War News Seething From Across The World
The piece surveys wartime events from the United States and Europe. It notes the Texas farmers' union advocacy for a 30 cent cotton price, Army mobilization delays, Hoover warning of hunger impacts, and Lord Northcliffe’s spending abroad. It reports peace talk reactions, Italian advances near Gorizia, British casualties, German U boat activity, and political moves in Argentina and Costa Rica. Strategic shifts and domestic measures accompany labor strikes and civil mobilization.
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Texas Farmers’ Union
Dallas
United States
West
National Army
Herbert C. Hoover
Atlantic City
N. J
World Food Situation
Lord Northcliffe
Great Britain
Germany
Hoover
War Library Council of Georgia
Macon
R. L. Foreman
Atlanta
Alfred Bonhaupt
Sixth
United States Infantry
Fort Oglethorpe
Bureau of Immigration
Army
War Department
Republic
Wilson
Red Cross
Baltimore
Gotthold Prusse
Feneral
James E. Boyd
John F. Smithdeal
Asheville
Florida
North Carolina
Smithdeal
San Francisco
United Railroads Company
Germany Start Another Lot of Peace Rumors and War News
The article reports on British attacks around Ypres in Belgium and Haig's plan to strike at U-boat bases along the Zeebrugge to Nieuport coast. It covers Germany and Austria's peace rumors, Argentina breaking relations, Russia's Kerensky republic move, labor unrest in the United States, and Hoover's food and supply controls. It notes naval and military developments, political turmoil, and public sentiment.
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Charles
Austria Hungary
Austria-Hungary
Belgium
Germany
Bundesrath
Benedict
Austro-Hungary
William
Vatican
Bainsizza
Gorizia
Monte San Gabriele
Washington
Berlin
Vienna
Pope Benedict
United States
Lansing
Count von Bernstorff
Congress
Ireland
Japan
Athens
Greece
Amsterdam
Holland
Tasker H. Bliss
Army
Hugh L. Scott
Scott
Buenos Aires
Senate
Chamber of Deputies
Chamber
France
War Department
National Army
Europe
Pacific Coast
Hurley
Federal Shipping Board
San Francisco
House
Army, Fortifications and Shipping Board
Costa Rica
von Luxburg
Born von DemBussehe- Haddenhause
William Blackmon
Kerensky
Edward W. Pickard
Ypres
Menin Road
Field Marshal
Haig
Ypres-Roulers
Hollebeke
Ruprecht
Zeebrugge
Nieuport
Great Britain
Painleve
Alsace-Lorraine
America
Austria
Argentina
Luxburg
Sweden
Russia
Baltic
Kaledines
Council of Soldiers and Workmen
Council of Peasants
New Republic
Petrograd
Riga
Gembers
American Federation of Labor
New Orleans
New York
Rocky Mountain
Wilson
Col. J. L. Spangler
Pennsylvania
W. Z. Reed
Colorado
John H. Walker
Ilinois
E. P. Marsh
Atlantic City
The
Food Administration
Seaboard
Hoover
Way Industries Board
Congressional Conference Committee On
Germans Press In Flanders As Verdun Battles Continue
In Flanders German artillery remains heavy around Lens Arras and Ypres while French counterattacks drive back two German secondary columns. Verdun front sees heavy fighting with Petain’s forces checking German assaults and suffering losses, as crown prince units push near Bois le Chaume and Bez avaux.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bezvaux
Boisie Cabuvaux
Bois Je
Koad
Flanders
Scarpe
Arran
Lens
Ypres
Haume
Auiont
Germany and World Conquest Predictions by 193
Senator Lewis cited a 1898 claim by Capt. von Goetz that Germany planned a world conquest within fifteen years, outlining expected steps from Paris to New York, the Monroe Doctrine’s end, and South American control, as part of a debate on war and patriotism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Germany
Admiral Dewey
Manila
von Goetz
Imperial Navy
Lewis
Senate
Navy Department
Illinois
von Goot
Paris
England
New York
South America
Leif Lewis
Benedict
Wilson
America
Italian Captain Flies Turin to London Nonstop
Captain Laurenti of the Italian army completed a nonstop flight from Turin to London with an observer. The 656 mile route took 7 hours and 12 minutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Laurenti
Ae Italian Army
Turin
Italy
Argentine Navy Mobilized Amid General Strike Tensions
Buenos Aires reports the Argentine navy ordered to mobilize with 14 rendezvous 37 kilometers from the capital. Unusual military activity noted while officials cite the general strike, though many discuss potential rupture with Germany as congress debates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buenos Aires
Republic
Germany
Roosevelt blasts LaFollette in Kansas City luncheon
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt told a Kansas City luncheon that if he were in the Senate he would be ashamed to sit with Senator La Follette until he found a method to deprive him of his seat. He spoke as part of a middle western patriotic celebration honoring Mrs. General Leonard Wood and Roosevelt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
United States Senate
LaFollette
Theodore Roosevelt
Leonard Wood
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Southland
Thomas Krag
Baron von Freytag-Loringhoven
Munich Post
Champagne
Verdu
Field Marshal Haig
Trieste
Laibach
Trentino
Aisne
Verdun
Thompson
Chicago
Philadelphia
Milwaukee
Oregon
Portland American
Somme
Calcutta
India
St. Margherite
Verqq
Argentine
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