German raider sinks eleven ships off Brazilian coast
Survivors report a Seeadier class raider, armed with 105 mm guns and sixteen machine guns, sailing from Germany December 22 with a submarine escort. The commander Count Akner leads a 64 man crew as it roams the South Atlantic striking merchantmen, with Rio de Janeiro surfacing as a key refuge.
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Rio de Janeiro
North Sea
South Atlantic
Gambronne
Cambronne
Rio Janeiro
Brazil
Journal de Brazil
Count Akner
Germany
Range Feud Roils Arizona Strip and Nearby Counties
Salt Lake City dispatch reports a range feud across the Arizona strip and into Washington and Kane counties. More than 800 sheep have been poisoned and two camps burned. Sheepmen accuse others of seeking the ranges for cattle, though no proof has been presented to substantiate the claims.
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Salt Lake City
Arizona Strip
Washington
Kane
C. B. Stewart
Utah State Woolgrowers' Association
Catte
Governors Seek Navy Recruits From Three States
Utah, Idaho, and Montana governors were urged by the navy department to proclaim recruitment goals to provide 300, 260, and 240 sailors respectively before April 2000. The request, in the defense context, aims to bolster United States naval manpower amid ongoing wartime needs.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Ioho
Montana
Navy Department
United States Navy
Idaho
Germans Hold Fifty Americans
Washington reports Copenhagen confirms that two American sailors arrived with news that about fifty more were captured by German coastal raiders and held in detention camps.
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Washington
Copenhagen
Germany
Rolder Moewe
Spain Delivers Relief Amid War Rhetoric and Prisoner Talks
The Spanish king offers Paula Abipe to deliver relief to Syrkh and secure the release of American prisoners Mal Vool Capgmr and Dew Moises, now a warhound at Alem Andres. The United Bratow accepts the terms as part of ongoing wartime diplomacy.
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Spain
Paula
Syrkh
Capgmr
Dew Moises
Alemandres
Public Shaming of Prisoners After City Attempt
Seventy rebel prisoners were captured after an attempted assault on Chihuahua City on March 10. They were publicly hogheaded the following day with warnings issued to the Wilin faction of the population.
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Chihuahua City
Wilin
Thie Elty
Canada War Loan Subscriptions Reach Record Totals
American investors back Canada’s latest war loan drive with subscriptions nearing 1.6 million dollars Canadian. The campaign, targeting 160 thousand dollars, shows strong cross border support, signaling robust financial backing for wartime needs.
German Raider Attacks Ships Near Trinidad
The French bark Cambronne with about 1,863 tons sails from Trinidad toward Rio de Janeiro. Survivors from sunken vessels report a German armed sailing craft with a gasoline motor firing on crews until surrender, then taking sailors aboard and sinking ships. The Cambronne, crewed by French, English, and Italian, was last seen near Trinidad off Venezuela’s northern coast, a route of roughly 3000 miles to Rio.
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Trinidad
Ablp
Venezuela
Atlantic Ocean
Caribbean Sea
Rio Janeiro
France
Forty Americans among Moewe prisoners in Germany
Copenhagen reports American seaman Jack Benson arrived with word that more than forty Americans are prisoners of war in Germany after the German commerce raider Moewe captured a horse transport. Benson says most captured Americans were horsemen from the Esmeraldas, sunk by the Moewe, with one exception, an American named Smith aboard the Brecknockshire.
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Copenhagen
Germany
Moewe
Jack Benson
Benson
Smith
Swiss Parliament votes against peace move stance
The Swiss parliament, by 88 to 22, decided that Switzerland should take no action toward offering a peace move at present. The decision followed consideration of both majority and minority reports from a commission studying the issue.
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Berne
Switzerland
Switzer
Cuban Rebels Surrender in Oriente Province
Virtually all rebels under Rigoberto Fernandes in Oriente surrender to Colonel Verona at Guantanamo. The force, estimated between five hundred and six hundred soldiers and civilians, ends its resistance in the region.
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Havana
Rigoberto Fernandes
Oriente
Verona
Guantanamo
Kernan Promoted to Brigadier General by President
Col. Francis J. Kernan receives promotion to brigadier general from the president, succeeding Gen. Hunter Liggett. The move elevates Kernan within the Army command structure.
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Col
Francis J. Kernan
Kernan
Hunter Liggett
Making Submarine Nets for 100 Steel Ropes
Washington reports the department has arranged with American Steel & Wire of Philadelphia to construct 100 steel rope submarine nets at a cost of 1,881 dollars each. The order aims at immediate production and delivery by the firm under wartime requirements.
