British Front Holds Firm Against German Assaults
British and French troops repelled a major German drive along the Lys and near Ypres, with the front stabilizing and large German gains thwarted. The Somme area saw French gains north of Castel and German positions weakened as artillery duels continued around Givenchy and St Venant. Paris reports say Rheims district suffered heavy bombardment leaving ruins including the cathedral.
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Germany
Ypres
Hugh Tn
Giveney
St. Venant
Nuthwest
Bethune
Givenchynd
Linpridge
Arras
Toe S
Mount Kammel
Battlefront
Somme
Castel
Paris-Amiens
Rheims
Nothng
Paris
Catherral
Rman
Amiens
Moreuil
Erville
Messines
Haig
Hastof
Kemmel Hill
Orn
Givenchy
LaBasse
Espionage Act Under Military Authority Debated
Washington on April 19. Senator Cham berlain’s bill to place all espionage act violations under military control is deemed essential to protect aliens. Norman H. White of Brookline Massachusetts urged the Senate Military Committee that delay means more incidents of anti alien actions and harassment in the news.
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Washington
Chamberlain
Norman H. White
Brookline
Mass
Military Intelligence
Army
Senate Military Committee
Advocates Keep Railroad Control Aimed at Government Ownership
At the Georgia Federation of Labor annual convention in Augusta, resolutions backed permanent government ownership of railroads and urged President Wilson and Georgia's congressmen to defer action on restoring railroads to owners until after the war. An amendment extended the ownership stance to all public utilities amid a lockout claim against Western Union Telegraph Company employees.
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Augusta
Georgia Federation of Labor
Wilson
Georgia
Congress
Western Union Telegraph Company
Commercial Telegraphers’ Union
Schwab Begins Shipbuilding Work With War Boards
Charles M. Schwab starts active role as director of shipbuilding for the Shipping Board and meets with Bernard M. Baruch and J Leonard Repogle to discuss transportation and supply. He requests prompt delivery of plates and other steel to shipyards.
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Washington
Charles M. Schwab
The
Shipping Board
Bernard M. Boruch
War Industries Board
J. Leonard Replogle
Lord Denton Arrives in America as Kitchener Brother
An Atlantic port reports the arrival of Lord Denton, brother of the late Lord Kitchener, from the West Indies. Born October 5, 1846, he previously commanded the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry as a lieutenant colonel and earned the Croix de Guerre and Manipur expedition honors. He has led the British West Indies regimental depot in recent years.
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Atlantic
West Indies
Lord Denton
Lord Kitchener
Russia
Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry
Burma
Manipur
British West Indies
Germans Exhausted by Recent Attacks in France and Belgium
British forces regained ground west of Rothesay near the Lys front after a successful push at Rieux Du Vinage farm yesterday afternoon. German efforts along Kemmel Hill faltered as heavy bombardment continued in anticipation of new German attacks.
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France
Givenchy-LaBasse Canal
Flanders
Rothesay
Lys Battlefront
Rieux du Vinage Farm
Kemmel Hill
Boston Wins Morning Game After 28 Run Rally
Boston, Mass. reports a morning game against New York with a final score showing Boston 28 to 1, highlighting players Russell Rue Bush Agnew and Agnew contributing to the rally in a low detail box score.
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Boston
Mass
New York
Russell and
Rue
Bush Agnew
British presses mostly back cabinet changes
London reports indicate united press support for the cabinet reshuffle announced yesterday with few exceptions. The Daily Mail criticizes the North Cliffe Press for abstaining to upset the government and protests against appointing feeble politicians like Mr Chamberlain amid the Mesopotamia crisis.
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London
Daily Mail
North Cliffe Press
Chamberlain
Mesopotamia
Lloyd-George
Government seizes Bosch Magneto plants in Springfield and Plainsfield
Washington reports the government has taken over the Bosch Magneto Company plants in Springfield Massachusetts and Plainsfield New Jersey. Alien Property Custodian Palmer will appoint directors to run the operations after investigators found the company to be entirely enemy owned.
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Bosch
Washington
Bosch Magneto Company
Springfield
Mass
Plainsfield
N. J
Palmer
Jim Crow street cars proposed in Washington
In Capital April 19 a bill proposing Jim Crow street cars in Washington was introduced today by Senator Tillman of South Carolina.
