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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1918
Page
4
London reports show British admiration for American troops fighting beside Britons. Veterans laud the Yankees, naming them Sammies or Americans, and emphasize their grit, discipline, and frontline valor despite German shelling and casualty fears.
J. A. Whitehead, an American citizen by papers, rises from poverty to head England’s largest airplane factory. He enlisted at war’s start, built six planes then a hundred, expanded to 450 acres of factories and airfields, and foresees global mail and passenger air service postwar.
Private St Lawrence Henri of Philadelphia, 4 ft 11 in, sought to fight for America but joined a Vancouver bantam unit. He celebrated a new record as the smallest Canadian Army recruit, while London cooks improvise meat substitutes at the Eagle Hut to ease wartime rations. Mack Olsen oversees YMCA efforts to boost cross border cooperation with the British YMCA.
A Paris correspondent quotes a well informed Japanese visitor outlining Japan’s twofold aim in Russia. Japan would defend Vladivostok and the Trans Siberian Railway and aid Russians loyal to Russian ideals while opposing Bolsheviks and Germany. Japan cannot send an army to Moscow but would deploy forces along the Trans Siberian line to assist Russians willing to join Japan and the Allies.
He believed the field useless as a training station because a river ran through it and he buried the water. He diverted a stream so it would no longer be visible on his property. The lunch the other day marked the end of the second year of active full operation, with no clear end in sight.
A London Express despatch from Vienna recounts a governess's account of food riots during a recent strike. She details scarce meals with coffee from apple remnants, black bread, jam, preserved eggs, barley soup, kohl ab i, and limited meat while wine remained available. She notes the working class endures hardship despite high wages and blames England for the misery.
A German aviator, recently captured by the Italians, claimed Hun air raids target civilian towns to erode public resolve. He stated bombardments aim to destroy cities and citizens, with no regard to military objectives, and acknowledged civilian casualties including women and babies.
Chester W. Partne ton, of the American Committee of Engineers in London, warns that German occupation of Siberia could trigger a decade of real war. He details German influence in Vladivostok and Amur region, argues for action now, and urges use of Asian manpower against Berlin.
Paul E. Derrick clarifies misstatements from a recent interview. He rejects the claim that Canada’s advertising reliance mirrors the United States and stresses Americans must understand British market opportunities. He notes many goods succeed in America but would not in Britain.
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