Pro German Rule in Russia and War Front Shifts
Review of rapid Russian upheaval as Lenine led radicals seize Petrograd. loyal women battle rebels at the Winter Palace. Italian retreat to the Livenza as Ca*odorna falls back. Passchendaele ridge taken by Haig with Canadian forces. Allenby across Beersheba and Gaza. U boat losses dip. Tokyo and Washington trade terms on Japan-China-Open Door policy amid wartime ally shifts.
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West Front
Sir Edmund Allenby
Palestine
Beersheba
Gaza
Staal Desert
Jerusalem
Edward W. Pickard
Kerensky
Russia
Nikolai Lenine
Sadd Ie
Chios
Bakhmeteff
Petrograd
Kronstadt
M. Bakhmeteff
Germany
Winter Palace
Auinora
S St. Peter and St. Paul
A Warkmen
Lenine
Leon Trotzky
Itv
Uy Ae Uci
Livenza
Count Cadorna
Tagliamento
Ae Po Oe
Mincio
Piave
France
Great Britain
America
Italy
Venice
Cadorna
Aguamento
Sir Douglas Haig
Flanders
Passchendaele
Crown Prince
Aisne
Ailette
Allenby
Esthonian History and World War Era Reflections
A historical survey explains Baltic piracy and Esthonian subjugation under Danish and Swedish rule, then notes Russian policies on language and Lutheran faith. It shifts to U S politics with Socialist defeats in Chicago and New York, and ends with details of the U S war mission to Paris, led by Col. House and generals.
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Canute VI
Esthenian
Waldemar II
Waldemar IV
Knights of the Sword
Teutonic
Hibonia
Peter the Great
Charles XII
Russia
Esthonia
House
U. S
American War Commission
Paris
Col. FE. M. House
W. S. Benson
Tasker H. Bliss
Steff
Crosby
United States
Lansing
Diamond trade linked to marriage vows in war era
Conservationists question diamond use amid wartime. Kansas City Star cites jewelers showing U S imports hit 84 million dollars, up 70 percent from 1915 and 110 percent from 1914, as marriages rise and engagement rings boost demand.
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Kansas City Star
United States
Meteors From the Moon Theory Explored by Belot
French astronomer Emile Belot revisits an ancient idea that meteors originate from volcanic eruptions on the moon and other satellites. He argues an initial projection velocity similar to observed eruptions and certain artillery outputs could explain their paths.
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Emile Belot
Enrord
Hilarious Finish in War Scheme Reported
The Boston Journal quotes a claim that a schemes involving a new laughing gas could end the war by dispersing gas over German trenches from airplanes. The piece notes the plan would make German forces laugh themselves to death, described as a harmless, humorous ending rather than military victory.
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The
Boston Journal
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