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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1918
Page
5
American submarines left winter seas and crossed the Atlantic to fight German U-boats. Under secrecy and in bitter gales they arrived largely under their own power and now aid allied forces in the war zone alongside destroyers and naval airmen.
Leopold Strauss of New York, in France with the Presbyterian hospital unit, volunteered for inoculation with trench fever germs. American and British doctors sought to see if trench lice spread the disease. Strauss and others recovered after hospitalization. After two months the medical commission announced trench fever is transmitted by the trench lice, and doctors hailed a possible panacea for the ill.
Prof. F B Sperry of Syracuse University testified before a Senate committee claiming German American leaders in the United States backed the American embargo conference the American Neutrality League and other groups as parts of a Pan German apparatus. He said German teachers taught that settlers would gain rights in the United States and cited a 1907 New York Alliance convention where Hearst allegedly proposed funding delegates to Germany to expand the alliance’s reach.
Illinois Governor Lowden asks federal government for advice and aid to combat disloyalty and disorder. Attorney General Gregory says special government agents will be assigned immediately to the work.
Premier Lloyd George announces extending the man power bill to Ireland under the same terms as Britain. Irish MPs interrupt as Devlin and Dillon vow to resist Prussian methods, insisting on irish liberty and pressure for progress.
British forces repelled large German assaults in the northern sector, with heavy attacks south of Ypres near Armentieres. Germans briefly entered Givenchy about 15 miles north of Arras before being driven out by British troops. An intense bombardment extended along the front toward the Yepres Comines canal.
The Germans launched heavy attacks near Hangard en Santerre west of Noyon, but French forces repelled them. American reserves reinforced the British line as a dispatch from British headquarters in France confirms American reinforcements in the battle zone.
German forces launch heavy assault along an eleven mile front from Givenchy to La Bassee and Fleurbaix near Armentieres with gains in advanced defenses. British and Portuguese troops counterattack amid mist and heavy bombardment. French artillery disrupts German advances north of Montdidier and along the Oise and Somme fronts.
Washington April 10 four hundred forty seven names appear on casualty lists for April 1 to 8. The totals include 18 killed in action 11 died of wounds 53 died of disease 21 captured and 344 wounded. The April 5 and April 8 listings name many privates sergeants and officers with pneumonia meningitis peritonitis and other causes. President Wilson appointed Edward R Stetini as second assistant secretary of war and Fred P Keppel as third assistant secretary of war.
American railway engineers in France fought alongside Canadian troops to hold lines from St. Quentin to near Noyon. They improvised with rifles and limited machine guns, pouring lethal fire and withstanding multiple German waves, then rested and rearmed near Noyon. An incident saw a German officer posing as British staff shot after suspicion.
American aviators fight on the Somme front with Maj. Cushman Rice, a famed veteran who served in South American revolutions, the Spanish-American War, led scouts for General Lawton in the Philippines, helped quell the Boxer rebellion, and now commands the first American squadron into the major battle.
Washington reports that claims of indiscriminate mixing of white and negro soldiers at Camp Pike Arkansas are unfounded, with war department officials stating the matter was referred to Major General Sturgia for protest handling.
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