Italian Hold Monte Tomba In Fierce Mountain Battle
Italian forces report unexampled fighting on the northern mountain front from Asiago to Brenta. Monte Tomba and Monte Pertica change hands amid heavy losses. Austro German attacker reserves pressed the line while Italian troops regain and hold key positions. The Count of Turin praises daring cavalry actions and describes rescues and endurance amid the brutal daylong combat.
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Rome
Asiago
Brenta River
Italian War Office
Italy
Monte Tombe
Monte Pertica
Monte Tomba
Pertica
Monte Montensia
Talian
Nemy
Couner
Iave
Brenta
Pheels
Bmrbers
Turin
Florence Lancers
Cividale
Commnding
Cirela
Caserta
Appalling Losses To Gallant Italians
An Associated Press report from Italy on November 23 notes field leaders cannot single out individuals for bravery, given the scale of casualties. It explains Italian unit sizes, detailing battalions of about 1,000, regiments near 3,000, brigades around 6,000, divisions of two to three brigades, and army corps of multiple regiments, emphasizing the devastation as units shrink to mere hundreds.
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Associated Press
Italy
Army Corps
Bandits haul $310000 in Indiana bank robbery
In Dana Indiana early this morning bandits used oxyacetylene to cut through First National Bank vault doors and escaped with about $15000 in cash and securities. Water buckets cooled heated doors leaving evidence. Auto tracks suggest entry by car. no suspects found. Bank president discovered the robbery on opening.
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Danville
First National Bank
Dana
Ind
Organization of Iowa Troops in U S Service
Washington D C November 24 The committee on public information today released details on the reorganization of the Iowa national guard. The Iowa guards join the Thirty fourth division of the regular army with units including the Thirty fourth headquarters troop former Troop A First Iowa cavalry the 125th machine gun battalion comprising Troop B Iowa cavalry and First battalion Second Iowa infantry the Sixty seventh infantry brigade 126th machine gun battalion includes the 2d battalion Second Iowa infantry the 133rd infantry is the First Iowa infantry the 127th machine gun battalion of the Sixty eighth infantry brigade is Troop First Iowa cavalry and Third battalion Second Iowa infantry the 126th field artillery of the Fifty ninth brigade is the First Iowa field artillery the 109th trench mortar battery forms the headquarters and supply companies Second Iowa infantry the 109th engineers includes the First Iowa engineers the 109th field signal battalion includes Company C Iowa signal corps the 103th ammunition train is the Iowa ammunition train including Troop D Iowa cavalry the 109th sanitary train includes the First and Second Iowa ambulance companies and the First and Second Iowa field hospital companies
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Washington, D. C
Committee On Public Information Today
Lowa National Guard
Iowa Guards
Thirty-fourth
Regular Army
Iows
133Rd
Iowa Infantry
First
Iowa Cavalry
Towa Infantry
126Th Field Artillery
Fifty-ninth Brigade
Iowa Field Artillery
Second
109Th Engineers
Towa Engineers
109Th Field Signal
Co. C. Towa Signal Corps
Towa
Troon D. Towa Cavalry
Iowa
Three selectees to leave Cedar Falls for military service
Black Hawk county exemption board lists George Stocks Raymond R J Edwin W Prinz Edward N Stafford as the three men to depart November 27 at 8 am. Stocks claims age 32 but did not register June 5, Prinz recently moved from Louisville Kentucky and worked as a chemist for Black Hawk Oil Co. Stafford, claiming Plainfield as home, registered in Black Hawk county as a state teachers college student. The board also reports expenses of 200 dollars for clerical and other necessary costs with no compensation drawn.
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Cedar Falls
Black Hawk County
George Stocks
Raymond
R. J. Edwin W. Prinz
Edward N. Stafford
Plainfield
Prinz
Louisville
Black Hawk Oil Co
Stafford
Bremer County
State Teachers’ College
County Exemption Board
Three Men Sentenced in East St. Louis Race Riot Case
Belleville Illinois Nov 24 Richard Brockway former East St. Louis Suburban Railway special agent was found guilty in circuit court of conspiracy tied to East St. Louis race riots. Two co defendants were convicted. two others acquitted. Brockway to five years in prison and $1000 fine. John Tish 19 jailed five years. John Johnson 29 one year. An ad for San Felice cigars follows.
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Belleville
Richard Brockway
East
Russian Envoy Breaks With Bolsheviks Over Peace Talks
Ambassador Bakhmetieff formally notified the State Department that the Petrograd extremists do not represent the Russian people and will not be recognized. Three senior aides resigned to avoid links with Bolsheviki leaders while the ambassador remains at his post awaiting a clear situation. Offerings of service to the U S government by embassy officers are reported.
