Secretary Baker Tours French Aviation Camp
Secretary Baker visits the largest aviation camp in France aboard a special train. More than 100 aircraft fly in formation as Baker and General Pershing observe daring training including a nose dive stunt. One Memphis student is badly injured in a crash. Red Cross nurses and staff are inspected, and planes greet the visitors with a loud welcome.
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Pershing
Red Cross
Baker
France
General Pershing
Given Wilson
New York
Memphis
Quck Journal
Dutch Agree to Allies Demand on Shipping Use
The Hague reports after a late cabinet session the Dutch government cabled London for a likely end to the shipping dispute. An Amsterdam dispatch says the government accepted the entente demand to use Dutch ships in the danger zone.
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Hague
London
Amsterdam
Reuter’s Limited
Holland
Germany
Netherlands
Germans seize Russian towns and claim Petrograd in peace terms
Telegraphic bulletins from London report German forces have seized three more Russian towns including large grain stores. The notices also claim a peace settlement would place Petrograd under Kaiser control.
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Petrograd
Bomb German Towns as British Air Squadrons Strike
London reports a British air squadron bombed Zweibrucken and attacked rail facilities, barracks and munition plants. In air combat 12 hostile machines were shot down, seven driven down, with 14 heavy projectiles and 10 bombs on targets. Night raids continued with vast bomb tonnage behind enemy lines.
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London
Zweibrucken
Bavaria
Germany
Zuweibrucken
Hirson
Wight
France
Muarch
Rehiys
Germany Seizes All American Property
Paris dispatch reports a disastrous factory explosion killing thirty workers in Germany. The blast caused extensive property damage and left thousands homeless, with Americans assisting victims relief efforts.
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Germany
Paris
France
Quicly
French Munitions Factory Explosion Reported
A wartime dispatch notes a French munitions factory explosion as part of ongoing hostilities. The same reports describe intensified fighting on the Verdun front with French forces countering German operations and Allied air raids in northern France.
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Wright
Dunkirk
North Sea
Belfort
Switzerland
French Attack On Verdun Front Reports Fierce Battle
Berlin via London reports a ten hour artillery preceded French offensive on a wide Verdun front. The war office details a hard fought assault with heavy fighting and British repulse of the foe.
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Flanders
Berryau-Bue
Tahure
Avecourt
Verdun
Meuse
Waldeck
Samogneux
Bezonvaux
London
Epeby
Gavrelle
Lens
Tfostile
Bapaume-Cambrai Road
Scarpe Valley
Polygon Wood
la Basse Canal
Lys
Cambrai
la Bassee Canal
Menim Road
Paris
War Office
Verdun Front
Avocourt
Berlin
Death of Former Senator Isaac Stephenson in Wisconsin
Marinette Wisconsin reports the death of former U S Senator Isaac Stephen Stephenson aged eighty nine after a week illness at his home. He had served six years in the Senate from 1909 and was one of the nation’s wealthiest lumber men with extensive Michigan holdings.
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Marinette
Wis
Isaac Stephenson
Stephenson
Stevenson
Senate
Michigan
U.S. Soldiers Rout Germans in Toul Sector Raid
American patrols clash with German raiders in No Man's Land northwest of Toul. Germans flee with casualties. Artillery bombardment yields 240 shells deep craters, gas shells feared in Toul and Luneville sectors as strikes widen.
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Teutons
U. S
Toul
France
No Man’s Land
No Man's Land
Luneville
Tout
49 in New Casualty List
Washington reports a war department casualty list naming 49 Navy personnel with 8 deaths from disease 1 from accident and 39 wounded. It lists First Lieut Harold M Hirsh as slightly wounded and dying of disease among others. names multiple privates sergeants and corporals with statuses of died wounded or missing.
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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
Oliver J. Bufford
Porter Jones
Harold M. Hirsch
Willard Bion Brown
Roy de Bruyn
Robert B. Griffith
John Gurski
Stephen J. Hatta
James J. Murray
Wilbur Thomas
Theodore J. Jarrett
Elmer J. Bell
Asa E. Boatman
John W. Cooper
Earl P. Delong
Richard B. Dowd
John Fpeduruk
Robert C. Fennell
Lioyrd W. Frost
Millard F. Gatwood
John J. Goteh
Clyde W. Hall
Edgar A. Hartmann
Oscar J. Hill
Zola T., Johnson
James D. Jones
Frank Lewis
Carl C. Luedeking
Will Nam H. Miller
Clifford ID. Patty
Arthur B. Pelkey
Monsanto Chemical workers locked out amid wage dispute
War workers at Monsanto Chemical works with government contracts were locked out starting March 18. The president said absent employees would not be admitted if they arrived. Workers rejected President Queeny's wage increase offer.
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T. Er. Couls
Montsanto Chemical Works
Queeny
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Inncheon
England
Hartlepool
Lord French
Home Defense Forces
Entente
Eng
Camp Fremont
Cal
John Ek. Morrison
Eighth Regular Army
Leitch
Zweibruken
Death
Solon
Wisconsin
U.S
Yankees
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