Allied forces drive deep in Flanders and Italy
Allied armies push through Venetia and Trentino as Austro-Hungarian retreat accelerates. Italian, British, French and American units shatter German defenses on the Western Front near Valenciennes and Le Quesnoy, with 60,000 Austrians captured and guns seized as Allies press toward Ghent and the Italian coast.
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Associated Press
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Trentino
France
Meuse
Pola
Trest
Diaz
Valenciennes
Marshal Foch
Tournai
le Quesnoy
Scheldt
Maubeuge
Mons
Belgium
Ghent
Germany to surrender forts and navy under armistice terms
Versailles war council weighs terms for German withdrawal to a zone thirty miles beyond the Rhine with military supplies and looted goods removed. The plan also calls for surrender of the entire German navy including submarines and the Helgoland fortress, aiming to end fighting while preserving Allied military supremacy.
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Supreme War Council
Versailles
Germany
France
Belgium
Rhine
Helgoland
New Draft Calls to Entrain 290,772 by November 21
Pro vost Marshal General Crowder announces a November mobilization of 290,772 additional men for army training camps before the 21st. Between November 11 and 15, 253,335 white men will entrain for general service, largest single call under the selective service act. Remaining November entrants include Negroes Nov 19 to 22. Total inducted under the draft will exceed 3,000,000 and total in the army and training over 4,000,000.
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Wasiftington
General Crowder
United States Army
Americans Fight Harder Battle Near Waereghem in Belgium
Allied dispatch from Flanders notes a Western detachment facing intense German fire in Spitaelsbos wood southeast of Waereghem. The unit flank moved north while villagers and farmhouses were used as gun posts. civilians remained in homes as Americans pressed the assault, surrounding and neutralizing enemy positions.
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Associated Fress
Flanders
Spitaelsbosschen Wood
Waereghem
Belgium
France
Associated Press
Roche
Allied and German War Reports From The Meuse Front
War Office bulletins report American forces advancing west of the Meuse with favorable progress. British detachments seize Marly area near Valenciennes, while fighting persists around Mareches and Preseau. Austrian notes announce imminent evacuation of Serbian territory as Italian positions shift. German HQ states American columns penetrate toward Champigneulle Aincreville and Bayonville as Valenciennes is evacuated without incident.
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London
Valenciennes
Haig
Marly
Sauilve
Mareashes
Preseau
St. Hubert
Vienna
War Office
Berlin
Aisne
Meuse
Champigneulle
Aincreville
Bayonville
German Banks Favor Taking Allies Terms
German banking and commercial men after a meeting sent the government a declaration in favor of acceptance of the entente armistice conditions. The declaration argues against those who seek a better wartime outcome through continued fighting and urges measures to facilitate peace even if sacrifices are required.
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Amsterdam
Conversion period expires for four percent bonds
Washington reports the conversion period ends November 9 for first and second liberty bonds bearing four percent to exchange for four and a quarter percent bonds at no cost. Third loan bonds stay at four and a quarter percent. McAdoo warns market pricing may reflect the end of the privilege and urges newsrooms and banks to inform bondholders. Pershing telegram thanks Americans for the fourth liberty loan surge and oversubscription.
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Washington
McAdoo
Treasury
United States
Pershing
Yanks Capture 60 Guns in Verdun Advance
American forces northwest of Verdun on November 2 reported the capture of more than sixty cannons plus hundreds of machine guns and ammunition as their advance continued Friday and Saturday. German forces retreated, with the Americans gaining ground along a front north and west of the Meuse, including Fosse and Champigneulle areas, amid rapid pursuit.
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Fosse
Roulst Forest
Rhine-Marne Canal
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Verdun
Associated Press
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Thenorgues
Buzancy
Nouart
Villers-Devant- Dun
Doulcon
Pershing
Bayonville
Champigneulle
Freya
Verpel
Armistice terms may be announced Monday or Tuesday
Reports from Versailles indicate terms may be made public early next week and presented to Germany in full. Military observers debate if full surrender is necessary, noting plans to disarm German forces and push 30 miles behind the Rhine. Officials say terms will likely include Metz fortifications and Rhine fortress dismantling to clear invasion paths. President Wilson remains in close contact with Colonel House as talks proceed.
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Germany
Rhine
Berlin
Metz
Wilson
War Council
Versailles
Colonel House
Washington
Elouse
Americans Advance Through Rain to Key German Redoubts
American forces pushed through mud and rain toward Thenirgues and beyond Buzancy to Fasse, capturing Barricourt wood and Villiers-Devant-Dun. The right flank broke the German line near Clery-Le-Petit and Doulton after repelling a counterattack. Prisoners and heavy guns fell to the advance, with ammo dumps left behind.
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Thenirgues
Buzancy
Fasse
Bayonville
Clery-Le Grand
Clery-Le-Petit
Barricourt Wood
Viliers-Devant-Dun
Enem
Doulton
Evansville Protest Over Evansville Nearby Dumping Ground
Indiana ministers in Henderson Kentucky twelve miles away protest Evansville and other Indiana cities using Henderson as a liquor dumping ground since Indiana Prohibition began April 2 1918. They urge health authorities to limit cars on the Evansville Henderson traction line during the influenza epidemic.
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Evansville
Ind
Ministerial Association
Henderson
Indiana
Evansville & Henderson
Hungary Regiments Renounce Monarchy
Amsterdam dispatch reports regiments marching to Budapest to take the oath of allegiance before the national council as high officers urge service. The Danube monitor flotilla has acknowledged the council as the military authority, signaling a shift in command amid the upheaval.
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Amsterdam
National Council
Budapest
French Ask That Berlin Sees Defeat
Washington nov. 3 in a statement Andre Tardieu French commissioner to the United States said the Germans must confess they are beaten or the war will end by last resort. He described armistice terms to be framed at Versailles as including everything necessary and emphasized military superiority and the allies' resolve to force a safe peace. He noted Allied reserves exceed the German army and that German strength cannot quickly rebound, pledging victory and right as the guiding aims.
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Washington
United States
Andre Tardieu
Tordeau
Supreme War Council
Versailles
M. Tardeau
M. Tardieu
France
Germany
Foch
Mob Besieges Stuttgart Royal Palace in Demonstration
AMSTERDAM November 2 A crowd of several thousand shouted Down with Wilhelm Abdicate immediately and surged to the royal palace at Stuttgart. Police dispersed the mob after skirmishes and gunfire mounted on guards managed to drive them off. The protest followed a meeting of independent socialists demanding a social republic and pressure for the Emperor's abdication.
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Wilhelm
Stuttgart
Weser
Progressive Party
Munich
Quidde
Landtag
Germany
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