Russia Will Not Seek Separate Peace With Germany
A Petrograd dispatch to the state department states Russia will not abandon the war without achieving its objectives, and Americas support boosts the Russian government. The note says a separate peace would hasten Germany’s defeat and a universal peace, while United States recognition strengthens Russian resolve against German intrigue.
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Petrograd
State Department
Russia
Germany
Department of State
Fiermans
United States
Council of Ministers
Wilson
Congress
PLAN DRIVE ON PETROGRAD
German battleship and cruiser squadron left Libau to attack behind Russian lines from the Baltic. Another German squadron was en route from Kiel with transports carrying troops. Dispatches say the plan is to land on the Gulf of Finland rear of Petrograd and cut off the city.
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Petrograd
Libau
Baltic
Riga
Kiel
Libnu
Gulf of Finland
Allies Take Many Divers on April 10 Captured by British
A British war commission member said 70 German submarines and crews were captured on April 10. He noted many sailors were near starvation after days of searching for a destroyed base and were subdued and surrendered when picked up by British boats.
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Washington
British War Commission
U-Boat Sinking Leaves Americans Lost at Sea
Washington reports the sinking of a new vessel by German submarines with five Americans aboard. The sub surfaced to pick up deck survivors, then submerged as others in the water struggled. Three Americans were wounded. Lisbon wires that the Portuguese cabinet has resigned over a parliamentary rejection of a proposed economic council. In Texas, Austin notes the state senate's endorsement of Wilson’s selective conscription and a move to halt using foodstuffs for liquor production.
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Washington
State Department
Neovessel
Naine
Germi
Thousands flock to Plattsburg training camp enlistment
Thousands of New York youths surged to the training camps association headquarters seeking enlistment in the Plattsburg training camp set to open May 8. The mass movement highlights the wartime effort as men line up to join the program.
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New York
Military Training Camps Association
Plattsburg
First Micmac girl offers Red Cross nursing service
Miss Frances B Pawall a twenty year old pure blood Micmac Indian volunteers with the Red Cross as a nurse at East Lynn Massachusetts She is possibly the first Indian girl to offer such service Her great uncle John Logan was Micmac chief and died at one hundred She speaks perfect English and was educated at St Marys convent in Salem Massachusetts
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Frances B. Pawall
United States
The
Red Cross
East Lynn
Mass
John Logan
Miss Pawall
St. Mary’s Convent
Salem
President Wilson backs draft plan in letter to Rep Helvering
Washington April 21 President Wilson sent a letter to Representative Helvering of Kansas urging passage of the administration army bill with selective conscription. He explains the draft selects those most readily spared from other duties and emphasizes mobilizing all national productive forces for efficiency. The letter defends the plan against volunteer limits and stresses national unity and duty.
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Helvering
Kansas
Washington
Wilson
War Department
Congress
Ruling Bans Marriage to Dodge War Duty
War department ruling states men who married after the outbreak of war with Germany will not escape conscription. Men who became husbands since the emergency are considered eligible for service. The department urges newspapers to publish the ruling widely.
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Washington
War Department
Germany
Torpedoed steamer tragedy vailed by distant reports
London telegraph reports a torpedoed steamer with all aboard lost except one survivor. The incident spurred Norwegian press criticism as authorities from Christiania relay the ship’s sinking after a submarine surfaced and fired. In Mainz a pastor plans to serve in trenches.
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London
British War Chiefs In Washington To Aid U S
The British war mission led by Arthur J. Balfour arrived in Washington and was greeted by cheerful crowds. They aim to help the United States by pointing out early war mistakes and improving cooperation with the U S and its allies.
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Washington
Arthur J. Balfour
Union Station
Breckinridge Long
Sixteenth Street
England
Balfour
Lansing
Harts
Wilson
Mr. Balfour
Geoffrey Butler
British Foreign Office
United States
Great Britain
International War Council
Turkey Break with United States Confirmed
State Department in Washington received official notice from Turkey on April 25 announcing the break of diplomatic relations with the United States. The dispatch, via American Minister Stovall in Berne, Switzerland, was sent by G Cornell Tarler for Ambassador Elkus and forwarded to Secretary Lansing.
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State Department
Washington
United States
Stovall
Berne
Switzerland
G. Cornell Tarler
Constantinople
Elkus
Lansing
Calais shelled by Germans with civilian deaths and injuries
German torpedo boat destroyers fired 100 shells near Calais on April 24. Some civilians were killed and twelve were slightly wounded. Reports from London say Reynolds' Weekly claims 2 German and 22 British dead in Dover as crowds jeered German survivors after the sinking of hospital ships by submarines.
