British Raider Sunk as Alcantara Is Lost in North Sea
London reports a German raid ship sunk with five officers and 115 men captured from a force of 800. The British armed merchantman Alcantara, which sank the German raider Grief, was herself sunk. In Paris the Verdun region saw quiet with ongoing artillery duels and limited trench incursions. The broader fronts show heavy fighting across the Russian and Austro Italian theaters with bombardments and counterattacks continuing.
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London
North Sea
Alcantara
Grief
Paris
Verdun
Meuse
Woevre
Serbia
Astatic Turkey
Malancourt
Ayocourt
Argonne Forest
Alon
Pice
Friedrichstadt
Vilna
Petrograd
Vidhy
Dvinsk
Berlin
Cordevole
Gjevgeli
Agocourt
Argonne
St. Mihiel
Vigneulles
Dixmude
Dvina
Jacobstadt
Augustinhof
Lake Vargunek
Dvinsak
Widsy
Mischkele
Lake Sekly
Oupa
Nartoche
Vichnevskoie
Bilznik
Mokritza
Rome
War Office
Alto Astica
Val d’ Assa
Fersina
Calpanazzo
Cordovolé
Aptir
Sassoni Mezzoni
Vallaz
Ruaz
Carnia
Rio Dilanza
Chiarzo
Isonzo
Santa Lucia
Madresa
Regina graft inquiry moves toward April session
J F Bryant counsel for J Bradshaw secured permission for expert engineers architects and contractors to examine the Regina jail and Battleford asylum construction. Copies of plans and specifications will be provided. The Royal Commission sat an hour with Chief Justice Houlden presiding and will reconvene on April 12 to begin its core work.
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Regina
J. F. Bryant
J. 12 Bradshaw
Royal Commission
Battleford
H. ¥. MacDonald
Houldan
Justice Newlands
Lamont
Legion of Frontiersmen Mobilization Ordered in Alberta
After delays the Legion of Frontiersmen is ordered to mobilize in Southern Alberta. Commandant B. Oxley directs operations as the First Battalion of the Brigade prepares for mobilization and recalls the corps famed wartime services.
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Commandant Oxley
Alberta
Moose Jaw
Legion of Frontiersmen
Militia’ Department
Ata
Princess Pats
Ahd
Th ‘Legion
B. Oxley
Ig-In
Eapigoee
Weather sketch for prairie provinces appears mostly fair
A fragment notes fair conditions across the prairie provinces with mentions of rising temperatures and cautious forecasts. The wording is garbled but suggests a calm, warming trend without severe weather.
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Prairie Provinces
Old Guard Holds Conservative Conclave in Tense Debate
The 176th Old Guard Conservative gathering in Redcliff rooms exposed party splits over leadership and patronage. Nominees for president and secretary clashed, with Morley Bell and B. J. Bott prevailing, while the local House and Legislature candidate faced no confidence voice. Executive naming and patronage plans to be decided at future meetings.
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176Th
Dr. Smyth
Morley Bell
Mr. Bell
Sedy. Williams
Ald. Cruickshank
W. H Williams
G. M. Blackstock
Apld
B. J. Bott
Redcliff
Blackstock
Bell
Times
Vica
A. J. Drummond
Suffield
Morley Cawker
Tity
A.L. Posey
Smyth
Nelson Spencer
Macdontrite
Brown
Ani Woo
Regina Liquor Commission Probes Gull Lake Bribe Case
Regina session of the royal commission focused on Dr. Cameron Lochead MLA Gull Lake accused of accepting 100 from John Rushford to suppress hotel complaints. Rushford testified he gave 60 cash and a similar cheque to halt action. Lochead admitted receiving funds but said he moved to Regina to learn of complaints and did not obstruct proceedings. Comedy lightened the close as Louis Petmutter testified with hat on regarding Cawthorpe MLA Biggar. Bigelow questioned notes claiming 500 paid to Cawthorpe. witness denied it. Morning centered on eight MLA S. A. Moore and Frontier Hotel Company witnesses tied to a 500 Kennedy bribe for a Naoricenze at Shaynjavon. Health board adds alert on boiling water and cautions against relying on home filters.
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Regina
Royal Commission
Cameron Laoehead
M.L.A
Gull Lake
John E. Rushford
Hig Hotel
Rushford
Dr. Lochead
Louis Petmutter
C. H. Cawthorpe
Biggar
H. V. Bigelow
K.C
Bradshaw
Cawthorpe
Kennedy
Wap’ ‘E. Emgicie Business
Frontier Hotel Compa
Kanosy
Jowdth
Sussex Cross Channel Steamer Torpedoed Near Dieppe
The cross channel steamer Sussex carrying 186 to 380 passengers and about 50 crew was torpedoed off Beachy Head near Dieppe. Reports say all aboard were saved, with many landed in France and some in Dover. Miss Baldwin, an American resident in Paris, was seriously injured. The vessel towed to Boulogne with 90 to 100 passengers landed in Dover and about 250 crew and passengers in France.
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Sussex
Folkstone
England
Dieppe
France
Beachy Head
Mouffet
Dover
London, Brighton and South Coast Railway Company
Paris
Boulogne
Continental Traffic Office
Brighton Railroad
London
Central News
Folkestone
Admiralty
Baldwin
Central News Agency
Gome
Weasel
Bank Manager Is Exonerated in Roadwork Fraud Case
Regina report states J. H. Brown’s arrest over roadwork frauds led to H. L. H. Smith being fully cleared and the Attorney General withdrawing the warrant. Smith, formerly a bank manager, left for Chicago and hopes to return home after evidence clears him.
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Regina
J. H.brown
H. L. H. Smith
Smith
Matt Chicago
City plans 1300 spend on Glass Bottle factory bar racks
The city would spend 1300 to fix up the Glass Bottle factory as bar racks for the 176th and have officers of the 175th purchase supplies for the men in the city with equal distribution among merchants. Debate covered tendering, city purchases, and guarantees merchants would keep supplies locally.
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175Th
Ald. Leveque
Spencer
Nevers In
Spencer & Todd's
Penland
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Tueaday
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Lieut. RC
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W. T. Duggan
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OLD Guard
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