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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1918
Page
2
The Navy calls for binoculars telescopes and related items from private owners to fill a wartime supply gap. Donors should tag items with name and address and send to Franklin J Roosevelt at Naval Observatory Washington. Also discusses enlarging the selective service age and mixed civilian-military callups.
The Tuscania was torpedoed off the north Irish coast with 101 missing, including 57 Americans. The navy vows rapid troop transport to Europe while developing new anti submarine methods amid ongoing battles with Bolsheviks and allied military plans.
Chairman Hurley presses Hutcheson to return striking shipyard workers to work while awaiting a definite shipping board proposition on conditions. Hutcheson defers action, citing no agreement with the board, as officials warn against draft-age workers being called. Wilson follows the labor turmoil closely. Local carpenters seek inclusion in the adjustment agreement.
Reports from the imperial German headquarters suggest continued conflict between Teutonic allies and Russia while the Bolshevik government reiterates withdrawal from the war. Leon Trotzky confirms that Russia's exit renders all prior agreements void, as councils back Trotzky's policy.
German foreign secretary Dr. Rich ard von Kuehlmann stated at Breast Litovsk that Germany and Austria remained at war with Russia after Leon Trotzky declared Russia out of the war. He argued armistice ends warfare must resume and demobilization by some powers does not change the state of war.
Paris reports Bolo Pasha convicted by a court martial of treason has appealed. He was brought in prison garb to the death cell at Sante prison and spent a restless night, saying to guards that he is tranquil and has a thousand grounds for appeal.
Forth Worth report states Captain Vernon Castle of the British royal flying corps died while flying an aviation field aircraft in an effort to avert a collision with another aviator. The other pilot sustained only minor injuries.
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