Japan pressures on China draw U S business interest
Washington February 27 big business in the United States shows growing concern over Japan’s demands on China. Standard Oil and a major tobacco firm reportedly sought State Department guidance fearing loss of open door trade if Japan gains control. Officials work to clarify the dozen and a half demands, with reports of undisclosed additional demands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Japan
China
Standard Oil Company
State Department
France
England
Russia
Japan Aims for Chinese Independence in Open Door Policy
Tokyo reports Prime Minister Okuma stating Japan's demand to China respects China's rights and the open door policy. He urged China achieve real independence rather than fall under any nation's influence while addressing visitors from the federal council of churches of Christ in America. The Japanese press signs off the note with continued coverage on page two.
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Japan
Tokio
Count Okuma
China
Okuma
Shanllér Mathews
Chicago
Sydney L. Gulick
New York
French Capture German Trench North of Mesnilles Hurlus
Paris reports a major French bayonet charge north of Mesnilles Hurlus that seized about a third of a mile of German trench. The operation took 100 prisoners and captured two machine guns and a revolving cannon, with further gains in the Argonne and Meuse valleys enhancing the push toward German lines of communication.
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London
Mesnilles Hurlus
Paris
Argonnes
Meuse
Mesnil
Perthes
Beausejour
Champagne
Lombaertzyde
Potatoes Urged If Wheat Bread Prices Rise
Washington reports scientists from the Department of Agriculture say households should eat more potatoes and less bread if wheat or bread prices keep rising. At 60 cents a bushel, ten cents buys more nourishment than two one pound loaves. substitution could be financially advantageous.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Department
Six Correspondents to Visit British Front for War Office
Six newspaper correspondents will leave London next Monday for the British front under the war office auspices. This marks the first time journalists are permitted to visit the War Office. They will travel in detachments of six to the front.
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London
British Front
British War Office
War Office
Seene Ee
Bids Opened for Nine Navy Hydroaeroplanes at Washington
Telegrams report C M Peok the aviator who recently crossed the Andes was the low bidder for all nine hydroaeroplanes at 6800 dollars each. twelve firms bid in total and contracts will be awarded later.
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Navy
Washington
C. M. Peok
Andes
Granite City
Ill
National Enameling and Stamping Company
Men's National Union
Mattingly & Moore Distilling Company
F. G. Walker Distilling Company
Kentucky
United States District Court
Louisville
St. Louis
Emmett R. Wooten
North Carolina
House of Representatives
Wilson
Bryan
Fort
New Jersey
Haiti
Key West
Port Au Prince
Sarah Bernhardt
Bordeaux
Badou
Hautés-Alpes
France
la Caille
Joseph FE. Davies
Edward N. Hurley
W. J. Harris
W. H. Parry
Federal Trade Commission
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
George Rublee
Carranza
Villaistas
Tabuca
Reuter
Amsterdam
Hatayvier
Rotterdam
London
Carrie Davis
C. A. Massey
Toronto
Massey
Federal Reserve Banks
Federal Reserve Board
von Pohl
von Ingenohl
Berlin
van Dyke
the Hague
Evelyn
North Sea
William J Patterson Dies After Illness in Mobile
William J Patterson longtime Mobile businessman and former city council member died at 242 Spring Hill Avenue at 12 25 this morning after a yearlong illness. He was 58 and survived by his wife three sons Sidney G and Charlie Patterson a daughter Mrs W O Shaw and other relatives. Funeral arrangements will be announced and flowers are requested to be omitted.
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William J. Patterson
Patterson Printing Company
Mobile
Spring Hill Avenue
Mr. Patterson
Mobile County
Catholic Knights of America
Young Men's Benevolent Association
Patterson
Ore
Sidney G
W. O. Shaw
Russians Recapture Przasnysz Front Holds Firm
An official bulletin reports Russians recaptured Przasnysz and Germans on the defensive along the front. Berlin acknowledges a fresh Russian counteroffensive and strong reinforcements, with reports of mass Russian numbers and heavy Austrian losses elsewhere in the Carpathians and at Stanislau.
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Petrograd
Przasnysz
London
Berlin
Copenhagen
Warsaw
Newa
Basle
Ung-Marmaros
Carpathians
Berege
Volovecz
Virginie River
Munkacs
Stanislau
Stradynuraznaf
Hussar
Kalusy
Allied Fleet Reaches Dardanelles in Pivotal Assault
Forty British and fourteen French warships advance fourteen miles into the Dardanelles toward Constantinople. With the straits breached, bombardment of the narrows is set to open a path to the Turkish capital, triggering panic in Constantinople as trains await to carry the sultan and government to Asia Minor. The Russian Black Sea fleet seeks to approach from the opposite side.
