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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1918
Page
5
Washington observers say General Foch has adopted a new policy as manpower grows and air control extends. The belief is that recent hard blows by French American British and Italian troops signal a new phase of the battle that could expand into a major operation on any favorable front sector.
Reports from the front say Allied airmen and large American forces have shifted the balance on the German lines. Observers note Foch keeps the line tight to recover vantage points and disrupt German preparations, slowing any forthcoming push toward Paris or channel ports.
Premier Lloyd George sent General Pershing a Fourth of July message from London praising America's entry into World War I. He stated the United States and Britain now stand in genuine friendship forged by joint sacrifice against a common cause and cited the path to freedom reclaimed from evil counsel.
The article reports German forces failing to regain ground east of Hamel and near Villers Bretonneux, with British attacks in Ypres repulsed. French advances near Moulin sous Touvent and Autreches yield heavy German casualties and prisoners, while Italians near the Piave push forward, taking prisoners and capturing artillery.
General Pershing reported American patrols in Picardy and Chateau Thierry with a July Fourth push that resulted in the capture of Hamel. Communique notes raiding successes near Cantigny and Boise de la Roche, heavy enemy counterfire, German air activity, and Allied air superiority as fighting continued along multiple sectors.
Officials weigh relief programs for Russia and a peaceful penetration mission by American businessmen to aid the people. Frosty Arctic conditions and speedy Finnish-German influence in Archangel raise alarm as winter approaches. Finnish adherence to the central powers is viewed as potentially clarifying allied strategy but not universally condemned.
A telegram from Irkutsk reports Czecho-Slovak forces defeating Bolshevik troops west of Irkutsk and driving them east of Lake Baikal. A battle near Nerkhnie Udinsk forced Bolsheviks from the town as Irkutsk abandoned supplies were taken. Washington notes a June 28 Irkutsk despatch saying communications with Volgda Moscow and western Siberia were cut for days.
Two American aviators Lieutenant William Dudley Robbens and Second Lieutenant John Wilford died when their aircraft fell at a low altitude in flames near Paris. The bodies were badly burned.
London dispatches report Dutch sources indicating the Sultan of Turkey Mohammed V died Wednesday night not from natural causes and likely tied to a revolutionary movement in the Ottoman Empire.
The article argues Finland will declare war on the Allies, aided by Germany, to seize Murman coast ports and push Russia into conflict. It notes Finnish aid to Germany shocks Americans, worries about enemy alien status for Finns in the United States, and contrasts Swedish pro-German stance with Finnish politics. It recalls Finland’s admired people and the hope they would stay neutral.
Four American aviators Lieutenants Carlisle Rhodes S P Thompson Waldo Heinrichs and John Mitchell fought northwest of Chateau Thierry in a morning air battle. One German plane was shot down and Heinrichs is believed to have brought the foe down.
Four American pilots patrolled inside the German front and tangled with six enemy planes at 13 500 feet. The combat lasted 20 minutes as enemy machines dropped to 7000 feet. An hour later eight Americans fought 15 German planes at 15 000 feet near Chateau Thierry. Lieutenant Ralph A O Neill of Nogales Arizona and Lieutenant J C Raible of New York chased one enemy plane as it spun downward.
Navy Department reports Thomas M Weddell pilot and Edward C Keip observer were killed in a July 1 aviation crash in France. Weddell of Hinsdale Illinois and Keip of 168 East End Avenue New York City are identified.
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