Turkeстан Fighting and Red Guards Involvement Reach 20 000 Casualties
Reports from London and Petrograd describe fierce clashes in Turkestan with over 20 thousand casualties among soviet adherents and natives. American involvement in Finnish Red Guards is noted along with guerrilla actions by peasants in the Polotsk district and troop movements in the Ukraine.
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London
Turkestan
Petrograd
Stockholm
America
Red Guards
Wesley
Finland
Red Guard
Lektimaki
Polotsk
Dvinsk
Vitebsk
Dvina
Three Killed on U S Warship Von Steuben
Three men died when a shell exploded during target practice aboard the U S S Von Steuben in Washington. The victims were Emmette Shields of Hannibal Missouri Valentine Przaybylski of Buffalo New York and Ercell Martin of Philadelphia Pennsylvania. The ship formerly Kronprinz Wilhelm was interned at Hampton Roads after attacking allied shipping.
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Washington
U.S. S
Kronprinz Wilhelm
Hampton Roads
Aviator Killed In 4000 Foot Kelly Field Fall
Denver cadet Howard Holaday died when his airplane plunged 4000 feet returning from a cross country flight at Kelly Field San Antonio. His mother Mrs. Howard W. Holaday of Denver is listed as next of kin.
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San Antonio
Tex
Howard Holaday
Denver
Colo
Kelly Field
Howard W. Holaday
Woman Appointed Deputy Director of Food Conservation
Dr. Mary S. Rose becomes the first woman deputy director of food conservation, assigned to the First district including New York City. She has led the home economics department 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
Japan Ready to Act on Siberia Crisis
Tokyo reports mobilization of forces under way and expected intervention in Siberia. Officials withhold policy details while indications point to imminent action. Am erica and allies show growing support for intervention as Japan seeks to mediate between northern and southern China amid the Russian crisis.
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Tokyo
America
Siberia
Japan
China
Americans Win Battle Honors as France Decorates Brookfield Soldier
Col. Douglas MacArthur, Capt. Thomas Handy and eight American enlisted men received the French Croix de Guerre for gallantry in action in the Inneville region. Ambulance drivers Charles B. Kendall and James F. Brown were commended by French and American officers for bravery in removing wounded men. American troops seized their first German trenches in the Badonvillers area along the Lunéville front, later holding and fortifying the positions as German fire eased. The raid featured volunteers from Ohio and several cities including Cincinnati, Marion, Circleville, Cleveland, London, Marysville, Columbus and Dayton.
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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
Col
Rainbow Division
Arthur MacArthur
Badonvillers
Luneville Front
Luneville
Ohio
Cincinnati
Marion
Circleville
Cleveland
London
Marysville
Columbus
Dayton
Treat Japan Better Policy Call by Gulick
Dr Sidney L Gulick former Japan resident urged the United States to abandon discriminatory treatment of Japanese and Chinese and adopt an Oriental policy to keep these peoples in friendly relations with democratic nations. He spoke at the Woman's City club in Boston on March 16.
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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 Named Eagles of Sea in Navy
The navy announced Henry Ford's submarine chasers will be called Eagles marking the Eagle class. The Shipping Board awarded ten steel ships of 8,500 tons to the McDougal-Duluth company for delivery in 1919. Additional contracts went to Baltimore Dry Dock for six tankers of 6,000 tons and to Hartman-Grelling of Green Bay for two tug boats.
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Washington
Henry Ford
Navy
Eagle
Navy Department
Shipping Board
McDougal-Duluth Company
Duluth
Baltimore Dry Dock and Ship Building Company
Hartmand-Grelling Company
Green Bay, Wis
French Repulse 3 Raids on Front
Paris reports three German raids repulsed after shelling along the front. The war office announces shelling continued with no decisive gains by the enemy.
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Thentire Front
War Office
Paris
U S Casualty List Announces Six Officers Among Fallen
Washington March 16 war department casualty list names six commissioned officers among the dead and wounded on the American front. Lieutenant Richard H. Whitner died of accident while Lieutenants Louis W. Ross and John W. Apperson were wounded in action. Several others were listed as wounded or died of wounds, disease, or accident with many more names withheld for checking.