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London
Dardanelles
Straits of
Helléspont
Constantinople
Golden Horn
Asia Minor
Bosphorus
Planter Fights For Life Beneath Waves In Lake Pontchartrain
Natchez cotton planter W. H. Lott joined hydro aeroplane flights in New Orleans. The aircraft crashed after a steep dive into choppy Lake Pontchartrain. Avaitor Claire Horton attempted to skim the water but the plane overturned, leaving two survivors pulled from the lake.
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New Orleans
Natchez
Miss
Lake Pontchartrain
W. H. Lott
Natchez, Miss
Brunewald Hotel
West End
Hydro
Claire Horton
One Day's Income to Aid Unemployed in New York
Aimed at two hundred thousand jobless, a relief fund asks every capable New Yorker to donate one day's income. Judge E H Gary and Mrs. James Speyer lead committees to collect sums, with early large gifts from a $25 000 daily earner and a $15 000 donor. The plan finances work programs to create bandage making and other goods donated to hospitals and charities.
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New York
E. H. Gary
The
Steel Corporation
James Speyer
International Banker
City Hall Park
Governor signs bills abolishing oyster commission and strengthening child labor laws
Special to The Item. Governor Henderson signed two measures at his Troy home, the child labor bill imposing strict limits on underage workers and the bill to abolish the state oyster commission. Authorities say signing during recess is legal and vetoes will return to the originating house. Washington action followed with a favorable senate commerce committee report on the Palmer bill to bar interstate goods made by child labor.
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Theltem
Mon Mery
Ala
Henderson
State Oyster Commission
Alabama
Troy
Montgomery
Washington
Senate Commerce Committee
House
Dewa Upset by Dewey Name Mixups in New York
Admiral Shigeto Dewa voyage to Buffalo amid a mixup with Admiral Dewey's name causing a railcar misreservation. He criticized Secretary Bryan for lack of escort and warned the incident could embarrass the United States during the Panama Pacific Exposition.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Shigeto Dewa
Mikado
Port Arthur
Dewa
Dewey
New York City
Wilson
State Department
Manila
Bryan
New York
Narrowl al
Grand Centralan
General Greene
Smith
Burnett
New York Central
President Smith
Admiral Dewey
Admiral Dewa
San Francisco
Seizo Kobyasuike
Yoshitaka Ureda
Stegler Claims German Attache Offered Spy Job
Richard P. Stegler, jailed as a self styled German spy, says in New York Captain Boyed, naval attache in Washington, offered him a spy post to gather harbor piers information. He named a prominent German resident aiding passport affidavits with Richard Madden, a prisoner accused of selling his birth certificate.
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Stegler
New York
Richard P. Stegler
Captain Boyed
Washington
New York City
New York Harbor
Stegier
Richard
Madden
Austrian tenor Berger dies amid war toll in New York
Rudolf Berger, famed Metropolitan Opera tenor and Austrian landwehr member, died suddenly at his New York home after returning from Vienna as World War II erupted. He collapsed in his wife Marie Rappold’s arms as doctors diagnosed heart paralysis.
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New York
Rudollph Berger
Metropolitan Opera Company
Berger
Vienna
Landwehr
Madame Marie Rappold
Red Cross
Madame Rappold
Bignor Gatti Casazza
Metropolitan
Herman Weil
Julius Frankel
Opera House
Frankel
British 15 Inch Guns Dominate Dardanelles Forts
London Feb 27 The bombardment of the Dardanelles showed the shell work of the fifteen inch guns on the Queen Elizabeth. These monster guns, in their first action, met expectations. Queen Elizabeth sails at 27 600 tons and carries eight of these guns.
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London
Dardanelles
U S Demands Release of Martha Schooner From Mexican Port
The U S state department pressed Carranza authorities at Frontera to release the American schooner Martha detained there. Officials said the master tried to evade export duties on cattle shipped to Galveston and that duties and fines exceed 11,000 Mexican dollars.
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Washington
State Department
Carranza
Frontera
Mex
Martha
Galveston
Germans Lose 1000 in Three Days of Fighting
Official report from Paris notes German forces suffered about 1000 casualties with 400 dead during three days of intense combat near Ypres and Meuse in Flanders. French losses totaled 50 killed and 80 wounded.
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Paris
Heerentage
Ypres
Meuuifi Flanders
Campaign to Diversify Farming Promises Essay Contest
A huge mass meeting at Battle House in Mobile preludes a fourteen county crop diversification drive. The plan, led by the Mobile Chamber of Commerce, urges schools and communities to back essays on diversified farming with prizes and a paid trip to Mobile for top writers.
