Americans Flee as Border Raid Raises Tensions
May 18 report from Paso, Texas describes Washington ordering a punitive expedition across the Rio Grande if Carranza forces attack. Pershing notes precautions while Funston, Scott, and Obregon shift troops, with bandits raiding Polaris and Bayles killings prompting U S guards along Lochiel, Washington Camp, and nearby towns.
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Paso
Tex
Washington
Rio Grande
Carranza
Funston
War Department
General Pershing
Chihuahua
Namiquipa
Hugh L. Scott
Obregon
Golden State Limited
Chihuahua City
Mexico City
Ariz
Polaris
Lochiel
Nogales
Sage
Brownsville
Curtis Bayles
Mercedes
Mexico
F. L. van Horn
Fort Brown
van Horn
Langhorne
Marathon
George T. Langhorne
Big Bend
Jesse Deemer
Frederick W. Sibley
Italians Capture Trenches On Upper Isonzo Front
A war office statement reports enemy bombardment on Crezenca basin near the upper Isonzo. Italian Alpine troops after artillery prep assaulted and captured a strong line of trenches on Mount Cukla, and took four officers, 119 men, four machine guns, plus arms and munitions on slopes east of Mount Rambon.
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Rome
War Office
Crezenca
Isonzo
Talmino
Plezzo
Mount Cukla
Mount Rambon
ONLY TEUTONS WANT PEACE
Samuel McClure, arriving from Copenhagen on the Oscar II, says only Germany and Austria show a genuine peace sentiment. He says belligerents other than those two want it only for commerce, not from fear of defeat, after visiting all nations.
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New York
Mexican Raid and Frontier Talks End in Delay
Mexican bandits attacked civilians and soldiers four miles north of Boquillas near an ore terminal. Obregon and Scott failed to reach an agreement. talks suspended with diplomats en route to Washington. Langhorne and two Eighth Cavalry troops crossed the Rio Grande as Col Sibley’s Fourteenth Cavalry followed. Funston weighs a call to Illinois National Guard for border patrol.
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Marathon
Tex
Boquillas
Langhorne
Mexico
el Paso
Arredondo
A. Obregon
H. L. Scott
Frederick Funston
Obregon
General Scott
Washington
Mexico City
Carranza
State Department
Eighth Cavalry
Rio Grande
Sibley
Fourteenth Cavalry
Funston
First Cavalry
Illinois
Rito Grands
Asquith Heads to Dublin After Irish Debates
Premier Asquith departed London on the Irish mail train bound for Dublin after a fierce House of Commons session in which rebels were executed and martial law condemned. He said the trip aims to consult authorities and seek a future arrangement acceptable to Irishmen and parliament. Tennant reported 14 executions, 73 penal servitudes, six hard labor sentences, and 1,706 deportations.
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London
Asquith
Euston
Irish Mail
Dublin
House of Commons
Ireland
Tennant
Texas Militia Reaches Camp at Fort Sam Houston
More than 1,000 Texas National Guard members arrived at Fort Sam Houston for mobilization. They will undergo medical exams, be sworn in, and muster into U S service for the duration of their guard service or until the Mexican expedition ends. The full 3,500 Texas guardsmen are expected to reach camp soon.
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San Antonio
Tex
Texas National Guard
Fort Sam Houston
Suce
United States Service
National Guard
Texas
Steel Workers' Pay Raised in Pueblo Mill
Five thousand employees at the Colorado Fuel and Iron steel mill in Pueblo receive wage increases, boosting the monthly payroll by forty thousand dollars.
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Denver
Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
Pueblo
Iron Workers Strike Hits New York Workers Demand Higher Wages
Five thousand iron workers in New York City walk out demanding higher wages shorter hours and union recognition. The strike is expected to spread to other cities and industries.
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Iron Workers
New York
New York City
U. S. Warns Germany Over Submarine Policy Change
President Wilson sent a formal note to Berlin on Monday accepting Germany’s announced change in submarine policy but warning that diplomatic relations will be severed if German orders are not observed. He rejects linking U S protections of neutral rights to conduct by other governments and vows a rupture if limits of international law are exceeded.
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Washington
Wilson
Berlin
Germany
United States
Army flier survives 300 foot descent near border
Lieut. C. G. Chapman of the army aero corps began a reconnaissance over the border from Columbus New Mexico on May 11. With a cracked propeller blade he flew about two miles toward Mexico before the blade failed forcing a velplane 300 feet to the ground. He sustained no injuries.
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Columbus
N. M
C. G. Chapman
Army Aero Corps
Grew Leaves Berlin to Report on German Dispute Note
London dispatch says Secretary Grew of the American embassy at Berlin sails for the United States via Copenhagen to relay confidential discussions between Ambassador Gerard and the German ruler and chancellor about the American note on submarine piracy to the Washington government.
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London
Poat
Amsterdam
Grew
Berlin
United States
Copenhagen
Washington
Gerard
Call Britons Abroad for Immediate Military Duty
London May 11 sentence orders all married Englishmen living abroad but normally resident in Great Britain to return to England forthwith and report for military duty. Peking May 13 Li Yuan Sung proclaimed president of the southern provisional government formed by Chinese rebels with Tang Chi Yao as chairman of the war cabinet.
