American Mission to Germany Heads for Spa and Rhine Front
An American mission led by Maj Gen Rhodes will depart Saturday for Spa to confer with Marshal Foch on demobilization and occupation plans. Separate reports say U S airmen landed at Cologne as Germany evacuates Poland and naval terms of the armistice are to be carried out at a meeting in a British port.
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Fremont Officers' School Abandoned
Des Moines Iowa November 16 official announcement that the infantry officers' training school at Camp Fremont California will be abandoned. All applications sent through Military Training Camps associations will be forwarded to Chicago but no action will be taken and no notice of acceptance or rejection will be given to individuals.
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Camp Fremont
California
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Iowa
Military Training Camps Association
War Department
Military Training
Chicago
Military Training Camps Association of the United States
German government pleads to Wilson for plenipotentiaries
Berlin reports the new German government asks President Wilson to send plenipotentiaries urgently to The Hague or another city to avert famine and anarchy in Germany. The message was relayed to Secretary Lansing.
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Wilson
Hague
Lansing
Vanks Capture U S General With The American Army In France
Brigadier General Douglass MacArthur, commander of a brigade in the Sixty second division, was briefly captured by American troops near Au trecourt during the advance toward Sedan. Released quickly, he helped reorganize the line as First and Forty second divisions continued fighting the Germans, taking the sector for the day.
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Dougress MacArthur
Sedan
Autrecourt
MacArthur
French grows in demand at Cornell college
The war drives interest in French as enrollment rises. Miss A Louise Smyth, a Smith graduate with an MA from Columbia, has been hired as an additional teacher arriving from Nutley New Jersey where she taught. Enrollment in beginning French climbs from 57 in 1916 to 116 in 1917 and 224 in 1918.
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Cornell College
A. Louise Smyth
Smith College
Columbia University
Nutley
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Draft board curtailment likely as Crowder halts exams
Washington Nov 16 Provost Marshal General Crowder plans new orders to curtail the national draft machinery. The stoppage of all physical examinations for 18 year olds in the draft is expected. About 400000 Greeks Italians and other aliens in class five face possible reclassification under draft treaties unless regulations are annulled.
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Crowder
United States
Revolts And Riots Roil Europe As War-Worn Nations Stir
The scene shifts across Europe as Mackensen’s forces in Roumania join a revolt, Reds seize Vienna Parliament, and unrest spreads. In The Hague the government calls for citizen aid in a grave crisis while socialists in Paris advocate a socialist republic image and a food crunch fuels fears of Dutch upheaval.
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Roumania
Vienna
Dutch Proclamation in Crisis as Kaiser Evokes Uprising
The Dutch government issues an urgent call for citizen cooperation in a grave crisis and vows to maintain authority. Jonkheer Colyn, former minister of war now in London since July, is recalled to lead the government, wielding considerable influence in Holland.
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War Secretary lauds Pershing as armistice nears
Secretary Baker congratulates General Pershing and the American expeditionary force for bravery in France. He promises the War Department will expedite the return of troops to the United States as soon as feasible. Edward Hurley announces plans to repatriate a large portion of forces and arrange transport from Europe.
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General Pershing
France
Secreta Baker
War Department
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New York
Edward N. Hurley
United States Shipping Board
Europe
Hurley
Crowder Urges War Work Fund Support After Victory
Provost Marshal General Crowder stresses that funding for welfare workers is more crucial than ever as troops shift to peacetime duties. Secretary Baker likewise urges continued American backing for the united war work campaign to aid servicemen abroad and aid in postwar rehabilitation and world peace efforts.
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United War Work
America
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United War Work Campaign
War’s end tests camp morale and value to soldiers
The piece notes that after active fighting ends many programs must sustain morale for American troops. It argues camps and clubs must offer engaging amusements like huts, shows, motion pictures, and sports, relying on generous American support to renew their funds and prove their efficiency.
S A T C Units To Stay At Colleges
Grinnell Iowa November 16. Students army training corps units will continue military and academic work without interruption despite armistice. College authorities expect government aid for the full year and plan for future STF operations will be sent when authorized. If not demobilized, units may become a military reserve subject to call.
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Students Army Training Corps
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War Department
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Washington
Influenza Epidemic Strikes West Liberty Amid School Closures
West Liberty Indiana reports a renewed Spanish influenza outbreak with 40 to 50 cases. Public schools closed, public meetings canceled, and partial quarantine ordered. Superintendent Harding and high school principal Prussia among those ill, with many pupils affected.
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Harding
Prussia
Grinnell Football Struggles After Typhoid Inoculation
Grinnell's football squad remains hampered by typhoid inoculation effects. Four players Lemley Osgood Haas and Stern are out, with others showing poor condition at practice. Team may regain form if the shot wears off before the Drake contest.
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Lemley
Osgood
Haas
Stern
Mt Pleasant Lifts Quarantine Rules At City Health Board
Mt Pleasant la Nov 16 This city board of health lifted all quarantine regulations and business resumed after five weeks of restriction. Churches to open Sunday and schools and college to reopen Monday. State hospital partial lift allows visits and admissions for treatment.
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MT. Pleasant
City Board of Health
State Hospital
Germans Nine Miles East of City Report
German forces push nine miles east of the city risking renewed combat as they retreat toward Germany. The report notes movement of troops and potential advance is halted by weather and terrain. Local observers monitor signals and supply lines amid ongoing hostilities.
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Belgian Troops Enter Brussels as German Army Withdraws
Paris reports Belgian forces occupy Brussels with the German army retreating eastward. In Berne a German cruiser Wesbaden refused to surrender to revolutionists and was torpedoed by rebel ships. all 330 crew perished.
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Wesbaden
Orders issued for gradual demobilization of troops
Special to aut poses Washington November 16 1900 General March announced new orders for the gradual demobilization of all troops currently stationed in the United States.
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Washington,d. C
March
Iowans At Camp Pike Speculating On Future
Camp Pike Arkansas Nov 16 Soldiers from Iowa discuss Kaiser’s retreat and speculate on whether 45 000 to 60 000 men will be mustered out kept in training or sent to France after the armistice terms. Maj Gen Omar Bundy arrives soon for clarity as 11 000 Iowans at Camp Pike face uncertain spring plans amid drab training and pending orders.
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War Department
France
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Bundy
Washington
Iowa
Iowan Dies in France Pneumonia Victim
Robert Weber of Columbus Junction died October 13 in a Bordeaux France hospital from bronchial pneumonia. Born in Columbus Junction 25 years ago he spent seven years as an assistant at the Merchants State Bank before entering war service December.
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Columbus Junction
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Bordeaux
France
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