Baker Visits French Aviation Camp amid Flying Display
Secretary Baker tours the largest aviation camp in France aboard a special war train. General Pershing praises order and efficiency as more than a hundred planes perform aerial maneuvers. A trainee crashes badly, but doctors expect recovery, while Red Cross nurses are inspected and jam sandwiches shared.
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Baker
France
General Pershing
Red Cross
Given Wilson
New York
Sergeant Wright Returns From French Front Service
Sergeant Wright, attached to a crack unit in the French service, returns after time with an ace squadron studying ground and air fighting from Dunkirk to Belfort. A luncheon train spot and a storage center visit follow as troop cantonments near completion for arrivals today.
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Wright
Dunkirk
North Sea
Belfort
Switzerland
Baker
Hurge
Petrograd Added to German War Spoils
Telegraphic reports from Petrograd indicate German forces seized three more Russian towns including large grain stores and that peace terms would grant Petrograd to the Kaiser. The bulletin notes Russia’s theatre of war operations and German gains amid negotiations.
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London
Eng
Petrograd
Bombs Kill Eight in England Raid
Lord French reports eight killed and twenty two injured in a German raid over Hartlepool. The Home Defense commander announced the casualty figures and described the bombardment.
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England
London
Hartlepool
Lord French
Home Defense Forces
Germany Seizes All American Property
Paris reports a disastrous factory explosion killing thirty workers and causing extensive property damage. Americans aid victims as thousands become homeless in the aftermath.
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Germany
Paris
France
Quicly
Bomb German Town and Rail Hub in March 18 Raid
British air squadron bombed Zweibrucken and attacked rail yards, barracks and munition factories. In air combat 12 enemy aircraft were shot down and seven driven down out of control. 14 heavy projectiles and 10 fighter bombs were dropped on targets. Night attacks continued with eight and a half tons of bombs on rest billets.
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London
Zweibrucken
Bavaria
Germany
Zuweibrucken
Hirson
France
Flinders
Berryau-Bue
Tahure
Avecourt
Verdun
Meuse
Hes- Blan
Waldeck
Samogneux
Hheronvaux
Epehy
Gavrelle
Lens
Bapaume-Cambrai Road
Scarpe Valley
Polygon Wood
la Basse Canal
Lys
Cambrai
la Bassee Canal
Menim Road
Paris
War Office
Verdun Front
French Munitions Factory Explosion Reported
The dispatch describes a large explosion at a French munitions factory and notes heightened Allied and German military actions across the Verdun front with raids, artillery duels, and confirmed prisoner captures as forces clash near Ta hure and along the Meuse.
French Attack on Verdun Front Staged by Artillery
French forces launched a heavy assault on a broad Verdun front sector after a prolonged artillery preparatory bombardment. British reports from Berlin via London confirm intense fighting and attrition patterns.
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Berlin
London
War Office
Death of former Senator Isaac Stephenson
Marinette Wisconsin March 16 Former United States Senator Isaac Stephenson is dead after a week at home due to age infirmities His condition worsened but then improved briefly before dying at 1 30 Friday morning He was eighty nine and had served six years in the Senate elected in 1900 He was among the nation's wealthiest lumber men with large holdings in Michigan
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Marinette
Wis
United States
Isaac Stephenson
Stephenson
Stevenson
Senate
Tie
Michigan
Teutons Raid U S Trenches Northwest of Toul
Americans report a patrol encounter with a German party in No Man's Land near Toul. Germans fled with wounded and dead as American fire inflicted minimal casualties. Heavy shelling by day and night created 20 foot deep craters as gas shells fell in Toul and Luneville sectors.
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Teutons
U. S
Toul
France
No Man's Land
Switzerland
Luneville
49 in New Casualty List Washington War Dept
The War Department released a casualty list listing forty nine names. One officer Harold M. Hirsh is slightly wounded. Died of disease: Robert Edward Berne and others. Died of accident Oliver J. Bufford. Wounded severely Porter Jones. Wounded slightly Harold M. Hirsch and Willard Bion Brown. Corporals and privates named with ranks.
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Washington
War Department
Harold M. Hirsh
Robert Edward Berne
William P. DeCunha
Herbert von Alt
James B. Stewart
John M. Crouch
Warren C. Hauser
Charles Besty
Steve Norman
Steve Radanovich
Vernon L. Riddle
George Skitarelich
Owen L.taylor
Thomas J. Thorla
Charles A. Unger
August van Oyen
William Wenner
Frank J. White
James J. White
War Workers Locked Out at Monsanto Chemical Works
Locked out workers at the Monsanto Chemical Works with government contracts after a wage dispute. The plant management refused entry to those not reporting for duty and rejected President Queeny’s wage increase offer.
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Louis
Montsanto Chemica Works
Queeny
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Memphis
Quick
Entente
Hague
Amsterdam
Reuter’s Limited
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Netherlands
Camp Fremont
Cal
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Eighth Regular Army
Leitch
Zweibruken
Avocourt
Death
Solon
Wisconsin
Yankees
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