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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1918
Page
1
A government proclamation mobilizes seven people to arms at the capital. The notice warns residents to prepare for security duties, with authorities outlining expected roles and timelines for service.
United Press dispatches report Russian and Allied resistance near Petrograd as German thrusts threaten the capital’s supply lines. Brest peace talks prompt Bolshevik delegates amid a war of survival. Soviet policy stresses rationing, evacuation, and clearance of nonessential groups to defend the city.
The Senate is set to advance Secretary McAdoo's war finance corporation bill early next week with an Overman empowering bill following. Conferees on the railroad bill meet again to push a report Monday. Hearings on the administration water power bill begin Monday as secretaries urge early passage.
British and American fronts show Americans in widely separated sectors as German reconnoiters seek prisoners to map US strength. Von Hindenburg fears Pershing’s coming drive while artillery preparations surge for the 1918 campaign with vast costs and anticipated heavy shell use.
The report describes a tense episode where the Swedish diplomat Von Luxburg sought safe conduct from authorities as he prepared to sail from Buenos Aires aboard a ship bound for Valparaiso. He faced arrest and subsequent detention, drawing diplomatic attention and media coverage.
Officials announce a 9 million dollar federal program to solve Norfolk and Portsmouth housing shortages. The plan aims to relieve overcrowding as hotels boarding houses and private homes are full and sailors sleep at the naval YMCA. Local business leaders and city officials outline rapid steps to house sailors families and workers.
Serious Argentine riots in Buenos Aires as a railroad strike halts traffic between Argentina and Chile. Battles erupt between strikers and troops, with extensive property damage. President orders strikers to return to work by Sunday.
Washington reports the fourth group of officers training camps will open early in May with up to 20 000 candidates all drawn from army ranks. The number of trainees and camp locations are not yet decided. The need for officers across aviation ordnance signal corps and other branches has created a deficit of line officers as the second draft approaches in June.
Tokio reports Viscount Ishii’s appointment as ambassador to the United States was formally announced today.
Alarm rises as preparations for a major Allied push intensify on the French front. Reports warn of unprecedented artillery installments and heavy spending to mount a force believed to signal a decisive drive.
The text states that eight hundred 155 millimeter shells at 45 dollars each are needed to silence one enemy battery and one thousand 75 millimeter shells to breach barbed wire entanglements. It notes thousands of shells per minute are used in barrage fire, sometimes sustained for long periods.
In Anniston, Alabama, Buck Johnson shot his father twice and struck him with a gun butt then fired at his mother breaking her arm after reloading the weapon. The elder Johnson is alive but not expected to survive. Buck Johnson is jailed in Calhoun County after the attack on his parents.
Propagandists work Washington March 2 with Austro German forces preparing a new plunge in the lower Piave district of Italy and spreading propaganda to undermine Italian morale. Officials say this may signal a major offensive and Italy may foresee intensified fighting in coming months as Germany strengthens at the West front.
Washington D C March 2 disloyalty charges against A B R Hergenrother a Wilmington postal clerk are held in abeyance pending further inquiry. Hergenrother is under strict surveillance and G D Ellsworth of the Post Office plans a Wilmington visit to review the case. Earlier Inspector B B Webb had probed alleged information leaks to interned German ships.
Henry Lippert and son Ralph H. Lippert two brokers in Chicago were released after posting $10,000 bonds each. They are accused of paying Brigadier General Thomas Cruse for help with army contracts. Preliminary hearings set for next Tuesday before U S Commissioner Mason. Lippert says Cruse was not in active government service and that Washington authorities approved the arrangement. Lippert firm had over a million dollars in war contracts.
Washington announces a temporary embargo on overseas corn to speed up the wheat shipment to Switzerland. The War Trade Board says the measure affects only surplus grain states and will not halt cargoes already afloat. Despite rail and port issues, ships carrying wheat to Cette are in sight as U S efforts to fulfill promises to the Helvetian republic proceed.
News from March 2 reports additional US Army casualties in France with one death by action and several soldiers listed as slightly wounded. Names include Private Glenn H. Campbell and Private Thomas J Ellington, with others from North and South Carolina noted among the wounded.
Washington report notes woolen manufacturers urge government to allow shorter skirts to conserve wool. The Council of National Defense teams with shoemakers to cut shoe height and offer styles only in black, tan and suede, Pausing hoe tops in fashion.
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