War updates from Europe and Asia with Bolshevik actions
Reports from Berlin and Tokyo describe German advances in Russia, with thousands of troops and equipment captured while Bolsheviks seize a Vladivostok munitions pier. Japan and China dispatch forces into Siberia and Manchuria as Petrograd sustains bombing. Austro Hungarians refuse to aid Russia or Romania, and the British steamer Tib eria is sunk with crew saved.
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Vladivostok
Tokyo
Russia
Pruth
Berlin War Office
Eelk
Flying cadets set long distance training record in San Diego
Aviation cadets in San Diego California logged an aggregate 35000 miles in two hours breaking all American aviation training mileage records. Colonel Roosevelt will leave Roosevelt Hospital Tuesday with hearing impairment. Gen Hoare survived a forced landing at Fort Worth Texas with severe facial injuries.
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San Diego
Cal
Roosevelt
New York
Rooseselt Hospital
C. GC. Hoare
Royal Plying Corps
Canada
United States
Pheks Aviation Field
Tort Worth
Tex
Washington War Policies and Military Actions Highlights
Secretary McAdoo set April 6 for opening the third Liberty loan as the war enters its first anniversary. The government weighs terms by pending legislation. The Shipping Board announces action against mismanaged shipyards and cancels 24 steel contracts with more cancellations under advisement. Congress passes the railroad bill setting a two year wartime hold with the president retaining rate power. A Brownings weapon test under the ordnance department shows a successful demonstration before military and allied officials. Food admin controversy arises as meat packers face accusations of restricting output and harming small competitors in Chicago hearings.
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McAdoo
United States Shipping Board
Senate
House
Army
Navy
Washington
Ordnance Department
United States
Canada
Western
Western Canada
U. S. Employment Service
Department OF Labor
Armenian Massacre Report at Samsun Drives Turbulent Response
Dispatch from The Hague cites Asia Minor tragedy where Armenian men and children were massacred after being driven to Samsun by Turks. Count Czernin of Austria Hungarian foreign affairs presses for abdication of King Ferdinand in favor of his brother William or a people chosen successor, per a Berlin dispatch to Amsterdam, within peace terms presented to Romania.
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Asia Minor
Czernin
Ferdinand of
Reoumania
William
Berlin
Amsterdam
Roumuania
American Troops Repel German Attack North of Toul
United States forces repelled a strong German assault in the salient north of Toul France with heavy American casualties. A West Point graduate captain was among the dead. The raid failed, three German prisoners were captured, and German dead littered the front.
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Neufchatel
Reims
Popelle
Steims
Toul
France
West Point
Germany Moves on Finland and Aland Islands
Berlin says occupation of the Aland islands is a prelude to a total Finland occupation to restore order. Sweden protests the plan and the war zone designation. About 500 Swedish troops on Aland are warned but not withdrawn as tensions rise. Russians reportedly destroy Trans Siberian bridges to block Japanese advance toward Vladivostok.
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Washington
Germany
Aland Islands
Finland
Stockholm
Sweden
Lake Baikal
John S. Stevens
State Department
Francis
Vladivostok
Boschee's German Syrup Ad Claims Cough Relief
An advertisement touts Boschee's German Syrup as quieting coughs soothing inflamed throats and lungs. It promises a good night's rest and easy morning expectoration and notes fifty two years of American manufacture and use in lung trouble asthma croup bronchitis. It claims worldwide sale in civilized countries.
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America
Adv
Gone Away to Antioch in Sunday School Tale
A mother asks about Paul who is missing after Sunday school. The boy Robert explains Paul has gone to Antioch, as their teacher had told them, implying a religious or biblical destination rather than a real absence.
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Robert
Paul
Antioch
Tiny gasoline engine uses a twentieth of a drop per shot
A novel gasoline engine operates on just a twentieth of a drop of fuel per cycle. Researchers claim extreme efficiency and reduced emissions with this micro fuel baseline.
Lovett Named Chief of Railroad Administration Division
Washington March 6 Robert S Lovett former chairman of the Union Pacific and priorities director of the war industries board has been appointed by Director General McAdoo to head a new division of betterments and additions for the railroad administration He has given up all other corporate interests.
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Washington
Robert Ss. Lovett
Unien Pacific
War Industries Board
McAdoo
Railroad Administration
Paris confirms Meuse siege breakthrough and captures 150
The war office reports a surprise attack at the Calonne trenches on Monday along a 7,200 meter front. German lines were penetrated to the fourth German trench, with a depth of 600 meters, and more than 150 prisoners were taken.
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Galonne
Fourth Line
Paris
Imast
Meuse
Calonne
War Office
Woman Spy Bill Passes House In Washington
The so called woman spy bill passed the house granting the president power to deal with women from hostile countries living in the United States. The measure applies to all females aged fourteen and over and now moves to the senate for consideration.
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House
Washington
Senate
War Department asks $1.0 billion for aircraft program
Washington reports the war department requests further appropriations of 150 million for the army aircraft program, in addition to 350 million already authorized, to Congress.
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Army
Congress
War Department
Washington
Roumanians Accept Armistice Conditions
Berlin reports a German official statement that Roumanians have accepted the armistice conditions on Monday March 6.
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Berlin
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Rudolph Wolfe
Philip Schuyler Doane
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Louis Suist
Department of Justice
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Kramer Thomas
Marfa
Albert Hestwood
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Medical Corps
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Basil M. Manly
Federal Trade Commission
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