U S Policy on Siberia and Russia Stance Clarified
Washington reports the United States has not consented to or protested Japanese military action in Siberia and remains cautious on Russia policy. Ambassadors and missions influence the stance as President Wilson weighs peace terms and noninterference while urging allied understanding and Russia’s self-determined development.
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Washington
United States
Japan
Siberia
Far East
Siberian
David R. Francis
Germany
Francis
Root
White House
Russia
Congress
Society of Free Nations
Naval Camps Enforce Five Mile Dry Zones
Secretary Daniels ordered five mile dry zones around eight permanent naval training stations and camps regardless of local municipal boundaries. The ban includes liquor sales near Great Lakes station, Norfolk and Hampton Roads camps, Mare Island, Quantico, and Port Royal. He cited Vallejo near Mare Island with a street of 25 saloons run by a German brewer as a key example.
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Washington
Daniels
Great Lakes
Chicago
Norfolk
Hampton Roads
Mare Island
Cal
Quantico
Port Royal
Vallejo
O O Clarkson’s Role in National Defense Committee
O O Clarkson, secretary of the council of national defense, headed by a noted New York industrialist, helped lead the advisory commission that mobilized industry and science for national defense. He served as one of three working heads of the naval consulting board’s committee on industrial preparedness, which surveyed 25,000 plants for military use before U S entry into the war.
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Grosvenor B. Clarkson
Council of National Defense
Larkson
New York
Naval Consulting Board
United States
Soldier Given Thirty Years
William Nimke of Torrington Connecticut a sergeant in company F Three Hundred and First engineers at Camp Devans received a thirty year sentence for unpatriotic utterances. Tried February 5 by general court martial he was found guilty on two counts and not guilty on one. He began serving at Fort Jay New York.
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United States
Atlantic
Europe
Parliament Sets March 18 Session in Ottawa
Ottawa March 6 The first session of parliament under the new government is called for Monday March 18. Washington March 6 Officers found guilty of immorality will not be kept in the service. First Lieutenant George R B Kinne of the Ohio Engineers N G is dismissed after a Fort Benjamin Harrison court martial for visiting a woman not his wife in El Paso Texas. The decision was approved by the president. Kinne's home is Cleveland. Other dismissals were announced.
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Washington
Fruilty
George RB
Kinne
The
Ohio Engineers
N. G
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Indiana
el Paso
Tex
War Department
Cleveland
Germans Capture Jamburg Amid Eastern Front Shifts
London reports through Scandinavian neutrals that German forces captured Jamburg east of Narva as Turco German offensive pushes beyond Trebizond despite a peace pact. Jamburg lies on the Reval Petrograd rail line 68 miles from the Russian capital. In Petrograd banks reopen and landlords’ property is restored in German occupied towns.
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London
Jamburg
Narva
Trebizond
Reval
Petrograd
Black Sea
Turkish Armenia
Moscow
Russia
Nizhni-Novgorod
Kazan
Foreign Affairs, Communications
Krylenko
Ensign Krylenko
Badger Senator La Follette Deadlock Breaks After 24Hour Session
Madison March 7 after 24 hours of continuous sitting the Wisconsin assembly broke a deadlock over an anti La Follette resolution by voting 52 to 82 condemning Senator Robert La Follette for war stance. The measure denounces dissident attitudes and affirms support for the national government in the war.
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Madison
Wis
Statehouse
Assembly
Labollette
Donnelly
O'Brien
Red Cross
Bob Labollette
Wisconsin
Robert la Follette
Yeas
Anderson
Armstrong
Aulenbacher
Battis
Beggs
Bernardy
Bradley
Buckley
Campbell
Carpenter
Carter
Chapple
Chinnock
Chipman
Clark
Edwards
Macbretson
Bpnugel
Everson
Frohmander
Gettleman
Grell
Slager
J.C. Hanson
Hineminn
Janssen
Jeske
Kurudutseh
Kubatzki
Kurtenacker
Lawson
Marlett
Detl Miller
Otte
Peterson
Poole
Rappell
Rogers
Ruka
W. L. Smith
Stone
Szewczykiwski
Tomas
Vaughan
Vincent
B. Webster
S. Webster
Wittingham
Williams
Young
Whittet
Nays
Casperson
Duffy
Lvjne
Veldhausen
Freehot
Galbrath
Gamper
Hleming
Hess
Jensen
Jordan
Kent
Luehes
Marth
Melvin
Metcalf
V. V. Miller
Nordman
Ohl
Poor
Rosa
Langen
Schindler
Schroeder
Smith
Milwaukee
Turner
van Doran
Wickert
Wittmann
Johnsort
la Follette
Evjue
Senate
Theodore Roosevelt
Linnin
Tart Heathtel
Russians Prepare to Fight Teutons and Retreat to Urals
March 7 dispatches report a supreme military council for defense in Petrograd and a decree arming the people. Trotzky vowed Bolsheviks would retreat to the Urals rather than submit to defeat, while Moscow would become capital and Petrograd a free port.
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Trotzky
Urals
Petrograd
Ewwss
Izvesta
Lenine
Pravda
Ural Mountains
Leon Trotzky
M. Trotzky
Kerensky
United States
Japan
Aerial Activity Increases as American Troops Hold Front in France
American forces on the Lorraine front repelled a German raid with losses and now hold about eight miles of trench line, though frontage appears four and a half miles due to irregular layouts. A new American balloon unit made its field debut, while enemy planes challenged trenches and observation posts along the front.
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France
Lorraine
Washington
American Air Service
Casualties Reported for American Forces in France
Washington reports war department figures through March 2 showing forty three American soldiers killed in action in France, with two hundred fifty two wounded and eighty five captured or missing.
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Washington
France
War Department
Bank Raid Near Chicago Claims $2000 From Serena Bank
Robbers drove a five passenger auto from Chicago and dynamited the Serena State Bank safe, escaping with $2,000. Authorities and posses scoured the countryside as word spread of the bold raid.
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Serena
Ill
Chicago
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