Yankee Patrol Beats Teutons In France
A small American patrol near the Chemin des Dames engages enemy patrols in No Man's Land with light casualties for Americans. Northwest of Toul a heavy gas shell bombardment prompts rapid gas mask use. American artillery destroys an enemy dump while snipers and shelling continue. Belgian forces claim gains on their first line near Kippe and raids around Nieuport. British raids northwest of St Quentin and near Cambrai report enemy losses and missing men.
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France
No Man's Land
Chemin Des Dames
Lorraine
Toul
U. S
Meuse
Vosges
Kippe
Nieuport
Lake Dorian
London
War Office
St. Quentin
Cambrai
Armentieres
Passchendaele
Rookies to Quit Grant Camp Grant Rockford Illinois
More than 5 000 new selected men who arrived two weeks ago will soon bid farewell to Camp Grant They have been transferred some will enter special service branches and others will join army divisions for early service abroad None will be left to fill the depleted division They will be withdrawn in detachments of 400 to 600.
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Camp Grant
Rockford, Il
Trotzky Resigns as Foreign Minister Amid Petrograd Move
Petrograd reports decree by Premier Lenine to evacuate state institutions and move government to Moscow. Leon Trotzky’s resignation as foreign minister is confirmed. deputy M. Tchitcherin to assume duties. Pravda notes continued German activity in the Gomelnovo Zybkov sector.
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Petrograd
Leon Trotzky
Moscow
Stockholm
Finland
Abo
Aland Islands
Helsingfors
Aaland Islands
Westfalen
Rheinland
Bkekerne
Trotzky
Lenine
M. Lunacharsky
Soviet
Izvestia
Pravda
M. Tchitcherin
Safe conduct issued for Count von Luxburg to sail to Sweden
The British government grants Count von Luxburg former German ambassador to Argentina a safe conduct to sail from Buenos Aires to Sweden aboard the Valparaiso. A medical attendant to accompany him was refused despite medical recommendations due to his mental condition.
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Buenos Aires
Count von Luxburg
Argentina
Sweden
Tle
Valparaiso
American Troops Raid Lorraine Sector
Paris March 11 American troops carried out three raids on the Lorraine sector. they passed the German first line and penetrated the second line 600 yards, reporting successful operations with gains in line advancement.
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Paris
Lorraine
Hospital Bombing Hits Naples As War Attacks Continue
Rome reports Naples was bombed by Austrian air forces with twenty bombs dropped. Seven hospital occupants are among the victims, highlighting the civilian toll of ongoing hostilities.
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Rome
Naples
Twelve Killed as Wall Collapse Crashes into Winchester Theater
A collapsed wall adjoins a Winchester moving picture theater crushing the roof. Twelve killed, ten children, and twenty-three seriously injured sent to Clark County hospital. Hundreds of children fled in panic as debris fell.
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Winchester
Clark County Hospital
Moving Picture Theater
Deporter of Men Made Captain in U S Army
Harry Wheeler sheriff of Cochise County Arizona who oversaw 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. He will join the Three Hundred and Eighth Cavalry Regiment to be organized at Douglas Arizona.
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el Paso
Tex
Harry Wheeler
Cochise County
Ariz
Bisbee
United States Army
Douglas
Lieire
Two U S Aviators Drown Near Pensacola
Two aviators drowned when a flying boat overturned near the Pensacola aeronautical station. The station commander withheld the names but notified Washington of the accident.
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Aeronautical Station
Pensacola, Fla
Mobile
Ala
Pensacola
Fla
Washington
New U S Casualties List Reveals Names Only
Washington March 11 the war department released a casualty list in names only. Killed in action Capt Harry C McHenry First Lieut Louis J Jordan Sergt Alva F Eaton Sergt Walter J Porsch Sergt James W Wedding Corporal Donald H MacRae Corporal Dean Parish Privates Isaac Davis John F Wilis Albert J Hoschler and many others. Also listed were deaths by auto aero natural causes gas and various wound statuses.
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Washington
War Department
Harry CC. McHenry
Louis J. Jordan
Alva F. Eaton
Walter J. Porsch
James W. Wedding
Donald H. MacRae
Dean Parish
Isaac Davis
John F. Wilis
Albert J. Hoschler
J. McDonough
Edward Nash
Glen EE. Pedersom Russell JL. Selix
William Stover
Byron van Raden
Clifford J. Worden
Guy O. Worley
Tony Wrociewski
Harlan C. Wise
Lloyd Ludwig
George Adelbert Ward
Samuel Torunce
Wall Collapse Kills Two Boys in Market Street Fire
In Philadelphia a 50 mile gale toppled a burning warehouse wall, killing Robert Dawson aged fifteen and Joseph Gallagher thirteen, and injuring five other boys, two of whom were likely fatally hurt. The boys were playing away from the blaze when the wall fell onto them.
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Philadelphia
Robert Dawson
Joseph Gallagher
Market Street
Enemy's Effort in Russia Fails and Four Positions Held
Secretary Baker arrives in France as the war department reports renewed German activity in the west while Russia remains a failed effort. American troops now hold trenches at four points along a four and a half mile front. Air battles tally 214 enemy planes down on the western front. Allies lose 53 machines on all fronts. Germans prepare for a major westward drive with intensive preparations at Toul as patrols scout and respond to raids.
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Washington
Germany
Russia
War Department
Weekly
Military Review
Teutonic
Prine
Seizure Pact Aims at British Deserters
An agreement between British and Canadian agents and U S authorities seeks to seize deserters from British and Canadian forces and punish undesirables who impose on American hospitality.
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United States
New York
Amer Ean
Transports sunk after battle south of Aland islands
A Copenhagen dispatch reports two Anesian transports were attacked by German destroyers and sunk after a fight south of the Aland islands.
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Aland Islands
Copenhagen
London
Exchange Telegraph Company
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Yankee Patrol
Teutons
No Man’s Land
Foe
Grant
Rockford
War Industries Board
Bernard N. Baruch
New Industries Board
Daniel Willard
Gomelnovo Zybkov
Luxburg
Britain
Hun
House of Commons
Andrew Bonar Law
America
Bonar Law
Senate
Anne Martin
Nevada
National Woman's Party
Sennator Newlands
Miss Martin
University of Nevada
Leland Stanford
Cambridge
Aleck Berry
George B. Collins
Nicholas Daley
James B. Douceppe
William Fiyall
Jones BE
Fowler
John F. Freeman
Dock Maxwell
Alex. McAlister
David A. Pugh
Joseph Tremblay
John B. Frost
John M. Young
Frank J. Coyle
Cyril Johns
Hugh L. Hunt
Willie TL. Pearce
Flomer Milan
John N. Greene
Alex. W. Terrell
Pearl Edwards
Benjamin &. Lipsept
Raymond Quinlan
Lewis E. 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
Kin P. Braecelyn
Mofford T. Breese
Albert J. Carron
Joseph Ciechowski
Robert L. Clausen
Row
Closson
C. W. Dawson
Albin Dennett
Glenn H. Gray
Fred A. Heintz
Louis Holmes
John Hurrell
Garfield Jotlyn
Archie D. Kindig
F. Kniapkowski
Emil F. Kraft
Ennis Lewis
Will
Kaiser
U.S. Review
Tenton
Baker
Yankees
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