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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1918
Page
2
A concise survey outlines pivotal wartime events at Washington and key industrial activity spreading across national borders. It highlights how diplomatic and military decisions intertwine with production and trade impacts shaping the broader conflict horizon.
War dispatches describe a French regiment holding three German divisions on Remmel Hill for six hours with flag still flying and machine guns active. German efforts near Kemmel Mount and in Ypres area are reported halted while British and French lines hold. Unofficial totals claim 48,000 to 72,000 German troops assaulted the Ypres sector and Mont Kemmel. Reports mention German attacks against American positions by mobile units equipped with frightfulness gear.
John Mackenne, naval hero, awarded the Washington Medal and a $100 gratuity for risking his life to save the vessel and crew. The article notes enlistment of Verstine’s heroes and Sadler’s feats earning Allied praise in the French theater. Senate action on the Overman bill includes Wadsworth amendment establishing an executive aircraft production agency reporting to the President. Block Island dry zone announced by the navy department.
General report outlines Higginson severing ties with the Boston Symphony amid the Carl Muck scandal. It notes Germany building submarines near American waters, ships launched at Kearny, military prep and defense efforts in New York, and Roosevelt’s reserve officers list.
Harvard varsity and freshman crews defeated Princeton tandily in Lake Champlain like conditions, while Cincinnati hosts league play with first triple play of the season. Baseball notes include Walter Johnson’s 9 4 win for Washington, Grover Alexander’s sendoff, Armando Marsani in lineup planning, and other league updates.
George Bell, described as a giant Negro seven feet eleven inches tall, was rejected from the draft at Camp Upton due to his size. The report notes cheering in the House as Speaker Clark declined a senatorial interim nomination.
A house debate favors raising the American army in France to 3 000 000 with reserves. Ninety eight dangerous enemy aliens arrive at Ellis Island from the Panama Canal Zone. The paymaster of a German spy ring is among them. The London Times editorial defended American progress overseas. Two wounded Americans rescued after five days in a dugout at Leidscheprey. French general earns War Cross as American regiment defeats Germans near Toul. Belgium receives a 3 250 000 dollar loan. Wounded Americans reach a hospital behind French lines in the Somme, confirming Pershing’s forces in the Great War theater.
A dispatch from Paris reports that in the Louvain district the German high command has cut sugar rations for foreign infants due to wood shortages caused by unknown persons. The order has been posted locally as government actions trigger concerns amid unrest.
War summary notes a bold British French raid on Zeebrugge and Ostend with obsolete ships sunk and moles destroyed amid heavy shelling. German counteroffensives at Hangard Villers Kemmel press advance while American troops fight alongside French lines near Amiens. Richthofen killed. US aces rising. global moves include Finland Crimea and Dutch neutrality threats.
Albert Bushnell Hart urges universal Liberty Loan support, arguing government by the people requires spending or being spent. He links the Revolution’s sacrifices to present wartime funding, urging every reader from farmers to students to subscribe and mobilize in a nationwide push.
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