Heroic deeds mark actions on our fronts
American forces in France aided French troops in Lorraine and Apremont wood sectors, taking No Man's Land and conducting nightly patrols to map German positions. An Army captain led a top assault under heavy fire, while a priest and a Springfield banker among others earned praise for bravery. A wounded corporal urged his mother to relay his last words as he died after four hours of fighting.
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Associated Press
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No Man's Land
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Apremont Wood
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Bill Introduced to Fix Price for Raw Cotton at 20 Cents
A bill introduced in Washington by Representative Emerson of Ohio seeks to set a maximum raw cotton price at 20 cents per pound during the war. The measure allows presidential adjustment of the price. In New York, cotton prices fell about $8 a bale amid renewed talk of price fixing in the cotton goods trade.
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Washington, D. C
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York
Germans Massacre in Novoselki Provokes Protest
Moscow reports a German assault after peasants resisted a requisition, village burned, residents fired upon, including women and children. M. Tchitcherin protests to the Soviet government condemning the atrocity as unworthy of a cultured people.
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Associated Press
Moscow
Novoselki
Mohilev
Goran
M. Tchitcherin
Ussiag
Fureisu
First Liberty Loan badge effort under way in Washington
In Washington on April 1, preparations begin for the fourth Liberty Loan drive slated for October or November. Publicity director Frank R. Wilson urges badge makers to recycle celluloid and steel into war materials, noting 20,000,000 of the papier pasteboard substitutes have already been purchased for the Third Liberty Loan campaign.
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Washington
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Frank R. Wilson
Weather highlights for San Antonio and major cities
Tonight in San Antonio expect cloudiness with showers and a risk of rain. Tourists are advised to check Light precasts showing cool conditions into Friday with a low around the mid 50s and highs near 66 in some areas.
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San Antonio
Way Hamlets Villages Are Burned in German Invasion
In France the retreating German advance drives peasants from ruined homes as they follow military guides toward safety. Refugees bear sorrowful expressions, while bombardment reddens skies and fires destroy farms. A British photographer records an elderly paralytic saved from a wrecked house, amid widespread loss as towns fall to invasion.
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Thames
Flanders
Somme
American Aviators Tell How Germans Were Brought Down
In Paris April 18 two German airmen were shot down by Lieut A S Winslow of Chicago and Lieut Douglas Campbell of California after mistaking an American aviation field for a German camp. Both engagements ended with downed enemy aircraft and non-fatal injuries to the American pilots.
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France
Germain
A. S. Winslow
Chicago
Douglas Campbell
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Winslow
Campbell
Officers Are Killed as U S Engineers Deploy to Vladivostok
United States Engineer Corps officers who went to Vladivostok to help reorganize Ossian railroads reported no reception from Bolshevik authorities. After three days they left for Japan. In Vladivostok several Russian officers were killed in what an American called an open season on officers. In Mexico, Allied aid for Doan reached $17,500 with a goal of $70,000, contributed by British Italian French and American residents.
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Ossian
Vladivostok
Japan
Mexico
Doan
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Tex
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Ghibaalud City
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Chihuvalawer Liberty Lo. Committee
Gas Shell Tactics Net 2000 German Casualties
Paris April 18 reports a new gas shell tactic in the battle. Heavy gases are laid along charted lanes with quick-dispersing fumes. After a wait, assaulting troops strike as light gas dissipates. German troops remove masks, soothed briefly by malodorous shells, then suffocated when poison gas spreads.
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Paris
Derby Named Ambassador to France and War Cabinet Change
London April 18 official announcement that the Earl of Derby is appointed ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to France succeeding Lord Bertie Viscount Milner becomes secretary for war and J Austen Chamberlain a member of the war cabinet Alfred Milner long a member of the war cabinet without portfolio since December 10 1910 The Earl of Derby heads the war office since the Lloyd George cabinet formed in December Lord Bertie to leave Paris after 1900 service and elevation to peerage in 1915 Chamberlain son of Joseph Chamberlain noted public figure for years
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France
J. Austen Chamberlain
London
Alfred Milner
Hirst
Milner
War Office
Lloyd George
Itr
Lord Bertie
Paris
Lord Bertle
Foreign Office
Italy
Ole
South Africa
Transvast
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Mir Chamberlin
Joseph Chamberliin
Ife
India
Mesoputa
Mexican troops reach Matamoros opposite Brownsville
Five hundred Mexican federal troops under General Manuel Wieguece arrived at Matamoros opposite Brownsville with General Diegues expected soon. The movement follows the assassination of Governor Nafarrate at Tampico. It marks the first sizable troop presence in Matamoros in over four years.
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Tes
Manuel Wieguece
Matamoros
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Nafarrate
Pua Wawlipus
Tampico
Muatamoros
Kaiser Bill in Belgium War Diary Visit Near Queant
Berlin reporter says Emperor William visited the battlefield near Queant west of Cambrai. The emperor spoke only once to an officer, lamenting why the world was not saved from the horrors of war.
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Amsterdam
William
Queant
Cambrai
Berlin
Lokal Anzeiger
Lis
Doctor Given Cross by the Associated Press in France
Lieut George Patton of New York City in the American Army Medical Corps receives the French war cross for courage in tending wounded under heavy bombardment. He removed his gas mask to continue dressing wounds despite gas fumes before being overcome.
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Associated Press
France
George Patton
New York City
American Army Medical Corps
National Arms Tank Corps Officers Named in War Dept Order
Washington April 18. The War Department accelerated the organization of the National Arms tank corps. An announcement listed the appointment of the second echelon officers from Camp Stanley Texas and Camp Davis Texas, with a port location in Georgia.
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Liberty Loan Subscriptions Reach Billion Mark
A treasury report shows new Liberty Loan subscriptions totaling over one billion dollars, with April figures indicating progress toward the national quota. Treasury notes the total of pledges as a key milestone, while admitting the daily pace falls short of the expected average required to hit the goal.
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Liberty Lawn
Treasury
Cry quits on raids in London amid Berlin talks
Dispatch from Amsterdam cites Berlin sources noting a socialist leader proposed open towns for joint actions with the Allies. Government officials say no such crime or act exists but would be examined if received.
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London
Reuters
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Flight cadet killed in California training crash
Second Lieutenant Quinn W. Mattern of Dayton, Ghilo, died yesterday when his airplane during reserve aviator license practice tispin fell 1500 feet into the bay near San Dlihdo. No recovery of the body or aircraft yet reported. A damaged American schooner previously reported seemed abandoned and waterlogged off Tampico. Ship location listed at latitude 23.44 and longitude 95.56 with Gulf port origin reported March 17.
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Three Attacks on Bailleul Sector Fail High Ground Recaptured
Reuters dispatch from London reports heavy fighting in Flanders and along the Lys front as French and British troops oppose German offensives. German attacks near Bailleul were repulsed while Wytschaete and other gains were retaken by British forces amid ongoing bombardment and shifts along the line south of Ypres.
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Ypres
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Marshal Haig
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Lys
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