Britain to study US protest on American shipping
London says it will review the US note demanding quicker improvements in how American commerce is treated by the British fleet. The government will refer the text to Sir Edward Grey and the cabinet. Amb. Page to present the note. Meanwhile Alsace sees gains as German bombardment continues along the Rouse to Amiens line.
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England
Great Britain
United States
Foreign Office
Nas Foreign Office
Washington
Page
Edward Grey
Cabinet
Evening Star
Germany
Austria
Don
Cone Johnson
Robert Lansin
Bryan
Wilson
France
Wilson pledges strict U S demand for Britain over maritime rights
Washington December 29 President Wilson said the government will hold Britain to strict monetary account after the war for any violation of American shipping rights. Financial restitution will be demanded. He described the note seeking relief as not a threat to Britain.
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Great Britain
Wilson
England
America
Russians Repulsed North of Dukla Pass in Austria War News
An Austrian government statement reports Russian forces driven back after fierce fighting. It says Austrians north of the Dukla pass repelled attacks and held their original positions.
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Vienna
London
Dukla Pass
Allied Troops Advance in Belgium Reclaim Trenches
Paris reports Allied forces pushed two miles into Belgium and recaptured trenches in the latest war department bulletin. The official announcement states a field advance and gains along the front as observers note renewed momentum in the campaign.
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France
Belgium
Arrests Mount in Terre Haute Election Fraud Probe
In Terre Haute Indiana and Indianapolis federal authorities intensified a probe into the last election. Frank Kid Kaiser a west end saloon keeper was arrested bringing total arrests to ninety seven then to one hundred with Edward Talbott acting mayor bond set at five thousand. George Ehrenhardt Hilton Redman and others also jailed on bonds as the investigation widens.
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Grand ‘Jury
Frank
Kid) Kaiser
West End
United States Marshal's Office
Indianapolis
Terre Hants
U. S. Marshal's
Edward Talbott
Donn Roberts
George Ehrenhardt
Board of Works
North Carolina Captain Denies Threat to Tripoli Port
Secretary Daniels received a cablegram from Captain Oman of the US cruiser North Carolina denying any threat to bombard Tripoli Syria. The claim had said the vessel threatened action but Oman clarified it was the wrecking cruise Ascold that posed the danger. The article notes a large number of farmers in the United States.
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Syria
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Tennessee
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Alexandria
Egypt
Russian forces split Austrian armies with Galicia advance
Petrograd reports Russian cross of the Liala River south of Tuchow separating Boehm-Ermoli’s Austrian forces. Russians claim Cracow investment raised and Galicia front shifted east as they retreat under pressure. Allies repulsed at Nieuport with French and Belgian actions near Ypres Arras and Senheim. A Vosges battle from December 24 to 26 is described with heavy artillery across the front.
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Senheim
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Petra
Election probe fades into Illinois gubernatorial district fraud
The Danville dispatch reports United States district attorney Charles Karch acknowledging submitted evidence of alleged election frauds in former Speaker Joseph Cannon's 18th Illinois district. The Terre Haute grand jury probe linked irregularities across the state line to Cannon's district and involved horse-trading voters and floaters from Paris, Illinois. Eilbert of Villa’s rail system heads to Dallas and St. Louis to procure vast rolling stock for the National Lines. In Chicago, municipal ice rinks planned by Leonora Meder follow her earlier move to create public dance halls.
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Charles Karch
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Joseph &. Cannon
Ilnois
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Terre Haute
Tnd
Don M. Roberts
Karch
Franch C. Daney
Indiana
Paris
Fil
Frank T. O’hair
Cannon
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Tex
E. C. Eilbert
Villa
Dallas
St. Louis
National Lines
Chicago
Leonora Z. Meder
Holy Rollers charged in infant death case in Illinois
Murphysboro Illinois December 29 Mr and Mrs George House members of the Holy Rollers bound over to a grand jury charged with causing the death of their six month old child The child suffered peritonitis and they are accused of withholding medicine while relying on prayers of a prophet to heal the baby A physician was called but left and the couple allegedly discarded the medicine
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Dee
George House
Holy Rollers
Princess to Be Named Maria
Rome reports the newborn daughter of the king and queen of Italy will be named Maria. The birth occurred on Saturday and the official naming follows the ceremony and royal confirmation.
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Maria
Rome
Italy
No Quorum Likely in Congress Today
Washington dispatch says Congress may start the last two months of the sixty third session without a quorum. The Senate faces an immigration bill and a possible adjournment. the House awaits post office funds as suffrage debate delays. Strong entities include Congress, Senate Immigration Committee, Senator Smith, and President.
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Post Office
Smith
South Carolina
Immigration Committee
Actor killed as scaffold collapses at new Muelbach Hotel
Walter Dickinson, an actor nicknamed Rube, was killed and five workmen injured when a scaffold on the new Muelbach Hotel collapsed in Kansas City. Dickinson was to open the Orpheum theater bill. His home was Lincoln Nebraska, where he married last summer. He imitated an Indiana rural peace officer in his vaudeville act.
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