Paris and Ypres Fronts See Heavy World War Raid News
Dramatic dispatches report widespread air raids on Paris and fierce ground actions along the Ypres sector. German raiders bombed Paris with casualties and damage, while Allied and German forces clashed near Menin and Poelderhoek with limited gains and heavy artillery. Portuguese troops conducted trenches raids and captured prisoners in a separate operation, as Crown Prince Rupprecht’s forces pressed along the Flanders front. A Red Cross clothing drive urged Belgian relief aid for Belgium and northern France.
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Poelderhoek
Reims
Toul
London
Neuve Chappelle
War Office
West Kent
Fleurbaix
Berlin
Crown Prince
Rupprecht
Flanders
German Gains by Russian Collapse May Turn to Loss
Frank H. Simonds examines whether German advantage from Russia’s collapse will harden into lasting western gains or provoke renewed Russian resistance and political turmoil. He weighs eastern disentanglement against potential Western costs, noting freed German morale and resources but doubts about vast Slav subjugation and long term strategy. The piece signals ongoing questions about future Russian rally and German leverage in the east.
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Frank H. Simonds
Petrograd
Thorn
Berlin
McClure
Russia
Germany
Belgium
Solié
Genany
Ithinoe
Meuse
Euphrates
Tigris
Nystad
Ballic
Peter the Great
Riga
War Department Expurgates Casualty Lists
Washington March 9 The war department orders next of kin and emergency addresses withheld from casualty lists to mislead enemy seeks. First Lieut Jordan killed in action and First Lieut Greene slightly wounded are named without addresses. The expurgated list covers 36 privates with no home addresses or next of kin.
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Washington, D. C
France
War Department
Pershing
Department
Committee On Public Information
U.S
J. J. Jordan
John H. Greene
Quash Warrant for Search of Packers' Files
Chicago March 9 The United States circuit court of appeals quashed the search warrant issued to examine Henry Veeder’s office files in Swift & Co. matters. The decision, reversing Landis, says warrants must be based on concrete facts not suspicions. It allows further proceedings. the opinion notes technical errors in Heney affidavits and that no facts were presented under oath.
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Chicago
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Lendis
Henry Veeder
Council For Swift & Co
Francis J. Heney
Federal Trade Commission
Heney
Veeder
Thoreby
Landis
Congress Asked for Heavy Guns Funding
Washington March 3 the army ordnance bureau asked Congress for an urgent deficiency appropriation of 400 million dollars for ordnance manufacture focusing on heavy guns. The request aims to place contracts promptly while final spending would occur later, though Senate leaders planned to let the appeal move through the usual House channel.
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Washington, D. C
Congress
Army Ordnance Bureau
Senate
House
Roumania Signs Peace With Russia Ends Bessarabia Conflict
London reports a Russian wireless dispatch announcing peace between Russia and Roumania. Roumania will evacuate Bessarabia including Benderi along the Dalester river within two months, with Russian troops occupying evacuated areas. Local self government, militia in towns, release of political prisoners, and an international commission to tackle disputes are planned.
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London
Russia
Roumania
Bessarabia
Benderil
Dalester River
Kishinev
Germany
Ioeal
Millitia
Amsterdam
Berlin
Japanese Troops Reported Landed at Vladivostok
Petrograd's Novaiz Zhizn claimed in January reports that four thousand Japanese soldiers landed at Vladivostok with additional ships, while Japanese officers and the Mikado cruiser were cited. Tokyo denied the landing. The note noted the troops were to protect Japanese subjects, not begin operations.
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London
Vladivostok
Petrograd
Novaiz Zhizn
Mikado
Plan for First American Field Army Extends Front to 100 Miles
Washington reports the war department is organizing the first American field army under Pershing. Five to six corps may form the unit with a large artillery reserve and anti aircraft guns. A single corps could cover about nine miles of front, enabling the army to hold over 100 miles of French line by 1919, barring censorship.
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Washington, D. C
Aeld
CORES
Arles
Illinois Aviator Killed in Mishap at Kelly Field
Lieut. Leslie G. Chandler of Hinsdale Illinois was killed in a Kelly Field airplane accident at 6 last night. Cadet Henry K Huber escaped with minor injuries as the plane side slipped and crashed 75 feet to the ground after the motor stopped. Chandler recently came from the University of Illinois ground school and had been an instructor in the dual flying stage for cadets. His death marks the sixth at Kelly Field since its founding nearly a year ago. His body was sent home today.
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San Antonio
Tex
Leslie G. Chandler
Hinsdale
Kelly Field
Henry K. Huber
Chandler
Auber
University Ofllinois
Enlisted Regulars Reach Twofold War Quota
Washington reports that by March 7 the regular army had 368 094 enlistments, more than double the 184 898 state quota set by the National Defense Act while seven states Arkansas Louisiana North Carolina South Carolina Mississippi Vermont and Wisconsin fell short. One egg auctioned for 69 cents in Dougherty for Red Cross raised 2 160.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Arkansas
Louisiana
North Carolina
South Carolina
Mississippi
Vermont
Wisconsin
Lone U.S. Sentry Foils German Raid In French Trench
A lone American sentry in France repelled a 40-man German patrol entering an advanced trench, killing the leader and driving others back. Four rifles found in the American lines, while a patrol joined from another point with grenades to hasten retreat. Liquid fire attack foiled by rapid U.S. fire, four projectors captured. Balloons and air combat followed with enemy losses and heavy artillery on the Lorraine front.
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Toul
France
No Man’s Land
Ine
No Man's Land
Montsee
Lorraine
Torraine
Weather forecast for Washington DC next week
The Weather Bureau predicts a week starting Monday in the upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys with rain or snow in northern districts and rain in southern areas, rising temperatures overall, then generally fair skies. Temperatures will be somewhat lower Tuesday and Wednesday before becoming seasonable again.
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Washington, D.C
Weather Bureau Today
Mississippi
Lower
Missouri
President Calls Children to Join War Garden Army
President Wilson urges schools to form regiments of volunteer war garden workers. He envisions five million youths producing vegetables, small fruits and eggs for home consumption to ease food transport and aid the Allied war effort, with 40,000 teachers guiding the effort across cities towns and villages.
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Washington, D. C
Wilson
Lane
Bureau of Education
United States
Sam
France
Home Garden Army
America
Europe
Ikardens
Raish Army
Claxton
Army Rises in Don Region Against Bolshevik Peace
Don district mobilizes largely Cossacks as two Russian transports are sunk by German destroyers near the Aland islands. Trotzky resigns as foreign minister amid reports Berlin forecasts and Russian efforts to form a coalition republic to resist Bolshevik rule. Kremlin figures and hopes for a new government mix with wanderings of exiles and peace talks.
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Petrograd
Leon Trotzky
Bolsheviks
London
Marek J
Social Revolutionaries
Russia
Elef
Moscow University
Copenhagen
Exchange Telegraph
Moscow
Don
Wieff
Exchange Telegraph Company
Trotzky
Leber Braunstein
Kerensky
Nikolai Lenine
Brest Litovsk
Brest Literovsk
Berlin
Ik Krylenko
Krylenko
Lenine
New York
Hoffmann
Krytenko
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Christ
Camp Dodge
John Albert Luck
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U.S. Army
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Illinois
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