Austro Germans Capture 29000 Italian Soldiers Near Tagliamento
Berlin via London reports Austro German forces crossed the Livenza river in northern Italy with about 17000 Italian troops cut off and captured. Total prisoners claimed not to exceed 25000 as forces push along the Tagliamento and into Friuli plains.
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Berlin
London
Italy
Livenza
Tagliamento
Flanders
Veer
Passchendaele
Dixmude
Puelcapelle
Armentieres
Aillette
Rhone-Rhone Canal
Neidwiler
Associated Press
Livonza
Rochester Sunk by Submarine in Atlantic Confrontation
The American steamship Rochester was torpedoed and sunk at dusk on November 2. Four sailors are confirmed dead, one lifeboat with 13 men is missing, the captain and 22 others reached Buncrana, and a lifeboat with nine survivors arrived at Rossport, Mayo.
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London
Rochester
Buncrana
Ross Port
County of
Mayo
President Wilson Hissed at Suffrage Victory Rally
In New York on November 9, President Wilson was hissed at a National Woman’s Party event celebrating New York state suffrage victory. Pickets in workhouse garb confronted him as Dudley Field Malone urged restraint, defending the president and noting he lacks full suffrage info.
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New York
Wilson
National Woman's Party
New York State
White House
Dudley Field Malone
Malone
Hopes for Russia Not Abandoned Amid Turmoil
Washington reports scarce official word on the Petrograd upheaval as Kerensky’s government falters. Analysts weigh Korniloff as potential strongman, note democratic sentiment, and discuss unlikely dictatorships, separate peace prospects, and entente implications for a harsh winter averted by trench warfare persistence.
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Washington
Kerensky
State Department
Petrograd
Korniloff
Russia
Czar
Germany
America
Billings Roundup Forces Resignations and Allegiance Display
In Billings Montana on November 9 a crowd of 650 identified individuals ousted Curtis Ochme from the state board of architectural examiners and compelled Alderman Herman Schwanz to resign from the city council. Edward J. Kortzborn the local butcher was made to kiss the American flag and declare allegiance to the United States. No violence occurred as German-born citizens who supported the government were praised by the crowd.
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Billings
Mont
Curtis Ochme
State Board of Architectural Examiners
Herman Schwanz
Edward J. Kortzborn
United States
Peoria Man Killed in Train Collision Near Neponset
J Bertram Sherry assistant manager of Sears Sewing Machine company died instantly when his car was struck by a train at a grade crossing near Neponset Illinois on Thursday.
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Peoria
Ill
J. Bertram Sherry
Neponset
Navy abandons hope for safety of Alcedo men
Washington November 9 All hope for the safety of Lieut John T Melvin and the twenty enlisted men missing after the torpedoing of the American patrol ship Alcedo has been abandoned Vice Admiral Sims cabled that search for survivors has been given up and it is believed most of the missing were killed by the explosion No trace of the officer and twenty men was found and several rescuers have given up the search The Alcedo a converted yacht was torpedoed and sunk by a submarine early Monday morning the first American warship to go down since the war began
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Washington
John T. Melvin
Sims
Navy Department
Daniels
Alcedo
Witnesses Describe 57 Wounds In Riot Court Martial
In San Antonio a witness recounted being wounded 57 times by Negro rioters and another described finding a pewter cup with 24 L marked on it. Corporal Foreman testified about escaping death when a car he drove was attacked as rioters killed Captain Mattes and Officer Meineke amid the 24th Infantry riot march toward Houston on Aug 23.
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San Antonio
Tex
Henry
24Th Infantry
Houston
John R. Sample
San Felipe Street
Foreman
J. W. Mattes
Hinds Field Artillery
E. S. Meineke
S. Saton
Meineke
Open shops strike spreads to Boston plants
Strikes on government contract construction work in Boston and surrounding plants continued on Thursday. Union leaders say over 1,300 mechanics are involved with more likely to be called out. Affected sites include the navy yard Watertown arsenal naval hospital in Chelsea and federal appraiser's stores. The action is a protest against open shop conditions, not a direct dispute with the government.
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Boston
Navy Yard
Watertown Arsenal
Naval Hospital
Chelsea
Federal Appraiser
John ©. MacDonald
Building Trades Council of
Greater Boston
Quincy
Physician Found Dying in Cleveland Hotel
Dr. Marty L. Chapin, a prominent Cleveland physician, was found in a downtown hotel room Thursday night with a severe head wound. He was conscious but unable to speak or rise, discovered by a hotel maid, with indications pointing to attempted murder and no motive known.
