Allied forces under Foch take unified command in France
The Entente appoints General Ferdinand Foch as supreme commander of all Allied troops on the French battlefront. President Wilson congratulates Foch while Pershing remains in France. The German offensive slows after eight days, with French and British lines holding at key sectors and German wedge depth estimated at thirty seven miles. Local fighting continues along the Oise and Somme fronts as high command notes limited German gains and ongoing counterattacks.
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Foch
France
Pershing
Associated Press
Germany
Marne
London
Washington
Paris
Wilson
General Foch
General Pershing
Picardy
German War Office
Asieux
Albert
Somme
Wennies
Sethi
Montdidier
Lassigny
Noyon
Hoover Urges Complete Wheat Abstinence to Aid Allies
Washington March 29 Hoover warned the nation of a grave food crisis as wheat supplies shrink and allied needs rise. He urged every independent and affluent American to abstain from wheat until the next harvest to conserve stocks for the war effort.
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Washington
Food Administration
United States
Moorer
Argentina
Trade unionism wins sweeping wartime labor pact
Washington March 29 A national war time labor policy was signed by ten leading labor and employer figures along with former President Taft and Frank P Walsh. The agreement grants near full recognition of union rights and establishes a planning board to adjust labor disputes.
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Washington
Wade Unliopinm
Capital and Labor
Wilson
Taft
Frank P. Walsh
Planning Board
Large tax check sent to New York collector marks record income tax
A $5,500,000 check for corporation income and war profits taxes arrived at the Wall Street district office of Collector William H. Howardy. It stands as the largest corporate tax payment so far, with an earlier personal tax record exceeding $740,000 noted for Collector Edwards.
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New York
William H. Howardy
Wall Street
Edwards
Move to Register on Service Day
Associated Press dispatch notes that American history may mark June 6 as “war day” when men respond to the draft call. Provost Marshal Crowder will run the second draft region for men aged twenty one who were born this year. Registration will continue during the war, with about 600000 class one physically fit men added to defense columns annually under the program.
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Associated Prem
Washington
Maretal
Crowder
Mmm
Armeran
Wyoming May Have Food Cards
ST. PAUL Minn March 29 A conference of food administrators from Minnesota North Dakota Montana and Wyoming may decide to place the Northwest retail tour trade on a food card basis Federal Food Administrator Hoover called the meeting State Food Administrator A D Wilson said flour cards are to be discussed bread cards have not been considered
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ST. Paul
Minn
Northwest
Minnesota
North Dakota
Montana
Wyoming
A. D. Wilson
Hoover
Wilson
Program of League for Peace Given to Wilson
Washington March 20. Former President Taft and Harvard President A Lawrence Lowell told President Wilson the program of the win the war convention, which the League to Enforce Peace will hold in May. They decided not to ask him to attend due to the stress he is under.
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Washington
Taft
A. Lawrence Lowell
Harvard University
Wilson
League To
Huns Face Threat as Slavs Mobilize
Report from Washington on March 29 says Germany may redeploy Russian troops to blunt a Slav uprising. Officials note Bolshevik influence rises after Odessa and Nikolayev capture, with Trotzky seeking army rehabilitation amid German pressure.
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Washington
Germany
Russia
Odessa- Nikolayev
Trotzky
German Offensive Reported Near Kursk by Petrograd News
Petrograd reports, via Reuters dispatches from the city, that Germany began an offensive toward Kursk, about 300 miles south of Moscow. German advance guards were sighted twelve miles from Kursk. Ukrainian authorities reportedly use the Russian language.
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London
Kursk
Moscow
Petrograd
German Foreign Minister defends action over American remarks amid war unrest
FPETROURAD March 20. German Foreign Minister von Koehlmann says Germany acted because of American Ambassador Francis' statement on U S readiness to assist. Odessa fall prompts 10 000 workers to defy Soviet evacuation orders and defend the city. Ukrainian sentiment leans toward a German revolution possibly turning against both Germany and the rada. The Lion newspaper urges Russia to rejoin the war with the Allies.
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Josep Shaplen
Fpetrourad
von Koehlman
Francis
Amerieca
Uasixtim
Russia
Odessa
Germany
Rada
Lion
Rusela
Two Royal Flying Corps cadets die in Texas crashes
Fort Worth report says two aviation cadets were killed in Texas today. J Beott Rowan, from Scotland, died in a Camp Benbrook crash and F J Dwyer fell at Camp Everman. Both were Royal Flying Corps members.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Aviation Cadeta
Texas Fields
J. Beott' Rowan
Scotland
Camp Benbrook
F. J. Dwyer
Camp Everman
Royal Flying Corps
Americans Capture German Outpost Prisoners in Broad Daylight
An American unit comprising an intelligence officer a sergeant and three men quietly moved behind a German outpost in No Man's Land capturing four youths. Two Germans fled and were shot. the captives were fed clothed and relieved to be captured. Washington casualty list reports 32 names with 1 killed in action 2 died of wounds and 5 from disease among others.
