Aerial Battle Rages Over Dunkirk and Zeebrugge
London reports the first great world aerial battle along the French Belgian seacoast. German and Allied aircraft clashed over Dunkirk and Zeebrugge with bombs, gunfire, and several German planes damaged or captured. U S consulate at Dunkirk damaged. British aviator Davies wounded while leading counterattack against seven enemy planes.
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London
Admiralty
Air Reichers
Dunkirk
Davies
Trayirs
Germany
British Air Raid At Zeebrugge Reported With Enthusiasm
British forces reported a raid on Zeebrugge with allied aviators scoring hits and a German submarine damaged in the ship canal. The assault, plus attacks on Ghent and Bruges, is tied to retaliation for recent German sea raids on the English coast.
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Nieuport
Big Fellows
Pureult
Lieut. Pierce
Admiralty
Zeebrugge
Ghent
Bruges
Revent &Ir
Norfolk County
British Press Urges Firm Stand Over Dacia Case
London editors debate the Dacia transfer and U S sentiment. The Globe calls for cautious stance against U S entanglements, while the Evening Standard and Westminster papers stress preserving sea power and allied interests. Alfred Gardiner warns of divided loyalties in America. Gardiner also supports transferring interned ships to neutral powers under strict safeguards. The overall tone urges calm, firm leadership from Britain and patience in handling U S sympathy for the allies.
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Evening Standard
United States
Gheatminster Gazette
Alfred G. Gardiner
The
Daily News
Dacia
America
Gardiner
Iti
Great Britain
Germany
Luckenbach Divorce Granted On Cruelty Grounds
Mrs Susan Luckenbach wife of Edgar F Luckenbach millionaire steamshipman and head of the Luckenbach shipping firm was granted a divorce in Houston Texas on grounds of cruelty. She traveled from Brooklyn to establish residence and is a New York University Law School graduate who will practice law. Special excursion note to Florida from Washington Feb 9 at 22 65 round trip limited to 32 days Atlantic Dogs Line 4404 New York Ave NW Ady.
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Washington Post
Houston
Tex
Susan Luckenbach
Edgar F. Luckenbach
Brooklyn
Luckenbach
New York Universalty Law School
Florids
Washington
Atlantic Dogs Line
New York Ave. Nw
President Charged Wilson With Building Personal Machine
Representative Mann accuses President Wilson of creating a personal apparatus to win renomination and of breaking Democratic platform pledges, citing Baltimore platform ties and a Clayton Resolution on a one term limit as critical context. He questions whether the President will uphold the party’s one term principle.
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Representative Mann
Mann
United States
Folk
Davies
Federal Trade Commission
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Baltimore
Clayton
Alabama
Committee On Judiciary
House
Judge Clayton
House Democrats
Philippine Rebel to Die in Cavite Leader Executed
Governor General Francis Burton Harrison ordered the execution of Gen. Noriel, a prominent Cavite insurgent leader, set for next Wednesday after a stay was overturned. Efforts by influential Filipinos failed as a pending measure to abolish capital punishment offered the only hope for Nortel.
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Manila
P. 1
Francis Burton Harrison
Norel
Cavite
Regilla
Norles
Governor defies sultan over consulate clash in Yemen
Rome dispatches from Alexandria quote the Yemen governor refusing to obey the Porte and not surrender British consul A Richardson at Hodeida. He warns that delivering the Briton or honoring the Italian flag would provoke native humiliation of Ottoman power and risk disorder. Uncle Sam at Work column notes. Columbia Theater today at 2 o'clock.
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Idea Nazionale
Alexandria
Egypt
Yemen
Hodeida
A. Richardson
Hichardson
Uncle Sam
Columbia Theater
Weds as Dead Wipe Asked
Josiah Millard aged 89, a Loudoun County Virginia farmer and former postal and revenue employee, married Miss Martha Burek aged 63 in Towson Maryland tonight. the wedding fulfilled his late wife’s dying wish. The ceremony, a recorded license, follows Millard’s long life as a Massachusetts native who lived in the Washington area before the Civil War era.
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Martha KE. Streeks
Washington Post
Baltimore
Josiah’. Millard
Maasachusette
Loudoun County
Post Office
Internal Revenue Departments
Washington
Martha 2 Burek
Towson
Kidnapped Freshman Hurled Down Stairs at Penn
Ronald Larael, a University of Pennsylvania freshman, faced two stair flights while escaping a hazing party of sophomores in College Hall. He lies in serious condition at University Hospital with a broken right leg two fractured ribs brain concussion and a lacerated scalp.
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Washington Post
Philadelphia
Ronald Larael
University of Pennsylvania
University Hospital
College Hall
Goethals Receives Sixth Medal For Panama Canal Work
Col George Goethals reveals autocratic rule behind Panama Canal project during Chicago Geographic Society address. He recounts discussions with Taft and Roosevelt about centralizing authority, noting Roosevelt’s insistence on the canal’s completion over legal constraints.
