Terrific Attacks Fail to Bring Germans Near Warsaw
London dispatches describe fierce fighting along the Bzura and Rawka rivers in Poland. German assaults on Sochoczew were repulsed by Russians with heavy losses, while Lodz faces famine conditions as bread rations tighten and German forces press toward Warsaw.
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London
Rivera Bzura
Rawka
Poland
Warsaw
Kisice
Galicia
Bunacaca
Transylania
Cabeasan
Vield Marshal v der Goltz Ig
Bzura
Baur
Sochoczew
Lodz
Petrograd
Rman
Schaczew
Gertsan Ile
Terrible Losses Reported in Poland as Teutons Fall
French raze villages in Poland as tides turn against German forces. Muscovites repel fifteen charges with claims of 7,000 enemy dead. Russia prepares to invade Hungary while Allies pound hamlets behind Kaiser's lines. French bombard Chaulnes amid front actions.
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Teutons
Poland
Russia
Hungary
Kaiser
Chaulnes
Artillery Battles Sweep Front From Flanders To Vosges
Paris reports 48 hours of violent artillery clashes along the entire battle front from the sea to the Vosges with infantry largely absent. Open fields are mud seas, trench networks and cratered ground hinder advances while German fire pounds Allied earthworks east of Vermelles and north of Chaulnes.
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Vermelles
Bethune
Lens
Chaulnes
Hefty Survivors Land Ship Sunk Off Portsmouth
London dispatch recounts the Formidable disaster with 201 saved from a 679 total. Survivors describe a two hour gale fierce enough to overwhelm lifeboats and boats swamped by wreckage as the battleship sank beneath roiling seas. Captain Loxley and a signal man stood at the bridge as the vessel vanished.
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London
Formidable
Inma
Lymeregis
Albert Edward Cooper
Lyme-Regis
Loxiey
Naval stores ban shocks transatlantic trade and policy
The article reports Britain declaring naval stores such as rosin camphor and turpentine as contraband amid ongoing notes of protest from the United States. It details shipping tensions including the Brindilla case the Tiflis Morgansett and George R Hawley releases and Italian and French responses, with communications to Southern governors and senators.
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Brindilla
Ambassador Page
Agaon
Great Britain
United States
Foreign Office
State Department
Italy
Germany
Tiflis
Morgansett
George R. Hawley
France
Rosin
Turpentine
German Army Corps Force Against Russia Report
Petrograd dispatch estimates 27 German army corps operating against Russia with 400000 Germans and Austrians taken prisoner. Russians claim to have not crossed the Bzura, and are on the river's left bank. Warsaw reportedly safe, retreat by Germans deemed more difficult than last October.
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Lower
Vistula
Warsaw
Petrograd
Tuslwa
Crybow
Neu Sandec
Carpathians
Huungary
Kaiser
London
S&s
Russia
Bzura
Washington orders shells in $750000 Pittsburgh contract
A Washington, D. C., corporation ordered 152000 shrapnel shells from a Pittsburgh company, including 103000 large caliber. About 300 workers start Monday to fill the order at a cost of 750000 dollars, with shipments to Washington. The final destination after shipment is not disclosed.
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Pittsburgh
Washington, D. C
Washington
Masnuufacturing Company
British transport Orama reaches Valparaiso harbor
The British transport Orama of 3179 net tonnage arrived at Valparaiso harbor on January 2 and began taking on provisions. Commissioned in the British navy at Tilbury last September, she is commanded by Captain John R. Segrave.
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Valparaiso
Caile
Orama
Tilbury
John R. Segrave
Taft Opposes Philippine Independence Delaying Self-Government
Former President Taft testified before a Senate committee opposing the Philippine Independence bill. He argued a 30 year period of preparation and education is needed, urging strong governance to guide islands toward self-government. He cited Wilson quotes and stressed the peace role of delayed independence.
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Taft
Philippines
Senate
Democratic Party
Bryan
McKinley
Roosevelt
Mr. Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Brandegee
McCumber
Martine
O'Gorman
Ransdell
Reed
Walsh
Turkish War Book Warns of German Pressure and Ottoman Decline
Sazonoff released an orange book detailing the Turkish attacks on Russian Black Sea ports, arguing Berlin influence forced Ottoman entry into war. The document notes German mission in Constantinople and Goeben and Breslau’s arrival as pivotal, with Turks attempting to escape Teutonic control. In Chicago, Mrs. Pearl Dribblegt mourned missing New Year cards before a chloroform death.
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Russian Black Sea
Fetrograd
Sergius Sazonoff
Today
Black Sea
Ottoman Empire
Constantinople
Goeben
Dardanelles
Great Britain
France
Russia
Pearl Dickt
Chicago
Washington Post
Pearl Dribblebist
Mrs. Fisher
Mira
Dribblegist
Knife Advised for Kaiser Operation for Throat Catarrh
Berlin advised Emperor William to undergo an immediate operation for catarrh of the throat, according to a private dispatch received in Amsterdam. The notice appears in a Berlin report and cites physicians’ recommendations. Domecq's Famous Spanish Cherries advertised at Xander's store in New York?
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Berlin
William
Domecq
Xander
Adyv
Conspiracy to Furnish US Passports to Germans Disclosed
New York January 2 department of justice disclosed a conspiracy to furnish German army officers and reservists with fraudulent American passports to help them return to Germany without risk from Allied authorities. Carl Burcede, a former North German Lloyd agent, was arrested and a German officer with three reservists were removed from the Bergensfjord and brought to New York. They faced charges of defrauding the United States through passport use. Additional arrests, including a prominent German American in this city, were anticipated. Maurice Delches, a Philadelphia lawyer and American citizen of German parentage, was arrested for aiding reservists in obtaining passports.
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New York
U.S
Department of Justice
Germany
Moval
Bergensfjord
United States
Philadelphia
Maurice Delches
Philadelph Delches
Deiches
Tore
Dvarhes
Tammany
Aid
Houghton
Wwe
Althouseh
Ehi
Juatinn
Nile
Jorn Aucher
Burpede
Arethur
Wilhelm Heinrich Sachee
New York City
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August Meyer
Herman Wesener
Buroede
Ledy
England
Car
Lody
Tower of London
Department of Justics
State Department
Istetrict
Marshall
Todas
T Horough
Boroche
Oerrichs &20
Lloyd Line
Diplomatic Hitch Over Naco Neutral Zone Reported
Mexico City talks falter as authorities seek a neutral Naco Sonora amid border tensions. High officials including Breckinridge and Llorente confer with President Wilson to avoid firing across the line. Breached negotiations involve Gen. Hill and Gen. Maytorena with a possible shift of forces to Agua Prieta and Nogales.
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Breckenri
Beott
Statf
United States Army
Minutorena
Hill
Gutierrez
Carranza
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Sonora
Jwinsing
State Department
Wilson
Breckinridge
War Department
Scott
Enriquez
Llorente
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Kinridge
Naca
White House
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Mill
Maytorena
Agua [Rieta
Nogales
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