Swedish Protest Over German Plots With Mexico and Japan
Sweden protests German plots with Mexico and Japan to seize U S assets. Box of diplomatic mail damaged in transit to New York, seal scraped, courier Hamberg examined in Halifax with British officials present. Sweden resists due to humiliation and seeks a representative. Carranza notes fuel German influence and possible Mexican sympathy toward German aims.
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Britain
Halifax
Washington
New York
Swedish Recogul
Harald Hamberg
Homself
Mreikengren
Count Berestart
Jong
Germany
Hamberg
Hollweg Sets Tone for German U S Policy and War Bets
Berlin reports note Chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg used the Reichstag address to signal a new German stance toward the United States, money and land demands from the Entente, and a push for submarine warfare to rapid completion of the war. Party leaders and Otto von Weimar echo the shift, urging firm action while weighing American reaction.
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Berlin
London
Tech
von Bethmann Hollweg
Reichstag
United States
Washington
America
Roumanias
von Bethmann-Hollweg
Peter Spahn
Center Party
British Losses Small Daring Big Advance
London reports February casualty totals show 81 17 wounded and missing and 20 461 total losses for all causes. January losses were 82 854. The figures mark one of the war’s lowest monthly totals since it began, amid British gains as the German retreat on the Ancre and Turkish defeat at Kut el Amara unfold.
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Ancre
Kut-el- Amara
Peace urges as pacifists plan mass meeting in Washington
Delegates from numerous societies visit the White House to press for the United States to stay out of war. Bryan arrives from Miami to influence public opinion while supporting authority for protecting American lives and property. Peace leaders plan a monster rally by Sunday night and prepare resolutions for Congress.
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White House
Ford
Bryan
Congress
Wilson
William Jennings Bryan
Miami
Fla
United States
Washington
Ebbitt
Nebraska Society
Pinchot
New York
House
Senate
German Steamer Off West Coast Of Mexico Gathered U-Boat Stores
A German steamer, described as black with one funnel and wireless, operated near Turtle Bay and Magdalena Bay, provisioning at Acapulco on February 24. Federal authorities noted seizure measures and reported a rising patrol fleet with torpedo boat destroyers. Santa Rosalia hosts eleven German vessels and offshore routes show seven large German freighters between Santa Rosalia and Punta Arenas. Flores, who first reported the craft, estimated its length at about 300 feet.
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Teuton
San T
Turtle Bay
Turtle Bay, Lower c
California
Finrique Flores
Jefe Politico
Magdalena
Imperial German Navy
Magdalena Bay
Acapulco
United States
Lew Hia
W Mid
Santa Rosalia
Punta Arenas
German Mercantile Marine
Flores
Plea for Guns on U S Liners
P. L. Franklin of New York, president of the American Steamship Line, urged Representative Bennet that the United States should announce it will protect American transatlantic liners with US guns and gun pointers. He argued the sole American-flag service should sail weekly and be manned and armed by the navy, warning interference will be at peril.
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Mexico
Cabrera
Philadelphia
United States
America
Department of Justice
Setiing
Pat Franklin
New York
American Steamship Line
Representative Bennet
Mr Franklin
Atlantic
United States Navy
Contact Mine Found Off Florida Coast Near Long Key
A contact mine described by G F Dimick was brought ashore at Log Key, nine miles south of Miami, by someone who initially mistook it for a buoy. Dimick, arriving from Long Key, said he saw the mine and offered no details on its origin.
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Fla
Ishermen
Log Key
Here
G F Dimick
Florida East Coast Railroad
Long Key
Dimick
British Take Three Towns During French Campaign
British forces seized Gommecourt Thilloy and Puisseux au Mont advancing over 1000 yards northeast of Gommecourt. They captured 85 prisoners including two officers and a machine gun in attacks on enemy trenches near Sally Saillisel. A raid near Ctery yielded 22 prisoners and further patrols affected positions northeast of Arras and near Lens and Armen tières with repulse of an enemy raid.
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Gom Mmecourt
Thiloy
Puisieux-Au-Mont
Gommecourt
France
Sally Saillisel
Arras
Lens
Armentieres
Austria backs sea war in reply to U S note
London reported that Austria will hand its reply to the American note in Vienna likely endorsing Germany. The Vienna message asserts no turning back for the central powers. Paris notes an Anglo French conference on Wilson’s call for authority to arm ships, with no action yet taken.
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Reuter
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Weser Zeitung
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Wilson
Calaia
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Brit
France
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Cologne
War leaders warn of imminent clash with American ships
A Volks Zeitung copy quotes French minister of war Gen Robert G Nivelis Premier Lloyd George and British generals warning that American ships must avoid danger or face an overt act. They say the armistice of American merchantmen could spark war with submarines and a state of war between nations.
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Lloyd George
Great Britain
William KR. Robertson
Douglas Haig
France
Volks Zeitung
Survivors from Five Ships Rescued by Armando in Bay of Biscay
The Dutch steamer Armando arrived in Newport News reporting it picked up 179 survivors, including many women and children, from five torpedoed ships in the Bay of Biscay on January 28. The ships, two Norwegian, two British, and one Italian, sank in a small area after a distress wireless call. The Armando landed the survivors at Vigo, Spain, en route from Rotterdam to Hamp ton Roads.
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Bay of Biscay
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Spain
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