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State department advices transmit
reports from Stockholm that some
Americans who left Finland on neu-
trail ship after the German occupation
were taken prisoners. The depart
ment also learned that % Americans
who left Helsingfors have been held
by the Finnish Red guards at Bjoerns-
borg.
American troops that repulsed the
German raid on March were from
the Forty-second or Rainbow division,
which is made up of National Guards
men, General Pershing reported. The
commander of the American division
was personally congratulated by Gen
eral Gerard, commander of the Eighth
French army, for the manner in which
the Americans conducted themselves.
After months of delay and unsuc-
cessful negotiation with the Neither
lands, the United States and Great
Britain have decided to take over on
March Is for the allies use all Dutch
ships in the allies ports, unless the
Netherlands government accepts an
agreement to that purpose before that
time. This will bring practically a
million tons of ships to the aid of the
allies at time when they are sorely
needed.
American troops in the Luneville
sector have occupied and are holding
enemy trenches northeast of Baden
villers, which they forced the Germans
to abandon through recent raids and
concentrated artillery fire. The
trenches have been consolidated with
ours. This marks the first permanent
advance, by the American army in
France.
A shell explosion on the U. S. s. Won
Steuben, which killed three men. was
announced by the navy department.
The shell exploded while being fired.
The dead are: Emmette Joseph
Shields, Valentine Przybylski and En-
cell William Martin.
Active preparations for strengthen
ing the aerial defenses of the Atlantic
seaboard were begun by the war de-
partment with the appointment OF an
army board to select sites along the
Atlantic coast for aero sQuadrons and
balloon companies.
Provost Marshal General Crowder
made the first official announcement
Of the time of the second draft. 1t will
be ordered as soon as congress amends
the law to compute the basis Of appor-
tionment among the states on the num-
Der Of registrants in class 1 instead of
population. For purposes Of computa-
lion 100000 men will be considered as
the second draft. Agricul-
tural workers will be given furloughs.
A movement Of $4,000 drafted men
10 begin on March 20 and continue for
i've days was ordered by Provost Mar
shall General Crowder. The order calls
troops from every state in the Union
with the exception Of Iowa and Mime
,ota. II includes men remaining from |
he first draft and those liable to call
n the second.
Secretary Baker was In conference |
With Gen. Tasker Fl. Bliss. the Ameri-
an chief of staff, in hotel suite In
Paris when the air alarm was sounded.
rhe hotel management, fearing for the
afety of the secretary and his party,
persuaded them to descend to a place
# shelter In the wine cellar. Mr.. Ba-
Ter and General Bliss continued their
Conference in the cellar.
An American sergeant named Well
mann of Cambridge. Mass, serving as
N airplane pilot, shot down two Ger
nan machines over the American
renches in France.