War Progress and Setbacks Across Fronts Reported
Western Newspaper Union News Service provides a roundup of World War I developments. Allied forces push in France with 251,000 U S troops on fighting lines by July 1 while British and American units report heavy action and several victories. German submarines destroyed. Austro-German positions evacuated. Bolshevik and Czech-Slovak contests noted. Rome reports German corps sent to aid Austria. Norwegian shipping losses tallied. mutterings of Moscow assassination and shifting fronts along the Somme and Piave.
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Rome
Count von Mirbach
Russia
Moscow
Europe
London
Irkutsk
Siberia
Piave
Austrian War Office
Col del Rosso
Monte di Val Bella
Chateau-Thierry
Pershing
Atlantic
Murmansk
Kola Peninsula
White Sea
Arctic
Vardee
Norway
Copenhagen
Hamel
Somme
Unrest, ships ashore, and royal moves across a tense world
Premier Botha warns of serious unrest in the Union of South Africa while a Canadian troop ship City of Vienna went ashore on the Atlantic coast and was safely evacuated. Cardinal Martinelli dies in Rome as Queen Wilhelmina asks to retain government. In France British lines near Villers Bretonneux extend northeastward. June shipping totals are issued by the British admiralty as talks of food programs emerge in London.
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Atlantic
Sebastian Martinelli
Sacred Heart Congregation of Rites
United States
Rome
Wilhelmina
Reuter
Hague
Villers Bretonneux
Field Marshal Haig
France
United Kingdom
London
Ministry of Food
Canuto Reyes
Felix Diaz
Terrame
Durango
Francisco Murguia
Juarez
Mex
Reyes
Mohammed VI
Turkey
Indian mother’s sons join US service in war effort
Mrs. Cassie Denney of Oneida Wisconsin says three of her sons have joined the service and a fourth will go when old enough. In Mexico editors touring the US arrived in Oakland California and boarded a tugboat for a harbor tour. A four-car special train carried Wyoming troops to Fort Logan through Denver marking the last Wyoming movement. About 1500 men have reached the fort since Friday.
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Oneida
Wis
Sam
Mexico
United States
Oakland
Cal
Oakland Harbor
Fort Logan
Wyoming
Denver
Fort
Wilson signals plan for Allied Russia drive at Versailles
The supreme war council at Versailles is expected to outline allied cooperation to rehabilitate Russia and expel German forces. President Wilson has shown willingness to accept the Japanses Siberia expedition idea in supporting Russia. Meanwhile Congress authorizes Brooklyn yard construction for two 40,000 ton battleships. Postal savings deposits rise to 2 500. Wilson to veto agricultural bill due to minimum wheat price rider. Austrian losses in Italy estimated at 200 000 to 250 000 with at least 50 000 killed.
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Supreme War Council
Versailles
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Siberia
Senate
House
Italy
Rome
Telegraphers strike order rescinded and naval death reported
The telegraphers strike order was rescinded. Rear Admiral Aaron Ward retired and died after three days of heart trouble at his Roslyn New York home. A rescue by an American patrol boat saved 700 troops from the City of Vienna off the Atlantic coast. Coal rationing for households was announced to avert a next winter shortage. A Mountain lion adopted as mascot by the 115th engineers at Camp Kearny. Wreck inquiry into the excursion steamer Columbia at Peoria with 63 recovered bodies and 100 to 150 feared dead. War garden in Salt Lake City credited with 5000 participants and a two acre plot near the first alfalfa field in the United States.
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Columbia
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United States
Lorenzo S. Clark
Salt Lake City
H. C. Wheeler
Bisbee
France
Alcyone
Oatman
Mirimonte
Rebecca Loftgreen
Safford Association
Gila Valley
Arizona
Florence T. Taylor
McNeal
Mary H. Lusk
Chiricahua
Sidney D. Kempton
Nogales
Fort Grant
Riordan
Mining Boom and Rail Plans Mark Arizona Growth
Arizona reports busy mining activity with new rigs in Holbrook, Gunsight and United Verde, plus resumption at United China near Jerome. A switchback to United Verde is planned, capitol addition in Phoenix discussed, and May copper output tops 24 million pounds while broader production rises statewide.
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Miami
Little Ajo
Gunsight
Ajo
Holbrook Oil District
Swansea
United China Oil
Jerome
Phoenix
State Capitol Building
United Verde
Whipple Mountains
May
Douglas
Revolutionists Fight Bolsheviks In Moscow Streets
In Moscow, revolutionists clash with Bolsheviks as news reports surge of unrest spreads through social circles. The confrontation follows the murder of Mirbach, triggering a wave of street protests and political turmoil.
Counter revolution in Moscow shocks negotiations with Germany
A Moscow street clash between Bolshevik troops and Social Revolutionaries sparked a counter revolution that was later suppressed. Several hundred Russians were arrested, including SR leader Alexandrovitch, as Lenin seeks to calm German ties by an extraordinary investigation commission led by Peters into Count von Mirbach's death. The German envoy halted Berlin talks as weapons fired at the German embassy building.
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Moscow
Wolff Bureau
Exchange Telegraph Company
Copenhagen
Alexandrovitch
Nikolai Lenine
Count von Mirbach
Peters
William
Russia
von Kuehlmann
Berlin
Washington
Switzerland
Americans Save Pass With the British Army in France
Allied actions report captures and rescues as American and Australian troops push in France. American parties retrieve captured men and a German officer after a German counterattack near Hamel. French offensives northeast of Soissons gain ground and prisoners as fronts extend from Longpont to Ambleny. In Albania Italian forces strike Vogusa river positions while Vienna notes Austrian post withdrawal. Burgeoning entente supplies in Murman as Bolshevik control falters. Senate Agriculture Committee agrees on prohibition bill setting dates for 1919.
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Hamel
Soissons
Retz Forest
Longpont
Chavigny Farm
St. Pierre Aigle
Ambleny
Somme
Amiens
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Vogusa
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Avlona
Vienna
Murman
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Finland
Senate
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