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Newspaper
Fulton County Tribune
Location
Wauseon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1918
Page
2
A concise digest highlights key global events this week, outlining major political developments, economic shifts, and notable conflicts. The piece emphasizes turning points, influential leaders, and evolving international responses shaping the world order.
Reports from Petrograd note German forces pressing in Russia with Hattman and Arylenho roles while Austrian Hungary plans action against Romania. British ship losses loom as hospital ship Glenart Castle torpedoed and the Philadelphia sunk. Japan considers Siberia action amid Cossack unrest and Norman forces occupy Reval near the Baltic. US military moves include retirement of Brig. Gen. James Parker and a new airplane mail service planned between New York and Washington.
Allied forces press in the Toul sector while German artillery pummels American positions. American and French patrols advance, killing and wounding several enemy, capturing officers and men with one machine gun, as reports note casualties among U S troops. The Welf cruiser returns home with crew and material worth many millions marks.
Copenhagen dispatch notes a Spanish steamer with a German prize crew ashore near the Skaw lighthouse. Two prisoners are Americans. In Ireland County Clare is declared a special area under defense rules as troops are sent to aid police. Costa Rica reports a revolution and change of government. The United States has not recognized the new Tiunoco regime.
Washington officials and a large civilian crowd witnessed the first demonstration of the Brown ing machine gun staged under ordnance department suspices. The session included high army and navy officers and allied mission representatives in Washington.
Lady Furness, a noted British peeress, serves behind the lines in France with the Red Cross. Many women of the peerage have given up comforts and social life to aid the country, working in hospitals near the firing line. A cheerful Mar, even in extreme cold, keeps spirits up while the frost bites. The piece also notes a humorous office anecdote and a Houston Post quip about a restaurant’s onion odor.
The 1917 Portland cement production reached about 3,504,000 barrels, topping the 1916 record by nearly 1,500,000 barrels. A stray item notes gasoline prices and consumer reflections on saving as motors stall.
The rose is praised as the most popular flower worldwide and across races. It spread through Christian and northern barbarian invasions into noble homes, castles, and emigrant communities, becoming a universal emblem in the era described.
Photographs depict an air duel as a French plane maneuvers to strike a German adversary. After a brief machine-gun duel the French aircraft reportedly downed the Teuton in the frontline engagement.
The clipping surveys global costs of war at an estimated 5 billion pounds per month, a Tacoma musician builds a towering graphophone for concert use, and a locomotive scoped peri scope aids visibility. Norway powers water with cheaper electricity, Gladys the 20 foot python eats heavily in Lincoln Park, while safer electric welder helmets roll out. London and Albany notes add color as stainless steel hopes and a lighthouse rescue highlight industry and risk, with composer Tosti noted for wealth and fame.
Government action outlines advance payments to contractors for war materials, plus a mobilization plan for college training of 75,000 to 100,000 men. A new War Cyclopedia informs the public, while a drive seeks to marshal educational institutions for technical army training and national mobilization.
The Shipping Board announces a hard line to require prospective shipbuilders to prove a viable organization before receiving contracts. It seizes lumber from Southern Pine and vows no more Hog Island or private-yard schemes. The move targets lumber suppliers and private builders while pressing for real capacity to fulfill wartime ship needs.
Washington reports a high authority saying Japan would land 200000 troops in Siberia within two weeks after U S word and 600000 more soon after. Britain France and others would welcome such a move but would await U S approval. Tokyo press sees Russian developments as Japan centered. Carter the Philadelphia Press cartoonist dies aged forty four. Kansas windstorm knocks out miles of poles, halting rail traffic and causing wide damage.
The passage argues that the letters in news do not originate from cardinal points and disputes derivations from nova nowtelles and related terms. It notes the word’s old spelling newses challenges common etymology and points to its root in the adjective new rather than a four-way compass link.
The London Graphic and the Philadelphia Record reflect on George Washington as a true British bred leader who taught tyranny in the person of George III. The remark links Washington to the free development of the British empire and comments on public receptions and reflective national identity.
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