Verdun Battles Drift On As German Forces Press Meuse Front
Paris dispatch reports heavy fighting on both banks of the Meuse with German attacks near Caulette wood and Fort Vaux. French artillery and gas clouds halt several German advances while reserves move into Verdun as casualties mount and a major assault looms along a two mile front.
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Firandenburgers
Petain
Meuse
London
Verdun
Esnes
Joad
Paris
Cali
Tanin
Vardin
Wan Resson
Siffer Dobby
Brench
Sil
Brandenbie
Royal proclamation expands contraband list to include money and securities
London April 12 a royal proclamation extended the contraband list to cover gold silver and paper money and all negotiable instruments and realizable securities. The supplemental list adds metallic chlorides except sodium chloride and several boron compounds and sabadilla seeds and related preparations.
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London
Berlin Note Hints Sussex Hit Mine and Arbitrate Offer
Berlin reports the German reply to the American note on damage to five steamships. It states that the English steamers Eagle Point Manchester Engineer and Berwindvale were destroyed by submarines. Evidence was presented to support the claim.
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Berlin
Sussex
Associated Press
Eagle Point
Manchester
Berwindvale
Gerard
Navy
Berwindvaile
Bull Rock Light
Irish
Four Held In Bomb Plot By Von Papen's Agent
Four men arrested in New York on charges of manufacturing fire bombs found on a steamship and at a Hoboken chemical plant. An agent claimed Von Papen sent him to interfere with shipments to Germany. One prisoner said he was brother in law to a German general killed in 1914.
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New York
Chemical Company
Department of Justice
Kirk Oswald
Fabre
Bode
Franz von Papen
Sermen
von Papen
Agricultural Chemical Company
Hoboken
Klelat
Germany
Holland
Charles von Kleist
von Briesen
Ernest Becher
Otto Wol- Pert
Atlas Line
Enno Bode
Hamburg-American Line
N. J
Bureau of Fire Investigation
Thomas Brophy
Secret Service
Becker
Adamson
Swann
Woods
Tunney
United States
Walter
Frank Ames
Louis
Wolters
Mrs Wolter
Breakers
Palm Beach
U S to Berlin Through Sussex Case Contention Shifts
Germany admits submarines attacked three merchant ships with Americans aboard and torpedoed one near the Sussex incident. State Department reports indicate U S will send a final note on submarine warfare after assembling all facts. Washington signals desire to arbitrate rejected when lives are involved. CONTINUED ON ELEVENTH PAGE.
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Washington
Channel
Sussex
Germany
State Department
United States
U. S
Berlin
Americans Die in Raid Near Guaymas Sonora
A naval radio report from San Diego says several Americans were killed or wounded in bandit raids near Guaymas Sonora. The Denver cruiser is ordered to Sonora to investigate while the Glacier sails from Mazatlan with refugees from Sinaloa. The Hancock sails to Vera Cruz. no further details on Guaymas disturbances.
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Guaymas
Washington
Sonora
Glacier
Mazatlan
San Diego
Interior
Sinaloa
Cal
Guayman
Navy Department
Denver
San Blas
Corinto
Nicaragua
Mexico
Hancock
Vera Cruz
Galveston
Tex
Felicistas
Jalapa
Winslow
Pacific Fleet
Chattanooga Ia
Wealth in U S Banks Surges as Deposits Reach New High
Comptroller of the Currency reports March 7 results showing national banks total resources at 13.838 billion dollars, deposits at 16.79 billion, loans up 990 million, and reserves over two billion. The gains mark a 25 percent rise in deposits and a 26 percent rise in resources over the year, with surplus reserves sufficient for further lending.
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United States
Williams
Heichsbank
Germany
Bank of England
Bank of France
Bank of Russia
Reichsbank of
Bank of the Netherlands
Swiss National Bank
Bank of Japan
Germans Gain in Caillette Wood in War Update
Page index highlights combat movements across Europe with reports of gains in Caillette Wood, calls for arbitration in Sussex, bomb plot arrests, casualties among British forces, and other war related items. Includes casualty tallies and political notes on figures like Morgenthau and Lansing.
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Caillette Wood
Sussex
Carranza
Pershing
Morgenthau
Lansing
Miss Wilson
Clark
Withdrawal of Troops From Mexican Soil Demand
Report received at El Paso indicates Carranza demands the withdrawal of American forces from Mexican soil. Villa may have been present, though the town lies 140 miles east of Pershing’s force. A big band headed toward Sierra Mojada, a hard to reach region favoring an attack on Torreon.
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el Paso
Villa
Pershing
Reyes
Sierra Mojada
Torreon
Escalon
Mexican National Railroad
Jimines
Sierra
Mojada
Mexican Northern
Corrilo
Ojinaga
Col Riojas
Carranza Demands Withdrawal From Mexico Crisis
Queretaro, April 12 The de facto Mexican government sent a note to Washington via its representative asking Secretary Lansing to order the withdrawal of American troops from Mexico. El Paso, April 12 A Villa loyalist raid sacked Sierra Mojada near the Coahuila border, with property losses running into thousands of dollars. Villa is believed possibly among the raiders, a claim supported by a leading American mining firm official in Mexico.
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Johannesburg
Union of South Africa
Lionel Phillips
Charles Townshend
Kut-el- Amara
Mesopotamia
Sens
Ail News Service
Queretaro
Mex
Mexico
Washington
Lansing
el Paso
Tex
Sierra Mojada
Coahuila Line
Jiminez
Villa
London
Hves
China
Foreign Office
House of Commons
Robert Cecil
Lord Ceci
Two Republics Rise in China Amid Revolt and Talks
Shanghai reports the formation of a southern Chinese republic with about 100 million people as Kwangtung and Chekiang sunder from the central government. Yuan Shi Kai summons rebel leaders to Peking for talks while other provinces declare independence and Chekiang's governor is imprisoned.
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Shanghai
Chengtu
Shechuen
Cheng Yi
Tsai Ao
Yunnan
Tai Ao
Yuan Shi Kai
Cheng Y ¥i
Peking
Szechuen
San Francisco
Wu Ting Kwong
Chekiang
Chu Chang Chun
Chinese Republic Association
Two German Commerce Raiders Reported Sunk by British Navy
A Valparaiso dispatch cites an apparently authentic report that two German commerce raiders were lured into a trap by the British steamship Orbita and sunk by His Majesty's ships Cumberland and another vessel. The incident is said to have occurred between the Strait of Magellan and the Falkland Islands with few details available.
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Islay
Herberides
Washington Post
Valparaiso
Orbita
H. M. & Cumberland
Strait of Magellen
Falkland Islands
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Dead Man
Luis
Farrier
Cumieres
Alvin
roscriIn
Amar
Vaux
Roth
Tne
Lunlinled
Stacka, &c
Teutons
Naval Radio
S. Cora Walter
Bridgeport
Chicago
Cannon Street
Tuttle
New Haven
Dwight W. Tuttle
Louis Wolter
U.S
Felahie
Constantinople
Dardanelles
Sayville
Townshends
Kut-el-Amara
Tigris River
Falahie
Townshend
Baltimore and
Ohio
Union Station
Uthern
Yuan
Border
Presidio
Canuto Reyes
Vila
Parral
Durango
Belson de Los Lipanes
Mexican Northern Railroad
Ojiaga
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