Controversy Over Casualty Lists Withheld Addresses
Washington dispatch reports a clash between Creel's Committee on Public Information and General March over publishing casualty lists without emergency addresses. The War Department will disclose names and ranks but withhold dates, wounds, and home addresses on Pershing's recommendation. White House intervention may be sought to resolve the dispute.
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Washington
War Department
Committee On Public Information
George Crel
General March
Creel Committee
White House
Creel
Secretary of War
Secretary of the Navy
Pershing
Mce‘Cain
Army
Plot to Assassinate Gen. Tuan Discovered
Authorities disclose a conspiracy to kill General Tuan Chi Jui war commissioner of China. A number of arrests including three Japanese were made as monarchists allegedly sought retaliation for Tuan’s defeat of Chang Hsun during the Manchu restoration attempt last July.
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Tuan Chi-Jui
China
Tuan
Chang Hsun
Victory for Administration in Overman Bill Test
In a Senate Judiciary Committee vote of 10 to 7 the administration forces won the first test of the Overman bill granting the president broad powers to reorganize the war government. The panel rejected a motion to require cabinet members to state their views on the proposed reorganization.
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Washington
Overman
Senate Judiciary Committee
War Finance Bill Passes Senate Aids War Industry
The administration bill to create a war finance corporation with a $4.5 billion fund to aid war industry was passed by the Senate and sent to the House for action.
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War Finance Corporation
Senate
Washington
House
Austria Sees Wilson Peace Plan as Basis for Negotiations
In New York on March 8 the Wilson address outlining fourteen peace conditions sparked debate in Austria Hungary. Austrian deputies warned rejecting the proposals was a mistake and urged possible understandings with the western powers, contrasting political and military peace views. A Polish deputy argued Germany aided Austria, Bulgaria, and Turkey to fend off foes.
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New York
Wilson
Congress
Austria-Hungary
Teuton
Germany
Austria
House of Deputies
Bulgaria
Turkey
Gun factory worker arrested on larceny charge
Oswald Robert Kuehne a gun division checker at the ordnance department was arrested in Washington on a larceny charge after charts on American munitions output and a secret War Department data book were found in his belongings. District Attorney Laskey said custody pending investigation to rule out enemy connection. He had worked for the war department since September and planned to move to Philadelphia where his German-born parents live.
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Washington
Oswald Robert Kuehne
Ordnance Department
War Department
Laskey
Kuehne
Philadelphia
Germany
Du Bois Nominated to Civilian O rdnance Board
Washington March 8 Fred T Du Bois of Idaho was nominated by President Wilson to be civilian member of the board of ordnance and fortification.
U Boats Decline Seen by June in Allied War Outlook
Washington officials say new anti submarine measures and American shipbuilding will curb U boat activity. Britain reports December losses exceed German production, and officials anticipate a noticeable drop in submarine tonnage losses by May or June with US destroyers expanding patrols and new weapons becoming available.
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Washington
Germany
Eric Geddes
Admiralty
Sir Eric
United States
Navy
Sims
America
US May Condemn Sites for Muscle Shoals Plant
Land owners asking prices the government is unwilling to pay for the sites of the nitrate plant at Muscle Shoals face condemnation. The senate passed Senator Underwood's bill to authorize the government to buy the site at condemnation price and any other sites needed for military purposes as well.
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Washington
Muscle Shoals
Senate
Underwood
Germans Renew Verdun Assaults and Aces Down Planes
German raids on Verdun front repulsed by French forces with heavy artillery fighting near Cormiey Reims Avecourt wood and Verdun hill 844. Three German planes downed by pilots and two by antiaircraft guns. British raids east of Epehy repulsed and Neuve Chapelle activity noted. Italian and German batteries engage with reciprocal firing. Italian airships report effective work.
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Paris
Verdun Front
War Office
Cormiey and
Reims
Avecourt Wood
Avecourt
Douamont
Lorraine
Alsace
Lake Dolhan
Cerna Bend
Monastir
London
Epehy
Bois Grenier
Poelenpelle
Sempe
Lens
Yzores
Neuve Chapelle
Teutons
Rome
Major General March Becomes New Chief of Staff
Maj. Gen. Peyton C. March takes possession of the chief of staff’s office in the War Department in Washington. He succeeds Gen. Biddle and acts as chief while Gen Bliss remains abroad as American representative at the interallied military conference. March previously led artillery with the American Expeditionary Force.
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Peyton C. March
Washington
War Department
General Biddle
General Bliss
Mareh
U S to Make Rail Purchases Announced by McAdoo
Washington March 8 The railroad administration will make purchases totaling between 1 billion and 2 billion dollars this year. A central advisory committee of three railway purchasing agents will be appointed, assisting Director General McAdoo. Regional advisory committees will be established for the eastern western and southern districts.
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Washington
Railroad Administration
McAdoo
German air raid hits London as seven or eight planes attack
London reports an air raid by seven or eight German airplanes Thursday night. One plane reached the city and dropped bombs in the northwest and southwest districts, demolishing several houses. Additional raiders struck northern districts while others crossed Essex, causing injuries and fatalities.
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London
French
Home Defense
Thames Estuary
Essex
England
Senate panel Approves German Property Sale Authority
Washington March 8 The Senate appropriations committee voted into the urgent deficiency bill an amendment to divorce German interests from US property ownership. After hearing A Mitchell Palmer custodian of alien property the committee granted authority to sell all German owned property under his jurisdiction.
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Washington
Senate Appropriations Committee
United States
A. Mitchell Palmer
Speaker Clark Celebrates 68th Birthday in Washington
Speaker Clark turned sixty eight years old on Thursday as friends extended congratulations and he was hosted by the Missouri delegation at a luncheon in Washington.
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Clark
Missouri
Washington
Fire destroys Huntley Manufacturing plant in Tillsonburg
A large blaze leveled the main building of Huntley Manufacturing in Tillsonburg Ontario on March 8. The fire caused property losses estimated in the hundreds of thousands, consuming machinery, tools, and completed elevator equipment.
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Tillsonburg
Ont
Huntley Manufacturing Company
Liquid fire hits the U. S. line in St Mihiel sector
American troops northwest of Toul repulsed a liquid fire attack, with sentries on guard posts driving off a 40 man German patrol. Casualties are unknown, but Americans reportedly equipped to resist such weapons. A German prisoner described tactics and warnings before capture.
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London
Toul
St. Mihiel
Lorraine
Germans Execute 200 Russians in Yurieff Outrage
Refugees report in Smolny that Germans shot and hanged 200 Russian citizens at Yurieff with no mercy. Bodies of women and children were said to be dumped in the river. Trotzky urged German and Esthonian officials to halt outrages or face executions of 160 barons and landowners near Pskoff.
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Petrograd
Yurieff
Bathonia
Smolny Institute
Trotzky
Pskoff
Food Riot in Christiania Reports Show Arrests
Rioting in Christiania on Thursday led to numerous arrests as crowds stormed baker and butcher shops and demonstrations occurred before the theater building, with dispatches reaching Copenhagen via the Exchange Telegraph.
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Christiania
London
Copenhagen
Exchange Telegraph
War Contract Workers Strike in Springfield Plant
Unorganized workers number 50 at Lourie Manufacturing struck for higher wages and shorter hours. The action occurred in Springfield on March 8 as part of war contract work.
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Springfield
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Teuton Holdings
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France
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