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Associated Press
France
Marcoh
A. Wapen
J. Albearlee
CC. Cruse
Howard T. Haw
Clarente
Hueb
Joan B. Nutt
William F. Rigney
M Adoo Urges Liberty Day Observance Nationwide
Secretary M Adoo appeals for a nationwide Liberty Loan drive opening April 6 1918 anniversary of U S entry into World War I. He calls for parades patriotic meetings and pledges of resources and sacrifice in support of the war effort with emphasis on national unity and duty.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Gor Many
America
France
Treasury Department
Wscod
Liberty
Ueth
Ortogee
Government to seize oil industry if wartime needs dictate
Oil Director Requa declared before the petroleum congress that government control of the petroleum industry to meet war needs and prevent profiteering will be invoked if found necessary. The statement came from Chicago on March 29.
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Chicago
Requa
Petroleum Congress
$250,000,000 Pay Raise for Railroad Men
The railway wage commission will soon issue recommendations totaling over 250 million dollars annually for railroad workers. Average boosts are expected near 200 dollars per year, though some employees may receive no increase due to prior cost of living adjustments. The commission aims to deliver recommendations to Secretary McAdoo within days.
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I’ress
Washington
Mving
McAdoo
Five killed in Paris church hit during Good Friday services
March 20 Paris reports seventy five dead and ninety wounded when a German long range shell struck a church near Paris during Good Friday services. Among the dead is H. Stroehlin, Swiss legation councilor. The same church was struck last Sunday with many casualties.
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Associated Press
Paris
H. Stroehlin
Legation
Russian Cruiser Admiral Makaroff Destroyed by Mine
A Petrograd dispatch relayed via Copenhagen reports the Russian cruiser Admiral Makaroff sunk by a mine in Heval harbor on the Gulf of Finland. Built in 1905, the vessel measured 442 feet, displaced 7,775 tons, and carried two eight inch, eight six inch, twenty two three inch guns and two torpedo tubes with a crew of eight.
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Associated Press
London
Heval
Gulf of Finland
Makaroff
Petrograd
Copenhagen
Exchange Telegraph Company
Admiral Makaroff
Marion Crandell Killed by Shell on French Front
Miss Marion G. Crandell of Alameda California died when a shell exploded at the Soldiers’ Mide side near the French front where she served as a canteen worker for the YMCA She was 46 and had arrived in France February 15 no further details were received
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Marion G. Crandell
Alameda
Cal
M. C
Mixx Crandell
France
Mob Terrorizing Quebec Citizens
Associated Press reports the militia called to quell a mob terrorizing Quebec City’s business district. The Chronicle office, owned by Sir David Watson, guarding Fifth division, has been wrecked and the Auditorium theater is said to be on fire. Paris reports Davice Putnam of Brookline, Mass, in the Lafayette Escadrille, has shot down two German airplanes, totaling five.
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Associated Press
Quebec
Basiness
the Chronicle
David Watson
Canadian Expeditionary Forces
Auditorium Theater
Paris
Great Allied Counter Drive Develops Gradually
Washington March 29 The great Allied counter drive against the German onset is developing gradually says high American officers. It may take days for the advance to reveal itself as troop dispositions have been made and the army of maneuver takes up the task. German gains yesterday show fatigue and the Allies gain confidence as preparations to break through continue. General Bell reports Allied air and artillery observers locating German positions to force enemy moves and aid Pershing’s command in coordinating the west drive.
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Scarpe
Vimy Ridge
Arras
Boiry
Serre
Evening News
Western Front
Washington
Hythe
Army of Maneuver
Earehai
Mene
Mayenent
Stalon
Bell
Pershing
Ceneral Hell
Fay
O Leary Resigns as Aide to Preston
Wilfrid O Leary the deputy attorney general resigns to take effect April 1 and will join private practice with W G Budick in Cheyenne. Henry Clenry has been deputy attorney general for four years and Lloyd Harn is expected to be appointed to fill the vacancy.
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Wilfrid O'Leary
Poughie A. Prewton
Mrr. O'Leary
W. Ge. Budick
Ete
Bawk
Clenry
Lloyd Harn
Cheyenne
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Baer
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Winsuch
U.S
League For Peace
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Boche
Sammies
Brother
No Man's Land
M’adoo
Willian
William G. M'Adoo
Secretary of the Treasury of the
Hun Shell
Yankee
Gheman
Werte
Katheri
Geo. J. Franklin Bell
Cera
Gunes
O’leary
Preston
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