Smokes in Bed Endanger Stacey After Fire
Walter W. Stacey is in City Hospital with burns to arms legs and body after a bed fire at 2 Pelham Street South End. Fire crews from Shawmint Avenue Station 14 and Ladder 13 responded to the alarm finding a lively blaze in Stacey's third floor room. Damage estimated under $100.
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Walter W. Stacey
City Hospital
Ladder 13
Shawmint Avenue
Stacey
Pelham Street
South End
Mrs Gardner Names April 2 Harvard Day
Mrs John L Gardner sets aside Monday April 2 as Harvard day at her Venetian palace in the Fenway. The galleries open to Harvard members for three hours in the afternoon and visitors pay the usual gallery fee.
Allies On Western Front Gain Ground In Battles
Allied forces press on the western front with trench raids and bombardments. British airmen claim five German planes shot down east of Neuville Saint Vaast and Armentieres, while seven British planes failed to return. Russians repulse German advances near Dvinsk and Baronovitchi. Russians cross into the Vilayet of Mosul on the Turkish front as the Turkic resistance tightens. Von Mackensen reputedly arrives in Constantinople to reorganize Ottoman forces. Fronts in Austro Italian and Macedonian theaters show little change.
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Steenstraete
Belgium
London
Neuville-St. Vaast
Armentieres
Dvinsk
Postavy
Petrograd
Baronovitchi
Riga
Turkey
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Mosul
Tigris
Bagdad
Khanikan
Kalakhahin
Diala
von Mackensen
Teutonic
Romania
Constantinople
French Take Towns South of Coucy Forest in March Advance
French troops occupied Folembray and La Feuillee south of the Coucy forest after hard fighting despite German resistance. North of Soissons the advance continued near Vregny, with artillery dispersing enemy assemblies between Denay and Urvillers as Belgian forces reported trench raids near Steenstraete and Dixmude. Eastern theatre notes show Doiran raid yields prisoners and a counter attack drives foe from a trench.
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la Feuillee
Coucy Forest
War Office
Soissons
Vregny
Somme
Oise
Denay
Urvillers
St. Quentin
Basse-Foret de Coucy
Steenstraete
British Take Lagnicourt
British headquarters report says the British attacked and captured the village of Lagnicourt this morning. North of the Bapaume Cambrai road they took 80 prisoners and a machine gun, while later actions yielded counterattacks repulsed and further artillery activity.
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London
Lagnicourt
France
Bapaume-Cambrai Road
Beaumetz Les Cambrai
Fauquissart
Ypres
Militia of Mercy to Aid Sailors Families
Mrs John Hays Hammond and Mrs William K Harcourt of New York offered and Secretary Daniels accepted today the services of the Militia of Mercy to assist families of naval militia men called into active service. The Militia of Mercy is a women’s group that recently cared for children in New York crippled by infantile paralysis.
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Washington
John Hays Hammond
William K. Harcourt
New York
Daniels
Militia of Mercy
Hood's Sarsaparilla and Peptiron Pills Ad Claim
An advertisement extols Hood's Sarsaparilla and Peptiron Pills as a superior health tonic. It promises blood purification and nerve strengthening, claiming the iron-enhanced formula combats fatigue and long-term weakness, urging daily use before meals to prevent decline into invalidism.
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Hood
Frontline actions across Europe and Middle East reported
In Caucasus forces occupy Kai lakhahin fortifications as Turks cling to Miantaga heights. Russian detachments push into Persia toward Mosul. French advance south of Oise despite poor ground. Germans launch night attacks between Essigny and Benay but are repelled with losses. Austrians briefly seize Monte Sier position but countered. Gas attacks near Postavy fail. British seize Lagincourt village amid counter attacks. French take Folembray and La Feuillee near Coucy forest.
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Khanikin
Caucasus Front
Kailakhahin
Miantaga
Petrograd
Persia
Coucy
Paris
Somme
Oise
Essigny
Benay
Monte Sier
Rome
Postavy
Dvinsk
Lagincourt
London
Folembray
la Feuillee
Coucy Forest
Americans likely among Moewe raid prisoners
Berlin reports an inquiry has been sent to Berlin via the Spanish ambassador to determine if Americans are among the 593 prisoners captured by the raider Moewe. The State Department believes many U.S. citizens may be involved and would press for release following the Yarrowdale precedent, though German compliance is uncertain.
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Washington
Germany
Moewe
State Department
United States
Berlin
Hints Germany May Make Another Peace Proposal
Amsterdam dispatch reports the Vorwaerts Berlin socialist newspaper predicting a new peace proposal from Imperial Chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg. It suggests a declaration next Thursday offering Russia peace if it ends hostilities, framing Russia as an ally against czarist reaction.
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Germany
Amsterdam
London
Vorwaerta
Berlin
von Bethmann- Hollweg
Russia
Vorwaerts
Malakite Worthlessness Claimed In Government Probe
London reports the government inquiry into the malakite white powder syndicate amid charges against military authorities. Attorney General Sir Frederick E. Smith said expert tests were uniformly adverse and that the explosive is a crude mix of cordite and known ingredients, dangerous and useless. Blanche, the Italian born American inventor, claimed malakite would outpace nitroglycerine but his license was revoked last year after raids on Sir Theodore Cook.
