Daring Raid on North Sea Coast Reported
Allied press notes a bold raid on the North Sea coast with two German ships sunk. Meanwhile British forces bombarded intensively along the front from Belfort to Sainte Marie au Mines as French troops push forward. Reports from Constantinople mention the torpedoing of a Turkish battleship in the Dardanelles.
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Associated Press
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Paris
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Sainte Marie-au-Mines
Thann
Amsterdam
Holland
London
Constantinople
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Great Britain
Duchess of Groy Nurses Wounded Duke in Cracow
The Duchess of Croy formerly Nancy Leishman an American heiress nurses her husband the Duke of Croy wounded by shellfire in Cracow. An Almanach de Gotha edition notes their marriage and lists their son Karl Emanuel born last October as hereditary Prince of Croy.
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Trains Move Sixth Brigade to Naco Front
Sixth infantry brigades Eleventh Eighteenth and Twenty second depart El Paso for Naco Ariz to guard camp equipment. One officer and guards left behind. Meeker Englishman held prisoner at Navajo Sonora on charge of Carranza spying. US War Dept orders Gen Hugh L Scott to Naco to press for end of hostilities.
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Oo AR City
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Naco
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EL Paso
P. J. Meeker
Maytorena-Villa
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Sonora
Carranza
Meeker
Nogales
Washington
Hugh L. Scott
Army
War Department
Associated Charities Movement Sought in Mobile
Mobilers endorse a plan to form an Associated Charities Organization to coordinate relief without creed, caste, or color. George Threefoot led petitions with Erwin Craighead and John C. O Connell backing, while Home Economics Club and Ladies of Charity support a centralized aid system amid growing private requests for food fuel and money.
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Mobile
Associated Charities Organization
George Threefoot
Threefoot
Erwin Craighead
The
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John C. O’connell
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Home Economics’ Club
Ladies of Charity
Salvation Army
W. M. Prince
Elmira Street
John R. Collier
Dauphin Island
Captain Collier
Bold Hartlepool attack triggers early naval engagement
A flotilla of British destroyers clashed with German cruisers off the English coast as fog lifted. Reports say Hartlepool suffered extensive damage with many houses destroyed and gas works damaged. The battle escalates with British reserves rushing in and further fighting expected.
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Scarborough
Whitby
Associated Press
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English
Austrians Repulsed in Front Reports From Petrograd
Russian Army Messenger quotes front communications detailing German attacks failing on the Lowicz front with Austrian repulse and German forces attempting to blunt a Cracow flank as December battles continue.
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Petrograd
Army
Lowicz
Cracow
Hundred Leading Mexicans Executed Secretly in Capital
Washington reports a secret execution of between 100 and 150 Mexicans in Mexico City over several days. Names and orders are undisclosed. city remains quiet otherwise. Provisional President Gutierrez and allied forces hold order while foreigners stay uninjured and business improves. US says it will not intervene in internal Mexican disputes.
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Mexico City
United States
Gutierrez
Villa
Zapata
Emperor William's Health Causes Anxiety Reports Say
Paris dispatch reports Kaiser Wilhelm's condition, though officially improved, is worrying doctors. He suffers a serious sore throat following diphtheria contracted on a visit to the eastern front.
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Paris
Madrid
William
France vows no interference with American cotton shipments
Washington December 16 The French government in a note to the state department today assured that France would not interfere in any manner with American cotton shipments.
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Washington
State Department
France
Maytorena Orders End to Firing Across Border
Washington reports that Governor Maytorena, commander of Villa troops at Naco, announced he would discontinue firing into U S territory. Officials expect this compliance with Gutiérrez, and note American reinforcements of about 5,000 may shell Mexican positions if cross-border fire continues.
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Naco
Ariz
Maytorena
Villa
United States
Gutiérrez
Gutierrez
Court of Appeals Decides Mobile Law Cases
The Alabama Court of Appeals handed down two south Alabama decisions from Mobile. The American Bonding Company of Baltimore versus New York and Mexican Whiting Company was affirmed. C. M. Blalack et al. v. J. J. Black sher was reversed and remanded.
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Court of Appeals
Brown, J
American Bonding Company of
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New York & Mexican Whiting Company
Mobile Law and Equity Court
C. M. Blalack
Millionaire Policewoman of Muncie Resigns for Health
Muncie Indiana December 16 Mrs Thomas Fr Hart, the citys millionaire policewoman, has resigned after a year on the force to aid wayward girls. She wore a uniform and carried a mace. Her health prevents further work. Her husband is a millionaire.
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Associated Press
Muncie
Ind
Thomas Fr. Hart
British Warships Pursue German Cruiser Dresden
Two British warships are pursuing the German cruiser Dresden which left Punta Arenas on Sunday, according to an official telegram from the American embassy in Santiago Chile received today.
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Washington
Dresden
Punta Arenas
Santiago
Chile
November trade balance favors U.S. by 79 million
Washington reports November foreign trade shows a U S balance of 79 299 417 with exports totaling 205 766 424 and imports 126 476 007 The October balance was 56 603 650 and September 16 341 722 while August favored the United States by 19 400 406 A notable drop of 71 000 000 in cotton exports compared with November 1913.
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Washington
United States
Department of Commerce
Eighteen Killed at Scarborough War Bombardment
A London dispatch reports Scarborough bombarded by German warships today killing 18 people. In one house four were killed outright and in another three perishing from bursting shells.
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London
Scarborough
Man Lived In Dog Kennel Dies In Fire In Anniston
In Anniston Alabama on December 16 an elderly Black man known as English, about 80 years old, sleeping on excelsior in a dog kennel behind a brick house on Moore Street, perished in a fire. Firemen found his charred body amid ashes with a pipe clutched near his lips. He had long been a familiar odd job presence around the city.
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Anniston
Ala
English
Moore Street
Tenth
English towns suffer first foreign naval attack in modern times
A German squadron attacked Scarborough Whitby and Hartlepool from the northeast coast of England during a misty night. British flotillas engaged the invaders at West Hartlepool near the Tees. Officials withheld details on attack timing and force size.
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London
England
Scarborough
Whitby
Hartlepool
West Hartlepool
River Tees
Prohibitionists Plan to Join Progressives for 1916 Victory
Utica New York December 16 after a conference with former Governor Sulzer Prohibition state committee members adopted a resolution to present to the national committee Sulzer plan for a new party uniting Prohibition Progressive and American parties The plan calls for national prohibition as the first plank plus woman suffrage an international peace conference and a tax schedule commission and predicts victory in 1916.
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Associated Press
Utica
N. Y
Sulzer
Prohibition State Committee
National Committee
Weather: Partly cloudy, near freezing tonight
Partly cloudy conditions linger in Mobile with temperatures near freezing tonight and a chilly Thursday. The forecast calls for a slow warmup as the day progresses.
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Mobile
Damage reports likely exaggerated after Scarborough raid
Eyewitnesses describe fifty shells landing on Scarborough causing smoke and destruction at the Esplanade and BEra Hotel with houses and a railway station reported damaged. A shop counter clerk is killed and her husband wounded. Hartlepool gas works and lamping facilities are set aflame by shells from ships. Estimates of Hartlepool bombardment are uncertain and likely overstated.
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Bera
Hartlepool
Whitby
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