French Break German Lines in Major Aisne Champagne Drive
French forces push beyond the Aisne and into Champagne taking over 14,000 prisoners and twelve guns. They seize Chivy Braye-en-Laonnois Chavonne and other positions while Britons prepare a renewed drive near Arras and St Quentin. The Paris front reports heavy losses for the Germans with high ground captured and assault success extending toward Moronvilliers and Nauroy.
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Aisne
Champagne
The
Marne
Soissons
Nivelle
Chivy
Oise-Aisne
Braye-en-Laonners
Chavonne
Villa-au-Bois
Chaonne
Rheims
Mont Camillet
Arras
Lens
St. Quentin
Haig
Villers-Guislain
Epehy
St. Quentin- Cambrai
le Catelet
Lagnicourt
Bapaume-Cambrai Road
Paris
St. Hilaire-le-Grand
Moronvillieres
Monthaut
Soissons- Rheims
Soissonsand Rheims
Mont Haut
Moronevilliers
Nauroy
Moronvilliers
T's
Auberive
Struga
Surroun
Prize Parade Feature for Tonight
Splendid trades display parade will be held Thursday afternoon with 4 30 p m civic and trades float parade and 8 p m coronation of Her Majesty the Queen of the Court of Butterflies at the Majestic Theater. The Queen and her court will receive royal duchesses and maids from sixteen Texas cities amid fiestas and street drills.
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Splendid Trades
Majestic Theater
Texas
Mexican Village
Fort Sam Houston
Fiesta week parade to spark San Antonio with decorated cars
Four divisions plan a night parade at 8 15 led by bands with military music. W A Williamson chairs the committee as 50 foot spacing enforces safety. Route runs from Avenue D through Alamo Plaza Commerce Main Plaza to East Commerce and back. Prize money fuels lavish decorate and rivalries among dealers and clubs across electrical electrical and floral floats and owner divisions.
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San Antonio
W. A. Williamson
B. R. Webb
Automobile Parade Committee
William Steinhardt
Avenue D
Alamo Plaza
Commerce Street
Commerce
Main Plaza
Plaza
Market House
Medina Street
Medina
Houston Street
Houston
Chestnut
East Commerce
South Alamo
Williamson Motor Car Company
Clem Motor Car Company
Guarantee Motor Company
Stutz Motor Company
Hudson Motor Car Company
Empire Auto Sales Company
Frazer
Grant Motor Sales Company
A. E. Staacke Auto Company
Woodward Carriage Company
Rotary Club
City Club
the Elks
Chamber of Commerce
Tom Torpedoed by Spanish Warship in Atlantic Sighting
Spanish steamer Tom was torpedoed and sunk off Madrid. Eighteen lives lost. The 2409 ton Bilbao owned vessel followed the San Fulgencio torpedoing. Separate report from New York describes a German U boat disguised as a sailing ship near Lisbon. it was sighted by the Southern Down but did not fire as the freighter escaped.
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Madrid
Paris
Spain
Bilbao
San Fulgencio
Germany
New York
Southern Down
Lisbon
Mystery German raider seen in gulf explodes as schooner arrives
A distressed American schooner with auxiliary power limped into a gulf port after days of warning about a German raider in the gulf disguised as a schooner. Vessels sighted her and fled as the distress signal warned shipping circles of the ruse.
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Beaumont
Tex
Gulf
Petrograd dispatch reports improved conditions in army and food supply
Premier Lyoff and ministers said on return from army HQ that unrest had disappeared and food production improved.
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London
Petrograd
Lyoff
Looff
President Wilson meets leaders on army bill at Capitol
President Wilson went to the Capitol in Washington on April 18 to confer with congressional leaders on the administration army bill and other measures.
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Washington, D. C
Wilson
Capitol
San Antonio Area Weather Tonight and Thursday
For San Antonio and vicinity the forecast calls for cloudy skies tonight and Thursday with overcast conditions and no significant precipitation. Temperature expectations include cool evenings and mild daytime highs. The outlook notes continued cloud cover across the region.
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San Antonio
Vicinity
Weather forecast for travelers across major cities
The Light provides a tourist weather brief for St. Louis Chicago Milwaukee Kansas City and New York. Temperatures range from 40 in New York to 66 in Kansas City with clear to cloudy skies and southerly to southwesterly winds.
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ST. Louis
Chicago
Milwaukee
Kansas City
New York
Firing Heard Off Boston Coast Feared Battle Nearby
Reports from three Cape Cod coast guard stations indicated distinct gun discharges near the tip of the cape. Navy yard officials saw possible ally ships on patrol exchanging salutes, but no warships were sighted and no confirmation followed.
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Boston
Mass
Massachusetts Bay
Coast Guard
Cape Cod
Navy Yard
Cape
Navy Yards
Volunteers First in Army Bill Battle in Congress
In Washington on April 18 the House military committee voted 12 to 8 to require the new army bill to seek volunteers first before conscription. The Senate committee approved the bill with the conscription clause, while President Wilson pressed for no compromise and war measures, including the army bill, moved toward quick passage.
