Frontline Updates from Isonzo and Tyrolean Fronts
On the Isonzo front Gorizia faced renewed heavy shelling. Two Italian aircraft bombed Adelsberg without effect. Minor Tyrolean clashes occurred as Austro-Hungarian forces retook Rauchkofel near Monte Cristabel, capturing 102 Italians including two officers and two machine guns. North of Lugana Valley near St Oswald Italian assaults were repulsed with heavy losses. Ledro sector attacks failed and Italian trenches north of the Tonale defile were destroyed by mines.
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Isonzo
Gorizia
Adelsberg
Trieste
Rauchkofel
Monte- Cristabel
Lugana
St. Oswald
Ledro
Tonale
French Sailing Vessel St Hubert Torpedoed
Lloyds reports the French sailing vessel St Hubert torpedoed and possibly derelict. Her crew were rescued.
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London
Lloyds
St. Hubert
Germany Adopts Saving Daylight Plan for May One
Germany's Bundesrat adopts the Saving Daylight plan making clocks advance one hour on May 1. It aims to save illuminate and fuel, with health arguments cited. foreign railway connections may face minor disruption due to passport checks amid wartime delays.
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Germany
Berlin
London
Bundesrath
Steamship Simla Sunk and 11 Men Drowned
The British steam ship Simla of 5884 tons gross has been sunk. Eleven members of the Asiatic crew were drowned, while the remaining crew were saved.
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Simla
London
French Counter Attacks Regain Ground Near Verdun
In the Verdun area northwest to Hau court and Bethincourt to Hill 265, French forces press renewed counter attacks on German trenches. They regain portions of lost ground using hand grenades and improve communication trenches amid ongoing sanguinary engagements.
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London
Verdun
Haucourt
Bethincourt
Hill 265
Germans Hit French Front as British See British Losses
German forces launched a violent assault around Harcourt but French artillery and curtain fire repelled the attack. Berlin claims crater positions at St Eloi taken from the British while on other fronts artillery duels persist in France Belgium and the Baltic region as Russians gain ground near Lake Narocz and the Caucasus while Austrians recapture ground north of Monte Cristobal and Italians face repulse north of Sugana Valley. Flooding on the Tigris hampers the British relief effort at Kut el Amara. Eastern front sees continued Russian activity south of Lake Narocz and around the Narocz lake region with heavy snow.
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Harcourt
Berlin
St- Eloi
France
Belgium
Dvinsk
Lake Narocz
Riga
Friedrichstadt
Galicia
Monte Cristobal
Sugana
Vienna
Tigris
Kut-el-Amara
Caucasus
Black Sea
Karadere
Tchorok River
The
Meuse
Caillette Wood
Lake
Narocz
German Claim of British Mine Crater Capture Near St Eloi
Berlin reports German army headquarters states German troops captured British crater positions south of St Eloi near Ypres after preparation and fighting. The French mined south of Four de Paris in the Argonne, with the enemy advancing using a flame thrower being driven back.
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Berlin
Sayville
St. Eloi
Ypres
Army
Argonne
Four de Paris
Avocourt
German Losses at Verdun Put at 200 000
Paris reports that German casualties before Verdun have reached 200000, a figure cited as carefully checked from high quarters. The estimate appears in a semi official source and is described as rigorously verified.
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Verdun
Paris
Russian War Office Report From Riga Dvina Dvinsk Front
Official dispatch cites artillery actions in Riga and Dvina regions with enemy machine gun fire and a flight of an attacking automobile. It notes river ice melt, floods easing, and prisoners taken near Bliznik as German gas use is mentioned. Additional strikes secure upper Stripa and Karadere river advance despite snow.
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Petrograd
London
War Office
Riga
Dvina
Friedrichstadt
Remershof
Dvinsk
Lake Narocz
Bliznik
Lake Sosno
Pinski
Czartorysk
Stripa
Edna Ordered to England by British Government
The British government notified Washington it ordered the Norwegian vessel Edna seized in the Pacific and condemned for German ownership to England. There a prize court will hear the title of her San Francisco owners.
