Yankee News of Big Raid and Death of U S Captain
In France a raid on the Toul sector is described with a map left by a Prussian captain. The attack involved four rehearsals and fresh troops. American defenses repelled the assault. Prisoners doubted Germany winning the war, and wounded soldiers shared heroic acts with modesty. A Kansas soldier recalled the brutal fight and the captain who died caring for his men.
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France
Toul
Salient
Maattack
Germany
Savannah
Texas
Missouri
Red Cross
Fritz
Kansas
Baltimore woman electrician joins coast guard and radio service
Myrtle R Hazard of Baltimore is described as the only woman electrician in the U S coast guard and among a few female radio operators in government work. She trained in four months at a Baltimore Y M C A class and passed the government exam. The text also recalls a captain killed in action and nearby graves for both sides.
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Myrtle R. Hazard
Baltimore
United States Coast Guard
Baltimore Y. M
French Repel German Raids Near Reims And La Pompelle
Paris reports strong German efforts to debouch from the Neufchatel salient northwest of Reims were repulsed by French fire and counterattacks. French lines held at La Pompelle after temporary trench evacuations, with engagements near Camillet and Barisis and Juvincourt yielding no German gains.
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Neufchatel Salient
Reims
French War Office
Papelle Fort
la Pompelle
Camillet
Champagne
Chemin Des Dames
Mause
Barisis
Juvincourt
Neufchatel
Sane
la Bretonnerie
Germany Seizes Ahland Islands in Finland Crisis
Telegraphic bulletins report German forces have seized the Ahland Islands to press toward Finland’s territory with Sweden likely to clash. The islands, off the Finnish coast, have strategic value and were previously held by Russia before Swedish occupation again amid the current Russian crisis.
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Christiana
Ahland Islands
Filand
Sweden
Germany
Russia
French Forces Reassert Position In Troubled Front
Official war office dispatch reports French troops driving back German forces east of the Teton and near Butte du Mesnil, restoring the line at La Pompelle. Patrols captured prisoners on the Meuse's right bank near Vaux Les Palamiex. Two German raids in Lorraine and the Vosges were checked, while British lines near Armentieres raided German trenches and took prisoners.
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Teton
Butte du Mesnil
Meuse
Vaux Les Palamiex
Lorraine
Vosges
Fave
War Office
la Pompelle
London
Armentieres
Porkless Day Ends Amid Meat Production Rise
Washington reports the Food Administration ends the pork and meatless Saturday rule as the war drives higher meat output and wheat saving needs. The policy stays flexible for months as beef and pork consumption is limited to one day weekly to curb bread use while exports rise. Hoover cites Ally breadstuffs demand and Argentina shortages driving the adjustment.
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Washington
The
Food Administration
Foods Administration
Hoover
Argentina
Tow British Ship to Port
An Atlantic port report says a British steamer, which called for help early in the week while adrift, was brought in by a government vessel after being towed from off the Nova Scotia coast. The tow line parted four times as the crews battled high seas to keep the vessel secure.
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Atlantic
Nova Scotia
British steamer Tiberia sunk by German submarine
The British merchant steamship Tiberia of 4,880 tons gross was sunk by a German submarine about February 27 while bound for New York. The crew was rescued.
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New York
Ine
Martial Law Declared in Poland and Chambers Adjourned
Official dispatches confirm martial law in Poland. The Wangariin chamber of deputies adjourned on February 26 until further notice, signaling a pause in legislative activity amid the crisis.
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Poland
Washington
Wangariin Chamber of Deputies
Slavs Accept Teuton Terms as Fear of Worse Looms
Berlin reports cease of military movements in Great Russia after the peace treaty with Russia. Brest Litovsk delegates, fearing harsher terms, accept German conditions and plan to sign. Message to Lenin and Trotzky notes talks useless and outlines new territorial demands including Karaband Batoum and Kars detachments from Russia.
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Berlin
Russia
Great Russia
Petrograd
Brest-Litovsk
Smolny Institute
Lenine
Trotzky
Karaband
Kars
Batoum
Turkey
Black Sea
Transcaucasia
Armenia
Allied Fleet at Vladivostok Involved in Far East Crises
British dispatches report Bolsheviks seize a Vladivostok pier with munitions worth about 500000 fur rubles while threatening a foreign ship. Tokyo and London cite Japan and China's troop movements into Siberia and Manchuria with Gen. Tuan Chi Jui possibly as Chinese supreme commander.
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Vladivostok Cone
Motono
Diet
Japan
Russia
Vladivostok
Tanaka
Petrograd
Emperors Villa
Hayama
Kato
Pogo
trans-Siberian
Irkutsk
Russian Manchuria
Stefansson Delirious at Herschel Island Wintering
Reports from Dawson on March 3 indicate Vilhjalmur Stefansson the explorer is delirious at Herschel Island where he is wintering. Captain K M Tupper and the NWMP Arctic patrol report Stefansson had reached Herschel after the Polar Bear vessel anchored at Barter Island last fall.
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Tupper
Herschel Stefansson
Sugar Loading Halted for Mexico and Havana Ports
Loading of sugar bound for Mexican and Spanish ports has ceased by order of the port’s Inspector General under instructions said to come from President Menocal. Mexican firms have contracted for 45,000 tons of sugar here.
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Mexico
Havana
Menocal
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Koko Koko
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Alphonso
Tiberia
Anchor Line
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Siberia
Tuan Chi Jui
Manchuria
Reuter
4Ias
Far East
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Stefansson
Explorer
Herschel Island
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