Bolsheviki Claim Defeat as Korniloff Disappears War News
Bolsheviki troops claim victory over Cossacks in minor clashes as General Korniloff reportedly disappears. Allied forces report improved positions near Vep and Twillecourt amid bombardment along the front from Suippes to Alsace. In Russia, Bolshevik and counterrevolutionary moves clash around Blelgorod and Rostov with reports of heavy losses and shifting fronts. Berlin wires note limited infantry actions on the western front and renewed artillery activity, while Italian fronts see stiff resistance as German assaults continue. American railway workers suffer from German bombing behind British lines.
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Tamanovka
Kaluga
Kaledines
Rastev-on
Don
Tamahavka
Blelgorod
Moycow and
Pear
Kornilotf
Onn
Salt Kornilath
Kalued
Moscow
Petrograd
Mearor
Huestan
Bolsheviks
Brest-Litovsk
Russia
Bolshevik
Cantbral
Bullecourt
Berlin
Rostey
Hosley
Saulliwer
Novos
Edet
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Rostov
Cambrai
Scarpe
Arras
Ypres
Flanders
Juyincourt
Rheims
Italy
Drenta
Col Della Beretta
Leraigille
London
Trenchea
Cambrai Batlute
Alaff
Duke of Albrechts
France
Sugar Shortage Probe Opens With Agency Cooperation
Senate hearing begins as Claus Spreckels of the Federal Sugar Refining Co testifies that the United States faces no general sugar shortage, only regional gaps. Food Administrator Hoover agrees to cooperate, cross examination arranged, and officials discuss sugar pricing and Cuban supply amid wartime tensions.
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Washington
United States
Toral
Atlantic Seaboard
Prexdunk Syrecksis
Federal
Senate
Food Administration
New York
Canada
Smeckles
Foad
Hover
Cuba
Sprecklen
Hoover
Claus Spreckien
Federal Sina Rolining Company
Senate Manufacturers
Reed
Tandrey
Spreckles
Germany
Her Allien
Russia
Uy Name
Java
Mektiag Region Prisoner Report Highlights Heavy Losses
In the Moletta area officers and over 16,0611 men were captured. The report notes the seizure of 293 guns 233 Jaghina guns four quick Uvers 81 mine throwers and other materials.
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Mehtiag
Moletta
He 18 Leader of U S Hell-Fire Unit
Testimony concerns Major J Atkinson head of Hell Fire unit and the broader wartime sugar trade. Spreckels, Bowker and others discuss refinery operations, price fixing, and the impact of international sugar committees on Pacific coast refiners amid labor shifts in Europe.
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U.S
New York
Sprecklea
Tefinogd
Navid
Land Administration
Anid Sprecklea
Uis
Reed
Streckels
California- Hawaiian Sugar Refining Company
Sugar
The
Food Administration
Ay Babst
American Sugar Refining Company
Willan A. Jamieon
Arbuckle Refising Company
Sir Joseph Todd- White
London
J. Ranney Drake
Spreckels
International Committee
Pacific Coast
Hawaii
Soldiers Segregation and Severe Coal Shortage News
A chaotic dispatch from New York reports severe coal shortages causing rationing and distress among civilians as deaths from pneumonia rise amid freezing weather. Philadelphia and Washington dispatches note snow and sleet crippling transport, with warnings of frost and further coal delays.
Italians Hold Main Line Amid Alpine Front Struggle
Italian forces on the Brenta to Piave front report continued Austrian pressure with trenches held near Col Beretta and along the Piave. rains flood the river and advance stalls, an Italian destroyer pierces the lagoon at Cavallino, destroying a villa with telephones and machine guns intact.
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Italy
Brenta
Piave
Col. Beretta
Aha Sum
London
Monte Spinuccis
Piave Nho
Shaker
Lagoon
Venice
Boro Cavallino
Gauro
Invasion Efforts Thwarted at Venetian Lagoon Front
Official dispatches from Rome report Austro-German assaults on the Venetian lagoon coast were repelled with heavy losses. Italian forces held Capoille bridgehead and counterattacked, driving back waves of attackers. Neutral government inquiry into German war aims referenced.
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Washington
Austra- Garnan
Italy
Rome
Capoille
waisra-Germana
London
Alma
Bovt
Brenta
Piave Riysertiment
von Below
Krahalia
Griflery
Relief sent to starving Poles prompts aid from American groups
In Switzerland on December 14 the American Hod Criss German velvet committees remitted to Polish committees $100,000 for starving Polish citizens. A British protective factory employs most of the women on piece work earning an average of 8.10 pounds a week with a bonus in fares.
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Deane
Switzerland
Thorn
Woman spy 18 now executed story denied by state dept
Washington reports a supposed execution of a female spy in the United States sparked a department denial to American consuls and legations. The tale, first from Germany, is seen as propaganda and the name Anna Huitensi appears only in unfounded reports.
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Washington
United States
State Department
Germany
Elven
Anna Huitensi
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Ogden
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