British French advance in France as German retreat widens
British and French forces push through southern and southeastern districts near Peronne Ham Chaulnes and Nesle advancing along a wide German retreat line from Arras to Soissons. Russians report capture of Van. Turkish forces retreat toward Khanikan. British cavalry near St Quentin and Mesopotamian forces rout Turkish units. Congress called for April 2 to address national policy amid wartime upheaval.
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France
Peronne
Ham
Tergnier
Soissons
Cambrai
St. Quentin
Arras
Chaulnes
Somme
Marne
Nesle
Noyon
Roye
Van
Armenia
Petrograd
Mesopotamia
Samara
Bagdad
Congress
Wilson
Czar Abdicates as Revolt Tops Russia
Paris and London report a successful revolution in Petrograd and Moscow. Czar Nicholas abdicates in favor of his son as troops mutiny, 500 reported killed. A new provisional government forms with duma leaders guiding cabinet choices.
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Reuter
Petrograd
Tsarskoe-Selo Palace
Nicholas
Czar
Russia
London Chronicle
Alexandra
Alix
Hesse-Darmstadt
Duma
Michael Alexandrovitch
Committee of the
Kronstadt
Gulf of Finland
Pepelauff
Taskine
Copenhagen
Georges E. Looff
Paul N. Milioukoff
Manulloff
Moscow University
A. J. Guchkoff
M. Ichingareff
M. Tereschtenko
Kiev
Kerenski
Saratoff
X. Y. Nekrasoff
M. Godneff
Kazan
Germany
Brussiloff
Nicholas V. Ruzsky
Supreme Military Council
M. Rodzianko
M. Chtchegiovitoff
Council of Empire
Paris
Rodzianko
Duma Council
Empire
Maveritchisky Palace
Ukase
Tsarskoe- Selo
Michael V. Alexieff
Stockholm
Healdton Sunk in Dutch waters by German submarine
American consul reports the tanker Healdton torpedoed without warning off Terschelling, twenty five miles north, with twenty five crew drowned and one death from injuries. The unarmed ship left Philadelphia for Rotterdam carrying oil. The event sharpens wartime tensions as Congress prepares to act April 2.
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Washington
Machin
Amsterdam
State Department
Healdton
Terschelling
Holland
Standard Oil
Philadelphia
Rotterdam
Germany
Congress
Wilson
Healdron
Krok
la Campine
Gustav Claude
North Sea
United States
Kouns Sisters a Hit With Kansas City Audiences
The Kouns Sisters Nellie and Sara, daughters of the late C. W. Kouns former Santa Fe general manager, charm Orpheum crowds in Kansas City with fresh full soprano voices. They trained under Raoul Walter in Munich and were assisted by Felix Mottl. While in Germany they sang at court on several occasions.
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Kansas City
Kouns
Nellie
Sara
C. W. Kouns
The
Santa Fe
Topeka
Orpheum
Misses Korns
Raoul Walter
Munich Royal Opera
Munich
Germany
Herr Walter
Herr Felix Mottl
Munich Symphony Orchestra
Distress in Germany Amid Smallpox Crisis Sparks Revolution Talk
Washington on March 23 reports say thirty thousand smallpox cases rage in Germany with spread continuing. A Socialist Reichstag member Hoffmann warned of a farm distress and possible revolution, underscoring deteriorating conditions beyond prior department rumors.
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Washington
Germany
Reichstag
Hoffman
State Department
Jin Full
Germans Loot Noyon Banks As German Forces Advance
Paris reports the military commissariat sent two hundred blocks to Noyon and issued ten thousand bread rations. Before retreating, the Germans emptied Noyon banks and sent securities valued at 3.5 million dollars to Germany. Michigan Senate Votes for Suffrage Passed 22 to 7 in Lansing. The bill granting presidential suffrage to Michigan women advances to the house.
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Military Commissariat
Noyon
Germany
Michigan Senate
Lansing
Mich
Michigan
Senate
House
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Bucharest
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Guthrie
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London Weekly Dispatch
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Grand Duke
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Dumain
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