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Washington, D. C
Bakhmetieff
Russia
State Department
Fice
Petrograd
Lansing
Spay
Foreign Office
Emba
Tles
Afti
Tone Aid
Onon
Ioln Sookine
du Mohrenschildt
Mr. Sookine
Washington
Boris Bakmelie
Mohrenschildt
Nona Hazelhurst McAdoo
the Treasury
Leon Tratzky
Trotzy
Mmeans
Revolution
Trotzy Declar
Battle for Cambrai Rages as British Press On
British forces consolidate positions around Bourlon wood and Fontaine Notre Dame near Cambrai amid heavy fighting. German reports claim repelled advances on Lourlon Fontaine and Jan Foliewood, with tanks and guns captured by both sides. West of Cambrai, Mocuvres and Queant fronts see renewed activity and prisoners taken. In Flanders, Haig conducts minor gains south of Ypres as artillery heavy. Iowa delegates arrive at Camp Cody to visit Iowa soldiers.
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France
Bourlon Wood
Cambrai
Fontaine
Berlin
Lourlon
Jan
Foliewood
German War Office
War Office
Bourton Wood
Fontaine Notre Dame
Lineenburg
Canal du Nord
Mocavres
Queant
London Scotsh
Hindenburg Line
Bullecourt
Arqond
Byng
Tll
Haig
Menin
Passchendaele
Irish Fight Up Canal Du Nord Front in Fierce Opening Day
Irish forces led a heavy assault along the Canal du Nord near Mavrincourt and Moeuvres, driving through German defenses with bayonet and rifle fire. British engineers built crossings as Irish troops spearheaded a northern advance toward the Cambrai Bapaume road, while cavalry operations and close-quarters fighting marked the first day of action.
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Associated Press
France
Roiiu
Canal du Nord
Pafmt A Iftua
Auvrincourt
Mavrincourt
Cambrai- Bapaume
Graincourt
Cambrai
Cambrai- Bapanme
Moeuvres
Attick
Jere Thes
Moenvrres
Moenvres
Leavenworth To Build Cantonment For War Offenders
Nov 24 report states a cantonment will be built at Leavenworth to house 30,000 prisoners including slackers spies and alien enemies. The 12 building complex costing 236000 will be ringed by a 16 foot high barbed wire fence with no hard labor for inmates.
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Leavenworth
Prinan
Yno
O No
Wits
Gompers Re-elected AFL President at Sev enth Annual Convention
Samuel Gompers was re-elected president of the American Federation of Labor at the thirty-seventh annual convention in Buffalo New York. The only contest was for treasurer with Daniel J. Tobin elected to succeed John B Lennon who was renominated. officers were elected by acclamation.
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Buffalo
Samual Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Daniel J. Tobin
International ‘Teamaters’ Union
John B. Lennon
Federation
Lennon
Gompers
International Union
Indianapolis
James Duncan
Granite Cutters
O'Connell
William Mahon
Joseph ¥. Valentine
Moulders
John R. Alpine
Plumbers
H. B. Perham
Railroad Telegraphers
Frank Duffy
Carpenters
wWilliam Green
Miners
Frank Morrison
Printers
Jamer
Destroyer Sinks U-Boat With All Hands
U S destroyers report sinking a German U boat in European waters after depth charges and a tow attempt. One destroyer fired depth bombs at 400 yards. second attached a line as the submarine surfaced lifeless, then sank with all on board. two destroyers involved.
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Washington, D. C
Navy Department
Sims
Daniels
Danlala
Two Soldiers and Three Trainmen Injured in Santa Fe Crash
Topeka Kansas November 24 Two soldiers and three trainmen were injured when a Union Pacific special train crashed into Santa Fe passenger train No 105 at the junction of the two railroads in North Topeka today.
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Topeka
Kan
Union Pacific
Santa Fe
Weather forecast for Washington week ahead
The Weather Bureau predicts snow in northern plains and south snow or rain early in the week, with higher temperatures in the upper and middle Mississippi valleys. After the early unsettled period, generally fair weather returns with near normal temperatures. Smoke Diamond Jos. Good to the last put.
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Washington, D. C
Weather Bureau Today
Plains States
Upper
Mississippi Valleys
Are You Liable for Army Draft
The draft notice explains that if liable you will receive a questionnaire by mail from the exemption board. You must fill it out and return it, after which the board assigns you to a group for call. The text notes a fair explanation of the new selective process.
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Washington, D. C
HW. A. Field Fuel
W. K. Pradden
Michigan
Garfield
United States
Orvers Coal
New England
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Board
San Felice
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Stockholm
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Europe
el Tovar
Havana Fe
Flanders
Towans
Nes Moines
Ernest R. Moore
Camp Cody
Deming
N. M
Des Moines
A. B. Reed
Cedar Rapids
Warry M. Marshall
Publshers
Slackers’ Prison
Tobin
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