22 May 1918
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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1918
Page
1
The article describes American troops using gas and rifles to scatter the enemy, German forces employing grenades and rifles, and nights with occasional machine-gun fire. It notes quiet Bocie artillery and infantry and mentions high-explosive shells nicknamed G. L buckets. Air actions are under way on both sides.
British forces repelled heavy German counter-attacks northwest of Merville on a two thirds mile front. French troops east and northeast of Locre secured all objectives on a four thousand yard front with over four thousand prisoners captured. A raid near Albert yielded prisoners and two machine guns as German activity increased in multiple sectors. Berlin claimed Mount Kemmel victory as battles continued along the Belgian and French fronts.
Director General McAdoo announces federal directors will be named for each railroad, chosen from operating officers when possible, reporting to regional directors. Two operating districts are created, Allegheny and Pocahontas, to reorganize management and safeguard stockholders and company identity during government control.
President Wilson signed the sedition bill granting the government broad authority to punish disloyal speech and actions, expanding wartime controls.
American patrol on the French front engages a German huss patrol at dawn. The strong Boche force attempts to surround parts of the American unit but is repelled by rifle fire as the fight unfolds with scattered action and casualties.
A northbound St. Louis Southwestern troop train derailed at Mayton station near Gerland Arkansas after a broken angle bar. One soldier is missing and 18 injured while engineer A J McAllister was killed. Several trainmen were badly hurt and L P Smith from St Louis, a traveling passenger agent, was injured. Military authorities withheld the injured list.
Fifty airplanes built for the government were destroyed in a fire that swept six buildings housing the Fowler Aircraft and L and S Emanuel hardwood floors firms. J E B Howell, owner, said the blaze began at the Emanuel plant with no suspected enemy plot.
Reports from the British front in France on May 22 say a rumor spread that Field Marshal von Hindenburg has died recently. The truth could not be confirmed in the back areas or by civilians.
Washington May 22 America’s first field army about 200000 men has been formed in France. It includes two corps of three divisions each with Col A W Bjornstad as chief of staff and Maj Gen Hunter Liggett likely to command one corps. The commander may be Maj Gen Charles T Menoher with lieutenant general ranks on congressional action.
U S agents uncover evidence of German and Sinn Fein linked plots to finance arms and possibly deploy German soldiers for an Irish uprising. British arrests followed as negotiations and conspiracies were pursued to reveal more plotters and plans to strike during critical Channel ports actions.
Disclosure outlines a covert British Irish negotiation network with Sinn Fein sympathizers in the United States under watch amid a pilot scheme. German internees provide partial information while U S acts target Hun influence to deter German aided conspiracies. The exact disclosure plan and location for releasing evidence remain unsettled.
Dublin reports John Dillon, nationalist leader, describing Sinn Fein as wrong and doomed to disaster while favoring a friendly settlement with Britain. He reaffirms Redmond’s wartime pledge and appeals to Irish Americans for support of his party against Sinn Fein.
San Francisco May 22 Thomas J Mooney was resentenced to hang on May 7 5 by Judge Griffin after his conviction for first degree murder in the preparedness parade bomb explosion that killed ten people and injured forty others
German women in the United States must register with police chiefs or postmasters between June 17 and 26 under Justice Department regulations. The order applies to German nationals residing in the country.
Dutch steamship Agneta bound from Stockholm to Rotterdam seized by Germany and to Swinemuende Prussia. German minister refused safe conduct as negotiations continue between the Dutch and German governments.
Officials report the American tanker William Rockefeller has sunk with loss of life. The Navy Department withholds formal announcement while relatives are being notified. cause unknown and torpedoing not confirmed.
The United States informed the Netherlands that its request to use three Dutch ships in American ports to move the balance of promised grain cannot be granted. Dutch ports have prohibited departures, snarling about 400,000 tons of idle tonnage as war needs press. The state department said ships must be replaced from Dutch ports, and the grain effort may shift to Argentine and Athlumpite stocks.
Three waves of poison gas were released toward German lines as enemy artillery and infantry tactics appeared to mirror German methods, signaling a shift in battlefield strategy during the ongoing conflict.
German planes tried to strike Paris and reached its suburbs but were driven off. Three people were killed by bombs. American forces launched gas on German positions northwest of Toule and cut a high tension line used for charging wires. A patrol beat back Germans southwest of Apremont and British forces broke German lines southeast of Arras.
London May 22 British casualties reported 36 677 with 313 officers and 3 815 other ranks killed or died of wounds and 1 241 officers and 31 308 men wounded or missing. The weekly totals drop from 41 612 last week after heavy fighting and reflect the German offensive activity.
Washington reports a 25 percent drop in British and allied shipping losses for April. Acting Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt attributes the decrease to heightened allied fleet activity and notes that raids on Ostend and Zeebrugge are likely to influence May losses.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels told Rutgers college graduates that ships are being built but cannot be completed in a day. He forecast enough ships by next summer to carry a million troops to France and to provide destroyers for safe passage.
In Pittsburgh on May 22 two more bodies were recovered from the Aetna Chemical explosives plant ruins at Oakdale, raising the death toll to eight with 48 identified. Workers combed the T. B. Building for additional corpses amid the debris.
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