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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1918
Page
14
Western Newspaper Union summarizes week of fighting in France and across Europe. Allied gains include Italian and Austrian front movements, American troops on fighting lines, and substantial German losses. Reports note British and American naval actions and shifting fronts near Amiens and the Somme.
A broad page summary reports Premier Botha signaling unrest in South Africa, a Canadian troop ship ashore with all hands safe, and Cardinal Martinelli’s death in Rome. It notes Queen Wilhelmina's request to remain in office, British naval shipping output in June, and the London move toward a Ministry of Food kitchen model. Also covered are executions in Mexico, Mohammed VI's proclamation as sultan, a Ukraine revolution report, boxing match plans, moving picture workers gain draft-eligibility status, Cheyenne Frontier celebration preparations, and Roger Hornsby’s draft status.
Mrs Cassie Denney of Oneida Wisconsin has given three of her sons to the U S war effort and says a fourth will go when eligible. In Oakland California twenty editors from Mexico and guests of the government arrived for a harbor tour. A Wyoming troop train carried soldiers to Fort Logan marking the last Wyoming dispatches. about 1500 men have reached the fort since Friday.
The article reports Congress approving two battleships to be built at the Brooklyn navy yard. It notes the Versailles war council may chart allied action in Russia including a Japanese force into Siberia and a plan to rehabilitate Russia and eject German forces. It also covers postal savings deposits rising to 2500 dollars, Wilson expected to veto the agricultural bill over a wheat price rider, and Austrian losses in Italy with casualties and captures cited.
Lorenzo S. Clark, 66, tends a two acre patch among a ten acre tract where the first alfalfa in the United States was grown. He oversees 5000 war gardeners in Salt Lake City inspiring many neighbors to cultivate plots for home defense.
Western Newspaper Union notes new blocks rising at Bowie and renewed drilling across Arizona. Typhoid cases in Miami, gold and rich ore found at Ajo and Oatman, and Gunn sights at Jerome. May copper output tops 24 million pounds. Capitol add plans in Phoenix. Fourth of July celebrations statewide. Mica deposits near Tucson stir war material talk. manganese prices surge. grain sorghum acreage reaches 37 000 acres.
Mirbachs murder stirs socialist outbreak as unrest erupts across Moscow with clashes between revolutionaries and Bolsheviks. Authorities struggle to contain the riot as demonstrators march through central districts.
A Moscow counter revolution erupts with Bolshevik and Social Revolutionary clashes. Leaders arrest dozens including Alexandrovitch. Lenine sets up an extraordinary commission to probe Count von Mirbach’s death. William orders Berlin talks halted after the ambassadorship assassination. militants flee to a Socialists held house defended by machine guns.
In a German counter attack near Hamel two Americans and five Australians were captured. An American party recovered the captives and a German officer, while twelve Australians increased German prisoners to fifty. French forces attacked southwest of Soissons and advanced north of Longpont, taking Chavigny farm and surrounding slopes. Several hundred prisoners were taken as the front stretched from Longpont to Ambleny. Australians along the Somme east of Amiens repelled the enemy and straightened a problematic line. German and Finnish forces were reported advancing northwest from Finland. Senate agrees on prohibition bill setting start dates for ban on distilled liquor and wine.
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