King of Italy Owned Krupp Stock Then Kaiser Pushed Krupp
London reports a German tale claiming King of Italy previously held Krupp steel stock valued at 325 million dollars and Kaiser urged him to shift from American holdings to Krupp, promising higher dividends. The story says the King may hold wartime stock and risks loss if Italy sides with the Allies. Also noted is the death of Brig. Gen. P. F. Packard at 46.
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Emmanuel
Italy
London
Germany
Hirrupp
Berlin
Krupp
Canmon
Died Notices From Early 20th Century Baltimore Area
A sequence of death notices and funerals for individuals including Mary Allen Albison from Llaeleck, Mary Atkinson from 626 Randolph Street NW, and others. Entries mention dates in April 1915 through 1935, residences in Baltimore or nearby, and interment at Mount Olivet or Glenwood Cemeteries. Names include Dorsey, Duffy, Gall, Chesley, Hutchins, Mor ris, and more with funeral times and church services noted.
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Albinson
Llaeleck
Mary Allen
James E
Mary Atkinson
Trandolph Street
Sacred Heart Church
Ners
Mount Olivel
Bennett
Ppm
Franklin T. Howe
Quincy Street
Annid
Francia Scott Bo
Church Home
Baltimore
Duffy
Mark A Woodell
Lincoln
Celinda Clark
Michael Duffy
Severat
Chester Ao
Rockville
James B. Chesley
Grace Episcopale Huerch
Wood
Woodmole
Gall
Sipley Hospital
Albert H
Jeasie &. Gall
I. W
Henrie R Gall
St. Mark’s Church
Glenwood Cemetery
Virginia
Herbert —Sudfenin
Atlantic City
Frederick
Mabel Elerbert
Hutchins
N Street
Willa S Hutchins
Amelia Annie Hutchins Grimes
Trelativea
Oak Ell Cemetery
First Street
Mary T. Jane
Miller
Cuesta
Robbert Rnham
E. H
Mary F Miller
Tenth Street
Martha
Benjamin Miller
Morris
Blehome
Wyoming
John Morris
New York
Tolnet
Aluonig L
Mary A Tornet
Ninth Street
Church of the Immaculate Conception
Mount Olivet
Sultan confident on Dardanelles forts in interview
The Ottoman ruler states that any attempt to seize Constantinople to free Russian grain is unjust. He asserts the forts at the Dardanelles cannot be captured and expresses firm resolve to defend the strait.
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Ottoman Empire
Constantinople
U S Note On German War Conduct Draws Eastern Press Fire
Berlin and London papers react to the American note to Great Britain on blockade and neutral commerce. Berlin papers claim the note signals a retreat by America and may enable Britain to press a faltering blockade against German ships. The Cologne Gazette calls it a veiled anti German measure and press in London expects a formal reply from Sir Edward Grey within about two weeks.
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Berlin
Great Britain
Counch
Wreus Zeitung
America
Germany
Cologne
Saz
England
Kondon
Foreign Office
Sir Edward Grey
War Prisoners Near Escape Tunnel Found Near Maidenhead
London reports that a 30 foot long tunnel nearly finished beneath a garden and high wall at Philherds camp near Maidenhead could have enabled about 100 German officer prisoners to escape. British authorities say the escape would have been possible within 24 hours. excavation used night work and fire shovels.
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London
Philherds
Maidenhead
Daily Telegraph
German Army Weaker Says Decrease Must Go On
London April 7 French official review of six months of war takes an optimistic view for the Allies while noting German officer losses, shell and gun wastage, and morale decline. It cites shortages of professional officers, worn artillery, and flagging rifle stocks, predicting German effectiveness will continue to fall as the war drags on.
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Kaiser
London
Germany
Courtrai
Cologne
Thermand
King Fights Cession Talks Denied by Grecian King
Paris dispatch reports Athens government claims the king never consented to negotiations or any cession of Grecian territory to a foreign power. The government says it must respond to declarations by former Premier Venizelos printed in newspapers. Venizelos promises an immediate reply.
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Paris
Grecian Press Bureau
Athens
Havas
Venizelos
The
Dispatch
Submarine E-2 Narrowly Survives Acid Leak Incident
Newport April 7 Submarine E-2 commanded by Ensign Edwin J Gillam ran submerged off Newport last summer when battery acid leaked through lead lining into water forming deadly acid. Gillam ordered pumps manned and surfaced. He is now in Naval Hospital at Las Antinas. researchers link incident to fate of the E-4 near Honolulu.
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Newport
Edwin J. Gillam
Honolulu
Gillam
Ensign Gillam
Naval Hospital
Las Antinas
Ships Held Up by England Seize Cargoes for Sweden and Holland
London April 7 The Norwegian steamer Flavn sailing from New York March 10 to Gothenburg and the Swedish steamer Japan from Yokohama in January to Gothenburg were taken into Leith by naval escort for cargo examination. The Greek steamer Spyros Allianos from Savannah March 10 to Rotterdam with a cotton cargo was detained at Falmouth.
