Terrig Fight Still Rages On Italian Front
Berlin dispatch reports heavy Italian counterattacks against Austro-German positions between Monte Pertica and the Brenta river repulsed. Since Dec 11 Teutons took about 9,000 prisoners as battles widen from Monte Grappa to Piave and Brenta. Western front artillery activity limited by storm with ongoing bombardments from the North Sea to the Swiss border.
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Berlin
Monte Pertica
Stait
Teutons
Brenta
Piave
Monte Grappa
Prava
North Sea
Ypres
Champagne
Germany
London
Cerna
Vardar
Lake Dorrent
British War Office
Courtrai
Roulers
Menin
Levantie
Arras
Passchendaele
Rome
Monte Spinonci
Good Fellows Plan Christmas Aid for Waterloo Children
The Good Fellows fund in Waterloo mobilizes to aid needy boys and girls under 10. Donations from Bruce Robertson and others swell the Merry Christmas Fund. Dolls and cookies will be distributed with fruit and bags at Courier building headquarters. Mrs. J. T. Muldoon and Mrs. R. N. Cowin head doll efforts while J. H. Easley and others contribute.
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Waterloo
Merry Christmas Fund
The
Good Fellows
Courier Building
J. T. Muldoon
R. N. Cowin
Doll Committee
W. F. Schrag
Peerless , Baking
Altstadt and Ganglas
Waterloo Fruit & Commission Company
Courier
A. H. Holt
Good Fellows Service
Corn Jump In Chicago Market Embargo Lifted
Chicago December 20 rumors floated that the eastbound embargo on corn and oats might be removed and the corn maximum price set at 1.28 per bushel. May corn rose 6 to 1.2634 and oats gained 3 cents as traders awaited formal action. The board's official statement said removal, if it occurs, would not affect existing contracts, and no formal embargo termination notice had been received.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
Griffin
Federal Food Administration
Board of Trade Ticket
Washington
Ukraine Rada Proclaims Republic Amid Civil Strife
Reports from Petrograd detail Ukraine's central rada declaring a democratic republic within a federal Russian state. The text supports expropriation of lands for favored classes while Bolshevik efforts push for peace talks with Germany. Frontlines spread along the Volga as Cossacks clash with Maximists and Odessa battles persist.
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London
Petrograd
Russia
Reuters
Volga
Astrakhan
Samara
Tsaritsyn
Heliodorus
Rachiadparsels Orenberg Cossacks
Dutuff
Voronezh
Odessa
Kiev
Konotop
Tchernigov
Proclam
Ukraine
Central Rada
Ukraine Democratic Republic
Petrofsky
Moscow University
Brest Litovsk
Ukraiian Council of Workmen's and
Kharkov
Rada
Great Training for U S Airmen in French Camp
French aviators describe a central France training camp where nearly all equipment came from America. A 250 expert staff began work in September to train pilots for the front, with progress tables tracking each pilot from first flight to acrobatic mastery.
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Paris
France
Petit Parisien
Paul Glaisty
America
Probe into Chicago stockyards ownership at federal inquiry
Washington dispatch reports the federal trade commission began a probe into the owning firms behind the Chicago Stockyards and related railways. Key witness Frank R. Pegram disclosed holding 79,990 shares as trustee, with warrants likely in safe deposit boxes or out west, while other officials testified about agreements to retain packing-house business in Chicago. The minutes of a 1911 meeting described a plan to secure continued operations and profits for the Chicago Junction railways and Union Stockyards company.
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Washington, D. C
Federal Trade Commission
Chicago
F. R. Hart
Stockyards Company
J. Ogden Armour
Armour
3.H. Fes- Sanden
Boston
Chicago Stockyards Company
Union Stockyard & Transit Company
Chicago Junction Railways
Union Stockyards Company
Frank R. Pegram
F. H. Prince
Ogden Armour
Pegram
Fregram
Chicago Junction Railways and Union Stockyards Company
Richard Olney
Chicago Junction Railways and Union Stockyards
Noth
Lloyd George sets war aims demand in Commons
Prime Minister Lloyd George urged complete restoration of lost territories and compensation as war aims. He noted shipping losses shrinking and submarine sinkings rising, while merchant tonnage dipped 20 percent yet imports fell only 6 percent year over year. He blamed Russia for strategic disappointments and cited 100,000 German prisoners and many guns captured, with Palestine gains noted as lasting.