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Chicago Geographic Society
Isthmus
Chicago
George W. Goethals
Panama Canal
Col. Goethals
University Club
Taft
Penrose in Serious Condition After Reelection Campaign
Philadelphia January 23 Senator Penrose remains bedbound at home with a bronchial illness tied to the recent reelection campaign. His brother Dr Charles B Penrose and Dr H B Carpenter attend him as physicians issue cautious bulletins. The ailment worsened after returning from Atlantic City with doctors blaming indoor and outdoor speaking in cold air.
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Washington Post
Philadelphia
Senator Penrose
United States Senate
Charles B. Penrose
H. B. Carpenter
Atlantic City
Penrose
Stricken Blind Nurse Virginia Hilker Dies in Florida Trip
Miss Virginia Hilker, a Mercy Hospital Nursing School graduate, died after awakening blind during a Florida trip. Physicians attributed kidney trouble as the cause of blindness and death. The Baltimore nurse had accompanied a patient to Quincy, Florida, in November and returned to sleep before losing sight. A public notice promotes Southern Railway round trips to New Orleans with daily through trains.
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Virginis Hilker
Florida
Washington Post
Baltimore
Virginia
Hilker
School of Mercy Hospital
Miss Hilker
Quincy
Fla
Misa Hitker
Senate caucus backs ship purchase bill amid fierce fight
Senate Democrats vote 87 to 3 to bind support for a government ship purchase measure, pledging it as unfinished business. Opposition cites dangers of government ownership and potential international tension while Lima, Reed, and Bryan push a coastwise trade amendment.
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Hoke Smith
Georgia
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Florida
Thomas
Colorado
Fletcher
Blackburn
Kentucky
Bankhead
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Arkansas
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Lene
Oregon
Clapp
Kanyon
la Follette
Norris
Pokedexter
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Philippines
Guar
Tutuila
Shipping Board
Secretary of the Treasury
Secretary of Commerce
District of Columbia
Sessiopea
Kern
California Governor Defends Three Year Lease on Alien Land Law
Governor Hiram W. Johnson announced opposition to any amendment to the 1913 alien land act, and warned that the Sharter bill eliminating the three year leasing clause would be vetoed. He recalled a bitter fight over the measure and urged not to disturb the existing law which restricts alien farmers from leasing land. Johnson argued the statute respects a treaty and preserves state dignity, opposing changes urged by labor groups.
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Sacremento
Cal
Hiram W. Johnson
Ayaireer Oe
Gov. Johnson
California
State of
General Von Kluck Ostrich Incident Stuns Longshoremen
Special to The Washington Post New York Jan 23 General Von Kluck executed a flank movement and decorated the optic of Michael Tierney transforming his face into a war map Michael a longshoreman had called the General a chick The General escaped from a yacht aboard a tug and dined on a rubber hose Two other longshoremen were floored as they tried to stop the bird The ostrich was part of a shipment of twelve from California to Bermuda
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Washington
New York
von Kluck
Michael Tierney
Tierney
Chick
California
Bermuda
Reorganization Approved for Claflin Co in New York
Federal approval today reorganizes the failed E. B. Claffin Company. Assets are sold to Mercantile Stores Corporation and the H. B Claffin Corporation with creditors receiving 2 percent of claims for nonassenting and 16 percent in cash for assenting creditors plus notes guaranteed by Mercantile Stores. Total claims exceed 45 million dollars and the liquidation value of assets is set at about 13 million dollars.
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New York
Fan
E. B. Claffin Company
Mercantila Stores Corporation
H. B Claflin Corporation
Mercantile Stores Corporation
Battle in the Argonne renewed as fighting rages
Germans renew battle in the Argonne with heavy clashes and no clear victor. Austrian forces attempt to recap Kirlababa Pass but suffer a severe defeat. Fronts in Poland grow precarious as German forces are checked on the Vistula.
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Argonne
Austria
Kirlababa Pass
Poland
Vistula
Metz
Upper
Alsace
Rhine
Hartmann+Weillerkopf
Cernay
Sennheim
Germans Rush Men to Argonne Fray
London dispatch reports reinforcements moving to the Argonne front as French and German forces clash intensely around St Hubert, Fontaine Madame, and Hartmann Weillerkopf. The contest rages with artillery duels, repeated assaults, and heavy losses cited on both sides amid disputed gains.
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Argonne
Washington Post
London
Fontaine-Madame
War Office
St. Hubert
Roll Back Austria at Kirlibaba Pass
Petrograd reports a desperate Austrian attempt to recapture the Kirlibaba Pass in the Carpathians was repulsed by Russian fire. Austrian columns were driven back as Russian guns and trench fire raked the advancing troops, with 200 prisoners taken and a violent snowstorm described in the mountains.
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Austria
Kirlababa Pass
Kirlababa
Carpathian Mountains
War Office
Bukowina
Hungary
Ivanoff
Petrograd
Vistula
Destruction of Chenciny Station By Austrian Shell
Berlin reports official news that Austrian artillery destroyed the railroad station at Chenciny near Kielce in Russian Poland. The shelling killed all Russian soldiers inside as the building was filled with troops. The item notes the Encyclopedia is now on sale and lists prices 25c and 40e.
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Chenciny
Kieles
Poland
Washington Post
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