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London
Great Britain
England
Peking
Li Yuan Sung
Southern Provisional Government
Tang Chi Yao
Lutheran Leader Dies Cranking Auto in Allentown
Rev. Irwin B. Ritter president of the Allentown conference of the Lutheran church died after suffering a stroke while cranking his automobile in Allentown Pennsylvania on May 13.
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Allentown
Irwin B. Ritter
The
Lutheran Church
Militia Ordered Out to Border as Wilson Acts
President Wilson called the Texas New Mexico and Arizona National Guard into active service to bolster border defense amid the Big Bend Rio Grande outbreak. The War Department also ordered nearly all U S infantry to the front, adding about 4 000 militia and 3 000 regulars to Funston's command from units across New York Washington and California.
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Washington
Mexico
Carranza
Wilson
National Guard
Texas
New Mexico
Arizona
Wilitia
Haker
Big Bend
Rio Grande
War Department
United States
Funston
Thirteenth Infantry
Plattaburg
N. Y
Madison Barracks
Oswego
Twenty-first Infantry
Vancouver Barracks
San Diego
Fourteenth Infantry
Fort Lawton
Wash
U S Troops Kill Mexicans Near Marathon Texas
Captain Fox of the Texas Rangers reports seven American soldiers and possemen engaged a small band of Villa bandits across the Rio Grande killing several. No American losses. Eight Mexicans killed on this side by Rangers. four escaped. Victims included six employees of the Porto Rico de Boquillas mines. Dr Homer Powers of San Antonio among those who escaped.
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Marathon
Tex
Fox
Texas Rangers
Sibley
Rio Grande
Lloyd Wade
Porto Rico de Boquillas
Homer Powers
San Antonio
Rumor of sunk transport carries Canada troops to England
Rumor said to have originated at Halifax that a transport carrying Canadian troops to England had been sunk is persistently circulated at Niagara Falls New Jersey but lacks confirmation from any source. Li Yuan Sung to chair as Tang Chi Yao and Tsen Shuen Hsuen serve as vice chairmen in Peking.
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Niagara Falls
N. J
Halifax
England
Peking
Li Yuan Sung Hae
Southern Provisional Government
Tang Chi Yao
Tsen Shuen Hsuen
Robbers Dynamite Safe in Randsburg Loots Milngsworth
Robbers dynamited the Milngsworth Supply Company safe at Randsburg California and escaped with 10000 dollars in gold and several thousand dollars in checks. They fled in an automobile.
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Randsburg
Cal
Milngsworth Supply Company
Engineer Hess Held Responsible for Ambherat Wreck
Washington May 13 The engineer Herbert Hess is deemed responsible for the fatal New York Central wreck near Ambherat Ohio on March 29 due to failure to head the signals set for him.
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Hess Ia
Washington
Herbert Hess
New York Central
Anea
Ambherat
Germany accepts full responsibility for Sussex sinking
In a Washington note dated May 12 1916 Germany says it will accept full responsibility for torpedoing the Sussex and that the submarine commander has been punished for acting without proper judgment. The incident prompts the German government to express sincere regret and readiness to pay adequate indemnity to American citizens.
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Washington
Germany
United States
James W. Gerard
Sussex
Folkestone
Aleo
44 Die on American Ship Roanoke near San Francisco
The steam ship Roanoke bound for Valparaiso with explosives and cargo sank 100 miles south of San Francisco after leaving port. Survivors recount a lifeboat rescue near Port San Luis with five bodies. The vessel carried 46 crew and 44 fatalities were reported.
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Roanoke
Frisco
Valparaiso
San Francisco
Port San Luis
Seize Bulleta for Banaits in Paso Tex
A report from Laredo says US troops confiscated over a million rounds of ammunition that Mexicans attempted to smuggle into Mexico. In Chicago Chauncey J. Blair, 71, vice president of Corn Exchange National Bank, died at home of heart disease after a two week illness.
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Bulleta
Paso
Tex
Laredo
Mexico
United States
Chicago
Chauncey J. Blair
Corn Exchange National Bank
War Chronicle May 18 1915 European Front Updates
A year later a recap notes Russians driven from Jaroslav and near San towns. Austrian Tenth Army at Przemysl. Russians push Teutons back ten miles in Bukowina. Turks repelled near Avi Burnu. British gains near La Bassee. French and Belgians push Germans back across Yser. Austrians take Drohonycz. Zeppelins bomb Ramagate. Asquith restructures British cabinet.
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Jaroslav
Bank of San
Przemysl
Bukowina
Avi Burnu
la Bassee
Champagne
San
Pruth
Baltic
Yser Canal
Drohobycz
Galicia
Shavil
Ramagate
Ablain
Neuve Chapelle
Poland
Asquith
Lorette
San River
Kara Burnu
Gallipoli
Bagatelle
Krithia
Atchi Baba
Gallipol
Nagara
Turkey
Collected items from a diverse 1910s news digest
A varied stock of short notes covers health tips pellagra typhoid, open air tonic, and diet. It cites Swiss saving rates and city burial patterns, railroad signal tests, Hawaii fish colors, Rome school mutual benefit funds, and distant Ypres shelling reports with distant accuracy claims.
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San Francisco
Switzerland
Chicago
Hawaii
Christian Herald
Pacific
Rome
Ypres
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Garranza
Pershing
Trenchis
Curila
Samuel S. McClure
Europe
Scott
York, Bune
U. S
U. S. Flyer
Lieut
Kaiser
Big Bend District
von Jagow
Martha
Lorette Heights
Przemyal
Glenholm
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