Land battleship fleets to clash in great tank battle predicted
Frederick M. Kerby reports from New York on a future land warfare vision where massive fleets of Allied and German tanks collide. Descriptions of caterpillar fortresses, rocket bursts, and hand to hand combat portray a looming armored stalemate as Britain France and the United States field expanding tank forces toward Pershing.
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Frederick M. Kerby
New York
France
Germany
Pershing
Britons Brace for Supposed Surprise German Attack
Keen outlines the Cambrai front as the Germans seek to regain positions and strike unseen. British reserves shift to support the Cambrai sector while air units attack with machine guns and tanks possibly deployed for a first time. Analysts warn that massive German efforts threaten large scale losses on both sides.
Two Women Held in U S Probe of Indian Plot
San Francisco dispatch reports Takarnath Das in custody after federal court demand by U S Attorney Creston. He is detained along with W A Wotherspoon and his wife and Bluma Krause, described as a Bolshevik agitator. The arrests stem from alleged efforts to interest Russian revolutionists in overthrowing Indian rule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Takarnath Das
United States
Creston
W. A. Wotherspoon
Bluma Krause
India
Allies Accept U.S. as Moral Leader in War
United Press reports that allied premiers and statesmen now accept the United States as the moral leader of the war. The pledge repudiates any Teutonic peace plan and places the burden of sustained effort on America as the principal ally backing Russia and opposing any settlement honoring Germany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
London
America
Russia
Navy Yard Band To Play At Palm Sunday Service
The Puget Sound Navy Yard band, 45 pieces, directed by Dorminico Moro, will perform at 7 30 p m Palm Sunday March 74 at First Methodist Church. Rear Admiral Coontz and Commander Freeman will attend with staff. Dr J F Crowther will give the address titled Wake Up America. Montgomery Lynch leads musical portions. Bremerton sailor John E B Harrison and Temple also perform. This marks the band’s first Seattle appearance.
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Puget Sound Navy Yard
United States
First Methodist Church
Coontz
Miller Freeman
Naval Training Station
Dorminico Moro
J. FB. Crowther
America
Montgomery Lynch
John EB. Harrison
Bremerton
Temple
Navy Yard
Seattle
Puget Sound Naval District
Books for Soldiers Being Collected in Seattle Appeal
The American Library Association asks Seattle residents to donate spare books for soldiers. Donations can be left at the city library, any fire station, or stores Fraser-Paterson's Bon Marche Mac Dougall Southwick's and Frederick and Nelson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nore
American Library Association
Seattle
Fraser-Paterson
Bon Marche
MacDougall-Southwick
Frederick & Nelson
Germans Taken on the Pacific
The 32 ton motor boat Alexander Agassiz was seized off Mazatlan by an American gunboat and towed to San Diego. Five men, four said to be Germans, are held aboard. The vessel, formerly UC Berkeley research craft, carried machine guns and rifles under a German flag and had been outfitted in Mazatlan by four sailors from the interned Lasbek and a Mexican.
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San Diego
Cal
Alexander Agassiz
Agassiz
Mazatlan
Lasbek
Agnasiz
University of California
Novel Stunts for Military Dance in Seattle Event
A military dance at the Armory in Seattle benefits the Soldiers' and Sailors' club. Me Gen H A Greene and Rear Admiral Coontz are invited guests along with Gov and Mrs Lister and other officials. Crown Indians from Camp Lewis will perform a tribal dance and cowboys will dance a remount depot quadrille. The 54-piece band will be among the finest in the service.
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Seattle
Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Club
Armory
National League For Women's Service
H. A. Greene
Camp Lewis
Coontz
Navy Yard
Mra. Lister
Mra. Hanson
Mra. Gill
Jacob Jones
Camp Remount
Puget Sound Navy Yard
Ear of a Mouse Club Formed by California Artillery Men
Camp Lewis Tacoma reports a secret group called The Arabs who admit members only with the ear of a mouse. About 60 members exist and initiation fees are scarce. Archdeacon Hilton to speak at St Johns Holgate West Seattle 7 p.m. service. Maurice Bywater to preach at morning service. B F Day school flag adds 155 stars. one gold denotes a man killed in action. William A Eastman elected as one of 22 vice presidents of the National Land Merchants Association.
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Camp Lewis
Tacoma
California
347Th Field Artillery
Hilton
Archdeacon Hilton
St John’s Episcopal Church
Holgate
West Seattle
Maurice Bywater
B. F. Day School
Parent-Teacher Association
William A. Eastman
National Land Merchants’ Association
Japanese Ban All Nude Art Sparks Private Exhibitions
French art critic Mise Blanche Marie d'Harcourt says Japan bans nude art to compel painters and sculptors to stage private shows. She notes rapid progress in sculpture and odor of a reshaping Oriental beauty studies after a year in Tokyo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mise Blanche Marie d'Harcourt
Miss d'Harcourt
Tokyo
Rheims Struck by 9500 Shells in Air Raid
Paris dispatch reports Rheims faced 9500 German shells over Tuesday and Wednesday, including many gas shells, according to the newspaper Eucclaireur de L’Est. The bombardment intensified amid ongoing fighting on the Western Front.
