Orders are issued to militia sentries to shoot anyone who ignores orders to halt. Two men are indeed shot by the New Jersey National Guard, and a marine guarding a lighting plant on Long Island shoots up an automobile, killing a 12-year-old Boy Scout.
The crews of seized German ships, being held as prisoners of war on Ellis Island, discover to their horror that there is no booze.
Cuba declares war on Germany.
And so, I guess, do the Boy Scouts:
The Secret Service is investigating German-language and other anti-war newspapers.
Aleksandr Kerensky suggests Germans overthrow the Hohenzollerns if they want peace.
With the one-year anniversary of the Easter Rising coming up, the British ban all meetings and processions in Dublin.
Atrocious Doggerel of the Day -100:
Etcetera.
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