BRIGADING PLAN EXPANDED; Pershing Is to Command Divisions Where Our Men Predominate INCREASED FIGHTING FORCE System Will Augment Our Army on the Front and Provide Training Facilities. ITALIANS STRONG IN WEST Provide Reinforcements There and Have Improved Their Defenses at Home. Italian Front Under Foch. PERSHING TO LEAD MIXED DIVISION
Date: 16 May 1918
 
Pershing will have command where Amers. predominate system to augment army at front and provide training facilities
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OUR AIRMEN DOWN THREE MACHINES; Captain Peterson Defeats Two and Captain Marr One on American Front. GERMAN USES SMOKE BOX But Is Unable to Elude Aim of Daring Foe--Crosses of War Conferred. OUR AIRMEN DOWN THREE MACHINES
Date: 16 May 1918
Copyright, 1918, by The New York Times Company Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES. From a Staff Correspondent
 
downs German plane
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DOUBT IN GERMANY ON MONARCHS' DEAL; Vorwaerts Remarks That All Is Dependent on the Final Terms of Peace. HARDEN FEARS FOR AUSTRIA Must Conciliate America to Get Post-War Loan, He Suggests--Slavs Resentful. Sees No Popular Assent. Harden Says the Nations Diverge. DOUBT IN GERMANY ON MONARCHS' DEAL Slav Resentment Deepens. AUSTRIANS CALL WAR "CRAZY."
Date: 16 May 1918
By GEORGE RENWICK. Copyright, 1918, by The New York Times Company. Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES
George RENWICK
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DOUBT MISS DEWAR'S DEATH; Lawyer Obtains No Confirmation from the Washington Authorities.
Date: 16 May 1918
 
death denied by U. S. officials, father thinks report a mistake, P. W. Marquand denies rumor
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BIG GUN WORKS ADD TO STEEL DEMANDS; Will Bring Upon Market Orders for Heavy Tonnage of Structural Material. $50,000,000 FOR BUILDING Ordnance Not Expected to be Turned Out by the Steel Corporation for Eighteen Months.
Date: 16 May 1918
 
need for structural material will add to steel demands
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DISPATCH TO OTTAWA WAS SIGNED BY LONG; Borden Says Erroneous Reports About Our Army Came from Colonial Secretary.
Date: 16 May 1918
 
Sir R. Borden explains error
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FAST MAIL IN POLITICS IN WEBSTER CAMPAIGN; New-York Times of That Day Sought Pony Service to Serve Aims of Democrats.
Date: 16 May 1918
 
text of some letters in first mail, including appeal of N. Y. Times in 1835 for faster mail service
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AIRCRAFT PROGRAM NOW MOVING ALONG; What Ailed It and What Is Being Done to Remedy Its Failure. IMPROVING LIBERTY MOTOR Meanwhlie It Will Be Used Only in the Work it is Ready For. 6 OTHER TYPES BEING MADE Two Being Delivered in Quantity, One of Them at the Rate of 500 a Month. Liberty Motor Deficiencies. Our Eggs Put in One Basket. Getting More Types Now. Six More Kinds Being Made.
Date: 16 May 1918
By FREDERICK UPHAM ADAMS. FIRST ARTICLE
Frederick ADAMS
articles by F. U. Adams on progress
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GIFT OF POLAND TO BIND AUSTRIA; Kaiser Thus Obtained Assent to Long-Term Agreement, Berlin Paper Says. RULERS SELECT FOUR KINGS New Monarchs for Conquests-- Mitteleuropa Basis Sought-- Teuton Liberals Protest. Rulers Exchange Felicitations. GIFT OF POLAND TO BIND AUSTRIA
Date: 16 May 1918
 
Monarch selected by German and Austrian Emperors at conference; Austrian plan reported adopted as a binding influence to Austro- German alliance
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