Big Blow Peace Offensive To Start In May
Ogden Utah May 1 1918 evening edition reports a major World War I peace offensive expected in May from German forces in Flanders and allied fronts. German regrouping follows a heavy defeat with artillery preparations and anticipated renewed assaults near Mont Kemmel and Ypres while French British artillery and American units engage along the Somme and Picardy front.
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Plot 10 Blow Up Wireless at Fort Bliss
El Paso May 1 Four sticks of dynamite and thirty feet of detonating caps were found buried beneath the base of a stern wireless tower at Fort Bliss by an officer training troopers near the tower. The Fort Bliss wireless station, known as the mother station for the western region between San Antonio and Los Angeles, relays messages from Fort Sam Houston and serves stations along the Mexican border. No arrests have been made.
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Rumania Russia Clash Over Bessarabia Union Claim
Moscow protests to the Romanian premier over Bessarabia proclaiming union with Romania and Romania’s view of Bessarabia as part of Romania. Russian minister Tchitcherin calls the move a violation of sovereignty and a breach of evacuation agreements, while denouncing land‑owner interests and expropriation. He says fusion will not end fraternal solidarity between workers in Bessarabia and Russia.
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American Sector Stabilizes on French Front Amid Heavy Artillery
Reports from the French front indicate the American sector has stabilized after 40 hours of 26 infantry encounters. American and French artillery fired intensively around a village nearly wiped out, with German bombardment waning. Weather and poor visibility hinder air activity while a German counteroffensive remains a threat if the western front offensive stalls.
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Allies Confident In Ottawa on German Setbacks
Allied observers in Ottawa declare Monday’s German setback the worst defeat since the spring offensive began. The Times and other papers call it a promising turning point, noting German losses across multiple fronts, especially at Kemmel Hill and Ypres, while predicting further Allied strokes as German reserves dwindle and the war’s balance shifts in favor of the Allies.
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Pope Benedict to issue new peace offer on Whitsunday
A May 1 dispatch from The Hag us reports Benedict intends a fresh proffered peace offer around Whitsunday May 10. The move, claimed to be pressingly concrete, may seek rectification by the pope with neutral sovereign aid amid German and Austrian peace overtures and Allied concerns.
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U5 Aviators Making Good In France Duel Over Vine
An American air battle over the French lines ends with a German plane shot down. Captain Hall, Captain Tall, and Lieutenant Rickenbacher engage the enemy, peppering it with machine gun fire. The German craft crashes behind trenches. all American flyers report unscathed. This marks the third enemy aircraft bagged by American forces in three weeks.
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Logan Girl Testifies in the Patrick Case
A 14 year old Logan girl, Erma Otterbeck, testified about the December 1917 incident involving Pat Tlefg charged with delinquency. She described events at the Marlon hotel and her connections to the people involved, including her cousin, and identified herself as living in Logan.
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Rickenbacher Hero of Speed Recalled in War and Trial
News recounts Eddie Rickenbacker, famed American speed racer turned WWI pilot, resigning Pershing’s chauffeur for faster service, then joining aviation. It references Austro-Hungarian heir Prinzip and the archduke assassination context, with trials of conspirators and related bomb incident.
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Murderer of Archduke dies of tuberculosis in Prague area
A report states that Lishon, a suspect in the assassination plot against Archduke Franz Ferdinand, died yesterday in a radiated fort near Prague from tuberculosis. The message comes via telegraphic dispatch from the Exchange Telegraph company.
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War Council in Conference at Venaualles in France
May 1 report from Venaualles describes an allied supreme war council ongoing with premiers Thomas George, Clemenceau, and Orlando representing Britain, France, and Italy along with allied leaders. The meeting aims to coordinate strategy through to tomorrow amid wartime tensions.
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Prussian Reform Bill Opposed In Parliamentary Debate
In Amsterdam on Tuesday, Herr von Heydebrand, a conservative, warned that equal suffrage would alter the lower house’s character if adopted, and it would be impossible to maintain the Prussian state under such a change according to the government opposition.
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