American Tank Steamer Gulflight torpedoed by German sub
The Gulflight, a Gulf Refining Co oil steamer built in 1914, was torpedoed by a German submarine near Beverly. Captain Gunther and two crew members were killed, with 35 aboard. The vessel carried 2,285,000 gallons of oil and operated between Port Arthur Texas and Beverly. Ralph Smith, first officer, and other crew from Boston area were part of the affected crew. Wakefield residents remember him.
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Gulflight
Beverly
Gulf Refining Company
Boston
Gunther
Oklahoma
Jersey
Bavaria
Gregory
New York Shipbuilding Company
Camden
N. J
Ralph Smith
Crescent Court
Wakefield
Smith
Floy (Irons) Smith
Port Arthur
Texas
U S Ready to Call Germany to Account
Washington reports on the torpedoing of the American steamer Gulflight and loss of crew, with officials seeking full inquiry before any diplomatic action. Officials recalled the note holding Germany strictly accountable for attacks on American lives or vessels, while deeming Gulflight’s strike likely accidental. President Wilson, informed of the news, refused to comment.
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Washington
Gulflight
Wilson
United States
Leon C.thresher
Falaba
Germany
British Isles
Ireland
New Haven
Scilly Islands
Williamstown
Mass
Busy Day in Naval Warfare Involving Gulflight and Others
The Gulflight was torpedoed off the Scilly Islands and beached after severe damage. its captain died. The British destroyer Recruit was sunk in the English Channel with 35 missing. German torpedo boats sank Colombia and were later sunk by British destroyers with 46 rescued. Europe and Fulgent were sunk off Scilly by a submarine. Barbadoes and a German torpedo boat damaged each other in a confrontation.
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Scilly Islands
English Channel
Land's End
Cornwall
English
Fulgentland
Europe
Gulflight
Recruit
Colombia
North Sea
Fulgent
German Attack North of Ypres Repulsed by Machine Guns
Paris reports that German assault north of Ypres was checked by French machine guns. Details include a clash at Maucourt near Chaulnes, German use of various weapons, and French bombardments along the Metz fortifications.
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Ypres
Paris
War Office
Belgium
Maucourt
Chaulnes
Aisne
Champagne
Tracy-le-Mont
Rheims
Argonne
le Pretre
Metz
Russian Statement on German Movements Near Szawle and Riga
Petrograd reports enemy patrols near Libau and torpedo activity in the Gulf of Riga. West of the Niemen engagements continue with a German regiment surrendering at Tayenko. In Galicia Austrian forces opened an offensive near Cierkowice as Austro German attacks were repulsed in the Carpathians.
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Petrograd
London
Szawle
Shavli
Kovno
Libau
Gulf of Riga
Niemen
Tayenko
Netta
Galicia
Cierkowice
Carpathians
Russian-Polish Front Claims Heavy Prisoner Gains
Vienna reports on the Russian front saying enemy repulsed in parts of Russian Poland while Austrian forces reach wire entanglements. On the Carpathian West Galician front artillery active and in Orawa Opor valley heights Austrian attack takes hundreds of Russian prisoners and machine guns. Southeast Galicia and Bukowina show no change.
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Vienna
London
Russian
Poland
Carpathians
Orawa
Opor
Ostry
Galicia
Bukowina
SINK TWO OF KAISER'S WARSHIPS
London dispatch says the British admiralty reports two German torpedo boats sunk in the North Sea and the British torpedo boat destroyer Recruit also sunk.
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Kaiser
London
British Admiralty
North Sea
Recruit
British Steamer Fulgent Sunk by Submarine Off Skellig Rocks
May 2 London dispatch reports the British steamer Fulgent torpedoed northwest of the Skellig Rocks in darkness Saturday morning. The despatch to Lloyds from Kilrush Ireland confirms the sinking during a German submarine attack.
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London
Fulgent
Skellig Rocks
Lloyds
Kilrush
Ireland
British destroyers sink two German torpedo boats after North Sea action
In a Saturday sequence near Galloper and North Hinder lights a German submarine sank the destroyer Recruit and torpedoed the trawler Columbia, with only one deck hand saved. British destroyers Laforey Leonidas Lawford and Lark pursued and sank the two German torpedo boats, rescuing German survivors and taking prisoners.
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Galloper
North Hinder
H. M
Recruit
Daisy
Columbia
Laforey
Leonidas
Lawford
Lark
Japan and China Hopeful in Sino Japanese Talks
In Tokyo sources say talks in Peking have entered a hopeful phase after Japan agrees to restore to China the German concession at Kiaochow in exchange for China accepting amended Japanese demands. Railway rights in southern China remain under discussion with other powers.
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Tokio
Peking
China
Japan
Rescue and sinking of ships near Bishops Rock and Scilly Isles
A boat with nine survivors and the captain’s body was landed at Kilrush after a trawler rescue. The French steamer Europe, torpedoed near Bishop's Rock by a German submarine, was sunk after the crew were moved to a drifter. The Rosevine and a patrol boat aided the escape and rescue efforts amid gunfire. The submarine carried no number.
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Kilrush
Fulgent
Europe
Barry
St. Nazaire
Bishop’s Rock
Lloyds
Penzance
Tne
Rosevine
Scilly Islands
Germans Closing on Riga in Courland Pursuit
German forces pressing retreating Russians reach the region southwest of Mitau near Riga after heavy fighting in Flanders and the Argonne. The German statement reports advances near Szawle, captures of 400 Russians, and 300 prisoners in Kalwaria.
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Berlin
London
Mitau
Courland
Riga
Flanders
Ypres
St. Julien
Broodseinde
Veldhoek
Argonne
Four de Paris
Meuse
Moselle
le Pretre
Rheims
Verdun
Russia
Szawle
Shavli
Kalwaria
Baltic Provinces
Paris reports German gun out of action and Metz bombardment
Paris reports the great German gun that bombarded Dunkirk is out of action. French bombardment hits a fort on the Metz front while German and Russian operations unfold across Latvia and Poland. Allied and German forces exchange shifts with bombings and naval losses noted.
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Paris
French War Department
Dunkirk
Metz
Lorraine
Krupp
Dixmude
Japan Cabinet in Hasty Conference to Rio
An extraordinary cabinet council met to consider China's refusal to fully accede to Japan's demands. The session occurred May 3 at 11:30 a.m. in Tokyo as ministers debated next steps toward enforcement and regional policy.
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Japan
Rio
China
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