Resumption of Fighting on Russian Front Believed Imminent
War briefing reports raids on the west and Italian fronts, with Allied forces repulsing enemy attempts. Italian relief aid allocated 60,000 lire by the American Red Cross for Padua and northern Italian raid victims as fighting momentum discussions continue in Russo-German peace talks.
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Italy
Rome
American Red Cross
Padua
Paris
Algbi Ca
Aisne
Landricourt
Cavaliers de Courcet
Malesons de Champagne
Meuse
Western Front
Petrograd
Bolsheviki Red Guard
Russia
Ypres
Verdun
Belgium's Faith in Allies Cited In New Year Message
Belgium declares unwavering faith in Allied victory and recovery of territory lost to Germany in 1914. New Year greetings from King Albert, transmitted by the Belgian legation, praise justice and reparation, and express hope the king will be a victor and ease suffering.
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Albert
Washington
Jam
Belgium
Braqueville
Count Goblet D'altviellé
Chamber of Deputies
Belsiane
Dury
Charles William Parks to oversee Pearl Harbor dry dock
Charles William Parks, named rear admiral and chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, arrives in Honolulu to supervise the construction of a large dry dock at Pearl Harbor. Parks is renowned as a civil engineer with national reputation for public works.
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Charles William Parks
Bureau of
Navy Department
Honolulu
Pearl Harbor
Philadelphia
In House Suffrage Hearings Open for Women
Washington reports the first in a series of in house hearings on woman suffrage conducted by the house suffrage committees. Maude Wood Pare chairs the hearing with speakers including Carrie Chaplain Call Mrs Travers Whitby and others from New York Nashville and Wichita to present the suffrage argument. A historical note mentions Christmas baskets with rosemary sprigs presented by Nipon Cathedral thoristers in 1793.
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House
Wuts
American Woman Suffrage Association
Mra
Maude Wood Pare
Congressional
Shaw
the Géroclation
Carrie Chaplain Call
Travers Whitbey
New York
Mre
Niford ,Ludley
Nashville
Arsdfonry Ware Allen
Wichita
Amend
Nipon Cathedral
French Capture More Prisoners Than They Have Men Engaged
ITALIAN ARMY HEADQUARTERS IN NORTHERN IPFALY reports the French victory on Monte Tomba where French forces captured more prisoners than their engaged troops. A veteran officer described 1400 prisoners and 566 dead at the scene, noting the French system and highly trained troops enabled near losses of under fifty men. Officers and German captives faced equal treatment under French discipline.
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Ipfaly
Monte Tomba
Chew
Slaome
Germany
Lnemy
Bésandhem
Petrograd Press Declares Imperialism Again Shows Claws
Petrograd dispatch reports Bolshevik leaders reject real democratic peace as Germany keeps pressing for terms. Trotzky says peace would likely not resume at Brest-Litovsk. A central committee resignations meeting supports transferring negotiations to a neutral country. Baltic provinces and Poland featured in German aims. Isvetia pamphlet denounces German promises as lies. States with no compensation law for injured workers listed.
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Associated Presa
Germany
Trotzky
Peece
Brest-Idlovek
Peasants
Petrograd Workmen's and Soldiers’ Council
General Army Congress
Poland
Tithuania Ino
Courland
Lithuania
Ukraine issues ultimatum amid northern shipments hold up
Reports from Petrograd and Kherson describe Ukraine delivering an ultimatum to Salshayiki forces, with troops withdrawing within fourteen hours. Meanwhile sugar and grain shipments to northern Russia are halted, and a Ukrainian constituent assembly delegation arrived to meet with the People’s Commissioner. General Korni and other former officials face arrest as hunger strikes continue in Petrograd’s fortress.
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Prtnoghad
Kloy
Salshayiki
Uhey
Ukraine
Russia
Ozmand
Poopla
Doléhevikt
Memhart
Social-Revolutionis
Petrograd
Polas
Genera
Kormilos
Agsinet Tha Bolshevixt
Dan Coseacks
Korni Uacawha
St. Peter and St. Paul
Reds Seize American Bank in Petrograd
Bolshevik forces seized the Moscow branch of the National City Bank of New York after days of broader bank confiscations. The Petrograd branch, seized a month earlier, will handle financial needs of American residents as currency shortages worsen in Saywa.
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New York National City Bank
Moscow
Petrograd
Igne
National City Bank of New York
Golsheviki
H. J. Dreher
Saywa
Fes
Lival
Russia Rejects German Peace Proposals in Petrograd
Bolshevik foreign minister Leon Trotsky told the central committee that the government of the Russian workers would not consent to Germany's peace terms, denouncing the proposal as hypocritical. He asserted the need to defend the revolution, while front representatives demanded bread and boots.
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Petrograd
Leon Trotzky
Central Committee of Soldiers
Workmen
Germany
1917 Foreign Trade Breaks City Records in Philadelphia
Philadelphia shows its greatest foreign trade for the first eleven months of 1917 with exports totaling 461,283,581 dollars, up 165,826,724 from 1816. Imports reached 97,071, fet, 3, a decline of 1,265,036 from 1916, according to official figures released today.
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Philadelphia
Kaiser Calls Leaders Into Conference on Peace Failure
London dispatches report Germany and Austria-Hungary press for rapid Brest Litovsk terms after a Berlin meeting with Kaiser Wilhelm II and Hertling. Von Kuehlmann faced sharp Socialist and Radical critique over policy toward Russia, while officials returned to Drest-Litovsk with new instructions amid claims Germany seeks vast gains and no genuine peace.
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London
Amsterdam
Berlin
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Austria-Hungary
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von Hert Mng
Finld Marehall von Hindenhure
von Ludendorff
Minaster von Roerthrn
von Kuehlmann
Foreign Alfaifa
German Bundesrat
Count von Daal
von Hertling
Admiral von Tirpitz
She
Marine
Charles
Kucharzesvki
Vor Kuehlmann
Brent-Litovsk
Reichstag
Drest- Litavak
Lelpak Volke Zeitung
Brest-Litovak
Russia
Entente
von Kuehimaen
Gerstany
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Petrograd Press
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Artiicle Two
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Friedrich Ebert
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