World events brief notes on battles and deaths
After artillery prep the enemy raid on the American sector near Toul failed to gain ground. American patrols clashed in No Man's Land and Germans withdrew with casualties. Reports also say 25 Americans in Helsingfors were held by Finnish Red guards and Americans from the Rainbow division were praised by General Gerard.
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Toul
No Man's Land
Oul
State Department
Stoockholm
Finland
Helsingfors
Red Guards
Bjoemsborg
Forty-second
Pershing
Genevel Gerard
European War News from Paris Bombing and Allied Plans
Six killed when a hospital in Paris was struck by a bomb dropped by six German airmen. A French detachment repelled a German advance west of Naurey road. Japan may intervene in Siberia with two grand armies, with England and France backing. British raids hit Freiburg munitions works and Bruges docks. German POWs to be relocated from attacked areas. Panics reported in Germany as fires and explosions occur in Coblenz and other Rhine cities.
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Wings Caroline Martin
Rockville Center
L. I
Paris
Japan
Siberia
England
France
Wilson
Russia
Freiburg
Germany
London
Bruges
Geneva
Coblenz
Fribourg
Rhine
Washington Senate Budgets and War Time Measures
A sweeping Washington report outlines a 760 million dollar relief bill for urgent deficiencies in government work, with Reed of Missouri opposing a 1.75 million food administration appropriation. Wilson urges every school to form a regiment in a volunteer war garden army aiming to raise 500 million in produce. The daylight saving bill advances, navy affairs praise follows a year of strong performance, and railroad control moves forward. Tragic losses include Howard Holaday in Texas and a Pennsylvania train wreck near Elizabethtown with multiple deaths and dozens injured.
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Senate
Reed
Missouri
Food Administration
Wilson
Lane
Soviets Ratify Peace Treaty After Moscow Congress Vote
A Petrograd dispatch reports the All-Russian Congress of Soviets met in Moscow and ratified the peace treaty with the Central Powers by a vote of 453 to 30.
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Congress of Soviets
Moscow
Petrograd
Four French Citizens Tied to German Espionage Arrested in New York
Four suspects claiming French citizenship but linked to German espionage in the United States were arrested in New York hotels. Authorities pursue deportation to France. The group includes Mme Despine Davidovitch Storch, Baron Henri de Beville, Mme Elizabeth Charlotte Nix, and Count Robert de Clairmont. Evidence seized in Key West included coded cables. The suspects have past spy associations, including Madrid in 1915, where they were known as Baron and Baroness de Deville.
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New York
United States
Department of Justice
Charles F. DeWoody
Mme
Despine Davidovitch Storch
Baron Henri de Beville
Cuba
Washington
Elizabeth Charlotte Nix
Count Robert de Clairmont
Mme. Storch
Baron de Beyille
Key West
Threat of Drive Bluff in German Spring Offensive
Washington reports that Germany’s plan for a major spring assault on the western front is unlikely unless pressed by military needs. The War Department weekly review says enemy preparations are extensive but will not trigger a offensive without compulsion, aligning with Allied officers’ expectations.
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Washington
Germany
War Department
Atlantic
Kaiser Takes U. S. Property
German foreign office notifies that measures against American property in Germany will mirror actions taken against German property in the United States. The note comes from the Spanish and Swiss ambassadors in Berlin via Reuters Amsterdam correspondent.
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London
Berlin
German Foreign Office
Germany
United States
Reuters Amsterdam
Eight-Hour Work Rule Suspended During War Emergency
Washington reports that regulations limiting workmen at war construction to eight hours daily have been suspended for the duration of the current emergency, the War Department announced Monday.
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Washington
War Department
Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules Promoted as Kidney Remedy
Advertisement touts Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules as a standard household remedy for kidney bladder and urinary tract ailments. It claims 200 years of use and urges immediate purchase from reliable druggists with money back guarantee if not as represented.
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Haarlem
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