Fifty killed as bombs hit Coblenz in daylight raid
A neutral traveler in The Hague reports a March 12 Allied air raid on Coblenz, Germany, causing extensive damage and at least fifty deaths. He describes panic at Mulheim near the Rhine, with people seeking bomb shelters as airplanes, possibly American, were sighted. Berlin denies major losses but casualties are noted.
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London
Persaere
Hamage
Dore
Coblene
Germany
Hague
Mulheim
Coblenz
Giap
Rhine
Hether
Mulhella
Cobh
Prussia
Bel War Office
Berlin
Copper Company Plans New Plant at Great Falls
Washington reports the Copper Company plans a new plant at Great Falls to produce ferrovanadium and other alloys. The project aims to increase output, with early statements citing significant tonnage of shipments and potential annual material flows to Europe and the Americas.
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Washington
Great Falls
Ferre Akan
Fanese
Bragti
Chr
Pacific
Lane
Europe
Americas
Arnlen
Americans Bomb German Battery In Laneville Sector
American artillery located and blew up a German mine thrower battery after a hostile week of trouble. A 24 man patrol, half American half French, entered German lines, skirmished, and captured prisoners. St Patrick’s Day celebrations among Irish regiments contrasted with mud filled trenches. Extraordinary artillery activity continued in Chemin des Dames with gas bombardment and heavy American French counterfire. Six thousand shells were fired yesterday, many gas shells, Massachusetts troops bearing the brunt.
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France
Associated Press
Laneville
St. Patrick's Day
Lumeville
St. Patrick
Chemin- Des Dames
New England
Massachusetts
Baker Uplifted by War Outlook on Train in France
Secretary of War Newton D. Baker told officers at the American staff school that U S mobilization and training uplift his spirits. He compared learning the army to a boy watching a watch being made to understand its parts, saying his visit has lifted morale despite war.
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Baker
France
Associated Press
Hom
Newton D. Baker
As & Boy
Paris Praises Red Cross Work In Fire Aftermath
March 19 reports French areas express gratitude for the Red Cross aid after the explosion at La Courierie and the La Corveuve factory fire. Residents note the ongoing destruction and the continued recovery efforts amid the ruins.
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Paris
RED Cross
Bere
Mona
la Courierie
la Corveuve
British Raids and Allied War Council Notes
In a London release British raiding successes near Villers, Guislui n, La Vacquerie and Bobr Grenier yielded prisoners and no machine guns. Portuguese troops raided Neuve Cha belle trenches taking prisoners. Allied war council in London denounces Germany and Russia treaties as crimes. Holland grants conditional consent to U S and Britain demands shipping access as American ports prepare. Artillery and raids intensify along the Ypres front with British and German actions reported.
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London
Villers
Guisluin
la Vacquerie
Bob Grenier
War Office
Neuve Chabelle
Fleurbaix
Hols Grenter
Gettsan
Russia
Rumania
Supreme War Council
Germany
Great Britain
France
Italy
United States
Bilss
Sims
Hertling Aglatls
von Herling
Reichstag
Courland and
Lithuanis
Releastag
Courland
Holland
Gardner’s Former Aid Succeeds Him In War Effort
The report notes Gardner’s former aide’s success, tallying twenty six enemy machines and bombs on ai dromes. Artillery activity ramps near Verdun, Vosges, and Toul fronts with patrol clashes and reduced trench fighting northwest of Toul. British raids on Coblenz area cause deaths and property damage, while Mulheim residents misidentify caldera as American forces per a neutral traveler.
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Sré
Coblenz
Rhenish
Prussia
Halland
Mulheim
Amerienia
Hangar Ruined in Wind at Miami Naval Air Station
Two men killed and thirty three injured when an unfinished hangar collapsed during a wind storm at Dinnerhey naval air station near Miami Florida during a night shift to rush completion for training of naval air pilots and observers. The dead include Mathew Mullen of Brooklyn and an unidentified man. About forty workers, white and Negro, were on site.
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Miami
Fla
Dinnerhey Naval Air Station
Here
Mathew Mullen
Brooklyn
N.Y
Naval Air
Dutch ships in New York await seizure order
Armored guards from the naval reserve stand ready in New York harbor as Washington signals readiness to transfer control of forty Dutch ships. Reports say London communications delay any actual seizure while Holland negotiates terms and awaits Allied assurances on wartime shipment rules.
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New York
Naval Reserve
New York Harbor
Washington
Leandon
Nethérlands
Orittan
London
Wilson
Isayance
Naw York
Bamarinda
Hame
Nowt
Samary Inda
Rotterdam Lingd
Von Hertling Defends Peace Treaty With Russia
Copenhagen report summarizes Chancellor von Hertling criticizing Allied untruths and brutality while arguing the treaty with Russia grants legality to provincial alignments. He asserts Courland and Lithuania are Germany's due and hopes eastern front peace will come if Reichstag adopts the accord, though responsibility for bloodshed remains with those seeking war continuation.
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Copenhagen
von Hertling
Russia
Germany
Rapala
Rasala
Courland
Lithuanus
Livonia
Esthonia
Poland
Sea
Posaibia
Nye
Reichstag
Four Regiments Capture Odessa and Allied Movements
report fromMarch 18 states four regiments captured Odessa without a fight. Austro German forces seized vast war materials and booty making removal difficult. Turkish army head accepts negotiations for a separate peace with Caucasus autonomous government.
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Petaggrad
Odessa
Nikolayev
Banka
Kharkov
Bakhmatch
Kontop
Vorom
Priasoners
Rostov
Guards
Moscow
Eighteen German Planes Destroyed in Air Combat
Tandon March 18. Eighteen German aircraft were destroyed in air fighting on the western front with eight driven down out of control and an observation balloon destroyed by British aviators. Bombs were dropped on sidings and air fields, and Britain sent a fresh note to the Hague asserting the Allies’ right to requisition vessels amid Dutch shipping concerns.
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Tandon
Great Britain
American Army Advances on Tour Front in France March 13
American artillery on the Tour front pressed toward the enemy trenches as night and day operations continued. U.S. snipers claimed several German falls while patrols attempted captures. German troops retreated from exposed positions. American wires were tapped and gas shells fired by the enemy. anti aircraft guns and aircraft crews repelled and crossed into German lines, signaling a heavy shift in the front.
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France
Associated Presa
Tour
Americas
Nes
Mets
Four Spies To Be Deported From New York
New York March 43 four persons two men and two women identified as key members of an international spy network will be deported to France. Charles F de Woody of the department of justice says French law allows harsher action than current American laws. Women cannot be interned in this country under present statutes, officials explained.
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New York
Charles F. de Woody
Department of Justice
France
Bavarians to Send 30000 to Courland
Bavarian colonization society meeting in Munich votes to send fifty thousand German colonists to Courland per dispatch from Anneresis, France. Cottonseed statistics for August 1 to February 24 released by the census bureau show refined figures for acreage and production, with totals tabulated.
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Tondon
Bavarian Colonization Society
Munich
Thaa
Courland
Mat
Anneresis
France
Cottonseed Statistica
Washington
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Augustus P. Gardner
House
America
Mesa
Rome
Mass
Aly
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Dew Nagionale
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Loudon
Helland
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Essey
Mont Sec
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