Kerensky's Task Vast Needs Firm Party Support
A London Times cable, via the Public Ledger, reports Kerensky forming a cabinet in Petrograd with Tsereteli staying outside but acting as a bridge to the Workers' and Soldiers' delegates. Avksentieff becomes interior minister. four Cadet members enter as private individuals. The cabinet aims to restore army discipline, settle agrarian questions, and unite political factions to save Russia.
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London Times
Washington
Stoagler
Public Ledger Company
Don
Petrograd
Ne Times
Kerensky
Karensky
Council of Workers
Korniof
Tchernot
Avksentieff
Peasants’ Delegates
Interior
Tseretelli
Council of Workers and Soldiers
Tsereteli
Democratic Organization
Russia
Tseretellis
Obituaries notice collection with multiple August 1917 deaths
DIED. BRANDON Swmideniy on Wednesday August 8 1917 at Annapolis Ma beloved wife of Valentine N Brendon funeral from her late residence Saturday August 21 at 11 a m interment private at Glenwood Cemetery remains can be seen at chapel of William H Bardo & Co 408 H street northeast until Saturday at 8 a m. GALLOWAY Sudden death Wednesday August 8 1917 Harry beloved son of Sophie A and Thomas Galloway funeral Friday August 30 at 2 p m interment Arlington Cemetery. HEHGE suddenly August 8 1927 at her residence 2200 Q Street Northwest Tow m Alice Slater beloved wife of William J Kehoe funeral private from her late residence Saturday morning August 11 notice of hour of funeral later interment in Rock Creek Cemetery. TERRY Sudden August 9 1917 at residence 415 Street North George beloved husband of Ellen remains seen chapel William H Sardo & Co 408 Street Northeast interment Sunday August 12 in Richmond Virginia. YOUNG August 4 1917 8 10 p m Maggi Lydia Young nee Sicard beloved wife of Alexander H Young in fifty sixth year funeral from late residence 3465 Holmead Place Briar August 10 at 2 p m interment private.
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Brandon—Swmideniy
Annapolis
TTI
Valentine N. Brendon
Glenwood Cemetery
Chapel of Wiliam H. Bardo & O
H Street
Gallowayt
Sddenly
Rock Creek
Terry
North
George
Ellen
Wiliam H. Sardo & Co
Richmond
Young
Mag
Lydia Young
Sicard
Alexander H. Younng
Holmead Place
Bri _ay
British and Russian Front Outlook From Allied Briefing
London reports Gen Maurice says Western front activity limited by rain and fog with one major British success at St Julien while German claims of attacks are exaggerated. Russians gain a brief breathing spell as Kerensky and Korniloff push discipline. air war over Flanders shows British superiority with 160 engagements and multiple ground assaults on airfields and troops.
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Maurice
Flanders
London
Western Front
Frederick B. Maurice
War Office
Associated Press
St. Julien
Nieuport
Kerensky
Korniloff
Germany
Terra Firma
Monkey Captain and Austrian Colors Tale
In Corso, Alps battlelines shake as a pet monkey named Bebe seizes the Austrian colors during a night mission. The brave simian accompanied its captain across barbed wire to snatch the flag, then returned safely with the unit. The feat unfolds amid Italian riflemen trading blows with Austrian troops atop a frontline parapet.
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Rome
Corso
Alps
Bebe
Marconi’s Report Pleased Premier With US Aid
Senator Marconi, last member of the Italian mission from the United States, arrived in Rome and gave Premier Boselli a satisfactory report on American aid to the entente. He detailed what Italy might obtain from the United States and then left for the front to report to King Victor Emmanuel.
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Rome
Senator Marconi
United States
Boselli
America
Italy
Signor Marconi
Victor Emmanuel
Italy to Make Shoes At Moderate Price
Rome reports the Italian government will produce a standard stout shoe to curb rising costs. A monthly output of 300000 pairs will be made domestically, with another 200000 pairs to be imported.