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London
Joseph C. Blanche
Frederick E. Smith
Frederick
Theodore Cook
White Powder Syndicaté
Sir Theodore
New York
Blanche
England
Two Vessels Sunk With Americans on Board
Report from State Department notes the torpedoing of the Norwegian steamer Wilfred with two Americans aboard and the British steamer Chorley with three Americans. Wilfred carried no contraband or armament, sank off Ushant after the German submarine warned the crew to abandon ship.
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Washington
Wilfred
Chorley
State Department
Sharp
Paris
Brest
Newport
Eng
Gibraltar
Bill Southward
John Palmer
Ushant
Radical Socialists in Germany Form New Party Programme
A Radical Socialist Organization in Germany, expelled from regular Socialist ranks, forms a new party and issues a Reichstag resolution calling for speedy peace with no belligerent annexations. It also demands Reichstag approval of all treaties of alliance and war or peace, chancellor accountability, and universal male and female suffrage across the federal states.
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Germany
Copenhagen
London
Radical Socialist Organization
Reichstag
French Show Dash in Semi Open Fighting
French troops pressed along the Hindenburg line near Vasily and Crony plateau pushing German forces back. Pursuit from Soissons formed a triangle at Crouy Missy Sur Ont and Pont Rouge on the Maubeuge road as peasants aided counterattacks. After patient maneuvering French infantry finally captured positions including Vuillery and Pont Rouge amid artillery and counter assaults.
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France
Paris
Associated Press
Hindenburg
Vasily
Laon
Soissons
Crouy
Missy-Suront
Pont Rouge
Maubeuge
Vuillery
Russian envoy arrives to seek closer US relations
In Washington Professor Boris Scharsky arrives to promote closer and more sympathetic ties between Americans and Russians. He is sent by the Imperial government, with the new regime directing continued work. Plans include Russian information bureaus in New York and Chicago to collaborate with Moscow and closer press relations.
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Washington
Russia
Boris Scharsky
Scharsky
America
New York
Chicago
Moscow
Mackensen Reorganizes Turkish Army in Constantinople
Field Marshal von Mackensen of the German army has arrived at Constantinople to reorganize the Turkish army, according to a dispatch from Berne dated March 26.
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Mackensen
London
von Mackensen
Berne
Constantinople
Safe Conduct Granted for China's former German Minister
The United States has granted safe conduct for China's former German minister to China and his suite, allowing travel across the United States en route to Germany.
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China
Washington
United States
Germany
British Satisfied With Their Blockade
London March 26 Admiral Sir Hedworth Meux MP for Portsmouth asked about the blockade. Mr Bonar Law said the cabinet with naval advisers fully considered the question and were satisfied the policy was right in principle and efficient in administration. Advices from Germany through neutral sources seemed to confirm the view.
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London
Hedworth Meux
Portsmouth
Bonar Law
Germany
British to Get Appam at Once
The Supreme Court ordered immediate transfer of the prize ship Appam at Newport News Virginia to British owners. The decision follows a court ruling that the vessel violated American neutrality by the German prize crew led by Lieutenant Hans Berg.
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Washington
Appam
Newport News
Supreme Court
Hans Berg
Steamer Remuera Passes Through Peril Zone
The Remuera reached an American port after a safe voyage through the submarine zone. Among its passengers are many returning nurses from the voyage.
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Remuera
Peril
Washington
German farmers forced by new food law to surrender excess grain
A German official decree empowers military commissions to compel farmers to turn over grain beyond ration allotments. Unthreshed grain must be threshed. authorities will supply machines and labor. Hidden stocks may be confiscated without payment to ensure general food availability.
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Copenhagen
London
Germany
Grarians
Nicholas Romanoff Kept Under Guard in Palace Garden
The former emperor Nicholas Romanoff is restricted to a railed garden walk from 11 to 8 with six guards outside the railing. Courtiers and servants are treated as prisoners, and he may only speak Russian in soldiers’ presence while shoveling snow and socializing with select companions.
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Nicholas
Count Benkendorff
Madame Narychkine
Countess Pendrikoff
Deputation Greets Widow of Tolstoy in Russia
A large crowd of peasants soldiers and workmen marched to Yasnaya Polyana to greet the widowed Countess Tolstoy. They presented her with Tolstoy's portrait and knelt while singing as the deputation spoke for the Russian people.
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London
Reuter
Petrograd
Count Tolstoy
Yasnaya Poliana
Tragic Farmhouse Axe Killing Ends in Double Suicide
Redwood Falls Minn March 26 William Kleeman a young farmer who lived near Clement killed his wife and four children with an axe then hanged himself some time between Friday night and this morning The six bodies were found today in the Kleeman home The man is believed to have brooded over debts.
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Redwood Falls
Minn
William Kleeman
Clement
Kleeman
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