Beware of all ships under enemies flags warned
The German Embassy issued a notice warning Americans against traveling on ships flying enemies flags. Reports from Berlin say German attacks near Ypres failed while Russians captured 1 000 men in Russian Poland. Roland Garros captured after in flight incident over a German railroad. Dunkirk shells from German land guns. several killed. Van Dyke reports German bombs on the Cushing. no lives lost. U 25 sinks a Russian steamer off Ireland with crew saved.
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Germany
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Milan
Italy
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van Dyke
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Hague
Cushing
North Sea
Philadelphia
Rotterdam
General Orozco Missing Near El Paso Border
Reports say General Pascual Orozco disappeared from the American border near Kens Texas May 4 and is believed to have crossed into Mexico. Heavy fire was heard on the Mexican side across from Kens for about three hours amid unrest and counter revolutionary threats.
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Associated Press
el Paso
Tex
Pascual Orozco
Kens
Texas
Mexico
Bens
Lynching Reported Near Iten Alabama
In Mobile on May 4 a man named Jesse Hatch was accused of attacking a white man and was lynched yesterday near Iten Alabama. The report reflects a violent extrajudicial act amid racial tensions.
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Associated Press
Mobile
Ala
Jesse Hatch
Iten
Swiss Army Calls Up Sixth Division In Wartime Move
Berne May 1 The Federal Council orders call up of the sixth division as war widens. Folkstone May 1 Refugees from Dunkirk report large flows of women and children fleeing and heavy destruction from German seventeen inch bombardment last night.
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Berne
Switzerland
Federal Council Today
Folkstone
England
Dunkirk
From Oldfield to the Army
Barney Oldfield’s former mechanic Harry Breen now drives for a British staff officer at the front. A Pittsburg native born forty one years ago to a Danish mother and British father, Breen left a garage business to enlist in England. His racing skill earned him instant service at General Headquarters and he finds strife on the roads near Paris a fierce substitute for the Indianapolis track.
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France
Associated Press
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Harry Breen
Indianapolis Speedway
United States
Breen
Pittsburg
Fittsburg
England
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Oldfield
Japanese Ultimatum to China Reported by Tokyo Press
Tokyo papers say a Japanese ultimatum to China will be issued after six hour cabinet session. Yaumi reports Elder Statesmen aim to push Yuan Shi Kai toward accepting Japan's proposals. An order from the Emperor may follow in a few days per Ihara News Agency.
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Tokio
Jiji Shimpe
Japan
China
M. Hioki
Pekin
Ihara
Yamuri
Yuan Shi Kai
Steamer Gulflight Torpedoed Off Scilly Islands
The American oil tank steamer Gulflight sailing from Port Arthur Texas to Rouen France was torpedoed at noon Saturday near the Scilly Islands. The captain reportedly died of heart failure after the shock and two seamen drowned. Other crew were rescued by a patrol boat and the ship was beached at Crow Sound. The 8202 ton steel vessel built in 1914 at Camden New Jersey belonged to Gulf Refining Company and carried wireless equipment.
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London
Gulflight
Port Arthur
Texas
Rouen
France
Scilly Islands
Central News Agency
Crow Sound
Camden
N. J
Gulf Refining Company
Germans Capture Large German Hands Day One Victory
German official report details the first day of a major Western Galicia battle against Russia. Prisoners reach 21 500 with sixteen cannons and forty seven machine guns taken. Austrians assault a twenty four mile entrenched front along the Biala and seize the line.
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Vienna
Galicia
Biala
Italian King Skips Garibaldi Monument Ceremony
In Rome on May 4 Associated Press reports the Italian King and most ministers will not attend the Garibaldi monument unveiling, a move seen as delaying Italy's war involvement. The decision follows a Cabinet meeting and a German ambassador visit offering a fresh basis for Austrian negotiations. A London report notes a German submarine torpedoed a British vessel.
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Austria
Associated Press
London
Grey denies formal talks over Japan demands on China
In the House of Commons Sir Edward Grey stated the United States and England have not begun formal negotiations regarding Japan's demands on China. Chancellor Lloyd-George warned the war could cost England about five and a half billion pounds if it ran the full year.
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Sir Edward Grey
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United States
England
Japan
China
David Lloyd-George
Germans Capture Belgian Towns Near Ypres
Berlin reports German forces seized Zevocote Zonnebke and Westhok northeast of Ypres after months of contest as part of a Belgian campaign. In the Baltic raid, Russian prisoners rose to four thousand after Augustowo engagement. Swiss bound bombardment from Basel notes French artillery strikes on Upper Alsace fortifications with undisclosed results.
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Zonnebke
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Ypres
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Switzerland
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Alsace
Three Lost Lives in Sinking Gulflight Tanker
Washington reports nine killed on the American steamer Gulflight after a German submarine torpedoed the ship near the Scilly Islands. Names listed include Captain Gunther and Charles C Short among the American dead. Other dispatches note gas attacks in Belgium and a submarine strike near Aberdeen with trawler losses.
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Gulflight
Scilly Islands
Austrian Victory Report Signals Major Front Breakthrough
Berlin reports an important Austrian victory in Western Galicia, with forces pushing back and breaking through the Russian front over a sixty mile stretch. Archduke Ferdinand directed the battle as Constantinople notes Turkish gains near Gallipoli and reports a Russian Black Sea fleet activity. London describes a German air scout over southern England and a sighted Zeppelin moving from Holland.
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Berlin
Galicia
Archduke Ferdinand
Associated Press
London
Ostend
Dover
Folkstone
England
Holland
House Kills Suffrage Move In Texas Legislature
Austin May 4 The House indefinitely postponed the Lewelling woman suffrage resolution by a vote of 86 to 13.
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Associated Press
Austin
Tex
House
Germans Capture 1700 Prisoners in Baltic Invasion
Berlin reports say German forces seized 1,700 prisoners in an invasion of the Baltic Provinces while Russians suffered a heavy setback near Skierne twice. Washington dispatches indicate Italy moves toward early war participation as diplomats expect ambassadors to Vienna and Berlin may not return.
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Berlin
Skierne
Washington
United States
Italy
Vienna
Italian delegate urges staying in place over tense Germany route
The Hague dispatch notes Signora Genoni, Italian delegate to the Women’s International Peace Congress, advised not to attempt return home through Germany due to the current tense atmosphere.
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the Hague
Italy
Signora Genoni
Women’s International Peace Congress
Germany
Oklahoma Banks Change District
Oklahoma banks realign district boundaries impacting multiple institutions in the state. Officials say the move adjusts oversight and service areas, potentially affecting lending limits and branch coordination across regions. The change follows regulatory review and local input from county authorities.
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