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Rome
Italy
Michaelis Sees Victorious Peace for German Empire
Copenhagen reports Dr. Michaelis, German chancellor, champions a victorious peace after World War I style victories. He says a peace favorable to Germany will secure its continental existence and rejects peace without territorial gains or indemnities. The diet will soon see a reform bill, and Michaelis has been promoted from captain to lieutenant colonel.
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Copenhagen
Michaells
Field Marshal
von Hindenburg
Pan-German League
Hesse
Michaelis
Erzberger
Herr Hirsch
Berlin
Michaels
von Bethmann Hollwegg
Actress Camille Clifford Becomes Mrs Evans of Royal Welsh Fusiliers
London reporter notes American actress Mrs Henry Lindhurst Bruce formerly Camille Clifford weds Captain John M J Evans of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers at a ceremony in London. Her first husband was the eldest son and heir of Lord Aberdare, killed in action in December 1914 while a captain in the Royal Scots.
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London
Henry Lindhurst Bruce
Camille Clifford
John M. J. Evans
Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Lord Aberdare
Royal Scots
Loss by U- Boats: Germans Shift Tactics to Selective Attacks
London reports that British losses by submarines and mines in early August resemble July totals. The Times notes a new phase where Germany abandons bulk attacks, focusing on targeted vessels, with fewer torpedoes wasted and larger cargoes sunk.
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Washington Post
Public Ledger Company
London
Times
Admiralty
Germany
Berlin
Survivor recalls Belgian Prince sinking in submarine attack
William Snell of Jacksonville, the sole American survivor, describes the July 31 sinking of the Belgian Prince by a German submarine. He recounts torpedo damage, crew orders to surrender lifebelts, the submarine taking provisions, lifebelts cast away, and his jump into the sea as others perished. Four Americans drowned in the disaster.
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Liverpool
William Snell
Jacksonville
Fla
Associated Press
State Department
Irish Convention Adjourned for August Recess
London reports the Irish convention names standing committees and key members including Viscount Midleton Lord MacDonnell Joseph Devlin Hugh Barrié and Stephen Gwynn plus mayors of Dublin Belfast Londonderry and Cork and archbishops of Dublin and Cashel. The body empowered committees to report and adjust composition. A longer preparation for a new scheme by the secretariat prompted adjournment to August 21 with Belfast and Cork sittings to follow later.
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London
Viscount Midleton
Lord MacDonnell
Joseph Devlin
Belfast West
Hugh YT. Barrié
Londonderry
Stephen L. Gwynn
Galway
Dublin
Belfast
Cork
Cashel
Trish
Unarmed Merchant Ship Sinks Submarine
London reports an unarmed merchantman sank a submarine but hides captain and crew details due to wartime penalties. The vessel’s commander and crew have been awarded 2500 dollars by Sir William J Tatem of the Tatem Steam Navigation Company for their action.
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London
Charles Fryatt
Brussels
William J Tatem
Tatem Steam Navigation Company
German Miners Demand Peace in Mass Meeting
Eight thousand miners gathered at Hssen Germany to discuss coal production food and wages. The meeting turned into a strong pro peace demonstration urging the reichstag to back its majority peace resolution for humanity. Vorwaerts notes the Kasen venue underscores pan German propaganda significance. Two hundred delegates from Rhenish Westphalian unions met at Dortmund and condemned the reichstag peace declaration and any collaboration with enemies to sow division among German workers.
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Amsterdam
Hssen
Germany
Reichstag
Vorwaerts
Kasen
Dortmund
Social Democratic
Austrian General Moves Fronts For Autumn Campaign
Austrian Chief of Staff General Conrad von Hoetzendorf shifts headquarters from the Trentino to the Isonzo, orders large artillery concentrations, and withdraws many troops from frontline duties to spare them from bombardment as Russia front activity prompts regrouping for a potential autumn campaign. The Idea Nazionale notes hesitancy to repeat past Italian-line weakening, instead boosting Russian front strength while mobilizing landstorm units from Serbia and drafting youngest and oldest classes.
