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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1918
Page
1
London dated January 1 reports General Allenby’s line in Palestine north of Jerusalem has advanced further. The British War Office says over a thousand Turks were killed and 750 taken prisoner, including 39 officers, with 1,066 enemy dead counted to date.
British war bulletin reports considerable artillery activity around Arleux-en-Gohelle and southeast of Lens. No other notable actions or advances described. statement notes nothing of special interest to report for today.
Berlin reports violent artillery duels in Monte Tomba sector on the northern Italian front. Paris dispatches note artillery actions across the Western Front from the Meuse to the Champagne region. British forces repulse German attacks on the Welsh ridge as Italian fronts yield captures at Monte Tomba. Padua raids continue with cathedral facade damaged. Gallant Allied advances in the Jerusalem area and Balkan fronts cited.
Premier Lloyd George urges civilians to economize and send money to the government in a New Year message to nations. He calls on workers to stay at their posts, support war efforts, and join the fight through savings and war bonds, promising unity lead to victory and safety.
Washington officials order swift action to relieve congestion with freer movement of food and coal despite passenger timetable controls. Eight new measures by Director General McAdoo aim to route export traffic to South Atlantic ports and mobilize locomotives and equipment to assist eastern lines, with a temporary advisory cabinet and a war board member panel guiding the plan.
Peking report that Japan will advance 10,000,000 pounds to China to aid currency reform. The loan, arranged with familiar banking groups from before the war, excludes other syndicate banks due to government prohibitions. Japan seeks control over monetary reform while other nations’ banks protest participation. The message to Italy praises Italian troops and wartime resilience, with Lloyd George calling for continued fortitude against aggression.
Reports from Petrograd claim a German naval delegation secured an agreement with the Doltheviki government to lift the blockade on the Whites and regulate trade, with German ships already operating freely in Russian waters. A first commercial squadron was expected before Russian Christmas, as famine warnings rise and Berlin officials prep for Brast-Litovsk talks.
The Petrograd correspondent for the Daily News weighs England’s possible separate peace and the broader impact on Germany, Russia, and the Entente. The piece notes potential German democracy defeat, Russian enslavement risk, and the military caste’s gains if pressure to conclude peace rises. Trotzky is cited warning of danger amid peace pressures.
Petrograd notes claim German schemes falter as revolutionary papers flood fronts. A writer urges publishing near Russian terms and dampening German hope by bank nationalization and cabinet upheaval. Russian Bolshevik lines warn Entente ties could shift if Russia gains support.
Northern Italy dispatch reports a French offensive in the Monte Tomba area as 1048 French troops including 44 Austrian officers seize 7 large guns and 60 machine guns. The operation marks a shift from defense to offense, with heavy artillery preparation, air attacks, and coordinated infantry advances from Osteria di Montenera to Maranzine on a 2 mile front. Austrian and German forces are being repositioned toward the Brenta river amid ongoing clashes.
Chicago ushered in the New Year with near silence. Between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. not a single intoxication arrest was recorded at central police stations as hotels and cafes closed promptly at 1 o'clock.
London reports the British government may return a serious and reasonable reply to the BrestLitovsk peace offer as officials in Washington Paris and London exchange views. A Dutch dispatch notes that the German Reichstag committee approves the BrestLitovsk declaration amid internal party divisions over peace terms.
The United States enters the New Year with a national net debt of 5.817 billion dollars, about one quarter of the prewar level of wealth. Disbursements for the military establish ment fall short of estimates while wartime contracts loom. Military outlay totals emerge, with navy, shipping board, and grain programs awaiting costly spring obligations. Relative debt compares Britain, France, and Germany, whose combined debt reaches about 74.3 billion dollars.
Among several marriages aboard the American flotilla off the triad, Irish bride Mind Nora Carroll wed Calley Groff. Nora Carroll is the daughter of Tady Filion Carroll, widow of the late James Carroll, a prominent figure in Queenstown civic life.
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