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Washington, D. C
House Military Committee
Senate Military Committee
Wilson
Capitol
Senate
McKellar
Army General Staff
War Department
House
Texas Men Fit For Service Under Connecticut Plan
Texas could muster 576 313 men aged 18 to 44 under a Connecticut style plan. Dr. W A Davis, Texas registrar, finds 221 134 able bodied without dependents after medical cuts, 355 181 with dependents in the 4 six class groups, and 51 140 without families plus 82 270 with families in further filtering.
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Austin
Tex
Texas
Connecticut
W. A. Davis
State Registrar of Vital Statistics
Davis
Firing Heard At Sea North Of Cape Cod Station
A Cape Cod coast guard report to the Navy Department via the Boston command notes heavy gunfire at sea north of the Coast Guard station. The firing occurred at 9 41 this morning and was heard by three coast guard stations in the Cape Cod region. No explanation was obtained from the transmissions.
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Washington, D. C
Cape Cod
Navy Department
Boston Naval District
Coast Guard
Salute or naval firing heard off Cape Cod today
April 18 reports from Provincetown indicate heavy firing near Cape Cod which may have been a ceremonial salute by naval vessels though officials say active warships do not reveal positions.
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Provincetown
Mass
Cape Cod
Submarine Periscope Sighted Near American Waters
The destroyer Smith reported early yesterday sighting a German submarine's periscope submerged at 300 yards, moving parallel to the ship as a torpedo crossed 30 yards from the bows. Officers confirm the sighting based on trained torpedo men aboard.
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Washington, D. C
Smith
Navy Department
Bernhardt Has Chance for Recovery Despite Grave Condition
Madame Sarah Bernhardt, operaed on for kidney affection in New York, has a good fighting chance for recovery though her condition remains grave. Dr Leo Buerger announced the outlook before noon, with six attending physicians to hold another consultation later today.
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New York
Sarah Bernhardt
Leo Buerger
DRYS Win in Illinois Local Option Elections
Illinois anti saloon forces secured a signal victory in yesterday’s local option votes with results from many towns. Dry candidates carried fourteen wet cities and towns while losing three dry towns. twelve towns remained in wet control. Danville, population about 30,000, led with 68 saloons to close May 1, as dry forces netted 142 saloons.
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Chicago
Illinois
Danville
Berlin strike swells to about 170000 workers across city
Berlin sees large scale action with 125000 cited by semi official papers and extended to machine shops electrical plants and some unions. Polish munition workers join in Warsaw as German wartime ordinances threaten penalties for not working.
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Copenhagen
London
Berlin
Tageblatt
Spandau
Unter den Linden
Imperial Castle
Warsaw
Germany
Vorwaerts
Berlin Strikers Return as Bread and Reform Demands Rise
A Berlin dispatch reports most factories back in operation. Strikers return on condition of bread and potato supply, fair food distribution, and guaranteed electoral reform as set in the press.
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London
Berlin
Politiken
Copenhagen
Vossische Zeitung
Returning to Work in Amsterdam as Factories Reopen
Berlin advices say most idle factories resumed work. Budapest Tages Zeitung informant says Frederic C. Penfield, former American ambassador to Austria-Hungary, proposed separating Austria Hungary from Germany and seeking an agreement with the Entente before leaving Vienna.
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Amsterdam
London
Berlin
Budapest
Tages Zeitung
Frederic C. Penfield
Austria-Hungary
Vienna
Germany
Seek to Encourage Germans Press Paints Snd Picture of Fate
The Hague April 17 reports depict rising German hunger and fear as bread rations fall. The Courier of Hanover warns a quicker peace would not improve food, urging readers to fear a world famine and concessions that fail to meet needs.
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Press
Snd
The
Hague
London
Hanover
Great Britain
France
Italy
United States
Representative of Former Czar Quits U S Embassy
George Bakhmetieff, Russian ambassador since 1911, cabled the Petrograd provisional government to relinquish his post. Baron Rosen, his predecessor, may be sent to replace him, as Bakhmetieff views the new regime as incompatible with his imperial duties.
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Washington, D. C
George Bakhmetieff
United States
Petrograd
Baron Rosen
Grand Duke
Michael
Nicholas
Mr. Bakhmetieff
Canadian Cavalry Charges Trenches at Front
An unofficial dispatch from Canadian headquarters in France reports cavalry galloped against German positions for the first time in over two years. In four days six villages were captured on a twelve mile front, and a young lieutenant led a trench charge clearing wire and capturing a machine gun.
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Ottawa
Ont
Canada
France
Mob Attacks German Houses in Porto Alegre
In Porto Alegre on April 18 a mob attacked 270 German houses tearing flags from walls smashing windows and postwar era caricatures of the German emperor were nailed to the walls as the raid drew to a close.
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Porto Alegre
Brazil
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Associated Press
Mr. Wilson
M. Settee
M. Steer
Coast Guards
Lone Star State
Washington
Atlantic
Bernhardt
Drys
George Bakhmetiefe
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