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Washington
State Department
Edna
Pacific
England
San Francisco
French Recapture Some Positions From Germans
Paris reports French forces retook portions of trenches between Bethincourt and Hill 265 northwest of Verdun after a German advance along Haucourt was repulsed. Belgian lines say a small surprise attack near Steenstraete was repulsed with several artillery actions in Ramscapelle and surrounding sectors.
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Bethincourt
le Mort Homme
Cumieres
Meuse
Steenstraete
Ramscapelle
Germany's Peace Bid Rejected and Submarine Warfare Persist
Lord Robert Cecil condemns Germany's peace proposals as false and asserts Britain will not trust German assurances. He cites resumed submarine attacks on neutral ships and accuses Germany of deliberate belligerence, expansionist aims, and reliance on deceit to secure postwar dominance.
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Lord Robert
Germany
Great Britain
Lord Cecil
von Bethmann-Hollweg
Robert Cecil
von Bethmann- Hollweg
Reichstag
England
Soviet and Allied fronts report mixed activity across multiple regions
The HQ briefing notes heavy artillery actions south of Dvinsk near Vidsy and between Lakes Miadziel and Narocz, air raids over General Evert's lines, and mine discovery at Sverskovce. It also reports the sinking of ships near the Bosphorus, the Breslau bombardment retreat, Turkish assaults repelled on the Caucasus coast, westward advances in Thhoruk, and a broad Terrane valley repulse.
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Petrograd
London
Dvinsk
Vidsy
Miadziol
Miadziel
Narocz
Sverskovce
Black Sea
Bosphorus
Breslau
Thhoruk
Fire in wood yard threatens Mt Zion Church in West Newton
A blaze in the coal and wood yard of the C F Eddy Company in West Newton set sparks to the Mt Zion Baptist Church roof and a house owned by Frank Carter. Both fires were quickly controlled with little loss.
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C. F. Eddy Company
West Newton
Mt. Zion Baptist Church
Frank Carter
Fireman Injured Responding To Small Tremont Street Fire
John T. Olson, 60, a fireman with Hook and Ladder Company 13, was thrown from a truck at the Berkeley Tremont streets intersection while responding to a small fire at 403 Tremont Street last night at 9 15. He was taken to City Hospital with injuries described as not serious.
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Tremont Street
John T. Olson
Hook and Ladder Company 13
Kendall Square
Berkeley
Tremont Streets
Olson
City Hospital
Special Aid Society Plans Open Meeting in Boston
Representatives from 26 Massachusetts branches met at 168 Beacon Street to hear reports and plan open sessions. Directors were asked to promote an open meeting at Old South Church next Wednesday afternoon where George Wharton Pepper of Philadelphia will speak on The Value of Military Training.
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Special Aid Society
Massachusetts
George Richmond Fearing, Jr
Beacon Street
Old South Church
George Wharton Pepper
Philadelphia
Court frees road of responsibility in off duty incidents
The Supreme Judicial Court held that a street railway company is not liable for injuries to a passenger caused by off duty employees. Mrs. Sarah M. Langley of Dorchester was injured Dec 3, 1912, in a scuffle between two Elevated brakemen at Sullivan Square terminal. a lower court had awarded her $2500.
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Supreme Judicial Court
Sarah M. Langley
Dorchester
Sullivan Square Terminal
Prominent Men Come to Ex Councillor Guy Funeral
Funeral services for former Councillor Charles W. Guy of Quincy were held yesterday afternoon from his Butler road home. The Rev Cyrus Richar son of Bethany Congregational Church officiated. Honorary pallbearers included Joseph J. Feeley of Boston George W. Fuller of Salem Arthur J. Bean Worcester school supervisor and three of the deceased brothers Benjamin E. Guy Elbridge G. Guy and Herbert E. Guy all of Worcester.
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Charles W. Guy
Quincy
Butler Road
Cyrus Richardson
Bethany Congregational Church of
Joseph J. Feeley
Boston
George W. Fuller
Salem
Arthur J. Bean
Worcester
Benjamin E. Guy
Elbridge G. Guy
Herbert E. Guy
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