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Sweden
Holland
London
Flavn
New York
Gothenburg
Japan
Yokohama
Leith
Spyros
Queen Attends London Wedding of Victoria Stanley Bride
London April 7 The wedding of Lady Victoria Stanley daughter of the Earl of Derby to Hon Neil Primrose son of the Earl of Rosebery drew vast crowds and notable guests including Queen Alexandra Princess Maud and Princess Victoria Prime Minister Asquith Lloyd George and Winston Churchill. The ceremony at St Margaret's Westminster united liberal and unionist families amid political spectacle.
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London
St. Margaret’s
Westminster
Victoria Stanley
Earl of Derby
Neil Primrose
Earl of Rosebery
Foreign Office
Queen Alexandra
Princess Maud
Princess Victoria
Asquith
Lloyd George
Winston Churchill
Count Reventlow Urges Ruthless Submarine War
London April 7 The Cologne Gazette translation reports Count Reventlow calling for absolute ruthlessness in submarine warfare. He says England’s orders and seizures make adherence to universal customs inappropriate and that English merchantmen are now combatants. He argues German submarines must treat them as armed ferries bent on destruction.
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London
Mall
Cologne
Count Reventlow
England
Srizes
Germany
London Editor Warns Wilson to Mind Own Business
A London editor warns the United States and President Wilson to mind their own business over the American note on Britain's blockade. The Globe accuses Wilson of neutrality posturing and says allies will decide the matter in their own way. Foreign Secretary Grey’s absence delays any possible reply from the British foreign office.
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London
United States
Wilson
Grobe
England
Wideon
Globe
Alma
Foreign Office
Sir Edward Grey
Washington
Zeppelins Spark Paris Outrage as Reporter Is Expelled
Paris reports that Edouard Behrens, Swiss journalist for Berlin Lokalangeiger, was escorted to the Swiss frontier and forbidden to return after publishing an imaginative account of Zeppelins visiting Paris. He also wrote for Tokeanzeiger and Cologne Volks Zeitung. Behrens described the raid with the line about the German war flag over the French capital aboard immense white dirigibles.
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Paris
Edouard Behrens
Berlin
Lokalangeiger
France
Behrens
Switzerland
Jane Cologne
Volks Zeitung
Two Nations Protest Over German Blockade Actions
Norway and Sweden sent protests to Germany over the North Sea submarine sinking of the Norwegian bark Nor on April 2. The Nor carried lumber, later removed from contraband lists by Germany in March. Swedish ship England seizure prompts stronger government defense of rights, with urgency to release the vessel owned by Naval Minister Bronstroem.
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Sweden
Christiania
Germany
Nor
North Sea
Stockholm
England
Bronstroem
Bombing of Scutari Feeds Balkan War Tensions
Berlin dispatch says four Austrian armored planes dropped thirteen bombs on Scutari in Albania. A tobacco factory was damaged with no fatalities. Scutari, on Lake Scutari, was held by Montenegro after the Balkan War but troop evacuation was enforced by powers.
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Berlin
Scutari
Senutari Hes
Lake
Albania
Montenegro
Shells Fall in Belgrade as Serbs Hit Back
Nish April 7 Austro Hungarian shells struck Serbian Danube and Save towns. Twenty eight heavy projectiles hit central Belgrade killing three and wounding six. Serbian artillery replied but did not shell Austro Hungarian riverbank towns.
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Danube
Save
Belgrade
Rivera
German U-29 Loss and Submarine Warfare Prices in England Rise
Berlin reports the sinking of U-29 with all hands, led by Captain Otto Weddigen, after a March raid that also damaged several ships. British shipping losses and higher bread and fuel prices in England are attributed to German undersea warfare. The Anda Julian victim's captain confirmed Weddigen’s link to U-29.
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Berlin
England
Germany
Otto Weddigen
Hogue
Aboukir
Creasy
Anda Julian
Weddigen
Near Fate of Falaba Left Liverpool Together
White Star liner Cymric and the Falaba left Liverpool together March 27. Cymric carried 345 persons and received Falaba's SOS. Captain Beadwell ordered lifeboats out and warned passengers, keeping course per Admiralty orders. Lady Bullock and daughter Evelyn aboard, praising restraint and condemning submarine policy.
