German Submarines Ordered to Sink All Vessels, Including Fishing Boats
The Foreign Secretary notes German submarine crews who attacked neutral and British ships are not honorable opponents and are offenders against war law. He cites 1000 rescued German sailors and contrasts humane treatment with harsher British conditions, while Britain reports new policy in British waters hitting fishing vessels.
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Edward Grey
England
Germany
Edward
Washington
Bryan
Berlin
Imperial Foreign Office
London
Secretary of State For Foreign Affairs
United States
Admiralty
Great Britain
Russians claim major pushes on multiple fronts briefed
Official dispatches from the eastern front report a large Russian advance from the Baltic to the Romanian border. They say gains north of the Niemen drive Germans toward East Prussian retreat, while in the Carpathians Russians push Austro German forces toward Hungary and seize key heights on the Polonia range.
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London
Eastern War Front
Baltic
Roumanian
Niemen River
Augustowo
Pilwiszki
Carpathian
Hungary
Uzsok Pass
Polonia Range
Eitel Friedrich Near Sea Escape or Interment Off Virginia
The German raider Prinz Eitel Friedrich remains at Newport News with coal and stores replenished and crew aboard awaiting orders. U S tugs guard her stern while coast artillerymen patrol the pier amid tense uncertainty over whether she will sail or be interned. Two German youths seek enlistment as negotiations linger since the war outbreak.
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Newport News
Prinz Eitel Friedrich
Virginia Capes
Eitel
United States
Germany
Musterole Promise Quick Relief For Sore Throat Aches
An advertisement touts Musterole as a clean white ointment with oil of mustard that penetrates to the sore spot and loosens congestion. It claims rapid relief for sore throat bronchitis tonsillitis croup stiff neck asthma neuraglia and more with 25c 50c jars and a $2.50 hospital size. Be sure to buy genuine Musterole from The Musterole Company Cleveland Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Musterole Company
Cleveland
Ohio
Olive Tablets marketed as liver and bowels remedy
Advertises Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a cure for stomach upset by stimulating the liver and bowels. Claims include improved digestion, removal of bad mouth taste, coated tongue, poor appetite, and increased energy. Boxes cost 10c, 25c, or 60c with all druggists carrying the product.
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Edwards
Olive Tablet Company
Columbus
German Sub Captain Declares War To Sink Everything
London April 2 reports the U boat captain of U ten saying we have orders to sink everything in sight. He states this during a wartime dispatch after sending three British trawlers to the bottom of the North Sea off the eastern English coast, signaling Germany's aggressive stance.
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Germany
Jason
River Tyne
London
Finisterre
France
Barrior
North Sea
England
English
Austrians claim Russian retreat after all day frontline battle
Vienna reports that Russian forces were repulsed along the Pruth and Dniester front in Bukowina after a daylong assault. Austrian statement says ten to fifteen columns attacked, but the Russians retreated, especially in the southern sector, while fighting in the Carpathians remained calm east of Beskid Pass. Poland and western Galicia show no change, and a Russian night attack on the lower Nida failed under Austrian fire.
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Koziounka
Uzsok
Beskid
Bessarabia
Chotin
Beskid Pass
Carpathians
Carpathian Front
Pruth
Dniester
Poland
Galicia
Nida
Germans Driven Back on Niemen Front and Carpathian Gains
Russian official report says on the Niemen front our troops advanced after night fighting and inflicted heavy German losses east of Pilwiszki to Augustowo. In the Carpathians our offensive gained the Polonina range heights north of Vestlina Beregehi and Gornyia after bayonet assaults. We captured 32 officers and about 2300 Austrian soldiers plus five machine guns. Additional claims cover actions near Koziouka and Mezolaborez with several counterattacks repulsed.
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Petrograd
London
Niemen Front
Pilwiszki-Mariampol-Kelwarya - Suwalki- Augustowo
Carpathians
Mezolaborez
Koziouka
Chotin
Forty-Second Horved
Germans Need Their Potash
Washington April 2. The United States failed to secure German concessions to allow import of German potash fertilizer. American officials were informed Germany would not alter its embargo.
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Germany
United States
Washington
Czar Rejects Austria Peace Appeal in Emissaries’ Visit
Petrograd reports the Czar refused to negotiate peace until identical notes were submitted to London and Paris. Austria had proposed Switzerland as mediator and urged Russia to accept an independent peace.
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Petrograd
Austria
Russia
London
Paris
Switzerland
Mind Your Own Business Coin Found in Quincy Ruins
An old copper coin dated 1787 bearing the inscription Mind Your Own Business was found by William Thomas during razing of the Mersey house on Hancock street in Quincy. The reverse shows a sun dial and collectors say the piece is unique and likely circulated little in colonial times.
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William Thomas
Quincy
Mersey House
Hancock Street
Veteran Elevated Employee Drops Dead
Henry Dow a 6 year veteran station master at the Devonshire street tunnel for the Elevated railroad collapsed and died near the Brooks and Futaw streets corner while returning home. He lived at 173 Lexington Street, East Boston.
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Henry
Dow
Elevated Railroad
Devonshire Street
Brooks and
Lexington Street
Boston
Dys-pep-lets Claim Quick Digestion Relief
An ad touts Dys-pep-lets as a cure for bad taste belching gas and indigestion relief. It promises relief from sour stomach heartburn distress after eating nausea and other internal discomforts with a 10 cent box as portable daily aid.
German Aviator Shot Down and Bombardments Reported East of Soissons
Paris reports a German aviator shot down east of Soissons, the third in 24 hours, while French forces say they dropped 33 bombs on Vigneulles barracks and railway targets in the Woevre region. Additional attacks near Peronne Dompierre destroyed several German trenches with mines.
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Cape Finisterre
Lisbon
London
Cloxiana
Jason
Nellie
Newcastle
Eng
Schieland
North Sea
England
The
Humber
Hull
Hook of Holland
Amsterdam
Peronne
Dom=pierre
Paris
le Pretre
Berlin
Meuse
Moselle
Pruth
Dniester
Bukowina
Vienna
Carpathians
Polonina Range
Uzok Pass
Petrograd
Niemen River
Augustowo
Pilwiszki
Soissons
Vigneulles
Woevre Forest
Woevre
Dompierre
Handegaeme
French Armies Driven Back In Forest Of Le Pretre
German war office reports heavy artillery and infantry fighting between the Meuse and Moselle. French attacks near the Forest of Le Pretre were repulsed and the enemy driven back to old positions. Eastern theatre unchanged.
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Berlin
London
War Office
Meuse
Moselle
le Pretre
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