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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1915
Page
1
A peace effort by Villa aims to establish neutral ground for negotiations with Carranza. The move seeks to set terms and reduce hostilities as both sides consider dialogue to end the conflict.
A telegraph from Col. Enrique Perez Rul reports Villa invited Carranza to a neutral territory conference to discuss Wilson notes. Villa troops retreated and fought at Leon, then moved to Guanajuato, while holding captured artillery and equipment from Silao. Brownsville dispatch says three generals and ten Mexicans were executed as part of the Gutierrez wing, with peso funds to back a new revolt.
The United States plans to send a prepared note to Germany through Ambassador Gerard regarding submarine warfare. Officials have refined the wording to avoid misunderstanding and protracted debate. The administration hopes the declaration will offer immunity to unarmed passenger ships and pave the way for broader peace talks.
Special Dispatch to the Standard reports James Ford, a watchman for the Butte & Great Falls Power Co, testified for three hours in Butte on June 7 disputing defense claims in the killing of Thomas Munro, a special deputy sheriff, by Henry Robinson. Ford, at Munro’s side before and during the shooting in Park Main Street, contradicted opening statements and said others in the auto that Munro met 15 minutes before were ready to testify later. The proceedings featured sharp exchanges between counsel and witnesses. Ford is seen as a key state witness.
London reports multiple losses as German submarines sink the trawler Arctic with five saved but four dead, the Sunlight of Liverpool sinks after warning, and the trawler Dromio of Hull also goes down. Aberdeen dispatch notes the Star of the West sunk and crew rescued.
Fort Worth reports continuing heavy rains in Northwest Texas this June 7 worsening floods. Crops and property suffer major damage. Wichita Falls and Wichita Falls area faced rail embankment cuts and food relief efforts. Red River rises above a decade high, isolating Wichita Falls Gainesville and several smaller towns. railroads heavily affected and Fort Worth remains without gas due to a break in the system.
London dispatch reports a British soldier trapped in a shell crater hurled back German bombs all day while under fire. He crawled to our lines at night after denying the enemy access with rifle fire. Other news notes Serbian advance near Scutari and Kaisieljuma as Albanian resistance remains evident.
Nationwide and local briefs mix political, legal, and social notes. Mentions IU president Craighead and a Robinson trial, wartime fronts, peace moves, and city infrastructure. Other items touch on clubs, funerals, theater, and a corruption inquiry, with scattered headlines across sections.
Berlin reports in military circles that after near exhaustion the Russian offensive in Courland shifted to a weak defensive. Germans press gains in Galicia as Russian forces, mainly old reservists aided by hurriedly armed labor, withdraw lines near Labau and Mitau. Russian activity now limited to shelling villages while factories reopen and population returns to work.
Rome June 7 report that wealthy Italian women are forming local societies across the kingdom to care for lower class children by day. The aim is to free mothers and other female family members to work in fields or factories while men fight at the front.
Washington reports a Athens cablegram says the King’s temperature fell to 7.6 degrees C after a day of critical illness. Officials express cautious optimism that the crisis may be over as the Greek legation notes improving conditions. London dispatches add that allied forces continue landings at the Dardanelles and renewed bombardment of Turkish positions.
A special dispatch from Helena reports the University of Montana head Dr. Craighead will not be president next year after a 7 to 4 board vote to not retain him. Dr. J. M. Hamilton will resign Sept 1 after planning a year off. The board will search for a successor as charges against Craighead were read in open session.
British Royal Navy sub-lieutenant Reginald J. Warneford, soaring in a seroplane, destroyed a German Zeppelin over Ghent after a rapid pursuit. The dirigible burst into flames, killing 28 aboard and injuring several at an orphanage. Warneford then maneuvered to safety, continuing to fight its fall from 6,000 feet.
A British zeppelin returning from a raid over eastern England was destroyed near Ghent by a youthful Canadian aviator R A Warneford who dropped incendiaries from 6 000 feet. The dirigible crashed into an orphanage, with the crew killed. Warneford, a Royal Navy sub lieutenant on probation, is credited with the decisive strike amid ongoing world war battles across the Western Front and eastern theaters.
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