Teutons Will Sign Acceptance War Update
Italian forces gained ground as naval units landed troops on Dalmatian islands. Milio named governor of islands and Fiume, with Retiti taking military control of the city. Austrians report armistice delegates to Padua and Italian advance into Trent entered by cavalry. over 2400 Austrians captured. Italian flag raised at Buon Consiglio castle amid popular celebrations.
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Trent
Trenjtino
Allied Forces Drive Into German Lines From Oise To Aisne
Allied troops advance across occupied territory from the Oise to the Aisne as British French American Belgians push the Germans back. Haig seizes Le Quesnoys. Americans cross the Meuse near Brieulles and Pouilly. French reach toward Rethel and Mormal forest. positions along the Meuse west to the Aisne remain under pressure.
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Allied Troops Press Siege of Ghent In War Front Update
Allied troops reached the eastern outskirts of Ghent as Belgian French and American units advanced with light resistance. The city, already nearly surrounded, faced a pincer move while Queen Elizabeth witnessed the scene along with noncombatants.
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France
Belgium
Ghent
Elizabeth Petelguman
U-Boat Victims Reach Port After Three Weeks Adrift
The Norwegian bark Stifinder captain and seven crewmen, missing since Oct 13 after being forced into a lifeboat by a German submarine, have arrived at Turks Island in a state of exposure and near starvation after more than three weeks at sea.
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Voting to Heavy Campbell Prepares Big Tucson Turnout
Voters streamed to the polls in Tucson as noon counts showed strong participation. Precincts reported substantial early votes with afternoon turnout expected to push the campaign’s governor race toward a decisive majority. The Citizen announced live returns by telephone for those seeking updates.
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Sixth Street
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Tyndall
Campbell
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Citvw
Americans Cross Meuse River At Sedan Front In Major Assault
Allied forces drive across the Meuse on the Sedan front with a heavy engineer effort. Four pontoon bridges were built east of Crieulles under artillery and machine gun fire as troops pushed across toward Stena and advanced northward along the river. Casualties were light amid rapid German retreat and continued progress into the afternoon.
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Messe
Stenays
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Bredges
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Crieulles
Peran
Stena
Austrians Lose Half Million Men and 250000 Horses
An Associated Press dispatch from Rome reports severe Italian defeats. No Austrian prisoners captured before the armistice are estimated at about 500000, with 280 boats taken and over 130000 prisoners reported in the Trentino.
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Rome
Trentino
Knisers War Machine To Be Junked By Allies
Paris reports Premier Clemenceau warned peace may delay. He pledged the fate of peoples is fixed while allies decide that Germany must appeal to Marshal Foch for armistice terms. Lloyd George said details to be conveyed to Germany and Marshal Foch placed in supreme command against Germany on all fronts.
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Clemenceau
Chamber of Deputies
Germans Call for Germans in Austria to Form Army
An Amsterdam despatch reports a German Austrian appeal urging Germans in Austria to join the German Austrian army corps. It warns of unemployment hunger and misery amid demobilization and notes guards leaving prison camps with Italians Russians and Serbs fleeing. Germany recognizes Czech Slovak independence per Prague dispatch.
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Gerren
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Germany
Wilson's Daughter Sings for Stevedores in France
Paris reports Miss Margaret Wilson daughter of the President sang for stevedores at a base port as a YMCA entertainer. She travels incognito visiting base ports and will later proceed to the front.
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Paris
Margaret Wilson
Wilson
Armistice Terms and World War I Updates Across Fronts
AP reports President Wilson prepares to dispatch a note to Germany through Marshal Foch regarding armistice terms. Dispatches note German negotiations led by General von Wenterfeldt. Allied lines near Ghent and offensive pressure in France and Belgium. Argentina deploys guards on three German freighters at Bahía Blanca. Lloyd George announces armistice terms in House of Commons. Emperor Charles of Austria hands supreme command to Field Marshal von Zoepfel. Artillery works destroyed by explosion at Weser Zeitung. Spandau described as a fortressed town near Berlin.
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Wilson
Supreme War
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Marshal Foch
Greatest Conflict of War Rages Across Western Front
British headquarters in France report a vast offensive from Valenciennes to the Ardennes as German defenses crumble under sustained Allied pressure. Marshal Foch leads a decisive right-angle advance, reducing German maneuverability and threatening strategic collapse as thrusts press from the west.
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Montreal
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Stenav
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Lorg
British Capture Le Quesnoy and Surround Surroundings
British forces in the southeast of Valenciennes report capturing the fortified town of Le Quesnoy after surrounding it. The entire garrison of over 1,000 men and the citadel were taken. Additional villages Jolimetz Lerond Quesnes Frasnoy and Le Petit Marais fell as three to four miles of advance occurred east of Le Quesnoy. Ground gained in Mormal forest and Eth five miles southeast of Valenciennes.
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London
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Haig
Jolimetz
Lerond
Quesnes
Frasnoy
French Advance Forces Germans to Latest Retreat on Two Fronts
Paris reports continuing French success as German withdrawals proceed. Between the Oise and Aisne the French advance about one mile on a five mile front. The First Army resumes attack from Sissons to Chateau Poordene over more than 15 miles, breaching the German trapping line and pushing toward Herpy. French troops also pursue near Guise and have taken Bergues Sur Sambre northeast of the town.
