Pershing Inspects American Front in France
General Pershing spends two days in the American sector northwest of Toul visiting trenches dugouts and batteries. He questions troops on food and conditions, finds all but one cook satisfied, and orders minor changes in trenches and orders. American lines widen with support to French forces in Champagne and other sectors as news from the Don region and Ukraine reports Bolshevik advances and Don Cossack movements.
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France
Pershing
Toul
Mont Lee
Metz
St. Milel
Champngne
Lenin and Trutza yak In Flight Leaders Escape
Lenin and Trutzayak elude revolutionists in flight as Bolshevik leaders. The report notes their escape from pursuit during the upheaval and hints at their continued resistance.
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Lenin and
Trutzayak
U S Guns Repel German Air Attacks Over Front Lines
U S forces brought down a German flyer as planes operated actively over the front. Bombs near the American field hospital caused no damage as it had been moved. Six American soldiers were wounded in a cook tent incident and others by shrapnel in trenches while a town behind the line endured shelling.
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U. S
Roosevelt's Eighth Grandchild Born To Archie Roosevelt Family
Boston February 19 a son was born to Capt Archibald B Roosevelt and his wife Grace Lockwood Roosevelt. Archibald Roosevelt Jr is the new infant with Col Theodore Roosevelt convalescing in a hospital in New York reacting with delight to the news from Boston.
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Boston
Archibald B. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
France
Grace S. Lockwood
Thomas S. Lockwood
Europe
New York
Archie Roosevelt
Trouble at Brooklyn Plant Rehires Clash Over Strike
Washington reports shipyard workers across the Atlantic and Pacific will be recalled as the shipbuilding labor adjustment board says every striker must return. In Brooklyn a plant refused to rehire 2 carpenters who struck before an understanding was known, risking reopening the dispute unless these men are allowed back.
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Washington
Atlantic
Pacific
Shipbuilding Labor Adjustment Board
New York
Baltimore
Althdhough
Staten Ishandan
Philadelphia
Newark
Jersey City
Elizabethport
Adjustment Board
Delaware
Carpenters of
John Rice
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
Brooklyn
Rice
Tr. W. Guerin
National Executive Committee
The
Wison
Wilson
Oregon Senator Chamberlain May Face Appendicitis Operation
Senator George N. Chamberlain of Oregon, chairman of the senate military affairs committee, may undergo an appendicitis operation after a recurrence of an attack just before adjournment. Surgeons will decide today whether to operate.
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Senate
Washington
George N. Chamberlain
Oregon
Senate Military Affairs Committee
U S House Passes Urgent Deficiency Bill and Destroyer Contracts
The House approved the billion dollar urgent deficiency appropriation bill with 500 million for the military and navy. Navy contracts for additional destroyers beyond this year's program were awarded, with many more expected as shipyards accelerate output. Secretary Daniels said destroyers are being produced at record speed and the Pelham Bay training station could expand to 20,000 men with funds directed to Pelham Bay and Hampton Roads facilities.
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Washington
Navy
House
Navy Department
Daniels
Pelham Bay
New York
Hampton Roads
ASK MORE PAY FOR RAIL MEN
Railroad representatives before the federal railroad wage commission conceded underpayment of employees in all divisions of transportation work. Secretary of the Interior Lane was assured that living expenses of the workers are far in excess of their wages. About $20,000,000 was estimated for proposed wage increases in the United States during the present year.
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Washington
Pen
Federal Railroad Wage Commission
Secretary of the Interior
Lane
United States
Carpenter strike at shipyard looms over wartime labor
The industrial dispute between shipyard carpenters and management remains unsettled as President Wilson weighs the broad labor question in wartime. The strike’s end is not yet in sight and tensions persist.
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Wilson
Forty on Trial as Mutineers in Army Court Martial
Forty enlisted men of the Twenty fourth Infantry colored faced a court martial in San Antonio charged with murder and mutiny. This marks the third such trial stemming from the Hetden riot of August 23 in which twenty were killed and others injured. Earlier proceedings tried 68 defendants with thirteen hanged and many others sentenced to long terms. St. Paul reports Governor Burnquist refused requests to remove public safety commission members Libby and McGee.
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San Antonio
Tex
Twenty-fourth Infantry
Hetden
St. Paul, Minn
Burnquist
H. W. Libby
J. F. McGee
Public Safety Commission
Labor Will Help to Win the War declares AFL support
In Washington on February 19 the American Federation of Labor executive council released a statement pledging labor loyalty to the United States and endorsing Wilsons war aims. The council says peace parleys show the futility of diplomacy until German militarists fail to impose their will. The note adds that uprisings in Germany prove the movement for emancipation is growing stronger. In St Louis February 19 the Federal Lead Co was fined 15000 in federal court for taking rebates from Illinois Central Railroad.
