Haig Dispatch: Miraculous Margin In 1914 Review Of War
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig’s final dispatch details the Western Front as a single campaign with key stages. He notes the high water mark of infantry strength by mid 1916 and artillery constraints until 1918, and argues the narrow 1914 margin and Russia’s 1917 collapse shaped the war’s duration and Allied victory.
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London
Douglas Haig
Western Front
Somme
Russia
Italy
France
Douglas
British casualties in 1918 peak March to July
More than half of Britain's 1918 casualties occurred during the five months from March through July, a period when Allied forces were on the defensive in the fighting.
Hitchcock And Pepper Debate The League
United States Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska and George Wharton Pepper of Philadelphia debated the league for nations at the Metropolitan Opera House. Hitchcock urged the league as the best war prevention instrument and compromise, while Pepper urged a high court of justice and defined jurisdiction for compulsory national disputes.
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Philadelphia
United States
Hitchcock
Nebraska
George Wharton Pepper
League For Preservation of American Independence
League of Nations
Metropolitan Opera House
League
Pepper
High Court of Justice
Executive Council
Clay Manufacturers Meet Elect Illinois Officers in Chicago
Harvey Adams of Danville was elected president of the Illinois Clay Manufacturers Association at the Thursday night meeting in Chicago. Professor C. W. Parmtee of the University of Illinois Urbana was named secretary treasurer.
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Clay Manufacturers Meet
Chicago
Harvey
Adams
Danville
Ilinois Clay Manufacturers Association
Co. W. Parmtee
University of Ilinois
Urbana
Association issues challenge to prove film charge
New York April 11. The Association of Motion Picture Advertisers issued a challenge to Mrs. Ellen A. O Grady deputy police commissioner to appear before the group and support her charge that suggestive immoral and filthy films were shown in New York.
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New York
Ellen A. O'Grady
Association of Motion Picture Advertisers
Association
The Yeomenettes Threatened With Extinction By Finance Cut
The article notes that Congress has not funded the yeomen female corps beyond the current fiscal year, risking the loss of thousands of navy clerical workers who earned about 92 to 132 dollars monthly. It details enlistment, pay scales, promotions, and the possible impact on naval operations and morale.
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Union
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Mare Island
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Great Lakes
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Veumamin
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Navy
United States Senate
Congress
Geneva Named As Permanent Seat Of League
Geneva Switzerland has been chosen as the seat of the league of nations announced in PAIS report. The decision places Geneva as the permanent home for the international body, signaling a major diplomatic milestone.
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Geneva
PAIS
Switzerland
League of Nations
Held for Old Murder in Traverse City Case
In Traverse City Michigan on April 10 Mrs Stanislawa Lypchinski aged 60 was held for trial at the May term of circuit court on a charge of murdering Sister Mary John a Felician nun who disappeared from the convent at Isadore near there eleven years ago. She had been a priest housekeeper at Isadore when the nun vanished. Farewells for Sitarp Paris April 11: The last days in Paris of William G Sharp retiring American ambassador are filled with farewell functions. He will leave Monday for Brest to meet his successor Hugh C Wallace and sail homeward a day or two later.
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Mich
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Circuit Court
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Isadore
Lypchinski
Paris
Paria
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Ambassador Sharp
Brest
Hugh C. Wallace
Five American Medics Decorated by King George
London April 11 five members of the American medical corps were decorated with the military cross by King George at Buckingham Palace. The honorees were Captains Paul Preston C Hallett J Dooling and Wi House and Lieutenant II Alexander.
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London
King George
Buckingham Palace
Paul Preston
C. Hallett
J. Dooling
House
Alexander
Battle at Ungvar Leaves 260 Dead in Red Czech clash
In Ungvar, 100 miles southwest of Lemberg, a Red versus Czech engagement claimed 80 Red Army and 180 Czech lives. Advices from Budapest report the battle's heavy toll and note the casualties tally as reported.
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Copenhagen
Ungvar
Lemberg
Rega
Budapert
Wilson Asked to Back Balkan Autonomous Macedonian State
Twenty five Balkan specialists urge President Wilson to back a plan for an autonomous Macedonian state with about 8.8 million people and Salonika as capital. The proposed state would stretch from the Serbian mountains to the Aegean, from the Bulgarian frontier to Albania’s eastern edge.
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Associated Press
Paris
Balkans
Wilson
Salonika
Aegan Sea
Albania
New Suburb Planned South of Quincy for Small Tract Buyers
South Quincy Acreage Syndicate offers 75 to 80 five and ten acre tracts just south of the city limits. William Severns leads the project aiming to build a model community with electricity from Keokuk Dam, telephone service, and rural mail delivery. Associate F Kohl backs the plan to create a beehive of industry and steady garden product sales to Quincy merchants. Wave Miller named assistant sales manager. sale HQ at Adams County Abstract Co in North Fifth Street.
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Quincy
South
Keokuk Dam
Severns
South Quincy
Wave Miller
Adams County Abstract Company
North Fifth Street
Quincys Pulse Motor Club Plans Spring Meeting
The Quincy Motor Club will hold its annual meeting and officer election in the Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday night April 15. A smoker will be given and all members are urged to attend.
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Motor Club
Quincy Motor Club
Chamber of Commerce
Europe Gets Chicken And Not Canned Beef
CHICAGO April 11 Cold storage chickens will be used as a substitute for canned beef for the United States army in France Germany and Russia this summer Four million pounds of chicken have been purchased by the war department from Chicago dealers for immediate shipment abroad Four hundred thousand cases of eggs have been shipped to Europe since January 1. total exports in 1918 were under 100 thousand cases.
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Chicago
United States
France
Germany
Russia
War Department
Chicago Butter and Egg Board
Europe
New Ministry Formed in Egypt under Hussein Raddi Pasha
Gen. Allenby reports a new Egyptian ministry formed yesterday with Hussein Raddi Pasha as president of the council. Provinces are quiet but peasant demonstrations occurred in some areas. Disturbances in Cairo on April 9 featured hostility toward Armenians by roughs.
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London
Allenby
Egypt
Hussein Raddi Pasha
Cairo
Consolidation Plan for Nebraska State Agencies Passes
Lincoln April 11 The house approved a senate bill to consolidate numerous state agencies into six departments Finance Agriculture Labor Trade and Commerce Public Works and Public Welfare The reform mirrors a centralized system adopted in Illinois years ago and aims to streamline state government.
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Neb
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Senate
Department of Finance, Agriculture, Labor
Trae and Commerce
Public Works
Public Welfare
Ilinoig
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