Russians Destroy 51 Turkish Boats And Chase Foe Ships In Black Sea
Vetvograd Jan 16 dispatch details January clashes in the Black Sea between Sinope and Trebizond. Russian cruisers engaged Turkish ships Medadeh and Maria Rosetta, sinking the latter. Earlier, Breslau and Hamidieh exchanged fire with Turkish cruisers, which fled. In Fourmene and Rizah Bays, Russian ships destroyed 61 boats. Hopa bombardment ignited fires along the coast. A Turkish Breslau bombardment near Liman prompted Russian troops to occupy the positions unopposed.
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Parisian trenches feed German front with mailed box of papers
A Parisian regiment in trench warfare fashioned a covert exchange by planting a ground stake bearing a bundle of Parisian journals. A German patrol seized the parcel, and the incident sparked a gesture of aid as a German noncommissioned officer sought food and lodging from Allied lines, signaling wider hope for support.
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Teutons
Panama Government Proposes Taxes to Replace War Revenues
Panama plans a stamp tax on liquors tobacco cigars cigarettes checks and documents and a one cent per word tax on commercial cable messages and half a cent per word on press messages to raise about 250000 dollars plus a tax on prize winning lottery tickets penalties apply half fines to the informer.
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Joffre Adopts Reprisals Over German Prisoners
Paris reports the French government will treat German prisoners in proportion to the return of French surgeons and nurses held in Germany. France will accord other German prisoners the same treatment as French prisoners in Germany as reprisals.
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Paris
Gernany
United States Aid Reaches Starving Constantinople Victims
George Tomuyan of Chicago, who ran an Armenian orphanage in Constantinople, reports eight months of severe shortages after the Dardanelles blockade. He lauds American Ambassador Morgenthau and the Italian Ambassador for shelter and relief, noting the Stars and Stripes were raised over French and British hospitals and respected. Military control has left business nearly halted, gasoline scarce, and transport nearly nonfunctional.
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Constantinople
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Refugee Towns Built and Governed by Dutch Government
Amsterdam dispatch describes Dutch refugee towns in southern Holland housing Belgian refugees. Towns, near Darderwijk in Gelderland, use wooden sheds with asbestos walls, barbed wire fencing, and large dining halls seating 1,000. Each apartment house shelters about 240 residents. schools, churches, posts, and a burgomaster with parish priests oversee order amid occasional unrest.
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Montreal Shipbuilders Build Submarine Fleet For Britain
Montreal January 16 A fleet of twenty submarines for the British navy is under construction at Canadian Vickers in Montreal. Ten boats are already begun in a vast steel and glass shed large enough to house two first class cruisers, enabling winter construction and simultaneous work on ten submarines.
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Canadian Vickers Company
Vickers, Sons & Maxim
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Funeral Oration at Scarborough Compared to Gettysburg Address
Scarborough England January 7 correspondence The Archbishop of York delivered the funeral oration for victims of a recent German naval raid. Newspapers compare its dignity to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address urging calm, resolve, and self denial to support the war effort. The sermon defended the Kaiser cartoons controversy and praised imperial friendship.
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Attacks in Underground War Shape French Scout Tactics
French scouts prepare the way for dawn assaults by reconnoitering trenches and cutting wire entanglements. Night attacks consolidate captured positions as artillery and rifle fire drive Germans from fortifications, with scouts risking heavy casualties to pave the path for a general advance.
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