German Forces Yield Ground West of Mitau in Courland
A Copenhagen dispatch reports German troops were forced to retreat by strong Russian forces west of Mitau, the Courland capital, signaling a severe check. A Rome dispatch in The Temps says Italy’s council of ministers will seek full powers from parliament on foreign and military policy.
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London
Copenhagen
Mitau
Courland
Paris
The
Temps Today
Rome
Council of Ministers
Italy
Germans Cross Swiss Frontier in Italian Migration
It is estimated that 10,000 Germans from Italy crossed the Swiss frontier Saturday and Sunday. Four thousand arrived at Lugano alone.
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Berne
Switzerland
Italy
Lugano
British and French Attack on 26 Mile Western Front
Official dispatches from General Joffre and Sir John French report a major Allied offensive along a 26 mile front. Reinforcements have been sent, and the allies claim success in concert against German positions after Neuve Chapelle and Ypres engagements.
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London
Neuve Chapelle
Ypres Camal
Joffre
John French
British Opposition Condemns Lusitania Sinking
Andrew Bonar Law in the Commons denounces the Lusitania atrocity as murder and urges a protest from nations. He argues the United States, though neutral, is deeply affected by the raid and praises Captain Beil of the Thoris for ramming a U boat off Beachy Head as an act of warfare.
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London
Lusitania
Andrew Ome Law
Houses of Commons
Oda
Law
Beil
Thoris
Beachy Head
Mir Bonard
U. S
United States
Bonar Law
Rumors of Italian War Move Against Turkey Reported
A Rome dispatch to the Frankfurter Zeitung claims Italy may declare war on Turkey amid high suspense. Reports circulate that Italy could act if its alliance with the Allies is strained following a Lausanne Treaty violation.
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Amsterdam
London
Rome
Frankfurter Zeitung
Italy
Turkey
Lausanne
Zeppelin airships drop bombs on Westcliff on Sea
Two Zeppelin airships reportedly bomb Westcliff on Sea with no fatalities reported. Local authorities and residents assess damage while injuries are unconfirmed and no deaths announced. The incident remains under investigation by British wartime authorities.
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London
Westcliff-on-Sea
Air raid hits South End causing loss of life and damage
May 10 London reports incoming trains from South End Essex indicate an air raid with property damage and fatalities. Warning sirens at 5 12 AM. incendiary bombs ignite fires as four Zeppelins allegedly drop forty or fifty bombs on the seaside town.
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London
South End
Essex
Four Zeppelins in Raid Over London: Reports Vary
Early today an aerial raid over forty miles of London involved four Zeppelins. Conflicting Essex coast reports cited serious property damage and possible loss of life from bombs. Towns including South End Westcliff-on-Sea and Leigh appear to have been attacked. Italy Nears War Decision as Giolitti visits Rome and potential intervention against Turkey looms. The land front in Flanders and the thians remains obscured amid shifting battle lines.
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London
Essex
South End
Westcliff-on-Sea
Leigh
Italy
Rome
Signor Giolitti
Turkey
Flanders
Thians
Atlantic battleship fleet reaches New York for review
The Atlantic fleet arrives in New York for a week of rest and a May 17 review by President Wilson. The Wyoming leads the line with 16 dreadnoughts, including the Texas and New York, and a grand audience along the Hudson. Sixty five ships, and a large fleet parade, theater outings, and social events are planned for officers and men before departure.
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New York
Hudson
Wyoming
Frank Friday Fletcher
Seventy-ninth Street
Texas
Delaware
North Dakota
Kansas
Michigan
South Carolina
Florida
Utah
Virginia
Georgia
Rhode Island
Nebraska
New Hamp
Shire
Louisiana
Mitchel
Admiral Fletcher
West 24Th Street
Wilson
Statewide interest in Lock 17 completion prompts grand journey
Up-state reports highlight Birmingham sending a large delegation to Cordova for a ceremonial opening of water transport from coal and iron regions to the sea. Leaders including Weatherby Emmet O Neal Frank White Oscar Underwood and others plan to travel to Cordova and Loc Ty miles for a first major river ride, with Huntsville and Tuscaloosa celebrations noted.
