Germans Cease Bloody Attacks In Cambrai Sector
World War I report notes the Germans end costly Cambrai offensives against General Byng's British forces. British and Allied lines hold firmer positions while Austro German plans against Italy show no large attacks yet. In the Piave and Palestine theaters, fighting continues with artillery and small assaults. Russian headquarters reportedly captured by Bolshevik forces.
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Cambrai
Byng
British War Office
Asiago
Piave River
Pee Ya
Piave
Palestine
Solsheviki
New Tibetan Force Offered to Britain by Dalai Lama
Edmund Heller, returning naturalist, reports Tibet plans a 100000 strong force of priests and peasants to aid Britain in war. He describes large tribal marksmen and sharpshooters being moved, with Tibetans shown as skilled marksmen. Heller travels to New York with 300 mammal specimens for the American Museum.
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San Francisco
Dalai
Lassa
Edmund Helier
Tibet
Heller
New York
American Museum
Navy Calls for 8 000 Men to Join Flying Corps
Navy recruiting officers ordered to begin a drive for 8000 men aged 21 to 35 to form ground personnel of the flying corps. Needed trades include carpenters, machinists, blacksmiths, fabric workers, riggers, welders, gas engine repairmen and instrument workers. After intensive training, men will be eligible for promotion to higher grades.
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Washington
Navy
Flying Corps
Blacklist Firms List Targets Enemy Support in Latin America
Washington reports 1600 firms in 20 Latin American countries are barred from trade by the War Trade Board under the Trading with the Enemy Act. The list names companies aiding Germany and includes utilities suspected of financing German propaganda in the United States. The measure signals a broader effort to bar commerce that benefits enemies.
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Washington
United
War Trade Board
United States
Latin America
Germany
America
Milk control hearings resume in New York after adjournment
The milk rate hearings in New York and Utica pause after testimony in two cities. Carl Beck urged government action to curb milk transport firms, proposing cooperative ownership of all creameries and distributive systems. Mrs. Bruere and Dr. Lusk floated government control and taxes on older cattle to raise milk supply.
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New York
Itiea
Carl Beck
Labor Food Conference
R. D. Cooper
Dairymen’s League
Utica
Robert ,.Bruere
Graham Lusk
Cornell University Medics College
Peanut Vendor Now Judge
Frederick C. Fisher a San Diego native who practiced law in Manila and Washington will become a justice of the supreme court at Manila after being appointed by President Wilson. Fisher once sold peanuts on a suburban Los Angeles to San Diego trail and fought in the Spanish American War.
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San Francisco
Frederick C. Fisher
San Diego County
Manila
Washington, D. C
Philippine Islands
Supreme Court
Wilon
Fisher
Eanut
Los Angeles
San Dies
Smuggling Ring Reported From Hungary to Turkey
Amsterdam reports Budapest authorities uncovered a conspiracy to smuggle gold to Turkey by a Balkan train. Police seized several million crowns in transit to Ottoman lands. Arrests include a high Turkish general, the manager of a sleeping car company, and Herr Martin, secretary of the Austro-Hungarian empire at Constantinople.
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Turkey
Amsterdam
Lokal Anzeiger
Budapest
Balkan
Hungary
Iisoners
Gneral
Sleepinar
Martin
Emp Sy
Constantinople
War Declared on Austria Likely To Quick Arrest Enemy Aliens
Washington December 6. With a formal war declaration against Austria-Hungary likely, hundreds of Austrian subjects deemed enemy agents will be arrested soon after. Many have been under justice surveillance for months, some have fled, and naturalized foes will face alien enemy status and possible internment. Officials note many Austrians here are harmless or pro allied, guiding careful registration and enforcement.
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France
Huch
Gen. Pershing
U. S
Washington
Austria
Department of Justice
Congress
Wilson
Austria-Hungary
Germany
America
United States
Espiystem
Otto Ahy
PiAy
Swindlers Target Yonkers Sugar Workers
In Yonkers New York two large sugar refineries attract the swindler band preying on foreign workers. The con artists pose as government agents seeking hidden sugar and induce residents to dump their stored pounds. Mrs. John J. Carr reports complaints to Yonkers police.
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Yonkers
N. Y
John J. Carr
Bandits Capture Agua Le Zua Town on Rio Grande
Reports say Mexican bandits believed to be loyal to Luis de La Rosa took control of Agua Le Zua on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, about 650 miles below Zapata. The small Carranza garrison reportedly surrendered.
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Laredo
Tex
Luis de la Rosa
Agua le Zua
Rio Grande
Zapata
Carranza
Byng Hero Of British Drive On Hindenburg Line
Lieut General Sir Julian Byng famed for leading a breakthrough against the Hindenburg line on the Somme front under Gen Haig. The seventh son of the Earl of Stafford, Byng rose rapidly from cavalry command to high promotions amid the Entente effort. He previously led a Canadian regiment at the war’s outbreak.
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Julian Byng
Hindenburg
Somme
Haig
Earl of Stafford
Army hat fraud indictments hit U S Quartermasters
New York December 5 A sweeping fraud case targets two inspectors in the U S Army Quartermaster Corps over hat contracts valued at about 1.25 million dollars. Indicted are Thom and Slattery of Thom Bayley and Parmalee firms, Ives, Edward Slattery, Gilson, and Duffy. Substituting brown fur for hare and muskrat reduced wear to 3 6 months, contracts paid about 1.756 million while alleged profits ranged 50 75 percent.
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U. S. Quartermasters’ Corps
New York
United States
Sinmund Bienet
Indietewest
Quartermasters’ Corps
Frank M. Prova
Eisner
William B. Thom
Thom & Bayley
City
Peekskill Hat Manufacturing Company
Peekskill, N. Y
John J. Slattery
Thom & Bayley Company
Parmalee & Co
Newark
N. J
Joseph Ives
Peekskill
Edward Slattery
Parmalee
Arthur C. Gilson
Peter J. Duffy
Thom
Ives
Holward Slattery
Gilson
Duffy
Tishers Commission
Lumber Supply and Price Talks With War Board
Washington December 5 producers discuss lumber supply and prices with the War Industries Board and the Federal Trade Commission.
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Washington
War Industries Board
Federal Trade Comission
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Tautons
Russia
United States Weather Bureau
Albany
Fair Boston
Buffalo
Chicago
Memphis
New Orleans
Pittsburg
St. Louis
Grace Darling
Ella Trout
Devonshire
England
Start Point
Miss Trout
ARIES
Kaiser
U. S. Silk Board
South America
U. 8
Taka
Tre Dery
Berlin
Gen. Byng
Alleceu
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