German Advance Continues With Appalling Losses
London reports heavy fighting in Picardy with German losses described as appalling. Field Marshal Haig notes renewed German reinforcements and more than 70 divisions engaged from Roye to Albert, near Bapaume, as French troops reinforce the southern front and American engineers are cited among allied forces in the Crozat canal zone.
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London
Picardy
British War Office
Roye and Albert
Roye
Nesle
Albert
Bapaume
Somme
Haig
War Office
Oise
Albert and
Soimme River
Chaulnes
Guiscard and
French War Office
Noyon
Guiscard-Nesle
Oise River
Guiscard
Noyon Height
Peronne
Verdun
Four Sons in Army Honor from Germantown Woman
Mrs. W. B. Gurley of Germantown Pennsylvania has four sons serving in the army and a fifth ready to answer. Secretary McAdoo endorses her plan to organize a thousand workers to sell one million dollars in liberty bonds in the next issue. He praises American women's patriotic response and greets Gurley as a representative of the force behind the third liberty loan.
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Washington
W. B. Gurley
Germantown
Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo
Gurley
America
End of Big Battle Not Yet in Sight
Washington reports indicate the German offensive remains strong in parts while Anglo French lines retreat toward a dead line. British losses are acknowledged as heavy, yet authorities say reserves will be used to shift the balance. American forces participation remains unconfirmed though engineers are active near Crozat canal. The West boosts U.S. war prep and a push for larger draft numbers gains momentum in Congress.
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Washington
Pershing
Crozat Canal
Wilson
Secretary of War
White House
War Department
Peace hinges on victory as Japan eyes alliance
New York March 26 Lieut General Chikushi head of the Japanese military mission declared peace rests with America on the eve of his western tour. He said as a soldier he cannot discuss peace without victory and Japan is prepared to cooperate with America in every way possible. General Chikushi planned to visit West Point and then depart for Philadelphia Chicago and several western cities.
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New York
America
Y Chikushi
West
Japan
Chikushi
West Point
Philadelphia
Chicago
Ship Workers Return After Strike at Buffalo Yard
Buffalo March 26 eight hundred ship builders who quit the Buffalo Dry Dock company last Thursday due to objections to the assistant superintendent returned to work today. Each day out of work delayed five new steel steamers for the United States merchant marine.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Buffalo Dry Dock Company
United States Merchant Marine
Cadet Flyer Dead After 300 Foot Fall
Cadet W. S. McNamara of New York City died in Fort Worth Texas while Cadet Lieut A N Lunston of Toronto Ontario was slightly injured in a 300 foot airplane fall. They were members of the Camp Everman lying corps.
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Fort Worth
Tex
W. S. McNamara
New York City
Lieut
A. N. Lunston
Toronto
Camp Everman
Wounded British Arrive Describing Picardy Battle
Wounded British soldiers arriving from the western front describe continuous fighting in Picardy day and night. Germans press with sheer numbers and unprecedented artillery. Millions of shells are fired daily along the fifty mile front from the Scarpe to the Oise.
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London
Battle of
Picardy
Scarpe River
Oise
Weather forecast for New Haven and region
March 26 report shows fair to tonight and Wednesday with slightly colder conditions. Connecticut expected partly cloudy, colder tonight, moderate to fresh northwest to north winds. A few snow flurries in eastern lake region and New England, otherwise pleasant weather east of the Rockies. Temperatures locally lower but rising later, with Atlantic to Hartford and New Haven observations noting clear to partly cloudy skies and readings from 32 to 58 across listed cities.
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Connecticut
Lake Region
New England
Rocky Mountains
Nebraska
Mississippi River
Atlanfia
Atlantic City
Block Island
Boston
Chicago
Denver
Detroit
Hartford
Hatteras
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Nantucket
New Orleans
New York
Norfolk
Northfield
Pittsburg
Portland
St. Louis
St. Paul
Washington
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