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Washington
American Steel & Wire Company of
Philadelphia
Berlin German Chomtate Methond for Dum Geur Substitutes
A fragment describes a Berlin method for making a geur substitute from linden and bess buds. It asserts the educt value of the substitute equals barley geur with four umber the fat percentage.
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Berlin
Germany Declares No Intent to War With United States
German chancellor Bethmann Hollweg stated Berlin has never sought war with the United States and does not intend to attack or threaten the U S. He said unrestricted submarine warfare was for defense against blockade and warned the American nation against declaring war, promising Germany will bear and overcome the burden.
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Berlin
Germany
United States of America
United States
America
Bethmann Hollweg
Wilson
Congress
England
Lanning
Whch
Census of technical papers urged by defense council
Will Spare Seientiats Washington. The bureau of mines conducts a census of technical papers at the request of the council of national defense to avoid risking valuable scientists on the firing line, following European belligerents.
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Seientiats
Washington
United States
Selentiata
Bureau of Mines
Council of National de Fance
Party to Hold Convention in New York, April Dates
Headquarters of the National Progressive party says acting chairman Matthew Hale declared there was no plan to abandon the national convention scheduled for April 12 13 and 14 in Great Lakes area despite conflicting information.
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New York
National Progressive Party
Matthew Hale
Gt. Laoula
Accused Brookings Man Threatened President Wilson
Brookings county authorities accuse D. D. Jobo Schmidt of calling President Wilson vile names and threatening to kill him at the fret coportanity jail. Schmidt is held awaiting further action by officials.
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Brookings
D. D
Brookings County
Wilson
Jobo Fichmidt
Passenger Coaches Overturned Near Montrose Colorado
A Denver and Rio Grande railroad train derailed near Telluride causing four passenger coaches to overturn and injuring four people seriously and lightly as rescue crews worked at the scene.
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Montrose
Colo
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
Telluride
Labor Mobilization Plan If War Grows
Labor chiefs meet with Secretary Wilson to map a mobilization plan for government service in wartime. The talks aimed to ensure enough workers for shipyards arsenals and government contracts, with AFL chief Samuel Gompers and the U S Public Employment Service supplying skilled and unskilled labor and clerical help. The Post Office and Civil Service commissions would advertise needs, while the Council of National Defense labor committee backs the effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Germany
Wilson
England
American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gowpers
United States Public Employment Service
Civil Service Commission
Post Office Department
Council of National Defense
Gompers
Woman Slayer Vindicated In Denver Murder Trial
Wealthy Denver society woman Stella Newton Moore Smith was found not guilty of murdering her husband John Lawrence Smith. The slaying occurred January 14 as the defense argued she acted after a night of torture and threats toward Mildred her 12 year old daughter by a prior marriage.
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Denver
Mra
Stella Newton Moore Smith
John Lawrence Smith
Smith
Mildred
Senator A A Jones of Thomas Born in Tennessee
Senator A A Jones from Thomas is described as a capable lawyer and banker born in Tennessee. He has served as assistant secretary of the Interior since 1913, highlighting a long public career in government and finance.
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Genator
Andriacus Aristicus Jones
Thomas
Tennessee
Auc
Interior
Members of Wari¢ union fined in Kansas City case
Reventinen members of the Industrial Workers of the World were fined 100 and 200 dollars by the municipal court. Stays of execution were ordered if they leave the area.
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W. W
Kansas City
Industrial Workers of the
Wari
Albany Senate Passes Lands Bill for Fort Aite Expansion
Will Guy Menkaway Fort Eite Albany reports the Brows bill to appropriate 2,600,000 dollars to cover all expenses incidental to the acquisition of lands wanted by the federal government for the fort was passed by the senate.
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Will Guy Menkaway
Fort Eite
Albany
Fort Aite
Senate
Enser Calls for More Men for Mer In 1917 Campaign
Enser reports that Germany plans a supreme military effort in 1917 with Hindenburg and advisers aiming at a victorious conclusion. Authorities extend service beyond forty five and retain draftees for front line duty while industrial mobilization accelerates. A labor service plan seeks to convert every factory and man the war effort. The exact offensive direction remains uncertain as strategic reserves stay within Germany.
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Germany
Ber UN
Mow
Yoo Hindenburg
Landstrum
Field Marshal von Hindenburg
Germany given every chance to avert submarine decree
Washington heard a speech by Secretary Zimmermann declaring the United States would bear responsibility for war if it came. Officials admitted the government knew in mid January that the ruthless submarine decree would be issued and allowed three days for Germany to modify it before severing diplomatic relations. Count von Bernstorff knew of the decree two weeks earlier and urged repeal with his government.
