Kaisers and Hindeburg report Entente offensive failure
The German leaders claim seven weeks of Western Front fighting ended in failure while a French official says over 52 000 prisoners were taken in the Allied drive. Haig advances at Vimy Ridge and stretches toward Lens and St Quentin. French gains include Mont Celcarmillet and Mont Haut near Rheims. MeanwhileItaly reports gains on the Isonzo front and Castagnavizza road thrusts.
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von Hinderburg
Emperor William
France
Loos
Bullecourt
Iras
Haig
Vimy
Douai
Lens
St. Quentin
Aisne
Aillette River
Laon
Champagne
Mont Carmilet
Casque Teton
Mont Haut
Rheims
Charles
Islone
Plava
Cadorna
Vodice
Corso
Castagnavizza
Triest
Soissons
Brazil
Russia
Tiflis
Nicholas
Berlin
London
Vo Hindenburg
William
Homburg Castle
von Hindenburg
Isonzo
Freight Rate Hearings Rushed Ahead of June 7
Washington June 2 hearings on a fifteen percent freight rate increase proceed before a special examiner and the interstate commerce commission. Food interests and many shippers protested at today's session. Next week shippers from diverse industries and state rail commissions will protest, with rebuttal testimony by carriers on Thursday and Friday. Final arguments set for June 9 11 and 12.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Second Officers Training Camps Planned for Fall
A second series of officers training camps will run August 27 to November 26 in eight sites to train officers for the second 500 000 man increment of the selective draft. Applications open June 15 to July 15 with age range twenty years nine months to forty four. preference for men over thirty-one.
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Washington
McCain
Fort Myer
Fort McPherson
Fort Ogelthorpe
Fort Benj, Harrison
Ind
Fort Logan H
Merciless Methods in Crushing Uprising Reported
June 2 Udine fragmentary news cites Austrian prisoners detailing brutal repression in Serbia. Insurgents were surrounded by Austrian German and Bulgarian regiments and many captives including women and children were killed in the actions referenced by the prisoners.
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Udine
Serbia
United States Railroad Commission Arrives in In ata
The US railroad commission to the Russian government led by John F. Stevens arrives at Vladivostok. Soldiers and workers greet the delegation as speeches express readiness to accept American aid. The group studies Vladivostok terminal problems before continuing to Petrograd on Sunday.
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Vladivostok
United States Railroad Commission
John F. Stevens
Panama Canal
Petrograd
Germany seeks Margarita Island submarine base off Venezuela
Reports from a reliable source claim Germany is trying to gain control of Margarita Island to use as a submarine base. Washington forwards the matter to Venezuela for consideration, warning a temporary cession would violate the Monroe Doctrine and demand U S. action. Margarita lies near Venezuela’s coast, close to the Caribbean and Panama Canal.
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Washington
Germany
Margarita
Venezuela
State Department
United States
Caribbean Sea
Panama Canal
Airplane Losses Reported Across Front in May
London reports 718 aircraft down on the western front in May with 442 German and 271 British and French losses. British headquarters acknowledge 86 losses. French figures undisclosed. The May total is inferred from German official reports. April losses were 709.
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London
Western Front
Germans Capture Front Positions Near Soissons In Surprise Assault
Berlin reports German forces seized French positions along a 1000 yard front northeast of Soissons in a surprise strike. The war office says Portuguese soldiers were captured on the western front. Artillery actions at Wytschade bend on the Belgian frontier intensified.
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Berlin
Soissons
War Office
Wytschade
Brazil to Use German Ships In Brazilian Ports
President Braz signed a decree to allow Brazil to utilize German ships in Brazilian ports. Forty-six German vessels totaling 240 779 tons were laid up in Brazil at the war start, with the Bluecher at 12 350 tons as the largest and thirty three ships over 4000 tons.
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Brazil
Rio Janeiro
Braz
Bluefield Republicans list candidates for mayor and council
A Bluefield party outline promotes a mayoral ticket led by Harry C. Weller and council nominee R. S. Ferguson. The document stresses balanced representation across industries, workers, business, professions, and property owners, with Ferguson noted as a former school board member and several council terms.
