Germans Push British Back In Greatest War Battle
Berlin reports a massive German assault across Arras La Fere Cambrai region with about forty divisions and 1000 guns. British counterattacks near Croisilles Dotenses St Ledger St. Quentin fought hard as heavy casualties mounted. Prisoners and guns captured highlight the ferocity of the clash.
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Teutons
Berlin
Cerna
Arras
la Fere
War Office
Los Tees
Flanders
Leon
Mmuny
Ostend
William
von Hindenburg
Ludendoerff
France
Possions
Cambrai
Croisilles
Hargincourt
Dotenses
T P.m
Washington Doubts German West Front Offensive
American observers question if the recent German drive marks a true offensive or a display. They doubt a desperate west front push, noting reports of Holland peace talks and Dutch ship seizures, while maintaining confidence in Allied resistance.
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London
Germany
France
Holland
Sermi
England
la Pere
Scarpe
Allied Line Falls Back From German Push Near St Quentin
British forces retreat to prepared positions west of St Quentin under pressure from 600,000 German troops. Germans mass formations suffer heavy losses from sustained British U.S. gunfire while defending west of Cambrai and Cambrai defenses evacuated as fighting continues toward objectives.
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Berlin
Cambrai Silient
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Byng
Smile Front
Gauche Wood
Lagnicourt
Salient
London
Mar
St. Quentin
Cambrai
American Warship Seizes German Raider Alexander Agassiz
The Alexander Agassiz, once with a biological institute, is captured and towed by a U S cruiser toward a Pacific port. The vessel sails from Mazatlan with an all German crew and was fitted as a raider in Mexico, with several Germans aboard and rifles found on board.
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United States
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Cal
Mazailan
Mex
San Diego
Agassiz
Macific Trading Company
M. Lochren
William Taylor
H. Wheeler
San Francisco
University of California
Mexico
Washington
Navy Department
Agnassiz
Outward Bound Vessel Damaged After Harbor Collision
A gas propelled steamer named the Apassiz, about 60 feet long, returned to a Atlantic port with a large hole above the waterline after colliding with a sister vessel. The leaking ship, carrying munitions, was pumped out to prevent cargo loss, while other notes mention labor conscription debates and the death of Major Moraht, a military correspondent for Tageblatt.
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Apassiz
Atlantic Port
Atlantic
London
Moraht
Tageblatt
Berlin
Amsterdam
Italians Hold Front as Austrian Detachment Flees
Rome reports active fighting along the front with Italian forces repelling patrols and ejecting an Austrian detachment from an advanced post in the Frenzela valley. Artillery grows intense along the Piave and near Monte Grappa as Italian and allied airmen claim enemy aircraft downed.
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War Office
Frenzela Valley
Piave
Italian War Office
Val di Concel
Braze
Val Fren
Americans Take Second German Line in Night Raid
American artillery destroyed parts of the enemy first and second lines east of Luneville. Patrols crossed No Man's Land, found lines wiped out, and returned with no casualties. Deserters reported gas and heavy bombardment as trains and fortifications were reinforced behind German lines.
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France
Luneville
No Man's Land
Toul
Hnes
Lnes
Prayers In House For Allies
Opening the day in Congress the chaplain Rev Henry N Couden prayed for entente soldiers in a death struggle he called the greatest battle of the ages He asked divine favor for those fighting and for the principles of liberty against threat from those who would subjugate free minds.
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Washington
Henry N. Couden
American Guns Rake Teutons After Gas Attack
The Evening Journal reports U.S. artillery fire northwest of Toul after a German gas assault. German front line positions were riddled by American guns as the battle continued with high casualties and intense bombardment.
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Evening Journal
U.S
Toul
Senate adopts casualty list disclosure resolution
Washington March 28 A resolution by Senator New Indiana urging the war department to explain why American soldiers' addresses are not made public was adopted without a record vote. Senator Myers Montana opposed noting Pershing asked to keep details from the enemy but New pressed for full lists.
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