War Daily Echo Highlights Allied Pushes and German Strains
Five American troop trains arrive in London and march through the city. German claims of von Hindenburg’s death circulate amid heavy artillery on the Somme and in the Arras region. Paris reports meatless days begin, aerial bombings, and ongoing Champagne battles as Britain, France, and the U.S. press the war front.
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London
Wellington Barracks
Ostend
France
Wyverbeek River
Kemmel
Hill 44
Goedde Sene Farm
Lacylette
Vierstraat
William
Austria
Amsterdam
von Hindenberg
London Daily Express
Haig
Somme Valley
Albert
Locon
Forest of Nieppe
Somme
Ancre
Robecq
Germany
Teutonic
Doys
Hindenberg
Nouncement
Paris
Champaigne
Draft calls surpass 1.3 million as mobilization grows
Washington May 11 More than 1 300 000 men have been called in the draft and are in France in camp or awaiting orders to enter service before June 1 The second increment to be called in June is expected to exceed May and monthly mobilization will continue through the summer and fall These figures exclude the Regular Army and the National Guard now in France.
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Washington
France
Regular Army
National Guard
American Troops Not In Reserve In France
Secretary Baker and Lord Reading deny Ottawa reports that American troops in France were held in reserve. Baker says U S forces are actively used in battle with generals Foch and Pershing approving. The War Department seeks 6 billion dollars for heavy ordnance purchases.
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Baker
Lord Reading
Ottawa
France
Foch
Pershing
American Troops Arrive in Northern France Front
Reports from May 13 to May 19 detail American casualties and the arrival of New American Army brigades in Northern France. The dispatch notes 69 to 160 casualties on successive days, with dozens killed or wounded, and confirms fresh American units training with British forces near the Peaton region.
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Cantigny
France
Washington
Amera
Tech
Flanders
Pershing
Lloyd-George
Paris
Ultimatum to Bolsheviki and Baltic Front Battles Reported
May 11 Moscow Count von Mirbach German ambassador warns Bolsheviki to stop arming troops or disband them. He cites Moscow occupation as option. May 14 Lahti battle kills four thousand Germans and Finnish White Guards. civilians die under bombardment. May 15 Rostov recaptured by Soviet troops as German forces retreat. May 17 Odessa under martial law amid Kiev street fighting and mass flight.
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Count von Mirbach
Russia
White Guards
Lahti
Helsingfors
Tammerfors
Rostovondon
Netherlands
Amsterdam
Odessa
Kiev
Bernstorff Aid Tied to Draft Scandal Here
Tulsa physicians W. E. Mich els and A. Marshall were arrested on charges of supplying drafted men with a drug affecting eye sight to cause rejection. Federal officers report similar operations found elsewhere. Marshall’s papers included letters from Count Bernstorff thanking him for his services.
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Okla
W. E. Michels
A. Marshall
Marshall
Count Bernstorff
10000-Ton Ship A Day Announcement By Schwab
Philadelphia May 16 Charles M Schwab announced 10000 ton ships are being placed in commission at the rate of one per day and hopes to furnish three per day next year A heavy ice run last Wednesday morning at about 2 o clock carried away nearly all the piles under the city dock leaving the structure unsafe
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Philadelphia
Charles M. Schwab
Belgians and Italians Reach Pacific Port En Route to Fronts
Three hundred thirty five Belgian and Italian soldiers, mostly officers, arrived at a Pacific port today on their way to the fighting fronts. They are refugees from Bolshevik rule in Russia and travel with several machine guns.
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Pacific
Oriental
Russia
National Shipping Board Orders 200 Wooden Ships
The National Shipping Board has ordered contracts for 200 additional wooden ships of 4700 tons each. This expansion aims to boost wartime cargo capacity and national transport resources amid ongoing supply needs.
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Washington
National Shipping Board
President appoints Felix Frankfurter labor commissioner
Washington on May 11. The President gave Felix Frankfurter of New York the job of shaping a national labor policy for the war period. Frankfurter becomes labor commissioner under Secretary of Labor Wilson. William Ansley has returned home.
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Washington
Felix, Frankfurter
New York
Mr. Frankfurter
Wilson
President Wilson
Beaver hunting restrictions extended to 1923
Nulato May 1. It is stated here that restrictions on beaver killing are extended five years making slaughter unlawful until 1923.
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Nulato
Labor leaders urge removal of Porto Rico governor
Washington May 11. Samuel Gompers president of the American Federation of Labor asked President Wilson to remove Arthur Yager as governor of Porto Rico. Gompers accuses Yager of incompetence in managing the island's labor situation.
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Washington
Arthur Yager
Porto Rico
Wilson
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Yager
Mrs Harrison Divorced From Gov General of Philippines
Mrs. Francis Burton Harrison formerly Miss Mabel Judson of Brooklyn obtained an interlocutory decree of divorce in San Diego on May 15. She is the wife of the governor-general of the Philippines.
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R. C. Butten
Liberty Loan
San Francisco
M. & M. Bank
Editarod
Alaska
Lynch
San Diego
Cal
Francis Burton Harrison
Mabel Judson
Brooklyn
Phillipines
Quiet Little Game Ended in Murder at Camp Edmonds
In Everett Washington a lone bandit robbed fifteen loggers playing a friendly little game of poker at Camp Edmonds and killed John Jandos who resisted. The incident occurred May 17 as the men were gathered for a social game. Police pursued the assailant.
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Everett, Wash
Camp Edmonds
John Jandos
Fire at Coughland steel shipyards destroys plant
A morning blaze at the Coughland steel shipyards in Vancouver causes about 1.5 million dollars in damage. The foreman is reported killed as firefighters battle the flames.
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Vancouver
B. C
Coughland Steel Shipyards
Mining men indicted in Warren district probe arrests
Twenty mining company officials and employees and Warren district businessmen have been arrested. The indictments were issued by the grand jury that completed investigations into the July deportation of 1,2001. W. W. Mrs. Earl Hunt of Flat visited her mother in Iditarod over the weekend.
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Flat
Iditarod
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