Brutish losses prompt calls for quick British support
The British military mission puts Allied losses since March 21 at about 250,000 and warns the offensive may continue immediately. Officials report heavy German bombardment on the Flanders front and minor Allied gains near Hinges. Other dispatches note Italian front activity, a Vienna front report, and Canada lowering military service age to 19.
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Associated Press
Washington
London
Flanders
Lacre
Ypres
Forest of
Nieppe
Meteren
Hinges
Amiens
Locre
Ottawa
Canada
Rebel defeat reported in Tamaulipas battle
El Paso May 4. Luis Caballero and Rodrigo Perez were killed in a clash at Marquesotes Tamaulipas as federal forces opposed Caballero. About one hundred of Caballero’s followers died and 96 were taken prisoner. Caballero escaped with 22 men in the action reported by General Alfredo Ricaut military governor at Victoria.
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Associated Press
el Paso
Texas
Luis Caballero
Camerino
Rodrigo Perez
Caballero
Marquesotes
Tamaulipas
Alfredo Ricaut
Victoria
War for Peace pamphlet released by Public Information Committee
The Committee on Public Information issued a War for Peace pamphlet in Washington on May 3. It features quotes from Louis F. Post and David Starr Jordan, with Arthur D. Call as compiler. The publication argues unity and forward action in wartime, citing Taft Bryan Gompers Hoover and others from peace and religious groups. It notes the pamphlet can be obtained free by writing to 8 Jackson Place, Washington.
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Washington, D. C
Louis F. Post
Committee On Public Information
David Starr Jordan
Arthur D. Call
the Peace Advocate
American Peace Society
United States
Jackson Place
Friends of Peace
William H. Taft
League
William Jennings Bryan
Samuel Gompers
Theodore Marburg
Clarence Darrow
Herbert Hoover
Carnegie Endowment For International Peace
The
World Peace Foundation
Feneral Council of the Churches of Christ In America
World Alliance For Promoting
Churches
Casualty List Totals 86 in Washington Report
The Washington casualty list dated May 4 reports 86 names with 5 killed in action, 4 died of accident, 8 died of disease, 1 from other causes, 14 severely wounded, 50 wounded slightly, and 1 missing in action. Names and details accompany the official roll.
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Washington
War Convention in Cleveland to plan munition supply
Cleveland May 4 The great war convention of the machinery tool and supply industry will bring 1000 workers to Cleveland to map a plan with government aid to sustain ship shell gun and aircraft production and meet unprecedented demand for machinery functions.
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Cleveland, O
Wilson disapproves death sentences for four soldiers in France
Four American soldiers in France had their death sentences commuted or pardoned. President Wilson disapproved the shooting sentences, with Privates Olon Levoden and Stanley Fishback commuted to three years at Leavenworth, while Privates Forest Sebastian and Jess Cook were pardoned. The report also notes a tunnel discovery at Fort McPherson and other wartime items.
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Associated Press
Washington
Wilson
France
Olon Levoden
Stanley Fishback
Leavenworth
Forest Sebastian
Jess Cook
Liberty Loan oversubscribed by large margin in Washington
The third Liberty Loan oversubscribed by 6 888 900 dollars with later figures expected to push the total above 3 million. Officials target four to five billion totals, a goal Treasury hoped for, as the drive continues in Washington dated May 4.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Empress Eugenie Quietly Approaches 92nd Birthday
London reports former Empress Eugenie will mark her 92nd birthday tomorrow at Farnborough Hill Hampshire home. Despite advanced age she appears more engaged, with the war reviving interest in public affairs. Her health is declining. she walks with a stick and no longer fetes fashion as she once did.
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London
Eugenie
Farnborough Hill
Hantshire
Europe
Anniversary of St Paul Archdiocese Observed
St Paul Minn May 5 In all churches of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of St Paul special services will be held tomorrow commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of the archdiocese. It was on this date in 1888 that the archdiocese was created by papal decree with John Ireland then bishop as the first archbishop.
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St. Paul, Minn
Archdiocese of
St. Paul
John Ireland
Notable Boston Wedding Unites Thorndike and Hamlen
In Boston on May 4 a notable marriage took place between Miss Martha Thorndike, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Paul Thorndike and a Sherman lineage descendant, and Joseph Rochemont Hamlen, executive vice president of the American Red Cross in Washington.
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Boston
Mass
Martha Thorndike
Paul Thorndike
William Tecumseh Sherman
Joseph Rochemont Hamlen
American Red Cross
Washington
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