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Rome
Conrad von Hoetzendorf
Trentino
Isonzo
Brussilos
Serbia
Russians Make Attacks in Moldavia Repulsed
Berlin reports via London that Russian and Roumanian forces tried to recapture ground north of Fokshant in Moldavia. All attacks were repulsed with heavy losses and 3,300 prisoners were taken by the Teutonic allies.
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Berlin
London
British Admiralty
Wireless Press
Fokshant
Moldavia
Austrian frees M. P. Capt. Wilson after 1915 capture
London reports Capt. Arthur Stanley Wilson, conservative MP, freed by Austrians and en route home from a Greek steamer episode in the Mediterranean in which he and Col. H. D. Napier were seized after being believed to carry dispatches. Wilson states he destroyed the dispatches before capture.
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London
Arthur Stanley Wilson
Mediterranean Sea
Berlin Coffins Use Cardboard Lids Glued Instead
Amsterdam reports on August 9 that German firms are making waterproof cardboard coffins. The lids are glued instead of nailed, a method highlighted by the Tagliche Rundschau of Berlin as a new innovation in burial containers.
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Amsterdam
Germany
Tagliche Rundschau
Berlin
France's wheat decrease leads to bread ecards in Paris
Paris announces pending bread ecards to be introduced probably in October due to unprecedented bad weather. An official says the crop deficit has been aggravated by recent conditions, forcing France to take strict precautions for the 1917-1918 year to avoid a crisis.
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Paris
France
Law Says King Didn't Mix In Foreign Affairs
Bonar Law asserts no change in constitutional practice as sovereign takes no independent action in foreign affairs. The remark follows reports that King George I assured the Kaiser England would stay out of war via Prince Henry. Unofficial notes claim Prince Henry misstated facts of his meeting with the king. In New Zealand, strong earthquakes hit Wairarapa northwest of Wellington with no casualties.
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London
Bonar Law
Kaiser
Wilson
Ambasssador
Gerard
George I
Prince Henry
England
Hig
Police dogs track food thieves in wartime Berlin and Munich
Berlin reports police dogs locating a man who stole vegetables from a truck and hidden produce at a house. In Munich a constable chasing a man with 50 pounds of meat at an illegal slaughterhouse followed clues to a hay loft, then to a nearby house where the meat was found. The dogs again located another stash as authorities curb smuggling. The fishing industry faces government control amid wholesale smuggling and speculation.
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Berlin
London
Germany
Munich
ZOLLVEREIN COUNCIL PLANS ECONOMIC TALKS AT VIENNA
Basel reports negotiations begin in Vienna tomorrow among Germany Austria-Hungary Bulgaria and Turkey to draft economic agreements and set up intercommunication methods among the nations involved.
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Vienna
Basel
Switzerland
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Bulgaria
Turkey
America Fights Decisive Battles with Allied War Effort
London dispatch quotes French War Minister Paul Painleve declaring America is solving the tonnage problem and will provide airmen engineers and great armies for decisive battles. He praises entente accord and predicts brutal but necessary long war until liberty and justice prevail.
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London
Paul Painiere
Evening Herald
America
Poland Radicals Hit By German Court Martial
Copenhagen dispatch reports German court martial tried several Polish radical left members for inciting disturbance in Poland. Among the Poles court-martialed were two councillors of a military commission Jendrselwitch and Hlavecie, sentenced to three and five years' imprisonment respectively.
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Copenhagen
Poland
Berlin
Extrabladet
Jendrselwitch
Hlavecie
Proposed loan to China opposed despite turmoil
London dispatch reports North China Daily News protests a rumored loan to the Chinese government amid southern revolt. Officials in Peking recognize Feng Kwo Chang as president as provisional governors plan a national council to convene Oct 1. Sun Yat Sen and Canton leaders fail to muster a quorum. Canton hosts four cruisers with 45,000 forces loyal to the north against 8,000 south troops.
