VON BETHMANN-HOLLWEG TO RETIRE WITH RUSSIAN FLEET MOVEMENT
In late March reports say Von Bethmann-Hollweg plans retirement while Berlin hints at shifts in naval policy. French and British dispatches describe heavy fighting near Verdun and along the Meuse with German attacks repulsed and artillery exchanges ongoing. Russian forces are said to press the Trebizond area as Turkish defense weakens.
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Black Sea
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Sayville
Mar
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Felubie
Oday
Constantinople
London
Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg
Admiral von Tirpitz
Geneva
Daily Express
Bernhard von Buelow
Lucerne
Amsterdam
Reichstag
Carl Helferrich
Imperial Treasury
Helferrich
Paris
William
North Sea
Dead Man's Heights
le Mort Homme
Woevre
Rome
Exchange Telegraph Company
Berne
Naby Bey
Turkey
Petrograd
Washington, D.C
Corbeaux Wood
Mort Homme
Dead Man’s Hill
Dead Man's Hill
Verdun
Bois Des Corbeaux
Belgium
Vosges
Douaumont
Vaux
Meuse
Parliament Halts After Long Debate On Army Estimates
London observers report a protracted Commons session ending after 1 AM with a broad debate on army estimates and the calling up of married men. A Saturday War Office conference aims to clarify navy manpower needs as pressure grows to extend conscription and military age for single men. The coalition division highlights heightened tensions over married men policy.
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London
House of Commons
War Office
Soldiers' rehabilitation advance noted by Ottawa commission
An Ottawa session of the military hospitals commission reports growing work with returning soldiers from Ontario Quebec Nova Scotia New Brunswick and Manitoba. Vocational training and elementary schooling are expanding at convalescent homes with new opportunities for self support. Apparatus for rehabilitation has been installed in centers including Toronto. A land settlement scheme is under consideration.
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Ottawa
Military Hospitals’ Commission
Ontario
Quebec
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Manitoba
Europe
England
France
Dobell
Central Military Convalescent Home
Toronto
MPs Hear Call for C N R Branch from Medicine Hat to Hanna
A 25 member deputation from Medicine Hat and Hanna districts met Premier Sifton and ministers to urge immediate construction of the C N R branch between Medicine Hat and Hanna. Norman A. McLarty led the case with figures on 1 740 000 acres and 3 588 600 bushels last year, arguing long hauls hurt farmers and relieving Goose Lake congestion. Mayors Halliday Hanna and Hawthorne Medicine Hat, plus Capt Pingle and others, attended.
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Medicine Hat-Hanna C. N. R
Sifton
C. R. Mitchell
Chas. Stewart
A. J. McLean
Edmonton
Medicine Ihlat
Hanna
Charles Mitchell
Charles Stewart
C.N.R
Medicine Hat
Norman A. McLarty
Pingle
M.P.P
Hawthorne
Bott
Redcliff
Halliday
Spencer
J. Whe McCall
M.P. P
J. Ladd
Alderson
Odell
Sparks
Venner
Moratorium for Alberta Soldiers Introduced in Legislature
Premier Sifton introduced a bill in the legislature for the relief of volunteers and reservists, effectively a moratorium for soldiers to six months after the war ends, modeled on Saskatchewan. The debate is expected to run to Friday as public works plans are outlined and road projects are discussed.
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Alberta
Chas. Stewart
Edmonton
Sifton
Saskatchewan
Ponoka
Ottawa moves toward Dominion wide liquor prohibition plan
Ottawa reports the government will introduce a bill to aid provincial prohibitory laws without enforcing import controls. The measure shifts responsibility to provinces, imposes fines and imprisonment on dealers who ship liquor into prohibition states, and sets penalties for multiple offences.
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Dominion
Ottawa
H. H. Stevens
C. J. Doherty
Edmonton Deliberates on Medicine Hat Charter Amendments
Municipal Law Committee debated charter amendments with City Solicitor Mayor and local MPP present. Discussion covered establishing a permanent city assessment system but no major changes were approved.
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Edmonton
Medicine Hat
WRECK OF TUBANTIA WRECK OF TUBANTIA
The Dutch minister of marine reports affidavits from Tubantia officers and lookout stating the liner was torpedoed. American consuls in Holland ordered to investigate the sinking with Americans aboard. Survivors including Richard Schilling and family suggest a mine struck the vessel.
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London
Hague
Tubautt
Washington
Holland
Tubanda
Gibraltar
Lisbon
Amsterdam
Richard Schilling
Tubantia
Recruits and Promotions Reported in Local Unit
More recruits queued for the 17th but medical inspection halted them. Four joined last night while A M Robertson was promoted to corporal and N W Thompson to sergeant. Listed last night were S Melesko J C Wright J G Wilson EB Smith. Some Ogilvie Mills workers pledge to enlist. The Rosery reports strong enlistment as three Bohemian Russians linger near officers.
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A. M. Robertson
N W Thompson
S. Melesko
City
J. C. Wright
Dunmore
J. G. Wilson
Woolchester
EB. Smith
Gros Ventre
Ogil
The Standard suspended publication today after sale offer
London reports The Standard, a longtime morning newspaper since 1857, suspended publication on March 17 after failing to attract a buyer in its sale attempt.
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London
the Standard
Toronto sale promotes watches and jewelry loss of stock
A garbled item notes a sale offering watches jewelry and silver at reduced prices. It references a city official and a solicitor, mentioning the street railway and a public notice in Toronto with unclear details about timing or location.
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Mayor Church of Toronto
Ity
Street Railway
Ato | Lonowa Lng
Itm
Ex Hat Police Chief Bars German From Capitol Access
Edmonton report says Chief Detective Meiklejohn seized an entry card from Koermann and tore it after discovering he was not an accredited journalist. Koermann had claimed press access as a Winnipeg Nord-Western connection, prompting potential ministerial review.
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Meiklejohn
Mann
Nord-Western
Winnipeg
Koormann
Man Arrested Here Sent Up For Trial In Calgary Court
Calgary March 1 7 F R Thompson committed by Magistrate Davidson to the supreme criminal court on charges of falsifying the books of the Industrial Co-Operative Society Limited and stealing monies Bail fixed at 3000 total involved 320 Prosecution asked for higher bail but magistrate refused noting some charges may be explained by faulty bookkeeping Thompson was organizing a cooperative store here when arrested and taken to Calgary.
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Calgary
Thompson
Davidson
Supreme Criminal Court
Industrial Co-Operative Society, Limited
Well known citizen joins the artillery
E F Nicholson the well known jeweler has accepted a lieutenancy in an artillery unit recruitment western Ontario with headquarters in Toronto. He closes his business and sells stock while his father was a Bengal Cavalry colonel and the Indian Mutiny veteran.
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E. F. Nicholson
Ontario
Toronto
Nicholson
Bengal Cavalry
21St Lancers
Grain prices reported from Winnipeg and U S markets
Winnipeg shows May wheat at 109 1 2 cents with July 109 1 2 and Oct 104. Oats at 43 1 4 May and 46 1 2 July, barley around 62 May, flax around 205 1 2. American markets list Chicago May wheat 108 1 2 and Minneapolis chalks up May and July prices. Local Winnipeg prices note No 1 wheat 106 7 8 and flax around 1804.
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Winnipeg
C. W
M.W.C
C.W
Chicago
Minneapolis
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