10 Apr 1918
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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1918
Page
1
American submarines left in winter, crossed the Atlantic to join Allied forces against German U-boats. Despite bitter gales and extreme cold, most boats arrived under their own power and have been in the war zone for months along with destroyers and naval airmen.
Leopold Strauss of New York, a Presbyterian hospital unit member in France, volunteered to be inoculated with trench fever germs. The test by American and British doctors aimed to see if trench lice transmitted the disease and if their bite caused infection. After two months and hospital care, the volunteers recovered as a medical commission concluded trench fever is transmitted by trench lice, finding a sure cure for the ill.
Professor F E Sperry of Syracuse University told a senate committee that members of the German American alliance aided propaganda to shape U S policy in war times. He linked the alliance with the American embargo conference the American Neutrality league and other groups as parts of Pan German influence. He cited 1907 New York convention remarks by William Randolph Hearst proposing an international German alliance.
Governor Lowden of Illinois asks the federal government for advice and assistance in dealing with disloyalty. Attorney General Gregory says special government agents will be assigned immediately to the work.
In the Commons Premier Lloyd George defends extending the Manpower bill to Ireland amid nationalist protests. He argues emergency needs require including Ireland under conscription and promises self government, while Irish leaders vow to oppose and demand progress reports.
The British line reports heavy German attacks in the northern sector today. German forces forced entry at Givenchy north of Arras but were repelled by British troops. A heavy bombardment extended to the Yepres Comines canal as dawn broke.
German assaults west of Noyon were repelled by French forces at Hangard en Santerre. American reserves reinforced the British line in the France battle area according to a dispatch from London.
The April 10 dispatches describe heavy German attacks along an eleven mile front from Givenchy to Fleurbaix near Armentieres with gains in advanced defenses. British, Portuguese, and French reports note intensified artillery duels, retreats, and counteractions across La Bassee canal Neuve Chapelle and along the Somme with limited infantry actions and repulsed raids.
Washington April 10 1945 four hundred and forty seven names appear on casualty lists for April 1 to 5 1945 released by the War Department after orders from Secretary Baker The roll includes 18 killed in action 11 died of wounds 53 died of disease 21 captured 344 wounded Names span soldiers with pneumonia peritonitis meningitis and other causes with several officers listed plus the appointment of new War Department assistants by President Wilson
With the American Army in France April 10 American railway engineers who helped stem the German assault fought alongside Canadian engineers. They held ground, repelled waves, and inflicted thousands of casualties while advancing from St. Quentin toward Noyon.
American aviator Maj. Cushman Rice, son of a former Minnesota governor, leads the first American squadron into action in the Somme, after service in South American revolutions, the Spanish-American War, the Philippines, and the Boxer Rebellion.
Washington reports of indiscriminate mixing of white and negro soldiers at Camp Pike Ark were declared unfounded by war department officials. Protests were referred to Major General Sturgis.
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