
Pacific
House Naval Committee
Grant
Navy
United States
Admiral Grant
New London
Philadelphia
Norfolk
San Diego
San Francisco
Columbia River
Stephens
California
Pacific Coast
Report on Suffrage Bill Postponed by Judiciary Committee
Washington february 16 suffrage advocates viewed a house vote as inappropriate for the pending constitutional amendment. The judiciary committee adopted a motion to postpone the report to the next session by a 9 to 7 vote, while a tie rejected postponement of the prohibition amendment. Suffragists moved to reconsider, noting several pro suffrage members were absent during the vote.
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Washington
House
Congress
Judiciary Committee
Two Steamers Afire at New York Pier
Two freight steamers Pacific and Betton Castle burned at Barber & Co pier foot of Pine Street Brooklyn early Tuesday. An explosion occurred on one ship, crew members leaped into the water, and loss of life was feared. Pacific had come from Tall England. Betton Castle from Singapore via Port Natalan and St Lucia, with Boston as a call.
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New York
Pacific
Betton Castle
Barber & Co
Piner Street
Brookive
Tall England
Wan Castle
Singapore
Port Natalan
St. Lucia
Boston
Resignation Accepted at First Congregational Church
San Francisco Feb 18 church members announced acceptance of Pastor Dr Charles F Aked's resignation now a member of the permanent peace board at The Hague by Henry Fort. Action must be ratified by the Congregation.
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Aked
San Francisco
First Congregational Church
Charles F. Aked
Permanent Peace Board
the Hague
Henry Fort
Germany Accepts "Recognizes Liability" Change in Lusitania Note
Washington reports Germany agreed to substitute the phrase recognizes liability for assumes liability in the Lusitania settlement draft. Berlin forwarded the revised wording to Secretary Lansing after Berlin’s approval of most changes. The note, to be formalized by Count Von Bernstorff, aims to satisfy U S and German positions at Wednesday talks.
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Washington
Germany
United States
Lusitania
Berlin
Lansing
Count von Bernstorff
Teutonic
State Department
London
Star
Man Burned to Death Arres t Cronies
Mike McDonough aged 45 was burned to death in a Monday night fire on a Henderson county farm near Monmouth. The three other men on the farm were reportedly drinking. they have been arrested as the investigation proceeds. The body was sent to Stronghurst for relatives in Jacksonville. Also from Chicago the Daily Pros association met. A. Miller of the Enquirer and News was elected president.
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Burlington
Mike McDonough
Hopper
Henderson County
Lester Miller
Monmouth
McDonough
Stronghurst
Jacksonville
Chicago
Postal Service
Indand Daily Pros Association
Kd. Miller
The
Enquirer and
News of
Batth Creek
Mich
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