Casualty Roll Lists 39 Names with Losses and Captives
Washington reports a war department casualty list totaling 39 names. It includes 12 missing in action, 3 killed in action, 3 died of wounds, 4 died of disease, 5 severely wounded, 9 slightly wounded, 2 prisoners, and 1 wounded with degree unknown. Major Alexander Rasmussen of Sherwood Oregon is killed in action. First Lieutenant Abraham J. Gordon of Newark is a prisoner. Additional names span many states and towns, with multiple prisoners and missing in action cases.
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Washington
War Department
Alexander Rasmussen
Sherwood
Ore
Abraham J. Gordon
Newark
N. J
Sher- Joseph
New England Coal Reserve Wiped Out prompts warnings
Boston May 18 James J Storrow told fuel committeemen that New England s coal reserve is exhausted and current shipping capacity barely meets the area s bituminous needs The state house meeting outlined estimates from New England fuel administration and national boards placing 30 million tons as enough for the year with 20 million to be moved by water and 10 million by rail The talk noted water shipments lag about 2 million tons and warned of ship shortages amid competition with General Pershing for oceangoing bottoms.
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Boston
New England
James J. Storrow
State House
New England Fuel Administration
National Fuel Administration
Shipping Board
Railroad Administration
New
America
General Pershing
Ensign Clings To Seaplane Pontoon For Hours
Ensign E A Stone of Norfolk Virginia survived eighty hours clinging to the underside of a seaplane pontoon without food or drink after their craft collapsed in the Eng canal during a scouting trip with Ensign Eric Moore of the royal naval air service. They endured over three days before rescue by an English trawler crew. Stone had spent five weeks in a London hospital and is reported alive by the Navy department.
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Washington
E. A. Stone
R. F
Norfolk
London
Navy Department
Stone
Eric Moore
Royal Naval Air Service
Recognize New Portuguese Govern Paris May 18
In Paris on May 18, reports indicate the installation or recognition of a new government figure in Portugal. Details remain fragmented in the clipped text.
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Paris
Sidonio
Gallant Bath Lieutenants Deaths On Picardy Front
May 17 reports from the Picardy front tell of two Harvard graduates dying in action. Lieutenant James Pellache, class of Harvard 1919, son of a New York artist, died after mortally wounding a German giant in close combat with his infantry patrol. He was shot in the head but toppled the foe and died in an evacuation hospital, his bravery inspiring his men. Lieutenant Stephen Fitzgerald of Dorchester Mass., a 1916 Notre Dame quarterback recruit, died after leading a daylight raid and being wounded twice, refusing to quit until death.
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Bert Ford
Picardy Front
James Pellache
Harvard
New York
No-Man’s-Land
Pellache
Plattsbureg
J. O. Doherty
Dorchester Mass
International News Service
Togey
Stephen Fitzgerald
Sargent Street
Dorchester
Steve
Plattsburg
Notre Dame
Boston
Bombing Raid by British Fliers Reported
London reports indicate over 23 tons of bombs dropped on key railway centers aerodromes and billets behind German lines on Thursday. Air units claimed thirty enemy aircraft shot down five driven down, two German planes downed by anti aircraft fire. five of our machines missing.
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London
Lille
Douai
Chaulnes
France
Bapaume
Peronne
Rosieres
Bruges
Belgium
New Tuberculosis Cure Predicted From Sugar Method
Rome biologist Professor Domenico Lo Monaco proposes a sugar based treatment to alter secretions and suppress bronchial fluids feeding tuberculosis. After seven years study he reports radical cures in consumptive soldiers, saying injected sugar reduces secretions and eliminates bacilli.
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Rome
Paris
Domenico Lo Monaco
Royal Academy of Science
Austrian Cabinet Rumors Resignations Circulate
Geneva May 18 rumors in Vienna suggest the von Seydner cabinet has resigned and that the minister of railways is tasked with forming a new ministry, according to the Muenchner Post.
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Geneva
Vienna
von Seydner
Muenchner
A . v. Classes, es . fa has called four aeviser to the colors
A wartime report notes four advisers being called to the colors in preparations for a renewed push on the Italian front. The source, Glornale Italia, reflects wartime mobilization and strategic framing.
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Es . Fa
Glornale Italia
Proclamation Calls for Voluntary Irish Enlistment
London reports rising Irish tensions as 13 Sinn Fein leaders are arrested amid German treason allegations. Lord Lieutenant Short urges voluntary enlistment to avoid conscription, aiming to keep Ireland's empire army quota intact and curb Sinn Fein and German influence. Arrests span Dublin and other areas, signaling potential conscription under revelations of enemy contact.
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London
South Ireland
Sinn
Ireland
Chronicle
Dublin
Freeman’s Journal
England
Sinn Feiners
Markievic
Cosgrove
As _ The Star
Weather Forecast for New Haven May 18
Forecast for New Haven and vicinity calls for fair to night and Sunday with partly cloudy skies and possible afternoon thunder showers. Tonight will be fair, Sunday cloudy with probable showers and moderate south winds. Observations show varied conditions across listed cities with temperatures largely in the 50s and 60s and a trough of low pressure extending from North Dakota to New Mexico affecting unsettled weather.
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New Haven
North Dakota
New Mexico
Rocky Mountains
Lake Region
Atlantic
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Block Island
Boston
Buffalo
Cincinnati
Chicago
Denver
Detroit
Hartford
Hatteras
Jacksonville
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J. F. O'Connell
Prop
Charles W. DuBochet
Marvin W. Smith
Koshkonong
Gieuseppi Vinci
Fair Haven
Edward J. Carter
Ill
Philip Frost
Bradford
Homer H. McAnelly
Harry L. Miller
Hopkins
Minn
Lemont W. Ruffing
Paterson
William Thompson
Bristol
Conn
Herbert Gillis
Summerville
Mass
Roy C. Boone
Alameda
James Johnson
Reynolds Station
Rodney C. McCallum
Stockton
Cal
James G. Pipes
North Venice
Joe Schroeder
Raymond Williams
Edinburg
Ind
Edward R. Woodfin
Alston
Boyd M. Gillispie
Indianapolis
Sherman de More
Joseph J. Nolan
Chestnut Street
Joseph Sabatini
Brooklyn
Lester R. Clark
Marie Clark
Norton Street
Frank McCartin
James Street
Albert L. Mason
Friendship
N. Y
Roy R. Mason
Gainesville
Fla
John J. Milan
M. Milan
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Austin M. Ready
Jersey City
Hastings
Neb
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