U S Demands Full Reparation for Ancona Sinking
Washington releases the note from Secretary Lansing calling for indemnity for American casualties aboard the Austro Hungarian liner Ancona. It demands punishment of the submarine commander and reiterates U S insistence that the attack violated international law and humanity.
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SEC. Lansing
Department OF State
Washington
Ambassador Penfield
United States
Ancona
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Lansing
United States demands action from Austria over Ancona sinking
The United States presses Austria-Hungary for a formal denouncement of the Ancona sinking, punishment of the submarine commander, and reparation for U S casualties. The note signals a potential rupture in Washington Vienna relations and uses the word demand twice to stress seriousness.
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Washington
United States
Austria-Hungary
Ancona
Mediterranean
State Department
Germany
Lusitania
Wilson
Lansing
Vienna
Austria
American Consul Accused for Unneutral Utterances in Cairo
Washington reports a probe into Olney Arnold of Rhode Island, the American consul general in Cairo, on charges by U.S. residents alleging unneutral utterances. Inspector N. B. Stewart has been dispatched from the State Department to Cairo to conduct the investigation.
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Cairo
Washington
Olney Arnold
Rhode Island
Egypt
N. B. Stewart
State Department
Africa
Vatro
Germany Holds Up Dues Blocade Tethers Dyestuff Shipments
Washington reports the failure to move European dyestuffs to the United States stems from Germany not Britain. The British Foreign Office has allowed two cargoes to proceed, but the German embargo blocks their movement for now.
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Britain
Washington
Europe
United States
Germany
Great Britain
State Department
British Foreign Office
Bulgars Push Offensive In Serbia And Greece
Bulgarian forces pierce into Greek frontier territory as they pursue retreating Allies. London reports three Irish regiments saving the Tenth British Division at Lake Doiran while larger Bulgarian and German forces press across the Vardar valley toward Salonika. Allied retreat occurs with losses but remains orderly as French and British troops withdraw to safety under fleet protection.
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London
Paris
Rome
Saloniki
Athens
Greece
Germany
Vardar
Berlin
Raba Mountain
Karanglarlar
Bodgantzi
Munster Fusiliers
Dublin Fusiliers
Connaught Rangers
Lake Doiran
Serbia
London War Office
Majadagh
Rabrovo
Valandovo
Sofia
Bug River
Lida-’ Baronovitchi-Rovno
British War Office
Salonica
Monastir
Petrovo
Krivolak
Demirkapou
Aristocrats Slashed as War Reduces British Titles
The new De Brett's Peerage shows 800 aristocrats killed or displaced and major changes in titles. It lists one royal family member, six peers, sixteen baronets, six knights, seven MPs, 164 companions, and many heirs among peers, baronets, and knights.
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London
de Brett
House of Commons
War News Highlights Across the Fronts
The British Under Secretary of War states Turkey fields 650000. Austria drafts 1916 youths. Greece seizes Greek shipping for food and coal and plans to demobilize half its troops. Serbian remnants resist in Albania. Zeppelin destroyed near Kalkan. snow hinders Gallipoli. Entente ships bombard Turks as their offensive stalls. Submarines of Germany and Austria-Hungary have sunk 508 ships.
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Turkey
Austria
Greece
Athens
Albania
Kalkan
Petrograd
Gallipoli
Berlin
Austrian Ruler Paralyzed Report Reaches Paris
Paris reports a Rome dispatch claims Emperor Francis Joseph became paralyzed in his legs last year and has lost use of his right arm. The Rome correspondent states the information was taken to the Vatican by Cardinal von Hartmann, archbishop of Cologne, who visited Rome for a consistory.
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Paris
Francis Joseph
Rome
Matin
Vatican
von Hartmann
Cologne
Pacific Fleet Sold as U.S. Trade Drive Moves On
The American International Corporation buys the remaining Pacific Mail Steamship Fleet to defend U S port trade. Vessels include the Aztec City of Para Newport Pennsylvania Peru San Jose and San Juan. Pacific Mail to dissolve with assets liquidated. W R Grace & Co to manage ships for current Pacific service.