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Washington Post
New York
the & S. Falaba
White Star
Hner Cymric
Jmnals
Cymric
F. E. Breadwell
Liverpool
Mersey
Falaba
Africa
Holyhead
Beadwell
Faiaba
Lady Bullock
Georges Bullock
Bermuda
Evelyn
England
Sir George
AEROS CHASE WAR TRAINS OVER SWISS FRONTIER
Geneva April 7 Two French aviators chased two German military trains from Marbach to Villingen in the Black Forest damaging rail and stations along the line On return they dropped bombs on Muelheim and Neubourg A French biplane pursued by German aviators lost its way in the mist and crossed into Swiss territory landing near Porrentruy The pilots said they came from Belfort and could not return They were interned at Deremont before Col Audecud Both men were unharmed and will be interned
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Geneva
Switzerland
Marbach
Villingen
Muelheim
Neubourg
Poremtruy
Belfort
Deremont
Col
Audecud
Boers Press Invasion Report From South Africa
Official dispatches say Union of South Africa troops occupied the Kalkfontein and Kanus railway stations in German Southwest Africa without opposition. The advance follows the capture of Warmbad, 24 miles north of the Orange River, announced a day earlier.
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Union of South Africa
Kalkfontein
Kanus
German Southwest Africa
Warmbad
Orange River
Italy Gets Trentino in Peace Drawn Documents
Paris April 7 reports from trusted sources say Italy and Austria agreed to cede Trentino to Italy while occupation is delayed until postwar peace. Documents drawn and signed. Austria demands Italian neutrality regardless of future events. aligns with Geneva rumors of territorial handover and no immediate armed intervention.
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Paris
Italy
Austria
Vienna
Francia Joseph
Trentino
Geneva
Montenegro Appeals for Red Cross Aid in Typhus Crisis
The American Red Cross received an appeal from the Montenegrin government via the State Department. A telegram from the American ambassador at Athens reports typhus and a dire shortage of doctors medicines and disinfectants in Cettinge and asks for a mission with supplies. Also noted is a Nebraska Panama Pacific Exposition Commission donation to the Red Cross relief fund.
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State Department
Department
Athens
Greece
Red Cross
Cettinge
Red Cross War Relief Fund
German Taube drops bombs on church near Ypres
During Sunday services a German Taube aircraft dropped bombs on the Nieukirke church near Ypres. Two large congregations gathered. Twelve women were killed outright and numerous others injured. Abbe Reynaert, struck by falling debris, died later.
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Washington
Boulogne
Nieukirke
Ypres
Abbe Reynaert
Russians Enter Armvin Batum Province Clearing Turks
The Batum correspondent for Novoe Vremya reports Russians entering Armvin in Russian Armenia without a battle, completing the trans-Thoruk operations and clearing the entire Batum province of Turkish forces.
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Fetrograd
Novoe Vremya
Batum
Armvin
Russian Armenia
trans-Thhoruk
Maxwell car completes fourth day auto test run
The Maxwell utility test car finished the fourth day of its 1,000 mile DC area run, covering 143.6 miles to Harpers Ferry and back. Departing Washington with Howard Fisk and The Washington Post editor as passengers, the trip used the tough Olney Damascus road outward and took nine hours with breaks for dinner photos and a tire change.
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W. Va
Maxwell
District of Columbia
Washington
Howard Fisk
the Star
Washington Post
Damascus
Knoxville
Virginia
Adyt
Fleet Home From Cuba Sails for New York May Recreation
Seventeen battleships of the Avantica fleet, fresh from Cuban maneuvers, join Delaware and Georgia at Hampton Roads then sail to New York May 8 to 17 for target practice and recreation. Admiral Fletcher commanded 54 warcraft and auxiliaries. naval and Army War College plans run May 13 to 20 to study defenses of New York harbor. President Wilson likely to review the fleet in New York. The Solace hospital ship arrived in Washington with 120 patients amid the maneuvers.
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Hampton Roads
Cuban
Fletcher
Delaware
Georgia
New York
General Board of the Navy
Army War College
New York Harbor
Wilson
San Francisco
Solace
Washington Navy Ranch
Naval Hospital
Sultan Receives Allied Correspondents in Dardanelles Visit
The Turkish sultan praised Allied troops in the east and west, and expressed respect for Emperor William while greeting American journalists. He explained fatalism and urged effort alongside fate, then welcomed correspondents to a private audience at Dolmabahce palace, offering them seats and cordial remarks.
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William
Turkey
Chanak Kaleessi
York Kismet
Dardanelles
United States
Dolnabaghehdh Palace
Salih Dasha
Sulan
Alil-De-Cama
Tie
Peats
Vatican denies wireless transmission at observatory
The Vatican Observatory asserts it has no wireless sending or receiving apparatus. Jesuit astronomer John George Hagen, head of the Vatican Observatory and formerly with Georgetown University, published the statement in Flame newspaper.
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Rome
Mistriatore Homano
Vatican
John George Hagen
Vatican Observatory
Greorgetown University
Washington
Washington Red Cross Doctor Named Chevalier of Legion of Honor
Edward Wo san of Washington suffering from illness progresses. French government awards him the Legion of Honor for services already recognized by Serbia with the Order of Sava.
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Washington
France
Sish
R. Edward Wo San
American Red Cross
Serbia
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