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Lock 17
Birmingham
Cordova
Tuscaloosa
Informa
Weatherby
Emmet O'Neal
United States
Frank 8. White
Oscar Underwood
Tennessee
Huntsville
Bakhead
Corday
Terror River
Loc
Talana
Lock
Turscaloosa
Mobile
Horace ‘Turner
Maysville Man Held for Operating Tiger
Deputy sheriffs raided a Maysville joint on Sunday night alleged to be operated by Marshall Thomas and seized liquor. Thomas fled but later told the sheriff he would surrender as a warrant charging violation of the prohibition law was sworn out in the inferior criminal court.
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Oberhaus
Maysville
Marshall Thomas
Thomas
Eheriéf
Prolonged illness ends life of Mobile furniture leader Adam Glass
Adam Glass Sr a leading Mobile furniture merchant died at 445 AM Monday after several months illness at his home 115 St Emanuel Street He built a thriving business from a Dauphin Street store to Royal Street expansion with warehouses factory in Louisville Ky He married Miss Betherice Walthers Mobile and leaves several children siblings and relatives a funeral is planned for Tuesday afternoon He held memberships in Masonic orders Scottish Rite Nobles of Jystic and other local groups born in Germany August 27 1847 he came to America in 1869 and settled in Mobile
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Adam Glass
South
Mobile
St. Emanuel Street
Adam
Elizabeth Glass
Katzenbach
Cantonochenhausen
Rhienfals
Germany
America
New Orleans
Julius Meyer
Dauphin Street
Water
Royal Street
Louisville
Mies “Betherice Walthers
H. _B. Stamps
Braith Springs
Tenn
Arnold
William Glass
Birmingham
Ala
Thomas L. Cook
Lillie Glass
Fred Glass
Kalamazoo
Mich
Andrew Glass
Dayton
Philip Boehmer
Mr. Glass
Mobile No. 40
Mobile No
Georger Montes
Sitaes
Jystic
Ipporte
Gemaag
Order of Myths
New Army Engineer Takes Charge of New Orleans Operations
Washington May 10 Col ge C Sanford of the army engineers in charge of the lake survey at Detroit has been ordered to take charge of engineering operations at New Orleans to succeed Col John Biddle who is detailed as a war observer in Austria.
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Washington
Colge, C. Sanford
Army Engineers
Detroit
New Orleans
John Biddle
Austria
Banks Agree to Fund County Claims and Nurse Salary
The board of revenue and road commissioners voted to pay the anti tuberculosis nurse 50 dollars a month, making her total 100 dollars with city parity. They discussed cattle tick eradication funding and reported banks would lend 75 thousand dollars at six percent for the year, with several banks providing partial or full loans. The matter to be finalized by the finance committee and reported next Monday.
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Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners
City Commission
M. B. Kahn
Mobile Rotary Club
Messrs
George A. Maloney
L. C. Irvine
A. J
Ward
Finance Com
Derelict Collier Landed Troops at Troy in Bold Ruse
British landing at Dardanelles used a disguised derelict coal collier to fool Turkish patrols. A hidden force evacuated aboard ships while 2400 troops anchored ashore and furnished a seaworthy landing, aided by artillery. Turkish counterattack failed as reinforcements arrived and secured the beachhead.
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Dardanelles
Troy
Sen
Barnes May 1909 Libel Case Against Roosevelt Hits Records
Syracuse May 10 Counsel for William Barnes argues in the supreme court to strike portions of the record in the libel suit against Theodore Roosevelt. The dispute centers on evidence about the Albany printing situation and political influence. Justice Andrews allows limited strike of the printing evidence.
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Syracuse
William Ne
Theodore Roosevelt
Surolf
Albany
Lusitania Sinking Tied to German Submarine U-38
London reports from Genoa via Munich name U-38 as the Lusitania sinker. Dublin survivor Mrs. R. Hill recalls the second explosion and debris crushing passengers before boats were used, then the submarine surfaced and displayed the German flag for about ten minutes.