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New York
American International Corporation
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
Pacific
Central America
W.R. Grace & Co
Aztec
City of Para
Newport
Pennsylvania
Peru
San Jose
San Juan
Pacific Mail Company
Atlantic Transport Company
International Mercantile Marine Company
la Follette
Hutchinson petitions court over $450000 fraud loss
Shelly M. Hutchinson, once a Sperry & Hutchinson shareholder, asks a U S district court to entertain a complaint against the firm alleging cofounders William M. Sperry and the late Thomas A. Sperry diverted $450,000 from company funds. He contends his dividend share was improperly withheld after surrendering stock.
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Newark
N. J
Sperry & Hutchinson
Shelly M. Hutchinson
United States District Court
Rellstab
Hutchinson
William M. Sperry
Cranford
Thomas A. Sperry
Sperrys
McAdoo Sees Prosperity in Treasury Report
Secretary McAdoo reviews business conditions in the Treasury Department annual report. He contrasts current prosperity with conditions from a year ago, noting wartime hurts but overall improvement in the industrial outlook.
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Secretary of Treasury
Washington
Congress
Villa Wrecks Homes In Mexican Border Action
Meagre advices from Madera Chihuahua report that Villa troops destroyed homes of Pearson Company American employees arriving refugees in El Paso Texas. Local Pearson reps cannot confirm whether mills valued at eighteen million dollars were destroyed.
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Pearson Company
el Paso
Tex
Madera
Chihuahua
Pearson
Villa
Sonora
Greater South Aim Debated by Dixie Commercial Men
Charleston session of the Southern Commercial Congress outlines plans to build a greater nation through a greater South and to develop South American resources. Senator Fletcher reports on U S progress in unlocking the region's wealth.
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Dixie
Charleston
8. C
Southern Commercial Congress
South
United States
South America
Congress
Fletcher
Republicans Name Chicago June 7 for National Convention
The Republican National Committee fixed Chicago as the site for the June 7 convention, a week before the Democratic gathering in St. Louis. Reported aim is party unity, with Hughes seen as strongest potential nominee though not assured. Chicago hosts hotel reservations surge as five declared contenders set up in Congress Hotel including Weeks Burton Smith Fairbanks and Sherman.
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Washington
Chicago
St. Louis
National Committee
Justice Hughes
San Francisco
Philadelphia
Roosevelt
Congress Hotel
Senator Weeks
Massachusetts
Burton
Ohio
Smith
Michigan
Fairbanks
Indiana
Sherman
Illnois
Henry D. Esterbrook
New York
Congress
Aliens in US uniforms seized on army transport
Four people arrested on arrival in Honolulu and San Francisco for smuggling operations after posing as discharged soldiers. Three Germans and an Austrian found aboard the Sheridan and handed to immigration authorities. Two more Germans seized by military police for wearing US uniforms and posing as veterans.
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Honolulu
San Francisco
United States Army
Army
Sheridan
N. Peterson
George King
Emil Gering
Jacob Klanhaus
United States
John P. Wisser
Hawaiian Department of the Army
Paul Simbach
Lynatz Tobolski
U.S Protest Over Descartes Move and Other World Briefs
The United States protested to France over the Descartes cruiser removing six Germans and Austrians from American ships Carolina Coamo and San Juan. Reports from Winnipeg confirm Canada’s use of wheat for Italy. In Cologne twenty six women were injured in a butter riot. In Washington a full probe will examine claims that Lieut Col Bramwell was murdered and did not shoot himself. Milwaukee papers drop the hyphen in German American.
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Washington
United States
Sharp
Paris
Foreign Office
Descartes
Carolina
Coamo
San Juan
Winnipeg
Chicago
New York
Italy
Cologne
Germany
Garrison
C. H. Bramwell
Roosevelt
Hawaii
Milwaukee
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