Submarine sinking after engagement with American destroyers
German submarine captured by two American destroyers was sunk after crew opened sea cocks and surrendered. Several crew members died during transfer. one drowned and another died with military honors. Secretary Daniels announced the sinking, noting no prisoners described in the statement.
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Washington
Daniels
Admiralty
Germany
Navy Department
British Admiralty
War
Ths
Cermas Nailor
Sims
Plotilla
Brivtsti
Han
Italian Army Halts Foes Rush Across Brenta Valley
Italian and Austrian forces clash along the Brenta and Piave rivers with heavy fighting and little ground gained. The Fourth Army repelled attacks on the east bank while the First Army countered to regain positions at the Brenta valley’s upper end. Rome said Austrian assaults in Southern Albania were repulsed amid unchanged Monastir district conditions.
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Associated Press
Italy
Brenta
Piave
Bassamo
Rome
Albania
Monastir
Bourlon Wood Passes to British Forces Near Cambrai
British forces surged into Bourlon wood and Fontaine amid desperate fighting on high ground near Cambrai. German gunners and tanks clashed as Britons extended control toward the forest center, with reports of heavy losses and about 100 German guns captured. The village of Fountains remained contested as bombardment and hand to hand combat continued.
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Associated Press
France
Bourlon Wood
Cambrai
Bourlon
Fountains
Moeur Vres
Fontaine
Ll Gureck
Darthdl
Pluck Alone Saves Airman From Death
BELLEVILLE Illinois November 25 11 Simpson a cadet at the aviation field near here lost control of an airplane at 1500 feet Saturday As it fell Simpson climbed atop the underside and kept the machine from crashing to the ground He was injured but only slightly and the plane was wrecked
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Belleville, Tih
Simpson
Here
Russian Ambassador Rejects Bolshevik Rule in United States
Boris Bahkmeteff, Russia's ambassador to the United States, repudiates the Bolshevik government in Petrograd and says he will recognize no authority that speaks for the Entente or seeks peace with Germany. Several embassy chiefs resign or plan to join U S service. Roop, Derichter, Sekine, and De Mohrenschildt discussed service with the United States. The move may push Washington to decide its stance toward the Bolsheviks amid their power crisis.
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Wasteington
Boris Bahkmeteff
United States
Petrograd
Germany
Basishev Ti
Mr. Bahkmeteff
U. S
Wladimir HH. Roop
Denehhter
Naval and Military Missionr
John Sekine
PF. de Mohrenschildt
McAdoo
Gen. Rasp
Derichter
State Department
O. Quau
Gahkmeteff
Lansing
Nation curbs meat packers profits
Chicago November 25 Regulation of the packing industry takes effect December 1 to stabilize and lower meat prices for retailers and consumers. Meat profits must not exceed 2.5 percent of sales and the five big packers may earn no more than 9 percent on average capital. The defined “meat business” includes meat packing and related animal-origin products and services but excludes non-animal or heavily elaborated products.
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Chicago
FP. Cotton
Meat Division
United States Food Administration
Food Administration
Cotton
Gompers Again Chosen Chief of Labor Ranks
Samuel Gompers was re elected president of the American Federation of Labor for 35 years with little opposition. Daniel J. Tobin won the treasurer post. Other officers were named including James Duncan James Connell William Mahon and Frank Morrison. A night session was held as St Paul was chosen for the next annual meeting Tyre. A resolution urged new trials for Warren K. Billings and Thomas J Mooney. The labor conditions committee found no shortage. unemployment was widespread in several trades. The convention adjourned sine die.
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Buffalo
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
John B. Lennon
Daniel J. Tobin
International Teamsters’ and Chauffeurs’ Union
Tobin
Wilson
Gompers
Labor Movement
Frank Morrison
James Duncan
Granite Cutters
James Connell
Machinists
Wiliam Mahon
Street Railway
Lan Ployes
Joseph F. Valentine
Molders
John R. Alpine
Plumbers
H.R. Pelham
Railroad Telegraphers
Frank Dutfit
Supreme War Body to Meet in France
Now Colonel fe mm Mouse head of the American mission said a Friday talk with Premier Clemenceau was satisfactory and comprehensive and he would continue conversations at intervals. The inter allied conference to meet Thursday will include envoys of all allied nations and last a day or two followed by the supreme war council with France Great Britain Italy and the United States.
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Col
FE. MM. Mouse
Clemenceau
Col. House
Supreme War Council
France
Great Britaan
Italy
United States
Brockway 1 Given Prison Sentence
Belleville November 25. Richard Brockway assistant claim agent for East St. Louis & Suburban Railway Co and three other defendants in the East St. Louis race riot conspiracy trial were found guilty. Brockway was sentenced to five years in the Chester penitentiary and a $1000 fine. Tish received five years and Johnson one year. Dickerson and Andrews were acquitted. Jury out since Friday night with one Negro member. All defendants were white men.
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Belleville
Richard Brockway
East St. Louis & Suburban Railway Co
East St. Louis
Brockway
Chester
John Tish
John Johnson
Tish
Johnson
Joseph Dickerson
James Andrews
Bomb Explodes Killing Ten at Milwaukee Police HQ
A bomb planted to attack an Italian Evangelical church exploded at Milwaukee Central Police Station fatally striking seven detectives and three others. The blast injured several, collapsed a hallway, and drew crowds as authorities investigated potential anarchist links to the church attack plan. Catherine Walker died. Mazurini was cleared of blame.
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Milwaukee. Wis
McKinney
Mazurini
Lieut. Flood
Henry Deckart
Flaed
Rean
Catherine Walker
Submarine Sinks Unarmed U S Boat
The American steamer Schuylkill was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean. Forty crew members were landed at a Mediterranean port with no armed naval guard aboard. It is unknown if any lives were lost. Security details on the submarine’s nationality were not clear. Also, Baron Rothermere became air minister in Britain per Pall Mall Gazette reports.
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Washington
Mediterranean
Navy Department
Daniels
London
Baron Rothermere
Daily Record and Mail
Glasgow
Leeds Mercury
Pall Mall Gazette
Brutal Turkish German Atrocities Reported in Palestine
Refugees in Alevanria report Turks and Germans torturing Jews in Palestine. Claims that Jewish men in Jaffa were hanged after false accusations, with alleged coercion and public beatings involving Americans. Separately, a massive fire at a cellulose factory near Gaelic destroys pulp worth 7,000,000 kroner.
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Alevanria
Egypt
Palestine
Jaffa
Seton
Shean
Stourholm
Karskaer
Gaelic
New York Harbor Barred to Aliens Announcement
Navy orders full harbor lockdown to enforce Regime against free wharves and warehousing. Blue uniforms will patrol docks as Rear Admiral Frederick Ro Harris takes over the Navy Yard and Shipping Board post from Rear Admiral Capps.
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New York Harbor
Washington
Navy
New Yo
P. Wuoson
Sator
Teather Seaport
Harris
Capps
W.shington
Adrmiral Frederick Ro Harri Cihkiood
Bureau of Yards and Docks
Miral Capps
Shipping Board
Ooration
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Botton
Ascoetatiad Press
Jean
Pluck
Airman
Nation
Middle Western
Battle Line
LABOR
Brockway 1
Milwaukee
Charles Sechanser
David O'Brien
Fred Kaiser
Stephen Stecker
Aberty Templin
Frank M. Caswin
Paul Weiler
Decker
Spindler
Louis Hartman
Herman Gitlin
Berlin
German Empire
Herbert Corey
Quincy Whig
Whig
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