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Paris
Rheims
Eucclaireur de Leat
Rose Pastor Stokes Arrested Under Espionage Act
Rose Pastor Stokes wife of Wm Phelps Stokes and New York socialist lecturer was arrested in Willow Spring Missouri by U S Marshal James Purcell on a charge of violating the espionage act.
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Willow Spring
War Service Bureau Becomes Largest Chamber Unit
The war service bureau of the Chamber of Commerce is now the largest unit, just one week old, elevating war work from other bureaus. A formal program of work is planned to guide its activities.
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War Service Bureau
The
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Kaiser Given Hades at Broadway High
Dramatic Friday night event at Broadway High School titled Dads' Night featured Kaiser Hill as the central figure in a patriotic tableau. The performance ended with a symbolic overthrow of his crown and realm to the Hun monarch, conveying a wartime anti German message. Separately in Rome on March 23, Italy's official socialists shifted away from pacifist stances as peace talks with Russia and Germany evolved.
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Kaiser Hill
Dads
Broadway High School
Rome
Italy
Peruna Reliefs Cough Says Kewanee Woman Seventy Nine
Gertie Ebhardt of Kewanee Illinois writes that after using Peruna for a cough she feels like a new woman at fifty nine noting eye soreness and a terrible cough before. She says Peruna kept in her house and she bought multiple bottles. Tablets also available.
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Mra
Gertie Ebhardt
Kewanee
Illinois
War Savings Drive Continues in Seattle Through Liberty Bond Campaign
War Savings Stamp committees say work will continue in Seattle during the third Liberty loan drive next month. County Chairman J. H. Clarke notes half the value lies in sustaining thrift, even as the drive peaks. Over 100 Limit club members pledge to save and buy the government maximum of 1,000 dollars in stamps, with the Seattle Eagles joining the effort.
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Seattle
War Savings Stamp Committees
J. H. Clarke
Parsons
War Savings Societies
The
Limit Club
J. 8. Gibson
Eagles
Mrs. W. P. Harper Joins Seattle School Board
Mrs. William Harper, chair of the Seattle Federation of Women's Clubs committee, was unanimously elected Friday to succeed Miss Anna Louise Strong on the school board. She has lived in Seattle 20 years and on Queen Anne Hill 25 years, delaying acceptance due to her husband's death and a National Federation of Women's Clubs convention in May. The board offered a leave of absence.
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William Harper
Seattle Federation of Women's Clube
Anna Louise Strong
Americans Raid German Trenches Repeatedly
American soldiers raided German trenches Wednesday night and again at dawn. Artillery smashed trenches and dugouts, the enemy front line seemed lightly held, and all occupants were wiped out according to the report from the American Army in France.
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Fred G. Ferguson
United Press
Public Works Board May Reject Bids Not Supported by Bonds
Janes A. Dougan assistant corporation counsel says the board of public works can reject bids for public work but is not required to reject those lacking bonds approved as to form by the corporation counsel and as to sufficiency by the mayor and comptroller. This concerns bids for a new power site development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Janes A. Dougan
Board of Public Works
Illinois villagers tar and feather three alleged sympathizers
Three alleged German sympathizers in an Illinois mining village were tarred and feathered and forced to kiss and swear allegiance to the American flag. Rev John Kovalsky was tarred and feathered and warned against disloyalty but not expelled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christopher
John Kovalsky
Defense Council Calls for Financial Aid
Citizens urged to donate to the King County Council of Defense as the law offers no funding for its work. Donations last November kept the council operating until now.
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Defense Council
King County Council of Defense
Allies May Get German Boats From Neutrals
With the German drive on the West front, ships become the key to supplying the Allies. The U S intends to cut luxury imports and save over 2,000,000 tons, seizure of Dutch shipping cited, neutrals may be pressed to provide tonnage. A joint probe by Shipping Board Navy Department and Railroad Bureau will study port facilities at Atlantic Pacific and Gulf ports, and free port legislation is before Congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Offi
America
Entente
Shipping Board
Navy Department
Railroad Department
Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf Ports
Congress
Measles Cases Reported Daily in Seattle
German measles cases rise to about 75 daily as health officials quarantine residents. Health Commissioner J S McBride notes containment efforts face challenge because contagion peaks before rash onset and before patient awareness. Disease described as not dangerous.
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Seattle
J. S. McBride
Barrage Exercise At Camp Lewis Impresses Crowd
At Tacoma March 23 a creditable showing was made by machine gunners when a barrage fire was laid down by rapid firers for the first time. Several hundred guns fired on a concealed target. Conditions were set to resemble wartime.
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Camp Lewis
Tacoma
Florence Upstairs Store Promotes Spring Suits and Hats
A poem urges caution over theft of character and praises true friendship. The Florence Upstairs Store on Second and Union advertises Spring suits coats dresses and hats.
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Florence
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