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Aisne
Bretween Sissons
Chateau Pordene
St. Quentin-Le Petit
Herpy
Guise
Bergues-Sur-Sambre
Allied Forces Advance in Flanders Press Report
American and French units pushed forward in Flanders securing Leeverghem St. Denis Zwynaerde Westrem Aisne Tronchiennes toward Markriebrug as Belgian lines hold from canal to Dutch frontier. Civilians suffer as German shelling and rapid fire strike hamlets and homes near allied positions.
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Elzghem
Nogales Sees Campbell Favored In Local Vote
A good sized vote is being polled in Nogales with Campbell likely to carry Nogales City by a substantial majority. Local observers expect Campbell to win decisively based on early returns and polling momentum.
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Campbell
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Tribute to American Dead Paid in France
A touching ceremonyMemory of fallen American soldiers held at the American cemetery at Suresnes near Paris. Attended by American soldiers officers YMC A Knights of Columbus workers the mayor and local civilians. Graves were covered with flowers and flags through the afternoon.
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France
Associates Press
Paris
Suresnes
Y. MC. A
Knights of Columbus
Kaiser Orders Sixty Palaces for Hospitals
Emperor William orders sixty imperial palaces, including Sans Souci, converted into hospitals and recreation homes for invalids per Copenhagen dispatch to Exchange Telegraph.
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London
Emperor William
Sans Souci
Copenhagen
Exchange Telegraph Company
Vanderbilt Heiress Lose Millions to Alien Custodian
Washington November 5. The alien property custodian has taken over millions of dollars of property belonging to American born women who married German and Austrian subjects. Among those named is Countess Gladys Vanderbilt Szechenyi whose holdings total about 4 million in securities plus income from a 5.006 million trust from her father’s will.
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Washington
Gladys Vanderbilt Szechenyi
New Commander at Ellington Field Assumes Command
Lieutenant J J Rader, recently back from the front, has taken command at Ellington Field in Houston, relieving Major Walter Frank who was ordered to Ait 48.
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J. Jonel Rader
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Walter Frank
Americans Cross Meuse With Looming Meuse Front Bloodied
American patrols crossed the Meuse at Brieulles on pontoon bridges under fire while reconnoitering other crossings. The second bridge was built at Clery Le Petit as the line pushes east amid heavy machine gun and artillery fire. Ponilly was captured, Stenay half surrounded, and Jaulnay wood fell as Germans fled west. German efforts to fortify north Meuse line continued with canal flooding and tank traps scattered along Mezieres to Montmedy and Diedenhofen.
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Stenay
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Longavon
Diedenhofen
Bolshevik Peace Note Seeks Negotiations With Entente
London reports Petrograd handed neutral ministers a note asking for peace talks with the Entente to settle disputes with the Soviet government. The note requests timing and venue for negotiations. Yanks gain baptism of fire with Russo Allied forces in northern Russia as American troops experience first combat near Attic village. They face shrapnel and Bolshevik machine guns, while American soldiers lodge in peasant huts and log stations, treated as guests with tea urns and considerate hosts.
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Russia
Petrograd
Trimnisters
Copenhagen
France
Bolsheviki seek talks on Allied withdrawal. U.S. stance firm
The Bolshevik government reportedly pressed for negotiations to withdraw United States and allied forces from Russia. The Associated Nations do not recognize Lenin and Trotzky, and any talks should be with the Russian government at Omsk, the sole recognized authority for the Allies in Russia.
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United States
Russia
Lenine and Trotzky
Omsk
Robert Cockburn Dies From Hunting Wound in Sahuarita
Robert Cockburn aged 16 died at an Arizona hospital at 11 o clock Tuesday from shotgun wounds suffered when a cartridge discharged while his double barrel gun was being broken open during a Sahuarita hunt. He was brought to the city by companions including A W Roberts, a contractor, and died shortly after arrival. His mother Mrs Robert Cockburn and the Russell family mourn his loss.
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Robert Cockburn
Arizona Hospital
Sahuarita
A. W. Roberts
Frank Russell
Britain set for general election on December seventh
London reports that the general elections in Great Britain are expected to be held on December seventh. Party whips announced plans for the campaign at a meeting.
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London
Great Britain
Allies Near Armistice as Germany Expected to Yield
The Times Paris correspondent reports that allied forces on the French front have brought Germany to the brink of surrender, with the Allies agreeing on armistice conditions and Germany expected to accept.
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London
Montreal
Times Paris
Armistice Terms Signed In Paris For Germany
Washington reports that allied and United States representatives signed armistice terms in Paris. Diplomats expect delivery to Berlin soon with General Foch presenting the terms to German commanders on the western front. Secretary Lansing announced the signing as President Wilson stays in Washington amid election concerns.
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Bavarian Press Demands Abdication Amid Crisis
Munich correspondents report that Bavarian bourgeois and Social Democratic papers are demanding the emperor's abdication. The Berlin Tagesblatt and Neueste Nachrichten, with their Munich editions, carry the charge on page 2.
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