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Washington
Hebor
Executive Council
American Federation of Labor
United States
Wilson
Congress
Germany
St. Louis
Federal Lead Company
Federal District Court
Ilinois Southern Railroad Company
Slain NGF in Ukraine as Bolsheviks claim gains
Kiev, a major Ukrainian city, was captured by Bolsheviks on February 5 after heavy fighting. estimates place 4,000 killed and 7,000 wounded. Odessa faced bombardment as Romanians threaten the region. Polish forces clash near Minsk with significant casualties. Krylenko plans to raise a 100,000-strong Bolshevik army to support operations against General Alexeïff.
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Petrograd
Kiev
Ukraine
Boghuisk
Minsk
Smolensk
Akkerman
Bessarabia
Odessa
Krylienko
Rusiyn Krylenko
Alexieff
Germans Ousted by French in Champagne Front
French war office says Germans attacked positions southwest of Butte du Mesnil and in Mortier wood area but were driven out after a spirited engagement. casualties and prisoners reported. London notes a hostile raid near Gavrelle repelled with a few prisoners taken by Portuguese in the Mesines sector.
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Paris
Champagne
War Office
Mortier Wood
Vauxaillon
Butte du Mesnil
London
Gavrelle
Messines
Miners Forcibly Make Manager Kiss U S Flag
Two hundred coal miners at Citizens Coal in Springfield forced mine manager Henry Martini and his two sons to kiss the U S flag in the public square. The act, described as patriotic, drew hundreds of onlookers downtown and heightened tensions in the mine community.
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Springfield
Ill
Citizens Coal Company
Henry Martini
United States
Kaiser to War on Russia As Teutons Move on Reval
Stockholm reports Germany resumes war measures against Russia with aims to seize Reval and Livonia within a week. Mention of Hofmann at Brest Litovsk and threat to advance toward Petrograd, with strategic notes on Reval’s port and Baltic positions. A Vienna dispatch notes Germany and Austria Hungary pact limiting troops to border areas.
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Stockholm
Russia
Social Demokraten
Esthenia
Livonia
Reval
Hofmann
Brest- Litovsk
Germany
Demokraten
Gulf of Finland
Riga
Gulf of Riga
Gulf of Vinland
Petrograd
Aumterdaim
Austria-Hungary
Great Russia
Ukraine
Vienna
Paris Fire Destroys Block in Paris Illinois
A blaze starting in the Paris hotel swept through the Paris business district damaging a full block and causing about 200000 dollars in losses. Fire units battled the flames as the cause remained under investigation and businesses assessed the damage.
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Paris
Black Burns
Ill
Pire
Germans Try Raids On Bolsheviki Overthrow Victory
London reports Bolshevik government overthrown by social revolutionists led by Tchernoff. Lenine and Trotsky escape to Riga after rapid action.
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Spevag
London
Bolisheviki
Tchernoff
Bolsheviki
Lenine
Trotsky
Riga
British and French Conduct Three Trench Raids
The war office reports three successful Allied trench raids last night. British and French forces captured prisoners from German trenches in actions on the Arras front south of Jens and near Houteaults wood, while German raids inflicted heavy casualties on their attackers.
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Evening Journal
London
War Office
Arras
Jens
Houteaalts Wood
Austrian frontier fully closed again at Berne
Berne reports the frontier between Austria and neighboring territories has been completely shut by Austrian authorities. The action follows renewed tensions and affects cross-border movement, with officials indicating no activity will resume until further notice.
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Evening Journal
Berne
Trian
Kaiser Deceived by Chiefs In Atlantic Port Report
An Atlantic Port dispatch claims Kaiser Wilhelm was told his U boats have sunk most American troops heading to France leaving about 80 000 men. Dr Arthur Davis of Piqua Ohio relays the Kaiser’s boastful remarks and confirms 180 000 soldiers in France. Mrs Clara Steinberger, of San Francisco, reports famine in Germany after three years in Berlin.
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Atlantic
Kaiser
France
America
Wilhelm
Arthur M. Davis
Piqua
Doctor Davis
Amereica
Germany
United States
Davis
Clara Steinberger
Berlin
British casualties lowest in week ending Monday
London reports total British casualties for the week ending Monday at 4 106 with Killed or died of wounds 1 093 including 88 officers and 1 005 men while Wounded or missing 2 163 including 119 officers and 2 044 men marking the lowest total in many months.
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London
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