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Battle House
South
Alabama
Mobile
Mobile Chambers Commerce
Rotary Club of Mobile
University of Alabama
Commissioner of Agriculture of Alabama
International Harvester Company
Walsh
Mobile Chamber of Commerce
OWS
Sipe Chamber of
Register Item
Baldwin
Escambia
Conecuh
Monroe
Clarke
Washington
Choctaw
Wilcox
Dallas
Sumter
Mississippi
Wayne
Green and
George
Mobile Chamber of Commerce and Business League
Jos. M. Walsh
Charlies Henderson
Oscar Li Gray
Harry Pillans
Pat J. Lyons
Laz Schwarz
A. G. Ward
Joseph Bolton
Charles Green
Finley McFadyen
R. L. Whatley
A. C. Danner
D. R. Burgess
J. W. Whiting
Robert W. Hunter
Peter J Albea
Frederick I. Thompson
J. Webb
Gregory L. Smith
James K. A
Harry T. Hartwell
Coloney
G. Quinn
D. T. McCall
M. J. Vickers
John T. Cochrane
G. T
Eane R. P. Roach
G. R. Bancroft
L.cw. Roe
Joseph C. Rich
Thomas H. Smith
Samuel B. Brown
Judge Berney
O. J. Semmes
J Henry Chamberlain
W. E. P. Wilson
Bart B. Ch
Claude A. Grayson
E. J. Buck
Sa W. Littl
M. J. McDermott
L. cc Fry
E. F. Ladd
Henry Hall
J. Leslie Taylor
D. P. Bestor
T. M. Stew
Ed W. Faith
R. T. Ervn
G. Rickardy
R. R. Buvinger
Si Berrey
E. C. Rendell
William F. Owen
J. W. Hunter
J. Blocker Thornton
Percy W. Maer
James L. Cawthon
George L. Kilmer
New Tank to Add Vessels in Blackstrap Trade
The Cuban Molasses Company of Mobile plans a 1.6 million gallon tank raising total tankage to 3.6 million gallons and enabling another steamer to sail between Mobile and Cuban ports. Head of the company, C. A. Snyder, cites Mobile growth aided by the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. The Alabama is due March 8 with 846 000 gallons, and the Nelson a later March cargo of about 1.3 million gallons. The new tank will be built north of the present tank at the northwest corner of Beauregard and Commerce streets.
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Mobile
Cuban Molasses Company
Cuba
C. A. Snyder
Chicago
Battle House
Snyder
Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company
Mr. Snyder
Alabama
Nelson
Beauregard
Commerce Streets
Riders threaten tobacco growers in Tennessee outbreaks
Night rider incidents recur in Weakley and Tipton counties near Memphis amid warnings to tobacco growers to hold price lines. Authorities report no violence yet, but arrests and warrants follow a home destruction. The bias targets black workers for lower wages and rents as unrest spreads.
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Memphis
Tenn
Tennessee
Weakley County
Tipton County
Shelby County
Dacia Held Up by French Cruiser in English Channel
Paris reports the American steamer Dacia sailing from Galveston with cotton to Rotterdam was arrested in the English Channel by a French cruiser according to an official announcement.
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Paris
Galveston
Rotterdam
Ottoman Government Plans Move To Scutari Amid Dardanelles Bombardment
The Turkish government is reported to plan deserting Constantinople and moving headquarters to Scutari across the Bosphorus after the Dardanelles bombardment by French and British battleships. Ambassador Morganthau reportedly stays in Constantinople.
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Washington
Dardanelles
Constantinople
Scutari
Bosphorus
Asia Minor
State Department
Morganthau
Britain Declares Full Blockade Against Germany and Allies
London reports that Britain will stop all shipping between neutral countries and Germany Austria and Turkey. The move targets all traffic and may seize German goods while aiming to cripple German industries and speed the war's end. Prime Minister Asquith expected to outline policy Monday.
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England
Germany
Austria
Turkey
London
Great Britain
United States
Urkey
Asquith
jAs
New Orleans Mobile & Chicago changes passenger schedule
Traffic manager W L Dwyer of the New Orleans Mobile and Chicago road announces a revised passenger timetable effective 12:01 a m Sunday January 28 train No 1 will arrive Mobile at 7 15 p m instead of the previous time no other arrival or departure changes at Mobile are noted.
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W. L. Dwyer
New Orleans
Mobile
Chicago
Panama
Weather Outlook Rain Likely in Several States
The weather section reports rainfall probable Monday across Alabama Mississippi and Louisiana with showers possible in Georgia area on Monday after scattered showers the day before. Local rains expected with unsettled conditions into early next week.
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George
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
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