Socialists Active in Italy Rally Behind War Effort
Berlin reports claim Italians largely back the Tripoli campaign with the press calling critics enemies of the country. Socialist leaders and Avanti harshly attack government honesty while noting high casualties. meanwhile a new Red Brothers group forms in the Balkans with violent actions and a manifesto urging revolutionary terror.
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Guiccardini
Albertelli
de Cesaro
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Balkan
Avanti
Rome
Milan
Sharashat
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Hotel Regina
Piper Reidsieck
Tripolini
Turchi d'Italia
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Eamlan
Salonika
Red Brothers
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Helika
Warship Building Surges as Britains Navy Expands Abroad
A London Cable dispatch reports 1911 UK shipbuilding set a new output record at 2,042,928 tons, with $45 million naval funding. Six Dreadnoughts under foreign construction for Turkey, Chile, Brazil, and Japan, plus 17 under or near order for Britain, suggest 1912 activity will exceed 1911. Spain and Portugal consider larger ships built in England, while Brazil may add another Dreadnought.
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London
United Kingdom
Turkey
Chile
Brazil
Japan
Spain
Spain, For Whom Three 15,460 Ton Dreadnoughts Are Being Built At Ferrol
England
M. Almeida
Great Britain
Paris Banknote Forgery Foiled by Advanced Printing
Special Cable reports the first attempt to forge the 100 franc note of 1910 by the Bank of France. The note features four colors blue pink black and yellow and is printed on both sides with meticulous preparation. Each chemical advance to counter forgery is integrated into the note’s printing.
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Paris
Bank of France
Parliament Opens Soon Amid Irish Rule and German Peril Debates
In Britain the king plans to open parliament in two weeks with a throne speech likely to unveil home rule plans. Ulster loyalists warn of crisis, while the conservative press pushes German peril and home rule anxieties, urging loyalty or resistance as events loom.
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London
Elster
North Ireland
Germany
Daily Express
J. Ellis Barker
Herr J. Elsbacher
Observer
Garvin
Lord Lonsdale
Kaiser
Herr Elsbacher
Ulster
Mr. Garvin
Great Britain
United Kingdom
Pane Een Ana
Arge
Longevity Record in Spain Ends at 113
Juan Pastrana Garcia of Almagria died at 113 born in 1799. He lived through the reigns of Carlos IV Napoleon and Isabel II and the republic era, serving two long periods with the Tejada and Alvarez de Toledo families. He remained a bachelor and kept an orderly routine with good sight until death.
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Malaga
Juan Pastrana Garcia
Almagria
Carlos IV
Joseph Napoleon
Fernando VII
Maria Christina
Isabel II
Amadeo
Savoy
Alfonso XIII
Pastrana
Tejada
Dona Ana Alvarez de Toledo
Monument Erected On Constitution Hill In London
Work begins on Captain Adrian Jones bronze quadriga to crown the arch at Constitution Hill. When raised it will stand about 100 feet high from the ground to the top of the sculpture. the figure is between 30 and 40 feet tall and weighs nearly forty tons. It is the artist’s design first shown twenty years ago at the academy.
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London
Adrian Jones
Constitution Hill
Jones
Academy
Astonishing coffin ceremony at English church service
In Stockton Warwickshire the rector Archdeacon Colley staged a nun-like coffin display after an evening service. The coffin bore his canonical dress and glass front as the four carriers presented it to the shocked, sobbing congregation while he claimed to have donated his body for medical study.
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London
Church of England
Church of St. Michael’s and All Angels
Stockton
Warwickshire
Archdeacon Colley
University of Birmingham
Spies Arrested in Berlin and Silesia Suspected of Espionage
In Coblenz a barrister's clerk was arrested on suspicion of espionage for France. an ex French legionnaire. A French language teacher Vermot was detained at Frankenstein in Silesia over alleged complicity in Captain Lux’s Glatz fortress escape. Vermot, an ex sergeant of Lux’s Belfort regiment, denies the charges.
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Berlin
Cobleng
France
French Foreign Legion
Vermot
Franken- Stein
Silesia
Lux
Glatz
Naval base at Rosyth to be world’s largest dockyard
Rapid progress on the Rosyth naval base on the Firth of Forth aims to finish by 1914, two years early, at a cost exceeding 50 million dollars. The site will include six dry docks, basins for fleets and submarines, slipways, coaling depots, stores, workshops, and electric power.
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Rosyth
Firth of Forth
Rosyth Naval Base
Portsmouth
Devonport
Admiralty
Messrs. Easton, Gibb
Forth Bridge
Naval Base
North British Company
League Wins Small Pension For Officers With Families
Paris officials approve new relief for military officers with dependents. Married officers will get 20 cents daily for household expenses plus 20 cents per child under 18, totaling up to 30 dollars a month for four children. The move follows the League of Large Families push led by Capt. Simon Maire.
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Paris
League of Large Families
Simon Maire
League
Rosebery Criticizes Scotland’s Education State at Edinburgh Dinner
Lord Rosebery spoke at a dinner during the Educational Institute congress in Edinburgh. He warned that Forty years after the Forster and Young acts Scotland’s education may have deteriorated, arguing the nation now trains a generation on tea and football and questions whether the outcome is morally and physically improvements over the old system.
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Edinburgh
Scotland
Lord Rosebery
The
Educational Institute
Lord Young
United Kingdom
Mr. Forster
Campaign for Anglo German friendship spreads across Britain
London January 27. The National Peace Council has asked British chambers of commerce trades councils trade unions co operative bodies and peace and religious groups for opinions on a national and diplomatic understanding with Germany. Responses across the country favor promotion of such understanding and meetings are being arranged in many towns led by lord mayors and mayors to support Anglo German friendship.
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London
Germany
National Peace Council
Forged Paris Coins Worth More Than Face Value
Paris reports a discovery that many coins with a $15 face value are worth at least double due to platinum alloy. The forged pieces from Napoleon III’s era contain about six grammes of platinum, now valued around $9, with platinum price trends boosting the coins’ worth.
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Paris
Napoleon III
America
War Veteran 80 Years O
Major Baude, the sole surviving French officer of the Crimean war, nears his eightieth birthday in Paris. He remains hale at his Neuilly-sur-Seine villa and fondly recalls Alma and the allied salute between British and French forces at the campaign’s end.
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Paris
Baude
Neuilly-sur-Seine
The
Alma
Rioting Women Fight Gendarmes at French Reformatory
About 600 inmates at the Cler mont reformatory rioted for hours sparking destruction of rooms. Gendarmes faced fierce resistance until reinforcements subdued the disturbance. 35 ringleaders were jailed as the reformatories guard was increased. Also, apaches barred from navy service. 14 sailors to Cherbourg discipline.
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Paris
Clermont Reformatory
Apaches Barred From Navy. the Minister of Marine
Brest
Council of Discipline
Minister of Marine
Cherbourg
Coffin Street Car Adopted by Paris
Paris introduces a coffin street car for funerals needed due to Vincennes cemetery overflow. The green vehicle has four compartments driver bearers clergy and a 24 seat family salon with coffin aperture and wreaths hung on its side. A follow car will carry other attendees. Trial completed and may speed future city to cemetery processions.
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Paris
Vincennes
Mouse bite proves fatal to pioneering doctor in Paris
Paris January 27. Doctor Simon son in law of German socialist leader Herr Bebel died after a mouse he inoculated for bacteriological research in Zurich bit his hand. Blood poisoning followed. This may be the first recorded case of a scientist dying from a mouse bite.
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Paris
Simon
Herr Bebel
Zurich
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