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Dublin
R. Hill
New York
Lusitania
President weighs next steps after Bernstorff meeting
German ambassador Count Bernatorff visited Secretary Bryan in Washington. A joint statement said he expressed deep regret over wartime losses of American lives. Officials interpreted the remarks as foreshadowing a cautious Embassy stance following the Sule and Falaba incidents.
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von. Bernstorff
Washington
Count Bernatorff
Bryan
Bry
State Department
Count von Bernatorff
Jury Finds Lusitania Sinking Wholly Murderous
In Kinsale Ireland on May 10 the coroner's jury returns a verdict that the Lusitania disaster was willful wholesale murder. They place blame on the submarine officers, the German emperor, and the German government for acts of hate and international crime.
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Kinsale
Ireland
Germany
Submarine Sighting Near Lusitania Scene Reported
An observer recalls a submarine surfacing within 300 yards of the Lusitania site during the sinking. The crew reportedly remained on deck as the craft vanished after surveying the area, with a German flag visible but the submarine’s number unclear.
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Germaf
Wan Deng
Lusitania
Vier
Germap
Affidavits Made in Queenstown May 10
affidavits by Miss Jeasie filed in Queenstown on May 10. details limited and partially legible from the notice.
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Ueenstown
Lon- J
Mies Jeasie
Zinc cargo from Australia arrives in Mobile harbor
The British steamship Am ber, bound for Walsh Stevedoring, reaches Mobile in quarantine with 10 000 miles of zinc from Porte Pirie Austria valued around 250 000 dollars. The cargo won’t be recorded at local customs but will be entered in Chicago district once manufactured. A return voyage to Manchester England is planned later this week.
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United States
Amber
Walsh Stevedoring Company
Porte Pirie
Austria
Auckland Islands
New Castle
Balboa
Pacific
Panama Canal
Chicago
Elder-Dempster Steamship Company
Manchester
England
Lusitania sighting before torpedo strike reported by nurse?
Central News dispatch from Holyhead cites Ernest Cowper a Toronto newspaper man who says about an hour and a quarter before the Lusitania was struck a submarine was sighted. He described seeing a wake and the conning tower on the horizon as the liner was steered toward danger.
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London
Central News Dispatch
Holyhead
Ernest Cowper
Toronto
Lusitania
Cowper
Perton
Gets Twelve Months for Vegetable Theft
Jim Nicholas was sentenced to twelve months in the inferior criminal court for stealing vegetables from Richard Finch in Toulminvillée. He previously had a six month embezzlement sentence in February. Sarah and William McClure were arrested with him and demanded a trial with bonds set at $230.
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Jim Nicholas
Richard Finch
Toulminvillée
Henry Chamberlain
Inferior Criminal Court
Nicholas
Sarah McClure
William McClure
McClure
Basel Dispatch Reports Citizens Await Seizure Messages
A Basle dispatch notes many citizens, mostly Swiss, awaiting Seoleines ments and the policy to Pypon Ree. Officials work on the case law and a forthcoming address to be delivered in Philadelphia. Belgian relief could suffer from Germany's diplomacy, prompting US caution and a strong humanitarian stance.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Paris
Basle
Seoleines
Ors
Philadelphia
Germany
United States
Belgium
Alabama and Mississippi Weather Showers and Breezes
In Alabama showers affect the southern portion tonight or Tuesday with fair skies elsewhere. Mississippi reports showers Tuesday with partly cloudy conditions and light to moderate northeast to north winds.
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Mobile
Alabama
Mississippi
Funeral Notice Glass Died Monday 1915 Magnolia Cemetery
Friends of the Seay are to attend the funeral Tuesday afternoon from church at 4 o'clock. Interment in Magnolia Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glass
Magnolia Cemetery
Lost and Found Ads With Various Items Recovered
Classified notice lists lost items including a diamond ring on Royal Charleston and Government. Finder to return to 1 Government Street for Si ward. A ladies watch with initials R H turned in at 9538 Dearborn. A gold cross and other items mentioned. Contact details provided for recovery.
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Royal Charleston
Government Street
Siward
Ladies Watch
R. H
Dearborn
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Guantanamo
International News of
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Roosevelt
Congress
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Munich
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