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Washington
War Department
Richard HH. Whitner
Louis W. Ross
John W. Apperson
Willian P. Bledsoe
Granville M. Burrow
William C. Dabney
Pershing
Ali
William Ellinger
Marshall H. Jarrett
Joseph EK. White
Joan de
R. C. Carmick
William G. Carrell
Howard G. Parker
William IP. Bledsoe
William ©. Dabney
Carl Wahn
Lewis Dagg
Jacob Klein
Frank Phillips
Ebner Werner
Bernie Baldwin
Fenley S. Peeler
John Bevan
Perry C. Bradfield
Frederick J. Cairns
Noah W. Cox
Joe J. Ozapa
Frank J. Danko
Worthy O. Davis
Arlo E. Dibble
Jacob O. Dillenberger
Clay W. Dukes
Olaf Evenbye
Harold R. Gerhart
Archie Fahlgren
Philip Goldstein
Henry Kessler
Mike Klachko
Benjamin F. Mercer
Max Myers
Dominick P. Noah
Hjalmar G. Nelson
James J. O’shaughnessy
Angelo Pagotto
Joseph I
Petrovic
Joseph Richter
Theodore Ross
Frank Kreznik
Henry F. Schwalbach
Alvin Smiley
Percy J. Turner
Harry F. Weidman
Clare B. West
Emery EB. Wilcox
German Chiefs Boast After Major Offensive Claim
Amsterdam reports Field Marshal von Hindenburg says Entente rejects peace terms and Germany must press on. Von Ludendorff in Cologne Volks Zeitung declares Germany stronger in men and matériel and ready for a decisive drive with God's aid for a sure German peace.
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Amsterdam
von Hindenburg
Berlin
Entente
Germany
Associated Press
Verdun
von Ludendorff
Cologne
Volks Zeitung
Ludendorff
French Hold West of Nauroy Road Front in Champagne
Berlin reports a French detachment gained footing west of the Nauroy road along the crown prince's front. In aerial combat on the Western Front British airmen say 24 enemy planes were shot down with five British machines missing. Bombs dropped on Courtrai and Denain and raids on Freiburg are noted with multiple enemy losses and several own aircraft missing.
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Berlin
Nauroy Road
Champagne
Crown Prince
Rupprecht
Reims
Presnes
Thuizy-Nauroy Road
Meuse
Verdun
London
Muarch
Courtrai
Denain
Freiburg
Villers-Guislain
Paris
French War Office
The
Monts
Vosges
St. Die
Hartmanns-Wellerkopf
Allied defense repels German raid near Ypres Staden line
London reports a German raid north of the Ypres Staden railway was repulsed. Raiders east of Epehy captured one prisoner after entering enemy trenches. Mutual artillery fire occurred southwest of Cambrai with increased hostilities near Neuve Chapelle and Fancaissart.
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London
Ypres-Staden
Haig
Epehy
Cambrai
Neuve Chapelle
Fancaissart
450 Wounded Saved on Ship Guilford Castle Attacked
The hospital ship Guilford Castle was attacked by a submarine in the Bristol channel on March 10 in broad daylight. A torpedo passed astern, a second torpedo struck the bow but misfired. 450 wounded from German East Africa were evacuated as destroyers arrived and the ship reached Avonmouth with the wounded and staff.
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London
Hhe
Guilford Castle
Bristol Channel
Avonmouth
German East Africa
Soviet Congress Postponed Opening to Thursday
Moscow March 14 The all Russian congress of soviets called to ratify the peace treaty with Germany has postponed its opening meeting until Thursday March 14.
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Teutons
Ukraine
Berlin
Bachmach
Kiev
War Office
Gomel
Petrograd
all-Russian
Congress of Soviets
Moscow
M. Ryasonov
Bolshevik Party
Russia
Poland
Courland
Livonia
Esthenia
Asia Minor
Armenia
Batoum
Kars
Erivan
Germany
British Airmen Destroy 39 German Planes in March Start
British airmen remain highly effective in France and Belgium during the first ten days of March. They destroyed 39 German airplanes and forced 40 more out of control while missing 15 British machines amid stormy conditions reducing flight activity.
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France
Belgium
Bombs at Hog Island Yard Prompt Inquiries
Washington report says enough dynamite to blow up half the Hog Island shipyard was found in February. Dudley Kennedy, head of industrial relations, told a senate investigating committee that secret service men cannot identify who placed it. Senator Nelson pressed whether the American International Corporation faced spy troubles.
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Washington
Hog Island
Dudley R. Kennedy
Industrial Relations Department
Senate Investigating Committee
Secret Service
Nelson
Minnesota
Kennedy
American International Corporation
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Eagles
Erwin Wari
May
Redmond
John E. Redmond
House of Commons
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Dillon
County Mayo
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Western Front
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Senate
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