Mont Didier Falls to German Drive in Somme Battle
German Crown Prince troops penetrate 60 kilometers from St Quentin and capture Mont Didier near the Somme. The front line shows heavier losses at key points, while British units report successful counterattacks and repulsed assaults along the Somme and Ancre fronts. Paris notes unheard of ferocity as French and British hold the line.
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Mont Didier
Amiens
Roye
Somme
Noyon
Lassigny
Oise
Paris
Arras
London
Chanel
Estern
Efield
Albert
Haig
Amecre
Proyart
Rosieres
Ancre
Berlin
British Admiralty
St. Quentin
General Maurice Doubts German Prisoner Claims And Losses
London reports Major General Frederick B. Maurice, of the British War Office, dismisses German exaggeration on prisoners and guns. He estimates British losses at about 600 guns and about 100 tanks, notes German counts include wounded, and urges public patience as war news is released gradually.
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London
England
France
Frederick B. Maurice
War Office
Maurice
Wen
Germans, French clash near Mont Didier in heavy combat
Paris reports renewed German assaults in the Mont Didier region with hand to hand fighting and heavy losses for French regiments who withdrew to nearby heights. London says British prisoners and machine guns captured as battles rage along the Somme and Arras sectors with a potential second phase and possible push toward Calais and Dunkirk.
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London
War Office
Somme
Arras
Beaumont-Hamel
Puisieux
Moyenneville
Calais
Dunkirk
Lichnowsky’s Memoir Blames Berlin For War at Doors of Berlin
London march 28 prince Lichnowsky the German ambassador at London describes Anglo German prewar disputes over the Berlin Baghdad railway and Britain’s naval and trade jealousy. He argues German fleet buildup provoked British concern and that peaceful settlement was possible if Germany avoided new credits and pursued true peace. In reaction the memo’s publication has stirred German officials and a Times editorial calls the ambassador’s account decisive in assigning blame.
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Stockholm
Berlin-Bagdad
Great Britain
Prince Licknowsky
London
Politien
Prince Lichnowsky
Germany
England
Bagdad
Asia Minor
Turkey
North Sea
Prince
Russia
France
Sir Edward Grey
von Hollweg
Vorwaerts
Berlin
the Times
Count Berchtold
Europe
von Bethman-Hollweg
Wilhelmstra
Austria
General von Moltke
General Staff
Potsdam
Count Mensdorff
Herr von Jagow
Sarajevo
Berchtold
Serbia
Edward Grey
Turkish Army Captured in Mesopotamia Hit Area
London reports the Turkish force in the Hit area has been captured or destroyed by British forces. About three thousand prisoners were taken in the operation.
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London
Mesopotamia
War Office
More Americans Receive Honors
Paris reports three officers and 11 men of the United States Army Ambulance Corps awarded the War Cross by the French government. Recipients include Lieutenants Joseph Greenwood Alan D. Kinsley Otka F. Dober and Privates Louis E. Timson Arthur A. Crosby John F. Fitzpatrick Robert E. Gar C. V. Tompkins J. T. Jones John S. Wood Richard Baker Peter A. Muir Richard Y. Buel and George Repley Butler of sections 516 and 642.
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Paris
United States Army Ambulance Corps
Joseph Greenwood
Alan D. Kinsley
Otka F. Dober
Louis E. Timson
Arthur A. Crosby
John F. Fitzpatrick
Robert E. Gar
C. V. Tompkins
J. T. Jones
John S. Wood
Richard Baker
Peter A. Muir
Richard Y. Buel
George Repley Butler
German Offensive Faces Stiff Allied Resistance In World War I
The report notes German efforts on land and sea with heavy Allied countermeasures. German casualties range up to 500,000 as hospital trains flood Belgium and Germany. Premier Clemenceau says gains will be lost. American bombardment disrupts suspected German attacks near Toul. In Palestine British forces seize Es Salt north of the Dead Sea and push toward the Hedjaz railway east of Jericho.
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Mont. Didier
Belgium
Germany
Clemenceau
Toul
Luneville
Palestine
Dead Sea
Es Salt
Mt. Gilead
Hedjaz
Jericho
Jeru
Atlanta Man Receives Gold Cross for Rescue Heroism
Dr. St. J. B. Graham of Atlanta Ga was awarded the gold cross of honor by the American Cross of Honor for rescuing the crew of the British bark Mary E Chapman stranded on Stone Hore reef Tybee Island Georgia in 1894. Congress had awarded the gold medal of honor and he received a Canadian gold medal for the same act.
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Washington
St. J. B. Graham
Atlanta
Mary E. Chapman
Stone Hore Reef
Tybee Island
Georgia
Congress
Graham
United States
Forty Fifth Death at Benbrook Field
A Royal Flying Corps cadet was killed at noon today at Benbrook near Fort Worth Texas. He is the forty fifth aviator to die since the fields opened in October.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Royal Filying Corps
Benbrook
Food prices rise again. 21 percent annual gain
Washington reports the Bureau of Labor Statistics finds a 1 percent jump from January 15 to February 15, totaling 21 percent for the year. Sugar leads gains at 12 percent, eggs fall 9 percent, with notable rises in bacon, lard, ham, and butter while milk, bread, flour, corn meal, and potatoes hold steady.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Counter Attack Expected on Battlefield Today or Tomorrow
Washington reports American staff officers studying war maps and front dispatches believe developments in the Allied counter attack should reveal themselves on the battlefield today or tomorrow.
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Washington
Recapture of Odessa Confirmed by Bolshevik Troops
Official dispatches from Petrograd report the recapture of Odessa by Bolsheviki forces after three days of desperate fighting near Sebastopol. Cruisers from Sebastopol bombarded the port as Austro German detachments retreated. Latest bulletins place Austro Germans within 40 miles of Yekaterinoslav, about 250 miles northeast of Odessa.
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Petrograd
Odessa
Sebastopol
Yekaterinoslav
Americans praised as veterans by French captain at Somme
Paris reports a French captain wounded at the Somme lauding American troops as entirely new in warfare. Two American officers were evacuated with him, each wearing a French war cross. The captain credited the Americans first and urged Red Cross women to tend to them.
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Paris
Somme
LaLiberte
The
Dragons
Red Cross
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