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Capital
Washington
Tillman
South Carolina
French Advance On Picardy Front Near Moreau
French forces report success on a three mile Picardy front from the north to southwest of Moreau. The apex near Castel fell short of Amiens as Germans withdraw from Senecat wood. Five hundred prisoners, 15 officers, captured as Italian troops prepare to reinforce the Western front.
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Bethune and
Lens
Berlin
Amiens
Senecat Wood
Castel
Chamber of Deputies
Orlando
Ireland
George
Austria
Amsterdam
Selma Teacher Ends Life by Drowning at Bryan Park
Miss Annie Stancil, a Selma North Carolina schoolteacher and Westbrook sanatorium patient, believed mentally deranged by a nervous condition, drowned at Bryan Park lake after a stroll with attendants. Her body was recovered two hours later near the dam. A North Carolina brother claimed the body for shipment home. The lake was about ten feet deep.
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Dal
Richi
Annie Stancill
Selma
N. C
Westbrook Sanatorium
Bryan Park
Sharp French setback halts German push near Amiens
On Thursday April 18 the French army struck along a five mile front between Theses and Mailly-Raineval and halted German attempts to seize the Amiens Clermont railroad. The attack captured hundreds of German troops and several key positions once held in repeated assaults.
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France
Amiens
Clermont
Theses
Mailly- Raineval
Kent Oeans
Dismissal of Disorderly Conduct Charge in Morals Court
In Chicago on April 19 Judge Graham dismissed the disorderly conduct charges against Professor William Isaac Thomas and Mrs. R. M. Granger in the Morals Court.
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Chicago
William Isaaac Thomas
R. M. Granger
Graham
Morals Court Today
William I. Thomas
William Isaac Thomas
Underwood & Underwood
Hines Nominated for Brigadier General by President
Washington April 19 Col Frank T Hines of the general staff National Army was nominated today by President Wilson to be a brigadier general.
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Celene Hines
Washington
Frank T. Hines
General Staff
National Army
Wilson
Colored Woman Dead In City Funeral Planned
Caroline Arthur widow of Elvin Artis died yesterday morning at 801 North Seventh Street after a several months illness. Funeral services will be held at Chestnut Street Presbyterian Church, where she was a member, with interment in Pine Forest cemetery. She was widely known and respected by whites.
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Caroline Arthur
Elvin Artis
North Seventh Street
Chestnut Street Presbyterian Church
Pine Forest Cemetery
Earthquakes Felt in Fort de France for Five Days
Slight earth shocks have been felt in Fort de France Martinique for five days starting Sunday afternoon. The tremors began about noon and continued until 2 o clock this afternoon.
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Martinique
Fort de France
Campaign Continues Vaccination Drive at Winter Park
Dr. Arnold Stovall county physician has finished vaccinating all Winter Park residents and will extend the typhoid program to Masonboro by Monday afternoon. The Bellwill Cotton Mill employer will be vaccinated. Between 300 and 490 county school children have already been treated, with immunity expected countywide in a few weeks.
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Winter Park
Masonboro
Arnold Stovall
Bellwill
Stovall
Lumberton Lawyer R. C. Lawrence Visits City on Business
R. C. Lawrence, Esq., of Lumberton, spends the day in the city handling legal matters and meetings related to his work.
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R. C. Lawrence, Esq
Lumberton
German Torpedo Boats Fire on Allied Camps Between Dunkirk and Nieuport
Berlin reports German torpedo craft bombarded the coast between Dunkirk and Nieuport behind Allied lines in Flanders yesterday morning. Officials quote the torpedo boats firing 600 shells on enemy camps and storage places on Thursday morning.
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Amsterdam
Dunkirk
Nieuport
Flanders
Berlin
British lines hold as German advance stalls near Bethune
Ottawa reports a Reuters dispatch from London saying the British battle line is more secure after days of pressure. German efforts in the Givenchy to Robecq area showed no weak spot, with minor gains opposite the Hill of Hinges yielding only prisoners. French support boosts Allied morale as German aims to protect flanks and seize La Bassée Canal while threatening Bethune and northern sectors.
