Italian Troops Excel in Mountain Warfare on Austrian Front
London, Feb 17. A. H. Savage Lander profiles Italian troops fighting on enemy soil in the Cadore and surrounding peaks. He notes their engineering feats, ladder scaling of vertical cliffs, aerial railways, and supply challenges, while recounting peril from avalanches and a fatal landslide. He admires General Cadorna and the King during visits near the front.
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London
A. H. Savage Lander
Italy
Austria
Britain
Europe
Continent
Woman Army To Be Recruited For Farm Work
London announces a new woman army to farm Great Britain with uniformed tents and army pay to free men for front line service. Agricultural experts oppose the plan saying it lowers farm efficiency and worsens the food situation.
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London
Prothero
Board of Agriculture
Great Britain
Armored Cruisers Engage Germans in East Africa
London reports British light armored cruisers closed with German forces in East Africa on a January encounter. The Brits, despite heavy damage to a radiator and boiling tanks, silenced German fire and suffered no casualties. German prisoners and civilians are believed held near Mahengi while word spread of potential parole demands.
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London
East Africa
Tabora
Rufiji
Rovuma
Mahengi
Noted oarsman among the killed
London reports Captain A. Brooks-Close Brooks, famed Cambridge oarsman against Harvard in 1906, died of wounds in action near the Somme.
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London
War Office
A. Brooks-Close- Brooks
Cambridge
Harvard
United States
Brooks
Somme
Wounded Infantryman Swallows Teeth in Action
A German infantryman on the eastern front swallowed his false teeth after being wounded. He was sent to Berlin as wounds healed, grew weak on liquids, and an X ray showed the teeth lodged in his throat. After 22 days a young doctor removed them with a self made instrument.
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Berlin
Dublin Tenement Lives End in Sorrowful Rooms
A Dublin dispatch notes twenty one thousand multi family rooms house eight to ten people per unit. Families live, cook, wash, and dry clothes in one room under deteriorating conditions. Old Georgian design and high doors frame cramped spaces as poverty shadows daily life.
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Dublin
Ireland
Puhlin
Henrietta Street
Dorset Street
Marlborough — Street
Parnell Street
Rossi
Dumb recluse Thomas Williams dies after silent life
London reports that Thomas Williams of Llanelly, aged 70, kept a vow of silence for thirty years living in a doorless, windowless cottage at Dafen. Found nearly frozen in a fireless home, he was moved to a civilized dwelling where he died. A visitor noted stacks of newspapers in his sparsely furnished rooms indicating he read daily papers regularly.
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London
Thomas Williams
Llanelly
Dafen
Williams
Rubber Shortage Forces Berlin Auto Wheel Change
Berlin reports a rubber shortage worsening, prompting the Federal Council to suspend the 1900 law requiring elastic tires. Taxicabs and private motor vehicles will in future use wooden wheels with wide rims.
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Berlin
Federal Council
Russians Lost Over Two Million Men
Berlin reports that since General Brussiloff began his offensive on June 1 last year the Russians have suffered 2,027,853 total losses in dead wounded and missing. Russian officer losses total 208,953 since the war began.
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Berlin
Brussiloff
Kieff
Ward Confidence With Pirates Stated by Callahan
Manager Callahan of the Pirates expresses confidence in Chuck Ward after a muted last season with the Portland team. Ward is expected to make an impact in Pittsburgh.
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Chuck Ward
Portland, Ore
Callahan
Pittsburgh
Ward
Pirates
Lieutenant Vernon Castle Joins Royal Flying Corps Front
London dispatch reports Lieutenant Vernon Castle, famed dancing partner of Irene Castle, serving at the front with the Royal Flying Corps. He says combat in the air is the greatest sport he has undertaken after previously seeing action and joking about bass drums in Watch Your Step.
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London
Vernon Castle
Irene Castle
Royal Flying Corps
Castle
Swiss Minister Seeks Fate of Mme Dasays
Berne reports the Swiss Minister in Paris has been directed to obtain information on the fate of Mme Dasays, sentenced to death for espionage by a French military court on November 20. Born in Paris in 1870, she daughter of a German mother and Luxembourge father. Married to a Swiss citizen about twenty years ago, she is believed to have been a Swiss subject at arrest.
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Berne
Paris
Mme. Dasays
Switzerland
Rich locals and gophers plunder wartime food laws
Hamburg and Kiel residents, including army and navy contractors, habitually defy food laws by travelling rural districts to buy meats eggs and butter for private use. A Hamburg speculator in Bordenholm sought smoked meats and sausages and paid 800 marks for a 47 pound ham, a likely record price for such a purchase.
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Hamburg
Kiel
Bordenholm
Valuable Find in Old House Reveals Ancient Armor and Porcelain
Strassburg reports a secret chamber in the Judengasse uncovered by workers during renovations. The hidden cache contains ancient Chinese armor and priceless porcelain, likely stored during 1870 siege. The treasure, valued in the thousands, will go to a museum as the owner left no heirs.
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Strassburg
Judengasse
Lost Six Sons in European War
Munich reports a Bavarian widow Mrs. Johanna Keisler lost her sixth son on the Romanian front. Grief drove her to suicide. she vanished and was found dead in a mill pond a week later.
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Munich
Tmmenstadt
Bavarian Alps
Johanna Keisler
Romania
True Oil Field Found on English Soil
London reports a genuine oil field in England per William Forbes-Leslie. Kelham near Newark yielded crude oil at 2440 feet, with further vast underground oil-sand and shale deposits in West Norfolk and Norfolk shale. He notes substantial, long term reserves and advocates deeper drilling, citing minor historical escapes and limited past activity.
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London
England
William Forbes-Leslie
Kelham
Newark
Forbes-Leslie
Norfolk
West Norfolk
Southgate
Clowne
Chesterfield
Coalport
Alfreton
Riddings
Britain
Volunteers Exceed Expectations in Bavarian Auxiliaries
The Bavarian War Ministry reports volunteer numbers for the auxiliary service surpass expectations. No more boys under seventeen or men over sixty will be accepted until further notice.
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Munich
Bavarian War Ministry
Animals Die by the Hundreds in East Africa Floods
General Smuts reports in detail the East Africa campaign from March to October. Rivers flooded roads and bridges were swept away, animals died from disease, transport collapsed, and units were reduced by malaria. Supply lines were cut off as the rains persisted across Taveta to Kondoa Irangi.
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London
van Deventer
Lolkissale
Iron coins adopted by several nations in crisis
Berlin reports that Spaineu and rival nations plan to issue iron coins after a copper shortage. Luxemburg zinc coins have begun circulating in Belgium, as governments seek cheaper metal for currency amid shortages.
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Berlin
Berliner Tageblatt
Germany
Luxemburg
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