Western Front Ablaze From Aisne To Alps Report
Paris reports heavy artillery fighting across the front with no infantry action. New American units under instruction entered the Chemin des Dames sector, killing one German and capturing another, with one American slightly wounded.
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Paris
Forest of Pinon
Chevreux
Californie Plateau
Aisne
Butte de Mesnil
Champagne
Hartmanns-Weilerkopf
Alsace
U. S
France
Chemin Des Dames
Americans Enter Front Through Nighttime Shells in France
The report details American troops moving through shell-pitted regions and towns left in ruins, welcomed by French generals who kissed the flag. A lone American captured a German after diving into a shell hole. many soldiers sang on the arduous march. Meanwhile British lines stretch from the North Sea to the Oise as Haig reshapes fronts, and raids on Ypres rail lines cost missing men.
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New England States
Marne
Aisne
Oise
North Sea
Haig
St. Quentin
Ypres
London
Ypres-Roulers
War Office
Merckem
McAdoo Hoover Clash Over Coast Food Shipments
Washington reports a heated exchange as William G McAdoo challenges Herbert Hoover to reveal where allied food supplies are and which US ports receive them. Hoover cites transportation delays as the issue while McAdoo releases grain shipment figures and vows to guarantee transport despite blizzards and floods.
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Washington
William G. McAdoo
Herber Hoover
United States
W. G. Madoo
Hoover
McAdoo
Food Administration
Hollweg Buys U. S. War Bonds
Von Bethmann Hollweg, former German chancellor, has invested in American Liberty bonds. The alien property custodian's agent in charge of Hollweg's holdings at Waco Texas has invested part of the income and requests subscriptions totaling about 75,000 dollars a year.
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Hollweg
U. S
Washington
von Bethmann Hollweg
Germany
Waco
Tex
Turks End Armistice and Open New Offensive
London reports Turkish forces have ended the armistice with Russia and begun a fresh offensive against Russian troops in the Caucasus region.
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London
Russia
First Christian Science Naval Chaplain Appointed
Richard J. Davis becomes the first Christian Science naval chaplain and the only one named so far. The photograph shows him in uniform at the Boston navy yard where he is stationed. Davis has long served among the men at the station, now in an official capacity.
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Richard J. Davis
Christian Science Naval
Boston Navy Yard
Mr. Davis
British Capture Jericho in Palestine War Report
London's war office says Australian troops entered Jericho in Palestine on Thursday with light casualties. The move advances the plan to free the Holy Land from Turkish rule as British lines extend along the Jordan and Wadi Auja while the ancient city’s biblical history is noted.
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London
Jericho
Palestine
War Office
Jordan
Wadi Auja
Holy Land
Dead Sea
Jerusalem
Four Traitors in Camp Lewis Face Treason Suspicions
Four National Army soldiers at Camp Lewis Tacoma Wash await presidential warrant to be interned as enemy aliens after plotting to shoot officers and surrender their unit to Germany. Names withheld pending Washington advices as 34 other men are discharged from the Ninety first division. Courts martial and potential death penalties are noted for treason charges.
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Camp Lewis
Tacoma
Wash
National Army
Washington
Europe
Judge Advocate General's Office
Department of Justice
Wadsworth
S. C
Stern
Imal
Ryan
Sugar shortage near end boosts beet sugar receipts
Chicago on February 23 reports the sugar situation improving as beet district shipments increase and officials predict the crisis is nearly over. Officials note a car shortage due to the grain drive and anticipate meatless Tuesdays through April 15 for surplus pork and lamb, per State Food Administrator Itarry A. Wheeler and Herbert Hoover.
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Chicago
Food Administration
Itarry A. Wheeler
Military writers fined for censorship breach in Post
London Feb 22 Col C A Repington military correspondent and Howell A Gwynne editor of the Morning Post were each fined 500 dollars and costs for publishing an article last week in violation of military censorship.
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London
Col. C. A. Repington
Morning Post
Howell A. Gwynne
Post
Rosenwald to Quit Rumor Shifts in National Defense Supply Chair
Washington reports in official circles that Julius Rosenwald of Chicago will soon retire as chairman of the committee on supplies for the council of national defense. Goethals reorganizes the quartermaster department and takes most army supply duties under his direct orders.
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Washington
Julius Rosenwald
Chicago
Council of National Defense
Quartermaster’s Department
Goethals
Navy seeks repeal of pay boosts for naval aviators
Secretary Daniels urged Congress to repeal the 35 and 50 percent increases in pay and allowances for naval aviators arguing flying is not more dangerous than other war duties. He sent the request in a letter from Washington dated February 28.
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Washington
Secretary of the Navy
Daniels
Congress
Farmer Held for Threat to President Wilson
Lincoln Nebraska February 28. E F Marshall a farmer from Murdock Neb was held in the county jail on a charge of threatening the life of President Wilson pending a preliminary hearing. Marshall denied the charge.
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Farmer
Lincoln
Neb
Wilson
E. FE
Marshall
Murdock
China Quake death toll reaches six hundred
Reports from Swatow confirm about 600 killed and more than 2000 injured in a recent earthquake. Several villages in the Amoy hinterland were virtually wiped out.
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Amoy
China
Swatow
Russian edict calls for death defiance as siege tightens
Bolshevik rulers urge soldiers to defend the republic to the death and destroy railways and provisions. Proclamations warn of German capture of Petrograd while Finland evacuation is ordered and navy disorganization worsens with ships to move to Kronstadt to escape German hands.
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Berlin
War Office
Kaethonia
Hapsal
Gulf of Finland
Ronneburg
Wolmar
Spandau
Rieshitsa
Riga
Leuzin
Minsk
Novograd-Volhynski
Volhynian
Dubno
Reichstag
Germany
Ukraine
London
Reuter
Petrograd
Kiev
Finland
Smolny Institute
Bolsheviki
People's Commissaries
Lenine
Krylenko
Reval
Helzingfors
Kronstadt
Health of Camp Improves With Lower Deaths
Washington reports health conditions in all American army camps improved in the week ending February 15 with a lower death rate than since last November. Total deaths for the week were 177.
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Washington
Spanish Ship Mar Caspio Destroyed by Submarine Fire
The Spanish steamship Mar Caspio of 2723 tons was sunk by submarine shell fire. Also, 47 crew members of the British transport Veturia, which foundered two days earlier off the coast, were rescued by a United States cutter and brought to port.
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Madrid
Atlantic
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Congress of National Service
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