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Bluefield
Harry C. Weller
Ferguson
Subscriptions Due By June 15 Under New Rule
The notice demands payment by June 15 to avoid discontinuation for expired subscriptions. It offers house or business collection at 13 cents weekly and a $5.00 yearly prepaid rate. The June 10 effective date is stated for the new policy.
Bluefield Plans Grand Parade For Draft Registration Day
Bluefield organizers envision a massive celebration on June 5 featuring a two mile parade with three military bands. Plans call for almost every local adult and many from nearby towns to march, led by Chief Marshal Thornton and Deputy Marshal Claytor, with Bluefield officials, mounted police, fire brigades, and the West Virginia National Guard in attendance.
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Bluefield
Graham
Thornton
Claytor
Lee Street
Mounted Police
Vinton Military Band
Company L
West Virginia ‘National Guard
Princeton Avenue
Giles Street
W. W
Parade divisions line up in city procession
McNeal leads a division of men of registration age and Bluefield Home Guards followed by a marshal with the Boy Scouts Sunday school children and unattached people. Sunday schools report to Rev Mabie at Bland Street Church at nine. A fourth division led by Marshal Wiggington includes Loyal Order of Moose Modern Woodmen and Red Men forming on Monroe street. Marshal Postlethwaite leads Elks Woodmen of the World and Knights as they follow.
Cossack Council Vows Strong War Support for Offensive
Petrograd dispatch reports the general council of the Cossack forces warning the government they will aid in an offensive, insisting peace cannot come without arms. The Cossacks pledge loyalty, deny desertion, and regret their dispersal on the front hindering a decisive blow.
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Petrograd
General Council of the
Peace at any price advocates alleged to start fires
A German semi official note to the press says peace at any price supporters have used arson to hasten the war’s end. It cites fires in munitions factories and war related sites and urges workers to report traitors. The note also mentions harsh penalties for crop theft as part of patriotic vigilance.
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Copenhagen
London
Germany
Food Survey Bill Advances to Conference in Senate
The administration food bill passed the Senate with amendments after House passage, setting up a conference to resolve differences. It funds a national food survey and agricultural stimulation, tightens storage and price speculation rules, and limits government investigation powers. Hoarding or delaying food storage would be a felony, with an exception for farmers storing their own products. The measure includes roughly $11 million overall, with adjustments to seed sales, seed control, and livestock disease funding.
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Washington
House
Senate
Secretary of Agriculture
Senate Agricultural Committee
Secretary General
Fire devastates Klietz village in Prussia near Schoenhausen
A large fire swept the Prussian village of Klietz near Schoenhausen causing several deaths and the destruction of forty five houses. The blaze spread rapidly through the town creating extensive damage and loss of life.
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Amsterdam
Klietz
Schoenhausen
Prussia
Federal war against food speculators in Chicago
United States grand jury indicted nine firms and sixteen individuals tied to the Chicago Butter and Egg Board for Sherman anti trust violations. Indictments accuse market manipulation to raise egg prices, asserting Chicago as the nation’s principal egg market influencing prices elsewhere.
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Chicago
United States Grand Jury
Chicago Butter and Eye Board
Growing German Discontent Over Submarine Campaign
Private German dispatches report rising public dissatisfaction with wartime submarine aims and a lack of progress toward peace. UK and US entry loom as German officials defend policy, while naval writers warn of potential declines in sinking figures due to fewer ships and British countermeasures.
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Copenhagen
London
Germany
England
France
United States
Europe
Great Britain
Alfred Zimmerman
Foreign Office
Berlin
Zimmerman
Entente
Regulations Allow Foreign Legions Recruiting In U S
Secretary Baker announced regulations for recruiting foreign legions in the United States under the new alien enlistment law. Great Britain will begin recruiting operations, with offices likely in New York, and other nations have discussed plans with the War Department for potential campaigns in coming weeks.
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Washington
Baker
Great Britain
United States
New York
War Department
Confederate Memorial Exercises Mark Arlington Visit
Confederate Veterans Sons of Veterans and Daughters of the Confederacy attend the twenty seventh annual reunion starting Monday and will visit Arlington for memorial exercises honoring the Confederate dead with President Wilson and General Bennet H Young of Kentucky as principal speakers.
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Washington
Sons of Veterans and Daughters of the Confederacy
Arlington
Wilson
Bennet H. Young
Kentucky
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