Navy unveils giant mobile naval guns on western front
Details show US Navy crews operate oversized artillery designed for battle cruisers but repurposed for France. Each system requires an entire train of cars including a machine shop and armored gun car. Construction, testing, and mobilization occurred in 1918 with plans and first gun completed by April.
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Washington
D. C
Navy Department
Oise-Serre
Angels
Eagle
Navy Bureau of Ordnance
Western Front
United States Navy
Plunkett
Office
France
Standard Steel Car Company
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Naval Gun Factory
Army -Proving Grounds
Sandy Hook
N. J
Army
Navy
Regula Naval Forces
Naval Reserves
Great Lakes
Naval Proving Ground
Daniels
Notable World Turmoil and Honors Report
Prince Umberto of Salemi dies at twenty nine in northern Italy while commanding a battery at Crespano near Monte Grappa. Guatemala reports 150 dead after earthquakes with major property damage. Violent protests erupt in Jassy Romania as government offices are attacked. British casualties for the week end total 37 150 with breakdowns by rank. German press campaigns and calls for abdication of the emperor surface in Amsterdam and Copenhagen. A Bulgarian revolution erupts in Sofia with 3 000 killed in street fighting.
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Umberto
Salemi
Victor Emmanuel
Crespano
Monte Grappa
Guatemala
Panama
London
Copenhagen
Bulgaria
Sofia
Resignation of Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister Burian Accepted
Budapest dispatch reports Emperor Charles accepted the resignation of Baron Burian, Austro-Hungarian foreign minister, as the new cabinet headed by Count Julius Andrassy forms the government.
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Burian
Basel
Charles
Budapest
Baron Burian
Neaa
Julius Andrassy
Hag. “Peen
Largest airplane exhibition over San Diego marks Liberty Loan drive
In San Diego 115 airplanes flown by North Island aviators formed massed formations to celebrate the Liberty loan campaign. Separate report from Fond du Lac shows Justice Fowler hearing proceedings to determine why 21 townships in Fond du Lac County missed their fourth Liberty Loan quotas.
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San Diego
Cal
North Island
John Doe
Fowler
Fond du Lac
Wis
Ond du Lac
Wilson lays out terms for German armistice and surrender
President Wilson rejects German peace bids and demands a surrender only armistice. He says the United States will deal with the German people and their representatives, not the autocratic generals, and refers the matter to military advisers of allied governments for binding terms. London reports General Haig says Kaiser's surrender is essential and the armistice is for Marshal Foch and Admiral Beatty to decide.
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Washington
United States
Germany
Joseph Pp. Tumulty
Baker
War
Navy Departments
Wilson
Department of State
Congress of the
Reichstag
Prussia
Robert Lansing
Frederick Oederlin
Switzerland
London
Sir A. Hunter
Marshal Foch
Admiral Beatty
Iowans Die in France in Last Week War Casualties List
A list names numerous Iowans reported killed in action or died of wounds or disease in France during the last week. The roster includes Philip A Brooks Lynn Dave Whalen Tipton Bryant D Badger Council Bluffs Walter E Sayer Eldora and many others from towns statewide. The article notes broader wartime impact with drafts and labor shifts and mentions new army commissions at Camp Zachary Taylor and Camp Dodge quarantine procedures for families visiting soldiers.
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Waterloo
Walter H. Lcott
Ledyard
Ralph Ellis
Iowa City
Mark Pooley
Webster City
Fred@. Peetz
Clinton
Glenn E. Mathews
Farmersburg
John €. Henrichs
Atlantic
Everett McManus
Aurelia
George C. Hardinger
Garrison
Dimitrios G. Stratikopuls
Council Bluffs
George Bauer
Keokuk
Frank Daniel Nowack
Des Moines
Albert
Dethlefs
Manning
Dennis Enright
Manchester
Glen A. Morgan
New Boston
A. S. Hodges
North Delwein
Clement J. O’rourke
Dubuque
Albert E. Schukie
Waukon
Robert L. Foster
Arlington
Clyde E. Beer
Keosauqua
John B. Wold
Hesper
Emory M Cox
Newburg
James L. Rooney
Howard P. Zettle
Sioux City
A L. Urick
Urick
Iowa
Field Artillery Officers’ Training School
Camp Zachary Taylor
Louisville, Ky
John Wallace Burcham
Harlan
William Joseph Kilpatrick
Randolph
Donald Hugo
Stamp
Primghar
Lloyd George Wilhelm
Perry
Ralph Clinton Williamson
Davenport
Camp Dodge
Base Hospital
W. C. Butler
Durlap
Arion
Dow City
Denison
University of Iowa
Military Academy
West Point
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Jassy
Roumania
Paris
Issilor Gazette
Amsterdam
Frankische Tagespost
Nuremberg
Volks Zeitung
Arthur Henderson
Bergen
Stockholm
Leon Morane
Ekaterinburg
Shanghai
Barcelona
Spain
Holland
Belgium
Prague
Berlin
Berlingske Tidende
Hradschang Castle
Hawkeye
State News
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