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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1918
Page
3
Washington reports a revised draft plan delaying full mobilization while assigning 40,000 to a second installment from a 95,000 man call. The restructuring emphasizes skilled workers, staff corps, and agriculture support with deferrals for farmers and students.
A heavy 24 hour rainfall caused over 1,000,000 in damage across lower Michigan. Eaton Rapids suffered substantial property losses while Detroit areas saw food shortages. Two bridges vanished near Ypsilanti and Jackson Ypsilanti Ann Arbor district incurred 250,000 in damage. Interurban traffic slowed. field at Selfridge near Mount Clemens flooded. personnel evacuated to hotels.
Paris March 13 Newton D Baker secretary of war met American English and French journalists and outlined his purpose in visiting France to confer with General Pershing inspect American expeditionary forces transport storage and supply systems to support the army and allies. He conferred with General Bliss in a hotel suite during an air alarm and sheltered in a wine cellar. Baker later went to Versailles for further talks and will inspect communications from the port to American headquarters including troops aboard a former German liner.
Berlin reports German troops have entered Odessa, a Black Sea port city of about 410,000. The advance follows earlier notes of forces nine miles from the city, securing a key Russian grain hub and aiding Turkish troops in Mesopotamia and Palestine against the British advance of Suliiman Mehmed V.
Ohio troops led the raid bid into Luneville region and occupied two kilometers of front trenches after German evacuation. Rainbow Division repelled March raids, with Col. Reilly commanding units that included the 149th artillery. Four German gas projector groups were destroyed by American artillery.
Washington reports that the senate approved legislation authorizing the sale of 11 enemy properties requested by alien property custodian A Mitchell Palmer. The aim is to sever German commercial ties by dissolving connections with enterprises linked to the German regime while ensuring no interference with German or Austrian residents' property.
Tokyo expects intervention in Siberia is only a matter of time as mobilization increases and allies push for a mediation between China and Russia. American officials have not disclosed policy but preparations grow.
Archibald Roosevelt son of Theodore Roosevelt has been wounded in action with the American forces in France. A cable message from Theodore Roosevelt read that Archie was wounded by shrapnel, with a broken arm but no danger. Colonel Roosevelt, at Oyster Bay, expressed pride in his four sons and relief that Archie was not killed.
London reports fierce battles in Turkestan with more than 20 000 casualties among Soviets and natives. Other items note Americans active with Finnish Red guards, peasant guerrilla warfare near Polotsk, and the all Russian soviet congress voting to ratify a peace with the central powers, with territorial losses to Poland, Courland, Tironia, Estonia, and the Ukraine.
Isaac Stephenson former United States senator from Wisconsin and lumberman died at his Marinette home at eighty eight after a two week illness. He helped develop northern Michigan’s lumber and mining sectors and held Wisconsin legislative and three congress terms before filling the late Senator Spamer’s seat in 1907 and winning re election in 1909.
Paris reports 100 dead and 70 injured after Monday night German air raid in Paris and suburbs. Sixty six suffocated amid crowding at Metro entrances while seeking refuge, mostly women and children. Germans lose four airplanes. a Gotha was shot down near Chateau Thierry. a German captain and crew were captured.
The admiralty reports the loss by mine or submarine of 18 British merchantmen in the last week and one fishing vessel. Of the merchantmen 15 were 1,600 tons or over, and three under that tonnage.
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