Willard Triumphs In Ten Round World Title Bout
Jess Willard outpointed Frank Moran in a ten round Madison Square Garden fight. Willard sustained a broken right knuckle and a facial lump yet with powerful reach and defense kept Moran at bay. The crowd included fashionably dressed spectators and receipts topped 150000 with 13000 attendance.
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Washington Post
New York
Jess Wilach
Frank Moran
Madison Square Garden
Willarda
Moran
Willard
Whilard
Frank
Wilson warns on alarmist reports over Mexican expedition
President Wilson denounces sinister agents and alarmist stories about the Mexican situation. He urges testing sources and rejects war talk, stressing the punitive expedition aims to punish Villa and support Carranza. Officials consider legal steps to curb sensational rumors and preserve regional stability.
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Alaister
Mexico
Villa
Carranza
Lansing
Southern Sociological Congress
Conference For Education
New Orleans
Ron Winree
Iro
Ady
Faa
Villa pursuer evading via Sierra Madre escape route
El Paso March 25 Villa splits forces to pin Carranza troops near Namiquipa while a picked group advances south of Madera toward the Sierra Madre via Pancho's road toward Tutuaca. Pershing reports awaited on clashes with Villa. Cavalry reached Madera. wagons cannot pierce the mountain trail. only Mexican ponies can navigate the route.
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Carranza
Namiquipa
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Casas Grandes
Tutuaca
Misaca
Pancho
Ben. Harris
Villa
Irish Revolt Gains Strength with 15000 Armed Volunteers
A Washington Post dispatch from London dated March 25 reports Fenianism in Ireland swelling to about 15,000 armed volunteers defying British rule. Anti English papers circulate openly, German sympathy appears, and volunteers parade with rifles and bayonets in Dublin parks each Sunday. Conscription and harsh police actions fuel Sinn Fein supporters and revolutionary rhetoric.
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Germany
Washington
London
Ireland
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Verdun Fire Rages As Front Braces For World War Battle
London dispatch reports German siege artillery pummeling Verdun from Temile to the Argonne and Woevre fronts. Incendiaries set Verdun aflame, with fire spreading east of the Meuse as French batteries reply and infantry actions pause. Berlin confirms lively artillery duels but no infantry clashes.
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Haucourt
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French War Office
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Malancourt
Pepperan
Cote du Poivre
Ayocourt
Avacourt
Paris
War Office
Belgium
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Het Sas
Four de Paris
Courtes Chausses
Haute Chevauchee
Berlin
Sniper Fire Reported on U S Aviator Flight
Lieutenant Herbert Dargue reported snipers from Mexican outlaws fired on his military biplane near Columbus New Mexico on March 26. Three bullets pierced the craft including a hit on the gasoline tank and more struck the wing as he steered through a desert sandstorm to escape.
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Columbus
N. Mex
Herbert Dargue
Loss of Sussex and Englishman SAdd to US Toll
The Sussex and the Englishman were torpedoed in the English Channel. Both ships carried American citizens with twenty five Americans aboard the Sussex and four aboard the Englishman. Official reports differ on fatalities or injuries while authorities order a full inquiry and await German accountability.
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English Channel
State Department
Sussex
Demand for End of War Roils Reichstag
Berlin dispatch reports a heated Reichstag scene after Herr Haase declared there would be no victors or vanquished in the war. He and other party members denounced the speaker and backed the government, triggering a near clash as an emergency budget was read and Socialist leaders argued its relevance to the main budget. Officers of the socialists demanded restraint while Haase’s move stunned the chamber.
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Berlin
James
Karl H. von Wiegand
Washington Post
New York World
Amsterdam
Germany
Europe
Herr Haase
Herr Babel
Soctal Democratic Party
Reichatag
Sussex Torpedo Disaster Killings Spark Panicked Traffic
Miss Elizabeth Baldwin is reported dead after the Sussex torpedoing near Dieppe. US embassy deputies question survivors in Paris while depositions go to Washington. Estimates of victims range to 60 with several Americans injured and missing. some survivors recalled the torpedo wake and a high English passenger aboard.
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Lloyds
Dover
Elizabeth Baldwin
G. H. Crocker
Fitchburg
Mass
Crocker
W. G. Penfield
Hudson, Wis
Paris
State Department
Washington
Sussex
Samuel F. Bemis
Medford
France
Americans Missing Ship Sunk By Torpedo
Consul Armstrong at Bristol lists the crew aboard the Dominion Line steamer Englishman sunk near the British Isles by a torpedo. Thirty three saved from the ocean liner. Four Americans reported missing. Dispatches note proof unclear and further investigation planned. Lansing says reports are preliminary with more expected. CONTINUED ON THIRD PAGE.
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Bristol
United States
State Department
Dominion Line
British Isles
Eng
Lansing
German Greif Sunk After North Sea Naval Fight
A British auxiliary cruiser Alcantara and the German Greif clashed in the North Sea on February 28. The engagement left 254 dead with 120 German prisoners taken. Berlin initially withheld word until a Berlin telegram leaked through English stations. The Greif, disguised as a Norwegian tramp, was sunk after a brief battle, ending a commerce-raiding mission.
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Admiralty
Berlin
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Greif
Kiel Canal
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Alcantara
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