Yankee Patrol Defeats Teutons in France Skirmish
American patrol engages German forces near Chemin des Dames with one enemy casualty plus three suspected, while Lorraine front endures heavy bombardment and gas shells. U S snipers report multiple German hits. Belgians and British launch raids and report success along Meuse Vosges and St Quentin Cambrai sectors.
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France
No Man's Land
Chemin Des Dames
Lorraine
Toul
U. S
Foe
Paris
War Office
Meuse
Vosges
Kippe
Nieuport
Rookies to Quit Grant Camp Grant Rockford March 9
More than 5 000 new selected men who began arriving here two weeks ago will soon bid farewell to Camp Grant. They have been transferred to special service branches or to army divisions for early service abroad. None will remain to fill the depleted division. They will be withdrawn in detachments of 400 to 600.
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Cap Grant
Rockford
Camp Grant
Bome
American Troops Raid Lorraine Front 600 Yards
Paris dispatch reports American forces conducted three raids on the Lorraine sector pushing past the German first line into the second line by about 600 yards.
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Paris
Lorraine
Hospital at Naples Bombed in Air Raid
Rome reports Naples was attacked by Austrian aviators. Twenty bombs were dropped with seven hospital occupants among the victims.
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Naples
Rome
New US Casualties List Shown by War Department
Washington March 11 the war department released a casualty list consisting only of names. The roster includes officers and enlisted men such as Capt Harry Melcury First Lieut Louis J Jordan Sergt Alva F Eaton and Corporal Dean Parish with many others listed as died after accidents natural causes enemy gas wounded or missing. The long roll features numerous individuals by rank and surname, reflecting a broad accounting of American servicemen.
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Washington
War Department
Harry ©. Melcury
Louis J. Jordan
Alva F. Eaton
Walter J. Porseh
James W. Wedding
Donald H. MaccRne
Dean Parish
Trotzky Resigns As Foreign Minister In Petrograd
Petrograd dispatches confirm Leon Trotzky resigns as foreign minister. Government moves to Moscow with state institutions evacuated to the capital. Deputy Tehicherin to assume duties as Pravda and Izvestia shift to Moscow. German landings reported near Abo and on Aaland Islands amid ongoing hostilities.
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Petrograd
Leon Trotzky
Moscow
Stockholm
Finland
Abo
Aland Islands
Helsingfors
Aaland Islands
Westfalen
Rheinland
Kekerne
Trotzky
Lenine
M. Lunacharsky
Soviet
Izvestia
Pravda
M. Tehitcherin
Gomelnoyvo Zybkey
Theater Collapse Kills 12 in Winchester Kentucky
In Winchester Kentucky twelve people die when a wall from a burning building collapses onto a nearby moving picture theater. Ten victims are children and many more are injured, with dozens hospitalized and treated for critical or serious injuries. The accident triggers panic as crowds rush for exits.
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Winchester
Clark County
Moving Picture Theater
Safe conduct issued for Count von Luxburg to Swedish voyage
The British government grants safe conduct for Count von Luxburg, former German ambassador to Argentina, to sail to Sweden on the steamer Valparaiso. A medical attendant's safe conduct was refused despite recommendations due to the former diplomat's mental condition.
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Buenos Aires
Count von Laxburg
Argentina
Sweden
Tle
Valparaiso
Count von Luxburg
Deportation Leader Made Army Cavalry Captain
Harry Wheeler sheriff of Cochise county Arizona who supervised the deportation of 1200 men from Bisbee during the copper miners strike last July has received a commission as captain of cavalry in the United States army and will join the 308th cavalry regiment to be organized at Douglas Arizona.
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el Paso
Tex
Harry Wheeler
Cochise County
Ariz
Bisbee
United States Army
Two U. S. Aviators Drown In Pensacola Accident
Two aviators drowned when a flying boat overturned near the Pensacola aeronautical station. The station commander withheld names but notified Washington of the incident.
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Aeronautical Station
Pensacola, Fla
Mobile
Ala
Pensacola
Fla
Washington
Two Boys Killed as Warehouse Wall Falls in Fire
In Philadelphia on Market Street a warehouse fire caused a wall to collapse striking Robert Dawson, fifteen, and Joseph Gallagher, thirteen, who were playing nearby. Five other boys were injured, two possibly fatally, as a 50 mile gale drove debris during the blaze.
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Philadelphia
Manared
Robert Dawson
Joseph Gallagher
Market Street
Enemy effort in Russia fails in week of battles
Washington reports Germany’s Russian offensive as futile while Allies push west. American forces hold four riverfront sectors, with 214 enemy planes down on the western front and 273 total enemy losses across fronts. March 11 dispatch details raids, use of liquid fire, and sustained patrols around Toul and other sectors.
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Washington
Germany
Russia
War Department
Weekly
Military Review
Teutonic
Prine
Toul
Agreement to Seize British Deserters in U S
New York March 11 reports an accord among British and Canadian agents and U S federal authorities to arrest deserters from British and allied forces and to punish undesirables who impose on American hospitality.
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New York
Two Kyesten Transports Sunk by German Destroyers
London reports that two Kyesten transports were attacked and sunk by German destroyers after a battle south of the Aland islands. The Copenhagen dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph notes the action occurred during the engagement.
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Aland Islands
Copenhagen
London
Aland
Exchange Telegraph Company
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Teutons
No Man’s Land
Lake Dorian
St. Quentin
Cambrai
Armentieres
Passchendaele
Grant
Senate
Anne Martin
Nevada
National Woman's Party
Newlands
Miss Martin
University of Nevada
Leland Stanford
Cambridge
War Industries Board
Bernard N. Baruch
Daniel Willard
Hun
Isaac Davis
John F. Kilis
Albert KE. Hoschler
J. McDonough
Edward Nash
Glen EE
Pedersom Russell II
Selix
William Stover
Byron van Raeden
Clifford J. Worden
Guy O. Worley
Tony Wrociewski
Harlan C. Wise
Lloyd Ludwig
George Adelbert Ward
Samuel Torance
Aleck Berry
George B. Collins
Nicholas Daley
James KB. Douceppe
William Figall
Jones BE. Fowler
John F. Freeman
Dock Maxwell
Alex. McAlister
David A. Pugh
Joseph Tremblay
John B. Ernst
John M. Young
Frank J. Coyle
Cyril Johns
Hugh L. Hunt
Wille D L. Pearce
Homer Milan
John N. Greene
Alex
W. Terrell
Pearl Edwards
Benjamin &. Lipsept
Raymond Quinlan
Lewis FE. Deitz
Marvin Dunn
Harry Hasseet
Morris Jasmon
Barrett J. Rice
John A. Rohde
Lewis A. Simons
James F. Albert
Burton M. Baker
Fred S. Becker
John A. Bedner
T. F. Burroughs
Pian
Bracelyn
Mofford T. Breese
Albert J. Carron
Joseph Clechowski
Robert la Clausen
Mon Closson
W. Dawson
Albin Dernett
Gilenn H. Gray
Fred A. Heintz
Louis Holmes
John Hurrell
Garfield Jotlyn
Archie D. Kindig
F. Kiiapkowski
Britain
United States
House of Commons
Andrew Bonar Law
America
Bonar Law
Ile
Luxburg
Kaiser
U .S. Review
Bia
Tenton
Baker
Yankees
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