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Ottawa
Ont
London
Givenchy
Robecq
Hinges
LaBassee Canal
Bethune
la Basse Canal
Bailleul
Amiens
Ypres
Lys
Cassel-Kemmel
Hazebrouck
Comand
Arras
United Kingdom
Germany
Sinn Fenners and Laborites vow to resist conscription
In Dublin a conference chaired by the Lord Mayor and including Sinn Fenners O'Brienites and Laborites unanimously passes a resolution to resist conscription. The measure mirrors an Irish bishops at Maynooth action earlier that day and the conference adjourns to Friday.
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London
Senator Smith denies cotton price fixing by War Industries Board
Senator Smith of South Carolina issued a statement denying that the War Industries Board plans to fix cotton prices. He said rumors are demoralizing the cotton market and that the board has no authority to set cotton prices.
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Washington
Senator Smith
South Carolina
War Industries Board
Board of War Industries
Congress
New Dirigible Beats Zeppelin in Senate Demonstration
Alfred Herbert of Montclair New Jersey demonstrated a 16 foot model dirigible of the Zeppelin type to the Senate Military Committee. He claimed a full scale version could be 600 feet long carrying 50 persons with machine guns and bombs and reach 75 miles per hour. He urged government support for dirigible development warning Germany could send Zeppelins to America.
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Washington
Senate Military Committee
Alfred Herbert
Montclair
N. J
Germany
America
Southern Farmers To Raise Their Foodstuffs
Southern farmers pledge to grow all needed foodstuffs for themselves and tenants and devote remaining land to cotton if labor allows. The Southern Cotton Association reports increased grain and meat production despite the Great Migration of Black workers to the North. Georgia pork purchases fell from 40 million to 14 million dollars, with expectations to raise pork for home use and possible army needs.
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Washington
Southern Cotton Association
Harvie Jordan
Georgia
West
Germans Repulsed With Heavy Losses at Givenchy
London reports the German assault around Givenchy on the Lys front was repulsed with heavy losses. Six German divisions were involved in the attack, which only gained a limited footing at a couple of points of the British lines. Subsequent threats south of Kemmel were stopped by British artillery and machine guns.
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London
Givenchy
Lys Battlefront
War Office
Givenchy-St. Venant
Kemmel
Liberty Loan subscriptions exceed one billion
Treasury reports show Liberty Loan subscriptions rising to 1,161,510,050 dollars as of April 19. The figure reflects increased public support during the Liberty bond drive.
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Liberty
Washington
Liberty Loan
Treasury
Italy Joins Front in France As Allied Flag Flies
Premier Orlando announced in the Chamber of Deputies that Italian troops would be sent to the battlefront in France. The statement pledged solidarity with Allied powers and said the Italian flag will fly over Picardy beside French British American Belgian and Portuguese banners. The next day Washington reported Italian regiments are already in France forming the right wing of the Allied armies.
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Rome
Orlando
Chamber of Deputies
France
Italy
Picardy
Washington
French advance tightens grip near Amiens front
Paris reports heavy artillery duels along the front southeast of Amiens. French forces say they reduced machine gun nests in yesterday's attack and took 650 prisoners, including 20 officers. North of Besonvaux a raid yielded prisoners as well.
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Paris
Amiens
War Office
Castel
Mailly-Raineval
Besonvaux
Verdun Front
Raise Cotton In Bulgaria
Germany and its allies push to overcome cotton shortages by boosting production in Bulgaria. Official dispatches report the Bulgarian government has set aside large blocks of land for planters with main cultivation in the Dobrudja lowlands and along the Adrianople region.
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Bulgaria
Washington
Germany
Dobrudja
Adrianople
Rheims Reduced to a Great Pile of Ruins
Paris reports Rheims reduced to smoking ruins after a week of German shelling. Le Matin notes 100000 shells fired, fires visible 60 to 70 miles away, and destruction of streets and the sixteenth century sites including the cathedral. Firefighters, including Sergeant Eloi wounded 14 times, continue work amid ongoing shell bursts.
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Paris
Rheims
le Matin
Oryale
Eloi
Marne
William
Po Benedict
Ducon
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Kitchener
Juiz
Ichmond Sanatorium
Thomas Released
Dirigible
Marine Corps
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