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Washington
Zimmermann
United States
United Sates
Germany
Count von Bernatorff
Department
Youth Found Slain in Snow Beside Dry Canyon
In Salt Lake City Ray mond Johnston, 17, a cattle herder, was found dead in a snowbound ravine with a bullet wound to the breast. A revolver with an empty chamber and shell was recovered twelve feet away, and his horse was tied near an oak shrub down the canyon. Police believe murder probable.
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Salt Lake City
Raymond Johnston
Mexico Seizes Railroad Between Mexico City and Veracruz
Government once again takes control of the railroad between Mexico City and Veracruz. The line, previously run by British interests, was returned to stockholders last November but is now under government possession for reasons not disclosed.
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Mexico
Mexico City
Vera Crus
Wheli Ie
Soldier Shoots Tramp in Sandusky Guard Detail
A Sixth Infantry Ohio National Guard unit in Sandusky fatally wounded a tramp who refused a halt command while on guard duty. Details are unclear as reports mix with other wartime dispatches from Halifax and Branayilie.
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Sandusky
Ohio
Sixth Infantry Regiment
Ohio National Guard
Women Vote Reform Debate Becomes House of Commons Item
After a March 35 debate the Commons approved legislation aligning with the speaker's conference on women’s suffrage. Asquith and Bonar Law backed expanding voting rights to wartime service women, with Lloyd George signaling support for broader reform. A minority still opposed but could not block progress toward postwar suffrage legislation.
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London
Knowe of Commons
Asquith
Andrew Bonar Law
Lloyd George
Commons
Bonar Law
Miner Fights Police In Salt Lake Attack
Salt Lake Day reports Patrolman J P Emery shot in the throat while attempting to save a young woman from a miner from Bingham known as Fat Smith who was intoxicated. Mrs Bessie Spencer dodged two shots but one grazed the temple of Jennie Bishop, an acquaintance of Mrs Spencer.
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Salt Lake Day
Bingham
Smith
J. P. Emery
Salt Lake
Government arms civilian force to hunt spies
Virtually the entire federal civilian workforce, about 100000 personnel, has been ordered to assist the Bureau of Investigation and the Secret Service in detecting spies and thwarting plots against United States interests. The nationwide watch aims to uncover intrigue and suspicious activities among employees and police forces.
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Washington
Bureau of Investigation
Secret Service
United States
Bryan Urges Senate Action to Stop German Submarine War
Miami Florida March 29 William J Bryan addressed both houses urging passage of the Bryan peace plan. He called for suspension of Germanys submarine campaign and sought a tribunal to settle disputes before any war.
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Bryan
Miami
Fla
William J. Bryan
Senate
House of Representatives
Germany
Revolution Fostered by Bermans in New Orleans
General Juvon Irie, a Nicaraguan revolutionary, was arrested for illegally staying in the United States. He is believed held for investigation of possible involvement in a large conspiracy. reports suggest alleged German backing for Latin American agitation.
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Orleans
Juvon Irie
United States
Latin America
Mexico to Resume Foreign Debt Payments
Mexico City reports that congress will convene with a resolution to resume and pay government debts. The plan includes about 20 million dollars in back interest on the Mexican National Railway bonds and about 40 million dollars in arrears on foreign loans.
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Mexico City
Congress
Inter Oal
Mexico
Indorees Jewieh Relief Fund Appeal Initiated in Washington
President Wilson telegram endorses a 10,000,000 dollar fund to aid Jewish war sufferers. He remarks the Russian revolution opens the door to freedom and urges encouragement for those affected, underscoring wartime relief aims.
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Indorees
Washington
Wilaeutine
Indorsinghe
Spain Establishes Censarship and Georgia Dry Bill Passes
Spain establishes a censorship scheme to regulate stellar or Starist themes across provinces as Madrid reports. Meanwhile Georgia acts with a March 24 passage of the Avante bill restricting alcohol as a public health related measure amid contested medical and sacramental exemptions.
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Spain
Madrid
Giorgia
Bollowees
Georgia
Cuban Mabale Riga Circus Sparks New York Revolt Tale
A cryptic report citing Edward and Lois Meiniey describes a Cuban Mabale Riga Circus episode in New York amid a supposed revolution narrative. The piece mentions crowds, arrival of men, and a charged atmosphere surrounding the event, with unclear details about participants or outcomes.
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New York
Girous
Edward and
Lois Meiniey
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Arizona
Navy
Amsterdam
Avienna
Canada
Weasel
Buch
Reichstag
Witeon
Meane
A. A. Jones
Enser
Mer
Min Bayond
Lonely Canyon
Garmane
Guatemala City
Salvador
Pisaitie
Geremany
Branayilie
Lnd
Bt. Paul
Gtureckfue
Moe
Miner
Bermans
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