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Calais
London
Reynolds
Dover
Navy Lieutenant Harold Vanderbilt at Newport Training Station
Lieut Harold H Vanderbilt of the United States naval reserve photographed at the Newport naval training station. He is a son of Mrs Cornelia Vanderbilt.
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Harold 8. Vanderbilt
United States Naval Reserve
Newport Naval Training Station
Corneliue Vanderblit
French and German forces clash along southern front
Paris reports heavy fighting across the southern front with gains for French forces under General Nivelle north of the Aisne and in Champagne and the Argonne. German losses exceed 19,000 prisoners and 100 guns since the offensive began, as French troops seize Sancy and advance toward Chemin des Dames, Laffaux, and the Vauclere plateau while repulsing German counter-attacks.
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France
French War Office
Nivelle
Aisne
Champagne
Argonne Forest
Chemin Des Dames
Sancy
Auiltes
Hurtebise
Moutonvilliers
Argonne
Laffaux
Vauclere
Loivre
Hearvy
Mines in Alaska Wrecked in Historic Cave-In
A surface cave along a fault in the Gastineau channel area flooded the lower workings at midnight, forcing the abandonment of the Alaska Treadwell, Alaska United, and Alaska Medians mines in Juneau. The loss is estimated near $6,000,000, marking a major disaster in Alaskan mining history.
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Juneau
Alaska
Gastineau Channel
Alaska Treadwell
Alaska United
Treadwell
Food Conservation Plan Aims Price Fixing During War
Secretary of Agriculture Houston urges congressional authorization to fix food prices during the war period in response to a conservation resolution. Legislation to enact the plan is expected to be introduced before the Senate within days.
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Houston
Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
Senate
Waste of Mothers Lives and Health Alarmed at Baby Week
The Children's Bureau urges action to reduce maternal deaths, noting fifteen to forty five year old women suffer more from pregnancy related conditions than most diseases. Dr Grace L Meigs highlights preconception care, regular exams, and skilled birth attendance, with rural nursing centers and cottage hospitals as solutions. Baby Week should start concrete preventive work. Meigs reports are available free from Washington.
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Children’s Bureau
Grace L. Meigs
Federal Children's Bureau
Meigs
United States
Children's Bureau
New Zealand
Canada
Doctor Meigs
Washington, D. C
Proper Furniture for the Children
An essay advocating child centered home design urges dedicated spaces for kids with affordable, easy to clean furnishings. It promotes low tables and chairs, child sized beds and storage, a child friendly cot, stools, shelves, and sunlit, well heated rooms to foster happiness and reduce irritation.
Noncoms Enroll in El Paso Officers' Training Schools
Seven hundred noncommissioned officers of the United States Army enrolled in six officers' training schools at El Paso Texas. They will study a 12 week course to prepare for commissions in the regular army and then be assigned to command troops. General Pershing called on El Paso to urge munition merchants to stop selling munitions to Mexico. Brazil will cooperate with the United States to send munitions and supplies to the Allies. Baron von Falkenhausen named military governor of Belgium by the Kaiser.
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Tex
United States Army
E Paso
Pershing
Chamber of Commerce
Mexico
German Rioters Besieged as Kaiser's Troops Fire On March
London dispatch reports about Magdeburg where ten thousand munition workers attempted to burn the town hall. German soldiers opened fire killing many and the town is placed under siege as rioters are driven back.
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Krupp
London
Magdeburg
Exchange Telegraph Company
Oldenzaal Holland
Vernon Castle In Canada Halifax April 24
Vernon Castle described as a British army dancer is among the first to be noted in Halifax. He is reported to be in charge of a detachment of aviators who will train recruits in Toronto for the Royal Flying Corps.
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Vernon Castle
Canada
Halifax
Castle
Toronto
Royal Flying Corps
General Murguía abandons Villa campaign in Mexico
From El Paso, April 25, Gen Murguía has given up the drive to seize Pancho Villa in Casas Grandes. Report arrives as several carloads of Carranza wounded troops reach Juárez, signaling a pause in hostilities and a shift in pursuit priorities.
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Paso
Tex
Murguia
Pancho
Casag Grandes
Carranza
Juarez
Two Killed as Result of Feud in Hazard Ky
Hazard Kentucky April 25 Two men are dead and four wounded in a pistol fight near the city said to stem from an old feud The dead are John K B Faltnor and Roscoe Brewer
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Hazard
John KB. Faltnor
Roscoe Brewer
German Sailor Arrested at Border in Laredo
Fritz Plate, a bell boy aboard the Interned Kronprinzessin Cecile, was arrested by Department of Justice agents as he attempted to cross the border into Mexico at Laredo Texas on April 25.
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Tex
Department of Justice
Fritz Plate
Cecile
Mexico
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