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London Times
Washington
Pubic Ledger Company
London
Shanghai
the Times
North China Daily News
Peking
Associated Press
Paul May
Feng Kwo Chang
Foreign Office
Feng
Ané
Sun Yat Sen
Fang Shao Yi
Canton
Uproar at Socialist Meeting in Mannheim
Independence activists disrupted a socialist gathering in Mannheim Baden addressing Philipp Scheidemann leader of the majority socialists. They demanded the right to be heard and sang the workman's Maarseillaise prompting calls for eviction and police. Scheidemann urged peaceful change and later pressed for a government reflecting the people's will.
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Amsterdam
Mannheim
Baden
Philipp Scheidemann
Herr Scheidemann
Consul Winslow Returns From Copenhagen
Edward D Winslow American consul general at Copenhagen arrived at the Atlantic port today aboard a Danish steamship. He goes to Washington where he is understood to be summoned to act as adviser on export problems involving Scandinavian countries.
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Atlantic
Edward D Winslow
Copenhagen
Winslow
Washington
Wreck in Italy Kills 34 on Genoa Milan Express
Train derailment near Aratata, Italy on the Genoa Milan express leaves 4 dead and 10 injured as of Tuesday night. Alexandria dispatch notes the tragedy with official confirmation of the deaths and injuries.
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Italy
Genoa
Milan
Alexandria
Aratata
Six French ships sunk by U boats in week
Paris reports six French merchant ships sunk by U boats during the week, four over 1,600 tons and two smaller vessels, with six merchantmen attacked unsuccessfully. About 487 vessels entered Italian ports and 443 sailed during the period.
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Paris
Wadesdane
T'allan
TOBS
Peru Demands Indemnity Over Lorton Sinking
Lima rejects using prize court to judge the Juor p sinking and demands German reparations for damages. Germany says it is investigating after declaring the Lorton sunk by a German submarine in Spanish waters, with Peru pressing for responsibility and indemnity.
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Lorton
Lima
Peru
Juor’p
Swedish Shipping Losses Hit 146 Vessels in Three Years
Copenhagen reports Swedish mercantile marine losses over the last three years total 146 ships, including 99 steamers and 47 sailing vessels, amounting to 12 percent of Sweden's total tonnage.
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Copenhagen
Swedish Mercantile Marine
Sweden
Neutrals Invited To Criticise V 8 Conference
Christiania reports the Swedish government has invited neutral nations to an approaching conference of Scandinavian ministers in Stockholm to discuss the difficulties neutrals faced since America entered the war. Some replies were favorable.
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Christiania
Aften- Posten
Stockholm
Anerica
Sue
Russia Begins Liberty Bond Drive Across Petrograd Streets
Russia reports a successful first day of liberty loan sales with decorated booths and auto mobiles parading through Petrograd. The government ends certain exaction restrictions on Catholic Uniat churches. Foreign Master Teretchenko allocates 20000 bles for aid to political refugees returning to Russia.
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Petrograd
Russia
Fts
Teretchenko
Bulgarian Raid Repulsed Near Presba and Vardar
An official Paris report states the enemy made a surprise attack on August 8 against our trenches near Lake Presba but was repulsed with some prisoners taken. Artillery action occurred on both sides of the Vardar River and in the Cerna bend. British aviators bombarded the Limanoyvo aerodrome and regions around Seres and Stojakovo.
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Paris
Army of the East
Lake Presba
Vardar
Cerna
Limanoyvo
Seres
Stojakovo
Lands to Return to Madero Family in Mexico
Mexican embassy advices report President Carranza will return the Madero lands to the family. The properties include cotton, mines, and smelters valued in the millions as outlined by the embassy.
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Madero
Mexico
Carranza
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