Army Build Up and Pay Scales for U S Enlisted Men
Public information release by Howard E. Coffin details the air service manpower needs, remount and veterinary corps expansion, hospital and pay scales for enlisted men, with a breakdown of pay by grade, allowances for housing and subsistence, and notes on troop health and logistics during wartime. It also covers shipping and supply challenges, food regulations, and insurance outreach for service members.
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Veterinary Corps
Uncle Sam
Committee On Public Information
Washington
Howard E. Coffin
Aircraft Production Board
Air Service
Army
United States
Aeronautical
Debarkation
United States Army
Infantry
Field Artillery
coast_ artillery
Cavalry
Engineers
Ordnance
Signal Corps
Quartermaster Corps
Medical Department
Medical
Post Exchange
Proletariat Revolt Fears and Balkan War News Roundup
A broad review details unrest in Austria Hungary and Finland, German aims toward Courland and the Baltic, Bolshevik resistance in Russia, Ukraine talks with Germany, Japan’s vow to uphold allies, and military actions on the Western Front. It notes Turkish cruiser losses, American troop positions, and U S efforts to secure neutral shipping amid U boat danger while Congress discusses Baker and Chamberlain war cabinet debates.
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Committee On Public Information
Frankfurter. Zeitung
German Empire
Wilson
Germany
Fatherland Party
Brest-Litovsk
Hoffman
Courland
Baltic
Russia
Reval
Petrograd
Congress of Soldiers
Workmen’s
Moscow
Constituent Assembly
Austria
Charles
Bohemia
Prague
Hungary
Congress
Janeef
Penrose
Stone
Roosevelt
Chamberlain
Baker
New York
Oregon
War Department
Senate
Warning by Baker on looming submarine offensive against Allied lines
Secretary Baker warns of a major German submarine drive to cut flow of men munitions and food to France and the Allies as the western front sees renewed combat near Ostend Ypres and Nieuport. British monitors and land batteries bombard Ostend area while French forces retake positions after a brief German raid.
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West Front
France
Flanders
Nancy
Pershing
Washington
Baker
War Department
North Sea
Ypres
Ostend
Nieuport
Embargo Extended Into Feb as Weather Improves
Weather gains cited as freight moves resume on eastern trunk lines but embargo on freight except fuel food or munitions stays through February six. Re-routing plan remains on southeastern routes while coal dumping at eastern terminals and bunkering at Atlantic ports proceed with improved efficiency.
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Fleel
Garfield
Mr. McAdoo
Atlantic Seaboard
McAdoo
Washington
Railroad Administration
Middle West
Chicago
Eastern
Atlantic
A. H. Smith
Eastern Lines
Washington Seizes Rifles Ordered by Russia at Two Plants
Washington announces the government will take rifles ordered by the Russian government from the Remington Arms Union Metallic company in Bridgeport Connecticut and the Western house company in Springfield Massachusetts. The aim is to keep trained workers at the two plants during reorganization to produce machine guns.
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Washington
Remington Arms Union Metallic Company
Bridgeport
Victory loaf to use substitute flour in bakeries
Washington bakers will start producing a loaf with a five percent substitute for wheat flour. Grocers will sell wheat flour only when customers buy an equal amount of another cereal, as substitute flours used by bakeries rise gradually to twenty percent.
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Washington
Victory
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Howard Coffin
Leutenant
Chautauqua and
Lyceum
Red Cross
Navy
United States Department of Agriculture
National Army
Bureau of War-Risk Insurance
America
Proletariat
Austria-Hungary
Edward W. Pickard
Japan
Far East
Siberia
Tarauchi
Finland
Red Guards
Viborg
Davidstad
Cologne
East Front
Monte Tomba
Teutons
Italy
Piave River
Monte Spinancia
Plave
Medulla
Sultan Selim
Dardanelles
Breslau
Nagara Point
Sweden
Belgium
British Labor Party
Nottingham
Lloyd George
Tasker H. Bliss
Paris
Supreme War Council
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