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Cleveland
Marty L. Chapin
France Honors Americans Who Died Fighting in France
The first three American soldiers killed in the trenches in France are buried on French soil with both French and American guards. A French officer praised Private Enright, Private Gresham, and Private Hay, noting their sacrifice and urging their remains to rest forever on French soil as a symbol of liberty and justice.
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Associated Press
France
Army of
Enright
Gresham
Hay
Europe
United States
Republic of the United States
Ohio’s liquor vote still unsettled
Cincinnati November 9 With 8 counties reporting and 67 official reports, wets lead by 3643 unofficially, Hamilton county adding 1832 votes not yet official. Secretary of State Fulton shows wets ahead by 588 overall. Women’s suffrage referendum appears defeated by 136,419 votes in nearly every county.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Hamilton County
Fulton
Hamilton
Russia overrun as Kerensky flees Petrograd capital falls
Petrograd capitulates early Thursday as government forces retreat under Aurora shelling and fortress fire. Workmen's and soldiers' delegates seize control while Kerensky reportedly flees toward Luga. City returns to normal by noon as bridges and Nevsky Prospekt are held by revolutionaries. The Aurora, a 6730 ton cruiser with heavy armament, leads bombardment amid a night battle at the palace.
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Petrograd
Winter Palace
Aurora
St. Peter and St. Paul
Neva River
Guard of Relief
Niccolai Bridge
Nevsky Prospekt
Moscow to Become New Seat of Government
London dispatch reports Russian circles believe Kerensky moved government to Moscow after Lenine signaled power grab. He aims to unite moderates against the Maximalists and to rally Cossacks and remaining troops to his side.
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London
Kerensky
Nikolai Lenine
Moscow
National Party Plans Campaign for 1918 Elections
New York reports the National party formed in Chicago in October outlines a 1918 convention to set candidates for congressional races. John Spargo says a strong organizational push will back a platform including wartime loyalty, prohibition, federal suffrage, free speech within safety, and ending profiteering. The article lists party officers and executive committee members across multiple states.
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New York
National Party
Chicago
Socialist Party
John Spargo
Vermont
Spargo
Ira Landrith
Tennessee
David Coates
Washington
Virgil G. Hinshaw
Illinois
Matthew Hale
Massachusetts
J. G. Phelps Stokes
Anne K. Bidwell
California
Fred H. Chase
William F. Cochran
Maryland
U. S. Bishop
Utica
N. Y
W. G. Calderwood
John F. Sinclair
Minneapolis
E. ¢. Carr
Otto Cullman
Merton Johnson
Hugh Reid
Louis Wallis
Dorr H. Carroll
Minot
N. D
C. D. Finley
Kansas City
Charlotte Gilman
Rose Pastor Stokes
J. A. Hopkins
Dudley Field Malone
A. W. McCurdy
W. P. Montague
Allen Hayes
Wellesley
Mass
C. G. Hoag
Philadelphia
Charles F. Hoffman
Jackson
Mic
Workmen And Soldiers Hold First Council
PETROGRAD, Nov 9. The general congress of workmen's and soldiers' delegates of all Russia convened with 560 delegates. It approved order of business: organization of power, peace and war, and a constituent assembly. Maximalists named, including Lenin associates Zinovieff and Leon Trotzky. Three proclamations issued ending government commissaries and freeing arrested agricultural committee members. The death penalty abolished at the front.
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Lenine
Leon Trotzky
Petrograd Council of Workmen’s and Soldiers
Councils of Workmens and
Russia
Provisional Government Arrests Ministers and Lenine’s Return
Propaganda fronts are established at the front as revolutionary authorities free all arrested for political crimes. Cabinet Ministers Konovaloff Kishkin Tereschenkof Maryantovitch Nikitin and others are reported seized. Kerensky is urged to be captured and treason charges loom. Lenine, hailed by Trotzky, declares a revolution underway with peasants and workers in control.
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Konovaloff
Kishkin
Tereschenkof
Maryantovitch
Nikitin
Revolutionary Committee
M. Kerensky
Kerensky
Petrograd
Refused to Surrender at Winter Palace Attack
Petrograd dispatch says Bolshevik leaders demanded surrender from the provisional government and gave twenty minutes’ grace before their assault on the winter palace. The government replied by refusing to recognize the military committee.
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Petrograd
Winter Palace
Trotzky Has Had Stormy Career
New York report details Leon Trotsky as editor of the Nivi Mir in New York before returning to Russia after the collapse of the Emperor. It notes his exile history including Siberia in 1905 and 1912, Berlin, Switzerland, Paris, and Spain, his movement toward peace advocacy, and his landing in the United States with his family after declaring he was not an evolutionist seeking concord among nations.
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New York
Leon Trotsky
Siberia
Berlin
Switzerland
Paris
Spain
United States
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Petrogra
Neva
Trotzky
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