20000 Fall in Turkestan Fight Across Front
London dispatch reports fierce battles between soviet adherents and natives in Turkestan with more than 20000 casualties. Other items note Americans in the Finnish Red guards, peasant guerrilla warfare around Polotsk, and a Russian peace ratification with territorial concessions to the central powers.
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London
Turkestan
Petrograd
Stockholm
America
Red Guards
Wesley
Finland
Red Guard
Lektimnaki
Polotsk
Dvinsk
Vitebsk
Dvina
West Front
Moscvow
Smolensk
Baltic
Rozvozov
Glinsky
Eperor Nicholas
Grand Duke
Nicholas Nicholalevites
Moscow
Kalendinés
Don Cossacks
Mary S. Rose Named Deputy Director of Food Conservation
Dr. Mary S. Rose named deputy director of food conservation in the state office head, assigned to the First district covering New York City. She previously led the home economics unit of the U S food administration and is a professor of economics at Teachers College.
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Mary S. Rose
New York City
Doctor Rose
United States Food Administration
Teachers’ College
Three Die In Shell Explosion Aboard Von Steuben
Three sailors died when a shell exploded during target practice aboard the U S S Von Steuben in Washington. The victims were Emmette J Shields of Hagenibal Missouri Valentine Pry bylski of 150 Rother Avenue Buffalo New York and Ercell W Martin of Philadelphia Pennsylvania. The incident happened while the armed guard was on firing duty on the army transport formerly the Kronprinz Wilhelm.
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Washington
von Steuben
Navy Department
Emmette Joseph Shields
Seaman
Hagenibal
Valentine Praybylski
Rother Avenue
Buffalo
Ercell William Martin
Philadelphia
Kronprinz Wilhelm
Hampton Roads
Aviator Falls 4000 Feet in Crash at Kelly Field
Howard Holaday of Denver Colorado was killed when his airplane crashed during a cross country flight at Kelly Field. He was a flying cadet and his mother Mrs. Howard W. Holaday of Denver is named in the report.
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San Antonio
Tex
Japan Ready to Act on Siberian Crisis
Tokyo reports mobilization of forces well underway as Japan readies intervention in Siberia. America backs the move and allies favor action while officials withhold policy details. Japan may mediate between northern and southern China to unify factions amid the Russian crisis.
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Tokyo
America
Siberian
Siberia
Amerion
Japan
China
Praise for Ambulance Men and First German Trenches Details
French Croix de Guerre awards honor Col. Douglas MacArthur Capt. Thomas Handy and eight Ameri can soldiers for gallantry in France. Ambulance drivers Kendall and Brown praised for bravery in dangerous sectors. American troops seize two kilometers of front trenches in Badonvillers region before withdrawing and holding. Volunteers from Ohio and several Ohio cities joined the raid with many eligible men seeking to go.
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France
Douglas MacArthur
Thomas Handy
MacArthur
Inneville
Handy
Virginia
Washington
Charles B. Kendall
Arlington Street
Cambridge
Mass
James F. Brown
Beacon Street
Boston
Kendall
Brown
American Sanitary Corps
Paris
Rainbow Division
Ycllon
Arthur MacArthur
Badonvillers
Luneville Front
Luneville
Ohio
Cincinnati
Marion
Circleville
Cleveland
London
Marysville
Columbus
Dayton
SAYS TREAT JAPAN BETTER
Boston March 16 Failure of the United States to adopt a more liberal policy toward Japan and China can hardly prevent driving these countries ultimately into German relations in the opinion of Dr Sidney L Gulick secretary of the commission on relations with the Orient of the federal council of churches of Christ in America He addressed the Woman s City club for 25 years he was a resident of Japan America should abandon its humiliating and discriminatory treatment of Japanese and Chinese in this country and adopt an Oriental policy tilted to hold these people permanently to friendly relations with the democratic nations of the West
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Boston
United States
Japan
China
Sidney L. Gulick
Commission On
Orient
Federal Council of Churches of Christ In America
Woman's City Club
Gulick
America
Ford Sub Chasers to Be Eagles of Sea
The navy will name Henry Ford built submarine chasers as Eagles forming the Eagle class. Contracts let for ten 30 ton steel ships to Duluth firm with delivery in 1919. Baltimore Dry Dock to build six 6000 ton steel tankers and Hartman-Grelling to build two steel tugs.
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Washington
Henry Ford
Navy
Eagle
Navy Department
Shipping Board
McDonugal-Duluthe Company
Duluth
Baltimore Dry Dock and Ship Building Company
Hartmand-Grelling Company
Green Bay, Wis
French Repulse Three Raids Across Front
Paris reports continued fighting with shelling along the front. The war office says three German raids were beaten back in today’s engagements.
