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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1918
Page
2
Correspondents accredited to the American army may move to zones near the Lorraine front in France up to brigade and division headquarters with reporting, wearing gas masks and helmets. Access to trenches requires escort and special permission, while German reports note prior U S presence near Nancy, Verdun, and along the line up to the Swiss border.
An American position on a French front sector was raided in dense fog after a heavy artillery barrage. Casualties include two killed, four wounded, and one missing believed captured. Daily losses continue in this sector with most deaths from shell fire.
St Paul Feb 5 The Thaw ruling allowing transfer of a prisoner for trial was cited as Ralph L Crosby’s extradition proceeds before Governor Burnquist Crosby recently confessed to killing John Bell and his wife in Red Oak Iowa in August 1914 after being committed to the St Peter state hospital for the insane January 19
Reports from Berlin cite a bomb at the imperial palace and mass arrests. Senate passes an army badge bill for exempted draft-age men. Britain reports German U boats sinking civilians. U.S. war costs climb to 7.1 billion in ten months. Heatless Mondays face possible abandonment after talks. A Russian alcohol factory fire kills hundreds. Paris raid by German planes leaves twenty dead and fifty injured. Senate panel approves draft exemptions for skilled industry and agriculture. Aircraft program behind schedule. Crowder sets draft increment move for late February. Secretary Daniels says enough transport to deploy 500000 to France. A Houston student dies in a stunt crash. Rankin bill on citizenship for foreign wives is tabled. Draft exams updated for extended selective service.
President Wilson extends government control to fuel oils with licenses due by February 11 for manufacturers and distributors surpassing 100 000 barrels annually. Mark L. Requa of California named chief of the fuel administrator s oil division. Prefential list prioritizes railroads, military shipments, hospitals, utilities, shipyards, food plants, and munition producers while exempting most oil users from the Monday closing order.
Halifax mourns as the government commission blames Pilot Macky of Halifax and Captain Lamodec of the French ship Imo for the Mont Blanc collision that triggered the December 6 blast. Macky is arrested for manslaughter and license cancelled. Lamodec’s license may be canceled and he faces charges in France.
Washington reports six of twelve missing American soldiers from the November 8 trench raid have been located by the Red Cross in a prison camp at Tuchel West Prussia. General Pershing informs the war department that they were taken in the first German assault on an American sector.
Representative Miller told the house he believes German submarines are being destroyed as rapidly as Germany can build them. He praised Vice Admiral Sims for convoy methods with American destroyers and cruisers and urged shipping be run by naval officers rather than the shipping board.
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