Huns Within Eight Miles of Russ Capital Aims to Fight On
Interior of Russia resists separate peace with Germany as workmen and soldiers mobilize to defend the revolution. Bolsheviks rush to meet German advances while railways and bridges are attacked and Kiev fortress is claimed liberated by the German general staff.
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Volopda
Russia
Associated Press
Rissa
Wlascow
Germany
Czermany
Pskov
Lenine
Moscow
le Interior
Petrograd
Orsha
Mos
Vitebsk
Ukrain
New Republic
Oh Rapid
Bokhevik
Vienna
Berlin
British Admiralty
Wireless
Kiev
Dneiper River
French Busy With Assaulting HMS
The French forces near Champign battle Germans in renewed attacks southwest of Butte de Mesnil. Germans regain a foothold seized two weeks earlier as French and German artillery clash intensely. Indications on Japanese intervention in Siberia remain unconfirmed.
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Champign
Butte de Mesnil
Champaign
Siberia
London
Japan
Far East
Premier and Page Deny Siberia Intervention Conference
London March 2. Ambassador Page left London early today. The embassy denied the Daily News claim that Premier Lloyd George visited the embassy for a major talk with Mr Page about a plan for intervention by Japan in Siberia.
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Premier
Page
Japan
Siberia
London
Ambassador Page
Daily News
Lloyd- Deereze
Lloyd-George
Plan of Invading Germans Is to Capture City
German forces move on Balogore on the Moscow Petrograd railroad. Balogore is a chief freight center for Petrograd feeding. The dispatch says the Germans aim to cut supplies to Petrograd and force capitulation by famine.
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London
Balogore
Mocow-Petrograd
Petrograd
Exchange Telegraph Company
State Department Lacks Advice on Ambassador Francis
Washington reports no direct word on Ambassador Francis since his departure from Petrograd or arrival at Vologda with other ministers. A Petrograd dispatch dated February 25 says a train carried staff from American, Japanese and Chinese missions and another train with Francis and other diplomats was planned.
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Washington
State Department
Francis
Petrograd
Vologda
Treadwell
Petrogradgrad
Stock Market Shows Slight Shifts in Opening Trading
New York reports slight changes in leading stocks at irregular cotton market open with general pressure. Industrials such as equipment divisions eased while Baldwin Locomotive and oils rose. Union Pacific Canadian Pacific Reading declined. Cotton futures fluctuated with May near 30.08 as rains in the south affected selling and prices closed steady with March 31.70 and May 20.20.
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New York
Equipment Division
Baldwin Locomotive
Union Paci
Canadian Pacific
Reading
Libert
Otten Fuantt
Feater Wreh
Ccottoin
Yppening
Texas
Courageous West Point Captain Leads Charge and Falls
In a French salient northeast of Toul an American assault repelled a German rail attack. A West Point captain, 1917 graduate, rallied troops entering No Man's Land and was among the first killed. German losses included 16 in trenches and two officers, with 240 Germans advancing before repulsed by American fire.
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France
Associated Press
Toul
West Point
No Man's Land
Wnr
Woods
Salient
No Man’s Land
Tranover
Pastor Russell's Club Rooms Raided in Los Angeles
Federal officers raided the International Bible Students association reading room in Los Angeles and confiscated copies of The Punished Mystery an alleged seditious work sold there. The group is linked to the Pastor Russell foundation which was raided in Brooklyn earlier.
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Los Angeles
International Bible Students’ Association
International Bible Students’ Assoliation
Pastor Russell Foundation
Brooklyn
Daniels Commends Chief Gunner's Mate Groves for Sub Loss
Secretary Daniels commends Chief Gunner's Mate Groves for leadership on January 13 aboard the American ship Noyanzer. The armed guard under Groves sank a German submarine in a two and a half hour battle. Groves resides in New Bedford Massachusetts.
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Washington
Benjamin Hooves
Daniels
Noyanzer
Groeves
Armed Guard
Groves
New Bedford Mass
Hawaii Senate Backs War Prohibition Plan With Referendum
Washington reports that Hawaii committees favored a bill for wartime prohibition with a referendum within two years after peace to decide if the law should continue. The measure calls for a liquor ban during the war and a public vote on its permanence.
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Washington
Senate
Hawaii
Germans claim New York protected by barbed wire fence
The Cologne Gazette reports New York is surrounded by a barbed wire barrier over 625 miles long with 50 000 to 69 000 soldiers guarding docks. It claims Hoboken and Jersey City are deserted and German districts in Chicago face expulsion, stirring business worry nationwide.
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New York
New York City
Chicago
Hoboken
Cologne
Amsterdam
Brooklyn
Jersey City
No Separate Peace Movement Grows in Russian Cities
In interior Russia, workmen and soldiers councils including Penza Narva Voyo nezh Navan and Moscow resist any peace with the central powers and call for holy war and general mobilization. Bolshevik press stresses arming for the revolution until victory.
