Regiment Made Italians Think It Was Division
The 332d Regiment, praised for deception in Italy, sold the Allies as a large force and boosted morale with parade theatrics. Though used for disguise, they fought hard, endured risks at Cormons, and many praised officers and noncoms. The unit will soon return to Ohio for muster out.
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Herbert Corey
New York
332D Regiment
High Seas
Italy
332D
Treat
Wallace
Regi
France
Fiume
Genoa
Cormons
General Treat
Grant
W. M. White
Dayton
Tagliamento
Kipling
White
Ohio
Troops to Return Home in April and June Plans
American Secretary of War Newton D. Baker announced in Paris that about 274000 to 275000 U.S. troops will be repatriated from Europe during April, with 250000 in May and about 86000 in June, as plans for postwar reductions. He noted possible Rhine defense by volunteers and described liquidation work with Generals Pershing and the prospect of shipping trophies and surplus gear home. Belgium would receive cotton goods and feedstuffs from the American army.
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Associated Press
Paris
U.S
Europe
Newton D. Baker
Brest
Rhine
Baker
France
Coblenz
Gen. Pershing
U. S
Belgium
Major Casualties In War Totals 274,860
Washington reports revised casualty totals with 274,860 dead and missing, including 13,435 died of wounds and 22,656 died from disease. The update notes a reduction in missing counts due to identifications and returned prisoners, and states over 83 percent wounded in action have returned.
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Washington
Ps Sdar
Dutch Woman Claims Mrs Leslie Bequest
The Baroness Salvador of Paris and Dutch subject challenges the 1914 Mrs Leslie will. She seeks to overturn the will on grounds of unsound mind and alleged undue influence by Carrie Chapman Catt and others. The suit includes Carrie H. Wrenn of Cranford as next of kin.
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New York
Frank Leslie
Althea
Salvador
Paris
Carrie H. Wrenn
Cranford
N. J
Carrie Chapman Catt
Civil War Bond Prices Echo 140 Level History Repeats
Asks when four percent United States bonds reached 140, noting that a $100 bond could sell for $140 while yielding 4 percent annually. Traces Civil War era bonds from 1861 to 1865, cites later 1873 panic, and recalls 140 as a rising peak in a longer pattern of war finance history.
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United States
England
America
No Secret Caucuses Declared by Clemenceau
Paris April 15. Premier Clemenceau states he will not grant a request to share pending questions with the chamber of deputies alone. He expressed his views in a letter to Deputy Andre Lebev after reports that the deputy planned to seek a caucus in the chamber.
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Paris
HAVAS
Clemenceau
Chamber of Deputies
Andre Lebev
Waterways Fight Opens in Illinois Senate Civil Service Debate
In Springfield on April 16 the Illinois waterway project linking the Chicago sanitary district channel with the Illinois River at La Salle faces a Senate battle over civil service. Senator Morton Hull seeks a blanket civil service clause, while Senator Barr advocates excluding it due to the project’s technical nature. Both chambers meet at 10 o'clock after a Tuesday wrap due to statewide elections. Also, a Brooklyn Transit strike looms as Lindley M. Garrison refuses to meet workers’ demands for higher pay and better conditions.
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Springfield
Sanitary District of
Chicago
la Salle
Civil Service
Senate
Morton D. Hull
Barr of
Brooklyn
New York
Broklyn Rapid Transit
Lindley MM. Garrison
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes of America
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W. N. Reynolds & Sons
Hampshire Street
Quincy
Illinois
Leslie
Waterways
Senate Chamber
Tae
Arts Eee
Labor
Ted
Mod
Buffalo
Quincy Gas, Electric & Heating Co
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