Italians Open Floods for Defense of Venice
Italian engineers opened floodgates on the Piave and Sile rivers to flood a triangle toward the Adriatic as Austro German forces pushed near Grisolera. Venice menaced, Italian troops hold Piave lines while Rome reports renewed bombardment across the Piave and Venetian plains.
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Dona di Piave
Venica
Associated Press
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Isonzo
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Kerensky
Moscow
Kiev
Glashes
France
Lord Northcliffie
United States
Air Ministry
WATER
Northerntaly
Touching Scenes as Civilians Flee at Piave Front
Italian general staff opens Piave front to civilian observer as war rages along the river near Asolo and Riete. Civilians flee in mud and carts while Arditi volunteers press toward the front amid heavy shelling and rising gunfire from both banks.
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Associated Press
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Piave Battlefront
Italy
Piave
Riete
Papa
Asolo
Catherine of Cyprus
Althe
Arditi
Venice Desolated as War Reaches City
Venice faces drastic depopulation with 160000 residents reduced to about 20000 as Austrian forces press near the Piave and Sile rivers. City officials vow to stay through the crisis to protect monuments while most hotels and shops close and authorities arrange transport for those who wish to leave.
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Sile
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Grand Canal
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Rialto Ridge
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Cisia
Spy Warnings Placarded at Navy Stations
Washington November 16 placards posted at all navy yards warn sailors to avoid discussing naval matters with strangers and foreigners. The notices urge reporting attempts to obtain information and emphasize secrecy as safety to prevent enemy spies from learning ship movements and defenses.
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Washington
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Spes
Farmers 10 join hands with labor in winning war
Buffalo November 16 Farmers pledge to join union labor to aid war effort at AFL session with A C Townley Farmers Nonpartisan League and L F Strayer National Farmers Congress leaders urge cooperation to lower field and factory prices and boost output Townley attacks milling interests claiming wheat earns 81 cents a bushel while flour mills sell No 1 Northern at 180 a sack Bernhard Cohen Illinois labor director sends governor’s message to help adjust labor disputes
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N. Y
American Federation of Labor
A. C. Townley
Farmers’ Nonpartisan League
L. F P. Strayer
National Farmers’ Congress
Prlices
Townley
Federation
Bernhard Cohen
Labor of
Illinois
German Socialists Call Reichstag Peace Talk on Lenine Offer
The Independent Socialist group in the Reichstag asks the president to convene an immediate session to discuss Nikolai Lenine’s peace offer and to consider changes in Courland Lithuania and Poland. No confirmed Russian peace offer reached Britain as telegraph lines were down for a week. The Bolsheviki plan not an armistice but proposals to belligerents to seek a separate peace with Germany.
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London
Reichstag
Nikolai Lenine
Bolsheviki
Amsterdam
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Lithuania
Poland
Germany
UDOT PERIL STILL SERIOUS AY DANIELS
Washington reports Navy officials reject the view that the U boat campaign is defeated. Secretary Daniels says the submarine menace remains grave, with steady protection efforts and new destroyers under construction. Admiralty fears recent gains may be fragile. call for sustained shipbuilding and engine output to win the war.
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Navy Department
England
Bryveish Admiralty
London
House of Commons
Eric Geddes
Admiralty
Packing House Men Demand Dollar Increase and 8 Hour Day
Chicago November 16 A demand for a one dollar daily raise and an eight hour workday is to be presented to Chicago packers by the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butchers Workmen union. The move affects about thirty thousand employees and was formed at yesterdays meeting.
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Chicago
Almalgamated
Northcliffe Warns Britain Over War Policy
Lord Northcliffe criticizes the British war administration in a letter to Prime Minister Lloyd George. He urges greater energy on unity of war control, sedition eradication, mobilization of manpower, and compulsory food rations, while praising American enthusiasm and warning Britain to heed reform or risk American involvement.
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Lord Northcliffe
Lloyd George
The
Globe
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Westminster Gazette
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Navy
Lord Northeliffe
Lroyd George
United States
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Canada
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Serbia
Bomania
Montenegro
Europe
Northcliffe
Roosevelt Praises Y M C A War Work
Roosevelt urges full backing for Y M C A war work in the army. In a letter to John R. Mott he says failures to support the effort would be a calamity to the army and calls on Americans to respond with generous aid.
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Roosevelt
Y.M.C.A
New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Army
John R. Mott
National War Work Council
France
War Work fund drive nears Waterloo goal
Waterloo leaders report Waterloos YMCA war work fund drive nearing its goal with 16 600 to be secured before nightfall. Nearly 12 000 was raised yesterday and more donations from field workers expected today. Waterloos Eastern Star chapter votes 200 for the campaign and turns it over to managers as countywide reports show strong support across farms and towns.
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Carleton Silas
Waterloo
Sias
Order of Eastern Star
M. C. A. War Work Fund
German Army Paper Attacks President Printed in French
A German paper balloon dropped behind the Allied lines in a town housing American headquarters carrying copies of the Gaizette des Ardennes published in Charleville. The lead article denounces President Wilson’s prewar stance and his failure to bar arms sales to Germany enemies. It also printed a British official note claiming the capture of a thousand Germans in Flanders and was sent to Gen. Pershing.
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France
Hostille
Charleville
Wilson
Germany
Flanders
Pershing
Promoters Bid $40,000 for Willard Fulton Bout in Minneapolis
Minneapolis boxing club authorized Tom Andrews to offer $30,660 to Jess Willard for a 10 round bout with Fred Fulton to be held in Minneapolis within four months A Milwaukee club made a parallel offer of $40,000 for the match to be staged in Milwaukee during the winter Smoke Diamond Joe Good to the last puff diversionment
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Milwaukee
Wis
Tom Andrews
Iotal
Minneapolis
Jess Willard
Fred Fulton
Denmark Seeks Neutral Trade Amid Food Embargo
In a delayed Copenhagen interview, Interior Minister Oye Rode warned Denmark faces peril from U S embargoes. He said Denmark must keep trade with both belligerents for its economic life, detailing shortages of fodder, pork, and butter and the impact on exports to Germany while seeking alternate supplies.
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Oye Rode
United States
Associated Pre
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Denmare
Rode
America
England
Germany
Austrians Murdered in Virginia Minn Bond Warning
Three Austrians, Mr and Mrs Paul Aler and a boarder Peter Trepich, were killed in their Virginia home. A note warned other Austrian families who bought Liberty bonds or subscribed to the Red Cross. The home was robbed and mutilated. Police consider feud or robbery. several arrests reported. The killer stood by a crucifix, washed hands, then wrote a warning at the kitchen table.
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Minn
Paul Aler
Peter Trepich
Alar
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