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War Office
Paris
Six Commissioned Officers Among US Casualties On Front
War department casualty list includes six commissioned officers among names from Pershing missives. Lieutenants Whitner Ross Apperson wounded or killed in action with others reported dead or missing after checking delays. The long list shows actions U S forces faced on the American front and details multiple classifications of deaths and wounds.
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Washington
War Department
Richard H. Whitner
Louis W. Ross
John W. Apperson
Sevion
William P. Bledsoe
Granville M. Burrow
William C. Dabney
Pershing
William Hilinges
Marshall H. Jarrett
Joseph Kk. White
Joan de Posta Molles
Leroy W. Miller
Ted A. Butler
Carl Larsen
Richard H. Whither
Leutenant
Edwywin C. Todd
Charles M. McCord
Ernest Edwards
Edmund G. Holmes
Einar Reinholt Holler
Joseph A. Yorkes
Otto
Philip Goldstein
Kenny Kessler
Mike Klachko
Benjamin F. Mercer
Max Myers
Dominick P. Noah
Wjalmar G. Nelson
James J. O' Shaughnessy
Angelo Pagotto
Joseph PF. Petrovic
Joseph Richter
Theodore Ross
Frank Ilzeznik
Henry F. Schwalbach
Alvin Smiley
Percy J. Turner
Harry F. Weidman
Clare B. West
Pmery EB. Wilcox
German Chiefes Boast Strength In War as Ludendorff Promises German Peace
Amsterdam reports Field Marshal von Hindenburg stating the Entente ignores Germany’s peace aims and the great offensive must continue. Ludendorff declares Germany stronger in men, arms, air, and tanks and warns the enemy to fight if it seeks peace, with a God aided German peace pursued.
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Amsterdam
von Hindenburg
Berlin
Germany
Associated Press
Verdun
von Ludendorff
Jin
Cologne
Volks Zeitung
Ludendorff
French Gain Ground On Western Front With Heavy Air War
British and German air forces fought intensely as large formations clashed. French detachments gained footing west of Nauroy road while aerial combat over the Meuse and Flanders regions killed enemy planes and dropped hundreds of bombs on Courtrai Denain and Freiburg. Sub lieutenant Madon claimed two German planes destroyed.
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Berlin
Nauroy Road
Champagne
Crown Prince
Rupprecht
Reims
Presnes
Thuizy-Nauroy Road
Meuse
Verdun
London
Courtrai
Denain
Freiburg
Farge
Villers-Guislain
Paris
French War Office
The
Monts
Vosges
St. Die
Tartnianens-Wellerkopf
Madon
German Raid Repulsed Near Ypres Staden Railway
London reports a successful repulse of an enemy raid north of the Ypres Staden railway. A prisoner was captured southwest of Epehr after raiders entered trenches. Fighting continued southwest of Cambrai and near Neuve Chapelle and Fancaissart with increased hostile fire.
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Haig
Ypres
Staden Railway
London
Ypres-Staden
Epehr
Cambrai
Neuve Chapelle
Fancaissart
450 Wounded Saved On Ship Guilford Castle
The hospital ship Guilford Castle was attacked by a submarine in the Bristol channel on March 10 but escaped. A first torpedo passed astern, a second dud hit the bow, 450 wounded from German East Africa were landed at Avonmouth with friendly destroyers aiding the evacuation.
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London
Guilford Castle
Bristol Channel
Avonmouth
Soviet Congress Postponed to Thursday in Moscow
The all Russian congress of soviets, convened to ratify the peace with Germany, has postponed its opening in Moscow until Thursday March 14.
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Petrograd
Congress of Soviets
Moscow
M. Ryasonov
Bolshevik Party
Russia
Poland
Courland
Livonia
Hathonia
Ukraine
Asia Minor
Batoum
Kars
Erivan
Germany
British Airmen Destroy 30 German Planes in March Drive
The British air front in France and Belgium reports the first ten days of March as highly successful with reconnoitering and photographing. They destroyed 30 German airplanes and brought down 40 others out of control, while 14 British machines are missing.
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France
Belgium
Bombs at Hog Island shipyard surface in February
Washington testimony reveals a cache of dynamite large enough to blow up half the Hog Island shipyard was found in February. Dudley R. Kennedy, head of Industrial Relations, testified before the senate investigating committee that secret service agents have not identified who placed the explosives. Senator Nelson of Minnesota questioned if Americas International Corporation faced any trouble with a plea.
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Washington
Hog Island
Dudley R. Kennedy
Industrial Relations Department
Senate Investigating Committee
Secret Service
Nelson
Minnesota
Kennedy
Americas International Corporaton
Splea
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Austro-Hungarian War Office
Teutons
Bachmach
Kiev
Gomel
Women Food Director
U. S
U. S. S. von Steuben
Ally
Eagles
May
Redmond
John EF. Redmond
House of Commons
John Dillon
Dillon
County Mayo
Hindenburg
Gen. von Ludendorf
Western Front
Senate
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