Mexico Breaks Off Diplomatic Relations With Cuba
Mexico reportedly severs diplomatic ties with Cuba with officials recalling the Mexican charge d affaires in Havana and suspending the sending of a new representative. The move, stated as necessary amid the wartime Cuban crisis, aims to avoid useless representations and tension, while pledging to renew relations on equal sovereignty when conditions permit.
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Mexico City
Cuba
Havana
Foreign Office
Mexico
Ezequiel Garcia Ensenat
Luis Santamaris Y Calvo
Alberto C. Frano
Candido Aguilar
Carranza
Xico
Sineht
Aires
Mxico City
Nocal
Felicita
Quicker War Work Plan Aims to Lower Draft Age
Washington May 25 A sweeping amendment to the Selective Service Act aims to speed war production by compelling draft age men to work in munitions and related industries. The order postpones any draft age increase and guarantees a steady stream of labor to shipyards railways and factories with women replacing men in many service and hospitality roles. Theaters may deploy female ushers while actors are exempt, as the government shorts days of leisure for workers in essential occupations.
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Washington, D. C
America
Washington
Great Britain
United States
Crowder
Threats of inquiry lift cotton futures in early session
New Orleans May 25 The prospect of a Federal investigation into cot ton contract trading led to a sharp rise today with July rising 50 points in early trading. Other months gained 35 to 42 points from yesterday's close as brokers expect price spreads to normalize. Washington dispatches about the probe spurred a buying wave at the open.
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New Orleans
PO Dee
Washington
Two German Planes Shot Down Northwest of Toul
American aviators report shooting down two German airplanes northwest of Toul. Confirmed victories from May 22 and earlier May 21 are announced by American headquarters in France. An aerial pursuit squadron operates over the American sector northwest of Toul flying Nieuport aircraft.
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U.S
France
Toul
Nieuport
Roosevelt charges Wilson to blame in post office row
Theodore Roosevelt told the senate that the administration aided selective treatment of newspapers and magazines by the post office and that President Wilson bore direct responsibility. He accused the admin of condoning anti ally sentiment in publications including Hearst titles and warned of political pressure amid wartime reporting.
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Washington
Theodore Roosevelt
Burleson Today
Comenree
Post Office Department
Senate Today
Poindexter
Wilson
Roosevelt
Hearst
Moldavia Sinking Costs Soldiers In Torpedo Attack
London May 25. Less than a quarter hour after the British armed merchant Moldavia carrying American troops was torpedoed off the English coast, many soldiers were lost. Official figures list 56 American soldiers dead with 2 corporals among the missing. two Bosley brothers on guard jumped overboard and drowned. Survivors were rescued by escorting destroyers as the ship listed and sank. The incident recalls the Tuscania disaster earlier in the war.
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London
Moldavia
England
Clyde Ee Nee
North Troy
Bosley Brothers
Johnson
Daily Telegraph
France
Tuscania
Ireland
Sbldars
Oyers
Antilles
Johnson Denies He Gave Poison to Wife in Court
Richmond Virginia May 25 Dr Lemuel J Johnson on trial for wife murder testified he did not give his wife poison on December 10 or any other night He refuted claims of buying poison at drug stores and said he only bought a weak solution for cleaning dental instruments The poison was in powdered capsule form according to testimony by investigators
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Richmond
Lemuel J. Johnson
Hastings Court
Johnson
John F. Wily
Red Cross Fund Surpasses 100 Million Mark
Washington May 25 The Red Cross second war fund today reached and passed the 100 million dollar minimum total mark. Telegrams report subscriptions continued to flow into national headquarters at a rate that challenged the fund’s record keepers. Officers could not determine exact figures but hoped the minimum would be doubled before the drive ends.
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Washington
Red Cross Second War Fund
Pershing Reports Two Officers Dead in Plane Fall
General Pershing’s May 24 communique lists the deaths of two American officers from injuries after an airplane fall. First Lieut. Walter V. Barneby and Second Lieut. Kenneth P. Colbert were posthumously decorated with the War Cross. Also noted is the sinking of the Antilles with seventy lost and the Cork steamer Fnuis Carra sunk with thirty seven lost and five saved.
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Washington
General Pershing
War Department
Walter V. Barneby
Signal Corps
Kenneth P. Colbert
U.S.M
Europe
Antilles
Moldavia
Fnnis Carra
Fishguard
Cork
American airmen patrol Toul sector amid mounting air battles
American air units patrol the northwest of Toul with a squadron acting as eyes for American troops. Two American planes are down and at least six German planes are shot down as U S forces fortify the front, with weather worsening on the Somme and Picardy fronts and renewed patrol activity between Ypres and Rheims.
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Toul
St. Mihiel
Toulnon
Italy
New York
Baker
Diaz
France
Somme
Albert
Ypers
Rheims
Picardy
Germans Shell Cemetery Near Front in Pi Cardy
German shells hit an American cemetery near the Pi Cardy front as US forces hold the line. One grave was torn up four times while a mortally wounded German prisoner was given a Christian burial in the same cemetery, marked like others.
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France
Picardy
German Plot Across Ireland Uncovered by Press Bureau
London May 25 Germany and Sinn Fein linked to revolts planned since 1914 with aims to arm Ireland and establish submarine bases. The statement notes abortive 1916 rebellion and a 1917 plan derailed by America’s entry to war. It cites cable traffic, Casement, Devoy, and Bernstorff while promising more details on arrests cannot be disclosed.
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Germany
Ireland
Sinn Fein
America
Great Britain
Easter
Herr Zimmermann
Count von Bernstorff
Roger Casement
Casement
Norway
John T. Nicholson
von Papen
Washington
von Bernstorf
Rotterdam
Skal
John Devoy
Clan-Na-Gael
Limerick
von Bernstorff
Berlin
von Jagow
Tralee Bay
Devoy
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