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Penza
Moscow
Couneil
Narva
Navan
Germany
Voyonezh
Russia
Social Democratian
Court Denies Negro Bid to Enter Congressional Race
In New York on March 2, the Supreme Court denied Reedy Ransom a ballot placement as negro independent Republican candidate for Congress in the 21st district for the March 5 special election. The decision rested on insufficient petition names but Ransom vowed to continue the effort.
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New York
Reedy Ransom
Board of Elections
Congress
Supreme Court
Ransom
Secretary Daniels May Speak in City
Washington March 2 J J Farriss invited Secretary of the Navy Daniels to deliver the banquet address for the Merchants association set around April 15. Daniels said he would like to visit High Point and will try to arrange dates to accept.
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Washington
J. J. Farriss
Navy
Daniels
Merchants Association
High Point
Austria Moves Troops Into Ukraine Explained In Parliament
Amsterdam March 2 Austro Hungarian government explains in parliament that troops were sent to Ukraine in response to an urgent request for aid from the Ukrainian government. Premier von Seydier says action followed events in Ukraine that threatened to disrupt transport and security.
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Ukrain
von Seydier
Allies ask Japan to take steps for Far East protection
London reports that rallies, per the Daily Mail, expect Japan to take any necessary measures to safeguard allied interests in the Far East.
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London
The
Daily Mail
Far East
Citywide Power Shutdown Scheduled For One Hour
Southern Power will cut off electricity in High Point Sunday morning from 6 30 to 7 50 to repair a recently burned switch. Manager Jennings of the North Carolina Public Service branch said advance notice will be given in future to minimize inconvenience to residents.
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Southern Power Company
Jennings
Focal
North Carolina Publicc Service Company
Elks Convention Planned for Greensboro June
Major L C Sinclair Robert Sechrest and Thomas J Mune phy met in Greensboro to discuss the 1918 Elks state gathering. The Greens boro lodge will host with High Point lodge offering co operation. The executive committee will set the exact June date.
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L. C. Sinclair
Robert Sechrest
Felks
Thomas J. Munephy
Greensboro
Kigdom
High Point
Murphy
Murrhy
The
Elks
Measles Claim Three Doss Children in Alabama
Three of four sons of Mr and Mrs Will Doss of Reads Gap Read's Gap Read's Gap died within seven hours and a fourth child died the next day from pneumonia after measles illness. The parents are also ill with measles. The report comes from Warrior Alabama. Washington forecast generally fair weather for the South Atlantic and east gulf states for the coming week starting Sunday.
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Warrior, Ala
Will Doss
Read
Mrs. Doss
Washington
South Atlantic
East Gulf States
Japan Awaited Allied View On Russia Developments
London reports that Japan has made no proposals for action in Russia and seeks allied views on recent events. The Japanese statement says Japan entered the war without terms of aggrandizement and if extending operations aims to maintain peace and security in the Far East amid a German menace in east Siberia.
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London
Japan
Russia
Far East
Siberia
Postmaster Seeks Better Service and Parcel Delivery Plan
Postmaster J. J. Parriss travels to Washington to seek more clerks for the local postoffice to improve service. Mir. Farkas expresses hope of success in securing support. He also plans to urge a motor track system in Point for parcel delivery during the stay.
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J. J. Parriss
Washington
Mir
Farkas
Ich Point
Obituary: Mrs. J. M. Franklin Died at Home
Mrs. J. M. Franklin died this morning at 9 at the home of her son Fd Franklin on West Russell Street after a prolonged illness. She was 73 and survived by four children Ernest Franklin Fatkranklin Charlie Franklin and Mrs. Hinkle of High Point. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 3 PM at South Main Street Methodist Episcopal Church. interment in Oakwood cemetery.
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J. M. Franklin
Fd Franklin
West Russell Street
High Point
Ernest Franklin
Fatkranklin
Charlie Franklin
Alrs. Hinkle
South Main Street Methodist Episcopal Church
H. T. Robbins
Oakwood Cemetery
Veterans May Defer Annual Reunion To September
Reports in Tusa say Confederate veterans may postpone the 2418 reunion planned for June due to the war. The local reunion committee denies the delay but notes plans likely shift to September. A committee meeting is held tonight to finalize arrangements and confirm the new date.
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Porserund Cement Casting Company
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HMS
West Pointer
Mans
Leickeprey
War Office
Pastor Russell
Gonner
Volonda
Secretary Daniels
Merchants’ Association
By Parker R. Anderson
Austria
Creensboro
Pan
East
Revers’, Ltd
Mr. Farriss
City
Tusa
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