French Assault Foе in Flanders Reports Repeat RAF
Western theater notes say French attacks against German lines in Flanders were repulsed with heavy losses northwest of Altkirch. Russian forces reportedly defeated with heavy losses. Austro-Hungarian front and Carpathians reported quiet or routine activity. Berlin dispatches summarize ongoing operations and casualty figures.
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Berlin
Flanders
War Office
Altkirch
oDenenis Mazurin
Tuland
Tverman
Ger- Russian Volant
Bing
Russia
Arin Sivcesses
Serer
Drzemysl
Vienna
Servia
Enetis
Ark Lygia
Terres
Rockhill Illinois quits ship de Dee 4
A garbled report notes former United States Ambassador to Turkey William HL Rockwell being removed from a liner on arrival to meet a Chinese representative. The text mentions Yuan Shi Kao and a supposed visit to China, but the details are unclear due to the OCR.
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de Dee
William HL Rocklal
United States
Alin
Turkey
Yuan Shi Koa
CAPT ARTHUR ANNESLEY DIES IN MYSTERY FAREWELL
The notice reports the death of Captain Arthur Annesley and mentions Dee Shot casualty and figures from Sackville Pecan and Sackville area. Worsley is referenced as missing, with garbled details about Larder and Tenth hudsars.
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Dee
Cage
Arthur Oonest
Hudsars
Worsley
Russian Advances Hold. Lodz Victory Reported
Petrograd dispatch claims the Lodz battle ended in Russian success with many German prisoners, cannon, and machine guns captured. Berlin counters that German pressure in Poland proceeds normally as fighting around Cracow and the Vistula–Warta region continues with heavy losses. Cracow’s fall is not expected soon as forces aim to trap Austrian troops and push into Silesia.
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Petrograd
Lodz
Cracow
London
Poland
Berlin
Warsaw
Hungary
Fortres
Przemysl
Serry
Nicholas
Silesia
Vistula
Warta
Carpathians
William
Hoarse
Young diplomats tread cautious hours amid new dining rules
Washington dispatch notes that postwar diplomacy forces young bachelor diplomats to dine at clubs or hotels rather than private homes or dinners. With modest salaries and new neutrality constraints, they risk social clashes and seek safer hospitality. The piece also covers Arizona’s citizenship quota law and protests from Italian and British ambassadors, plus a Japanese envoy visit, all signaling international friction over non domestic employment rules.
Allies Prepare for Onslaught on French Fronts and Alsace
London reports Allied and German offensives meet repulse with no clear gains. British and French observers sense a tense calm ending as heavy guns blunt enemy efforts. In Alsace French gains and German reinforcements are noted, with Joffre saying they are back to stay. The official Paris dispatch cites progress toward Altkirch and continued artillery actions from Ypres to the Somme.
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Joffre
Channel
London
Alsace
Altkirch
Paris
Belgium
Ypres
Roulers
Bgecelaere
Pass Chendaere
Vermelles
Somme
Argonne
Hoover Reports Belgium Food Relief Progress and Hardships
Herbert Hoover, head of the American relief commission, returned to London after a Belgium inspection trip. He said distribution is underway but famine remains severe and more food is needed. Germans defend imports, Allies oppose free port as aiding Germany. Belgian civilians rely on rationing, communal kitchens, and milk for infants amid disrupted transport and vanished civil authorities.
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Germany
London
Herbert Clark Hoover
American Commission For Relief
Belgium
Gardner Defends Long Range Guns Split Fortifications Issue
Massachusetts congressman Augustus P. Gardner tells the Contemporary Club that British and German dreadnought guns can outrange New York forts by a mile and a half. He vows a congressional inquiry into military planning, cites Admiral Straus figures, and plans to meet President Wilson Monday morning.
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Navy Department
Congress
St. Louis
Augustus P. Gardner
Massachusetts
Daniels
Gardiner
Great
Brittain
Germany
New York
Denpart- Trent
Admiral Straus
EL Caney
United States
Gardner
Navy
Army
Wilson
Sells Her Hair for Rent in Chicago Malnutrition Tale
A Chicago woman’s club emergency employment bureau case highlights destitution as a former office clerk identified only by initials R. L. sells her 7 inch long hair for $2.50 to pay room rent after losing a $7.50 weekly job two weeks earlier.
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Chicago
Washington Post
Emergency Employment Bureau
Chicago Woman's Club
R. L
Jumping Passenger Drowns From Arapahoe Near Diamond Shoals
On December 4 the American steamship Arapahoe reported a passenger named F W Tibbetts of Peabody Massachusetts leaped into the sea and drowned near Diamond Shoals Lightship. Only one passenger and one crew member witnessed the fall. A life preserver was thrown but missed him and he sank before rescue.
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Charleston
D. C
Arapahoe
F. W. Tibbetts
Peabody
Masa
Diamond Shoals
Tibbetts
Trusts and Police Ties Exposed in Clairvoyant Ring
Chicago report details a clairvoyant trust run by Frank Ryan and associates with police, swindlers, and a house owner taking shares. Bertsche testified of paying police up to $1,000 a month for protection, while the ledger shows a typical split of 45 percent to the swindler, 40 for police, 10 for the house owner, and 5 for the fixer.
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Chicago
C. P
Barney} Bertsche
Frank Ryan
Grand Jury
Detective Bureau
Maclay Hoyne
Berteche
James Ryan
Hope L. McEldowney
la Crusse
Wis
Ag O
James Monaghan
William Egan
Bertsche
Bertscher
Hroyne
Clairvoyant Trust
Gerard to her rescue barely escapes Teuton jail
London reports Ambassador James W. Gerard and Lt. John Gaffney arranged $50,000 in cash to secure Miss Mary Isabel Portman’s release from a German jail in Munich. Portman, an English benefactor’s daughter, faced arrest over unpaid contracts for a Garmisch country house.
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Berlin
U. S
Gaffney
Munich
Mary Isabel Portman
London
Washington Post
Hiens
James W. Gerard
John Gaffney
Viscount Portman
Miss Portman
Gerard
Germany
Garmisch
Larunich
Slaver Accused Col Alexander Indicted in Chicago
Col Charles Alexander a Providence millionaire and director of the Canadian Steel Company is indicted in Chicago on Mann Act charges for transporting Miss Jessie Cope of Los Angeles to Chicago. The case centers on alleged extortion and a promised marriage as the pair traveled from Los Angeles to Chicago and New Orleans. The grand jury will weigh charges as federal officers monitor Miss Cope in Chicago.
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Alexander
Chicago
Col
Charles Alexander
Providence
Charles F. Ktlyne
Jessie Cope
Los Angeles
Cal
Miss Cope
New Orleana
California
C Ol. Alexander
Meg Alexander
Charies
Uhieas
United States
Col. Alexander
Bral
Mrs C Mitchell Depew Opens Hospital in French Chateau
Mrs C Mitchell Depew, among the wealthiest Americans, funds and operates a hospital at her estate near Compiegne, France. The government has accepted the site for hospital use, with an ambulance corps of young men from Long Island organized to assist, led by John B Van Shaik of Huntington. They will sail December 12. The notice also advertises a $1.25 round trip on the Baltimore & Ohio each Saturday and Sunday returning by 9 am.
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Sperla
Washington Prat
New York
Dee
C. Mitchell Depew
Huntington
Baltimore & Ohio
Baltimore
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