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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1918
Page
7
Headquarters staff organize a sequence of conferences to coordinate efforts and set strategic goals. Officials plan venue details dates and spokespeople while outlining topics and expected outcomes for each session.
Allied forces report ongoing operations against German positions using gas shells. Field dispatches indicate artillery and infantry actions across the western front, with attempts to disrupt enemy lines and seize strategic locations amid heavy fighting and scarce supplies.
Multiple dispatches report German plans for large scale western operations from Cologne to Leipzig, heavy artillery actions around Ypres Cambrai Armentieres and Lorraine, and Portuguese repelling raids near Fauquissart. Uprisings in Baluchistan and no consistory in Rome accompany continued Allied air and artillery activity.
On Tuesday March 19 Secretary of War Baker toured American trenches near the front. A German shell burst within fifty yards of the automobile. no injuries or damage to the car were reported. Baker stayed about an hour and a half in a front line sector, visiting posts and speaking with officers and men.
Washington March 20. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Daniel C. Roper says slackers who fail to file income tax returns by April 2 will be prosecuted as vigorously as draft dodgers under the selective service act. Revenue officers nationwide are checking returns in preparation for prosecutions.
Wisconsin primary results show Irvine L. Lenroot leading James Thompson with 60,643 to 60,109 as incomplete counts miss Waushara and Marquette counties. Democratic Joseph B. Davies dominates with a landslide, while Socialists gain in Milwaukee and across the state, shaping the rival La Follette and loyalist camps.
On the British front in France and Belgium intense air fighting is described. The official statement says 28 German planes were accounted for by British aviators, 12 British machines are reported missing. Bombs were dropped on enemy billets and ammunition dumps and on railway stations and airfields. German planes destroyed or driven down include 19 destroyed and 9 out of control, with 600 bombs dropped during the night on two enemy air bases and dumps.
In France, German planes over the Americas sector northwest of Toul dropped rubber balls eighteen inches in diameter filled with liquid mustard gas. The gas had no serious effect, but American troops called it dirty warfare and a sample of the rubber container was obtained.
Washington reports Holland's reply in shipping negotiations arrived shortly after 10 o clock morning. The American Government prepared to take immediate action to take over the shipping. The exact nature of the reply was not disclosed awaiting news of the conclusion of negotiations.
In Gardnerville Nevada Elmer White described as a German sympathizer was lashed to a sink and whipped with a cat o nine tails by a citizens committee in Yero ton Nevada. He was tarred and feathered and ordered to leave the community.
German forces push into Russia amid peace talks, raising alarm among U S officials about the fate of Petrograd and Moscow. Reports from Petrograd and Moscow describe rapid Austro German advances, potential evacuations, and fears of a surrender or new Russian recruitment into German ranks. The Entente relation with Russia is described as unchanged, with continued German near domination of northern and eastern fronts.
David E. Putnam of Brookline Massachusetts a descendant of Isreal Putnam and a member of the Lafayette flying squadron has downed two more German planes and earned a sergeant’s rank in the French army He already has war records with Patras On March 4 he attacked three Albatroga mopr planes bringing down one and disabling the others He then fought two more two seated machines the next day one of which burned on impact Although credited with four official kills he had a fifth on a German aerodrome observed by French officials but not officially credited
Washington reports cotton production for the season at 11,285,299 bales equivalent to 600 pounds each, excluding linters. March 1 linted bale equivalents total 23,619,000, per the Census Bureau’s annual summary of growth and yield.
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