Record of important events in the war week
A digest of wartime items and personal notices: French attacks near Vimy repulsed. Austro-Hungarians occupy Tirana. battles and artillery duels continue in snow. British and Russian fronts active. Vatican peace offer to Belgium rejected. ships sunk and troop movements reported. Civilian divorces, robberies, and court settlements appear alongside sports results and notable deaths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tirana
Albania
Durazzo
British War Office
Galicia
Volhynia
Argo
Scale of Annual Pay for National Guard officers and privates
Washington. Congress hears a bill proposing federalization of state troops with pay scales for officers from major general to second lieutenant and enlisted men at 25 percent of regular army rates. The plan limits district strength to 500 troops, creates a junior guard for ages 12 to 18, and sets July 1, 1916, as the effective date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
National Guard Association
Congress
Senate
Regular Army
National Guard
Bulgaria to Quit War Amid Separate Peace Overture
Athes reports entente circles confirm Bulgaria has approached for a separate peace with the entente. German forces renew attacks in Artois and Champagne with gains near Tahure Somme road. Hand grenade fighting persists east of Maison de Champagne. The Springwell and Cedarwood steamships were sunk en route from London. crews saved. Russian torpedo boat destroyers strike Turkish vessels and destroy bridges and depots on the Black Sea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Exchange Telegraph Company
Athens
Bulgaria
Artois
Champagne
Berlin
Tahure-Somme-Py Road
Maison de Champagne
Springwell
Mediterranean
Calcutta
Reuter
Malta
Lhouds
Cedarwood
Black Sea
Republican Delegation Plans Set for State Meetings
In Denver on May 2 the Republican state central committee set dates for district meetings and the state conference to select delegates to the Chicago national convention. The four delegates and four alternates at large will be chosen at Pueblo on May 8. The First district will meet in Colorado Springs on May 1 while the Third and Fourth districts convene in Pueblo on May 2 to select delegates and alternates.
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Pueblo
Denver
Republican State Central Committees
Chicago
Colorado Springs
Mach
Garrison Resigns Over Independence Plan Rift
Secretary Lindley M. Garrison resigns after clashing with President Wilson over a Continental army plan and a fixed timetable for Philippine independence. Assistant Secretary Breckenridge also quits in solidarity. Major General Hugh L. Stott becomes acting secretary of war. The move shocks Washington as Wilson accepts both resignations and considers direct defense oversight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
Lindley M. Garrison
Teron Zwiedenik
Lansing
Philippine Republic
Far East
Hitchcock
Manuel L. Quezon
Philippines
Weateren
Union News Service
Washington
Continental Army
Congress
Breckenridge
Hugh L. Stott
Army
Garrison
New York
White House
United States
Department
Teutons Plan To Treat Armed Merchant Vessels As Warships
Germany and Austria-Hungary notified the United States that from March 1 they will regard merchant ships carrying guns as warships and may attack them without warning. The United States says citizens traveling on such armed vessels lose government protection. The move follows Secretary Lansing’s proposal for new wartime warfare rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Austria-Hungary
United States
Coen
Toulouse
Lansing
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Tarnopol
Belgium
Vatican
France
Caroline
England
Austria
West Front
Earl Kitchener
Pauline Randle
San Francisco
Jules
Union Pacific
Rock Springs
Green River
Wyo
Guy Johnson
Minaca
Ocampo
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Kansas City
Evelyn Whittington
St. Paul
Arkansas
Arkansas City
Clark
Weat Point
Canada
Panama
Canal Zone
Fegra
Chihuahua City
Francisco Villa
Elswick Manor
Yarmouth
Melbourne
Australia
Bucharest
Milan Secola
Skoda
Bohemia
Vienna
Paris
Stockholm
Friga
Gothenburg
Horace Lockwood Smith- Dorrien
Eest Africa
Jan Christian Smuts
South Africa
Sporting News
Adolph Wolgast
Frankie Burns
Andre Anderson
Bob Devere
Charley White
Harvey Thorpe
Sam Langford
Harry Willis
New Orleans
Carl Morris
Sapulpa
Okla
Arthur Pesky
Tulsa
Jens Willard
Frank Moran
Willard
Moran
Willard Ie
Col
Theodore
William FP. Hepburn
Clarinda
Long Beach
Cal
Nathan Strauen
Strauss
Poland
California
Col. W. P. Hepburn
Clarindala
G. A. R. Post
William Tivas
Danbury
U.S
Western Newspaper
Assaistant
Teutons
Lumi
Ane
Alabasti
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Grand Rapida, Mich
Denver, NO
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