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London
Lloyd George
House of Commons
Altho
Russia
Palestine
Jerusalem
Christmas Peace Terms Of Kaiser Outlined In Rumor
Washington December 20 The purported outline of the Kaiser's Christmas peace terms has reached here via neutral channels. The list includes Alsace Lorraine by plebiscite, Germany gaining funds from England for Belgium Serbia and northern France rehabilitation, independence for Baltic and Black Sea Russian provinces, a Polish state under Austrian suzerainty, and broad disarmament and freedom of seas to be settled by a peace conference. Analysts doubt the terms reflect a genuine offer, viewing them as propaganda or a possible tactic to split Allied resolve.
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Whahington
D. C
Hera
Sariier
von Kuehlmantninet Sumner
Poland
Roumania
Montenegro
Serbia
Turkey
Germany
Russia
Wilson
Gen Scott Returns From Trip to France
Maj. Gen. Hugh L. Scott, awaiting assignment as chief instruction officer of the new national army, returned today from Europe aboard an American steamer at an Atlantic port. He had been in France assessing conditions there, and several U S army officers accompanied him. El Tovar Broadleaf Havane fe Clgar Cadvertlanment
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Atlantic Port
Hugh L. Scott
New National Army
Europe
Tle
France
United States Army
U S Santa Claus Must Provide for Halifax Children
A Halifax committee asks for U S Santa gifts to aid hundreds of blind and crippled children after a local explosion left many destitute. Local stock is exhausted and shipments from the United States are urgently needed to fill stockings for up to about a thousand affected children, many of them youngsters.
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Halifax
N-8
Flairfax
United States
Better Swing Conditions At Camps Provided
Washington December 20 The War Department reports it has complied with all but one of General Gorgas's recommendations for improving training camp conditions and notes overall health improvements. Woolen uniforms for all troops are provided and at camps. The remaining action is to establish observation camps where all Red Cross activities would be held for two weeks.
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Ukraine
Rada
Congress of Workmen's
Petrograd
Orenburg
Trheliabinsk
Washington, D. C
War Department
Gorgas
Baker
National Guard
Grogas
Iowan killed in Missouri wreck claims Tay Letts and son
Tay R. Letts age 46 a prominent resident of Letts Iowa was killed in a Missouri railway wreck at Camden with his 15 year old son Lloyd seriously injured. They were traveling to Dalhart Texas to establish a new home.
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Muscatine
Tay R. Letts
Letts
Lloyd
Camden
Dalhart
Tex
Allies To Get Peace Probable, Russians Told
Petrograd dec 26 central powers inform allies they intend to press for peace. They seek all powers’ participation and asked Russia to take similar steps. German proposal: no annexations or indemnities, self determination impracticable. Russians urged to show efforts to persuade allies to join talks. possible peace with Russia alone discussed. Washington says Russian embassy has no advices on progress of talks.
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Petrograd
Ruedia
1 Evening Post
Russia
Evening Post
Prelir
Inarlea
Washington, D. C
Begin Constructions of Standard Ships at Atlantic Port
An Atlantic port reports the start of production on standardized 5,000 ton cargo ships for the United States Shipping Board. John Hunter drove the first rivet at a major shipyard, with completion aimed in 76 days. The plan calls for 150 ships by private yards, with 28 vessels to begin concurrently.
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Atlantic
United Stat
John Hunter
United States Shipping Board
Allies Form Maritime Council for Shared Shipping
Paris December 18 Allies announce a new maritime council created by the United States France Great Britain and Italy. The council will draft tonnage division plans to meet each nation's needs for food supplies and war purposes and a board will oversee utilization of allocated tonnage.
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Paris
United States
France
Great Britain
Italy
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