Return of 21 401 Yank troops boosts morale at New York piers
New York on March 24 saw 14 600 American expeditionary forces arrive from France aboard the North Carolina Montana Matsania Antigone and Manchuria. Of these 3 490 were convalescing. 2 400 troops of the Fortieth division from California Nevada Utah Colorado Arizona New Mexico served hot meals at the piers. Additional arrivals from Bordeaux aboard Matsoula included 42 officers and 1 518 men of the 160th infantry and staff with units A B and M.
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New York
France
North Carolina
Montana
Matsania
Antigone
Manchuria
National Guard
Colorado
Nevada
Utah
Arizona
New Mexico
Calfornia
Pennsylvania
Ohio
West Virginia
Devarkatan
Fortieth Division
National Guards
California
Matsoula
Bordeaux
160Th
Infaantry
Battalind
Bugpiy Conmany
de Sera
Upton
Urant
Lewis
Sherman Ors
Fror Hovderman
San Francisco
Ato
Yug
Tenatlitis
Thomas Doneldson
Chatoopa
Army of Occupation
Maurice Lecard Packer
Martin B. Packer
Woodland
Calif
Caspal
Brest
Twenty-eighth Division
Devens
133Th Aero Squadron
Illinois
Washington State
Kentucky
Missouri
Nebraska
H. N. Knowles
Philadelphia
Bay
Troop Movements and Casualties Reported From Manchuria and Nearby Units
Report describes units aboard ships and trains including Manchuria and St Nazaire groups sent to Camps Dix and Sherman. Details list numbers of troops, officers, and sick or wounded, with references to divisions and aero squadrons and a mention of influenza cases on the Manchuria. Private Erwin F Turnborn of Crawford Nebraska noted among the affected.
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National Army
Pennsylvania
Dix
Pike and
Sherman
Manchuria
Erwin
F. Turnborn
Crawford
Army Officers to be Replaced After Armistice
Amid post armistice demobilization, the army plans to discharge many temporary and Class 3 officers. With a large portion of officer personnel at camps, managers face rapid turnover as ships bring home veterans and organize demobilization details.
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Washington
Nek
Owever
Four More District Men Land at Newport News
Four District of Columbia service members arrive in Newport News, among them two officers and two enlisted men. First Lieut. Raphael Semmes, air service official and Semmes Motor Co. executive, shares namesake with Confederate navy captain of the Alabama. Lieut. William J. Hudson, lawyer son of local judges, graduates from Georgetown Law and serves in the 116th machine gun battalion. Also returning are Frank Diggs of the 808th pioneer infantry and Walter Matthee of Battery C, 114th field artillery.
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Newport Mews
126Th Field Artillery
135Th Field Artillery
Ohio
Likur
Clarence J. Brown
Harry T. Davis
Claveland
Jegusia
District of Columbia
Newport News
Raphael Semmes
Air Service
Semmes Motor Company, Inc
Alabama
William J. Hudson
116Th Machine Gun
Upshur Street
Georgetown University Law School
J. C. Hudson
Frank Diggs
808Th Pioneer Infantry
Lingers Street
Walter Matthee
Battery C
114Th Field Artilleery
Washington
UNS OPPOSE RAIL UNION IN BERLIN
The Associated Press reports Bavarian officials resist immediate transfer of roads to a unified national system. Prussia demands financial guarantees to cover state budgets while Bavaria insists negotiations must be confirmed by its diet, opposing loss of state rights.
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Berlin
Associated Press
Prussia
Bavaria
Restoration loan authorized by Paris decree
The Official Journal publishes a decree authorizing an internal loan named the loan of national restoration. It carries 5 percent interest and issue price 95. The amount will be supplied by the ministry of finance.
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Paris
Journel
Ita
Ministry of Finance
Bayer Aspirin Ad Warns Against Fraudulent Tablets
An old Brooklyn dealer sold fraudulent aspirin tablets composed of talc and powder. The ad urges consumers to insist on the genuine Bayer tablets with the safety Bayer Cross on the pack and each tablet and to follow proper directions.
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Bayer
Amaricans
Brooklyn
Revision of demobilization system announced from Fort Worth
Reports from Fort Worth Texas at night said Secretary Baker and General Peyton March announced a revised demobilization system to discharge men within 48 hours after arrival at port of debarkation. Currently it takes 10 days to two weeks to demobilize units overseas. No official word of a definite revision had reached Washington. Officials expect changes after Baker and March return.
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Fort Worth
Texia
Baker
Peyton CG. March
Debarkation
War Department
Department
March
Washington
Adjutant General's Office
New Paint On White House Coat to Refresh Exterior
Workmen began painting the White House yesterday as the executive mansion receives its first fresh coat since President Wilson’s occupancy. The project will take one or two weeks and the building will not be open to the public until the President returns, officials say.
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Persen
Thx
White House
Executive Mansion
Wilson Arst
Pala Euusement
Palais Royal
Huns Insisted on War in Paris March Scene
President Leoi speaking at the reopening of a normal school said Austria and Germany before declaring war on Serbia and France created no irreparable situation, citing July 25 and 29 1914 telegrams and a 1924 Austrian ambassador note as proof of central powers’ accord and intent to provoke from the Sarajevo incident.
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Paris
Leoiwire
Higher Normal School
Austria
Germany
Suesia
France
Serbia
Berlin
Vienna
Europe
Woman fighter slashed in street brawl leaves woman injured
A street fight between two men and a woman near Fenton Street ends with the woman badly cut on the face and taken to Jarnall Hospital. Police recorded the incident after a mother reportedly struck James Edwards with a bat. he vanished after the altercation.
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Sara
Jenkins
Fenton Street
James Edwards
Jarnall Hospital
Sarah
James
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