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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1918
Page
5
British report states the Moldavia torpedoed in the English Channel with 500 Americans aboard. Destroyers rescued survivors who faced death with remarkable discipline and were supplied ashore. 56 Americans unaccounted for and feared killed in an explosion compartment.
Paris May 25 An American es cad rille chosen from top pilots will assist in defending Paris against raids. The offer came from the chief of American aviation and was accepted by France through M Dumesnil minister of aviation. Final arrangements were completed Thursday as Allied air power targets German billets airfields and artillery concentrations. British and French airmen have been dropping bombs behind German lines for over a week while German defenses struggle. In serial fighting British aviators claimed fifteen enemy machines for the loss of three of their own and raids into Germany continued with Mannheim among targets.
A reflective poem describes the Red Cross urging individuals to extend aid beyond safety, to heal war-torn towns and comfort the afflicted. It frames service as a partnership where the Cross offers healing and guidance, while humans must provide strength, pity, and action.
Secretary of War Baker announced that American infantry machine gun units and artillery would soon join Italian forces on the front. In Rome George W Braden said the American system of massed athletic training would be introduced to the Italian army to exercise 2500 soldiers together.
General note by Geo W Goethals acting Quartermaster General framing America as emblem of faith and hope in a wartime or nation-building context.
London reports Colonial secretary Walter Hume Long arrives in Dublin as authorities crack down on Sinn Fein activity. Five more arrests follow, including Michael Lennon editor of Young Ireland, tied to the 1916 rebellion and seditious speeches. Two detainees, Collins and Mullins, face court martial for illegal explosives. Mrs. Thomas J. Clark and others shipped to England.
London reports an official government statement revealing a large scale plot by Count Von Bernstorff and other German officials to incite revolt in Ireland. The plan was conceived in America and carried out until halted by the U S Secret Service.
Ard H. De Weese was executed in the state prison yard for the murder of his wife Fanny Fisher De Weese. He walked to the chair and allowed himself to be strapped in by deputies, urging the firing squad to aim carefully. Death was instantaneous.
Washington reports the U S Government has substantial evidence of close Sinn Fein and German links and says a number of arrests will soon be made in America.
Washington official report confirms fifty-three American soldiers perished when the cruiser Moldavia was torpedoed. The crew were all members of Company B, Fifty-eighth Infantry, Fourth Division.
Chairman Kitchin says all nonessential industries may face taxation as hearings begin for a potential three to four billion dollar revenue bill based on 1918 figures. Congress plans six weeks of committee work and a late autumn adjournment with taxes covering about one third of war costs.
Washington reports German regiments rebel against orders to move to the western front. About 50 soldiers were shot and over 1,020 imprisoned for court martial. Lloyd George says the conflict is a race with Hindenburg to the eve of American aid. German troops in France have been replaced by Bavarian reserves as both sides brace for renewed attacks.
Lieut William Alexander Fleet of the Grenadier Guards was killed in action May 18. He was the son of the late Col A P Fleet of Culver Indiana and Mrs Fleet of Atlanta Georgia. A Rhodes scholar, he earned his commission in January 1917 and married Cecil Lyall in 1917, daughter of Sir Charles James Lyall.
Members of the joint American Canadian fisheries commission after extended hearings in the Atlantic and Pacific coasts in both countries report substantial agreement on all questions with only operational details left to settle.
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