Balkan Fronts Brace for Major Allied Move Across Serbia
Entente forces mass in Thessaly while British withdrawal along the Struma coast signals possible big moves to retake Serbia up to Nish. In Serbia, Venizelos gains popular support as Turkish and Bulgarian actions shape the Macedonian theatre and Austro Italian fronts report limited combat on the Carso plateau with Italian advances near Jamiano.
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British Fall Back on Belgian Fronts in War Update
Official dispatches report British lines retreating from some advanced posts in Belgium while main positions hold. Italian forces repulse Austro Hungarian attacks on Monti Mosciagh Asiago plateau and Hill 652. British submarine fate noted as likely sunk by Japanese ships in the Mediterranean.
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London
Monti Mosciagh
Asiago
Rome
Mediterranean
French Capture Section of German Trenches
Paris reports a local operation in Champagne gaining control of a German trench salient about 600 metres long between Mont Camillet and Mont Blond. Forty prisoners were taken including an officer. German shelling of Rheims killed one civilian and wounded three as artillery activity was noted near Laffaux Panheon and Craonne Chevreux.
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War Office
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Panheon
Craonne- Chevreux
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Mont Camillet
Mont Blond
Rheims
Legion of Honor Cross for Heroes of Rheims
President Poincare with Leon Bourgeois visited Rheims and pinned the Legion of Honor on Cardinal Lucan Deputy Mayors De Bruignac and Charbonneaux and Dramas of L Eclaireur de L Est. The ceremony occurred in the ruined City Hall building and followed by a cathedral and devastated district tour.
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Rheims
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Charbonneaux
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Poslam Pimples Remedy Promises Quick Skin Relief
An advertisement touts Poslam as a superior skin remedy for pimples eczema and acne with overnight improvement and rapid action. It notes free samples from Emergency Laboratories at 243 West 47th Street New York and promotes Poslam Soap as medicated and beneficial for the skin.
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Cameronian Sunk by Submarine in Eastern Med
The British transport Cameronian carrying a small troop contingent was torpedoed and sunk by an enemy submarine on June 2 in the eastern Mediterranean. Sixty three people, including the captain, are presumed drowned. The 6861 ton vessel, built in 1918 at Einswarden, belonged to F Leyland and Co of Liverpool.
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Cameronian
Mediterranean
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Einswarden
American airmen die in French plane crash
Benny Woodworth of San Francisco chief of the first section of the American ambulance field service was killed in France. Lincoln Chatkoff of New York City, pilot in the Lafayette escuadrilla, was dangerously wounded when their aircraft plunged nose first into the earth during a flight near the Storks squadron camp.
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Paris Herald
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American Ambulance Field Service
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Lafayette Escuadrilla
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Chatkoff
Storks
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1500 Americans Now On The French Front
Paris June 18. Two hundred seventy volunteers left the American field service headquarters for the front last week bringing total serving with the French armies or in training camps to 1500. Three hundred are in the transport branch. The field service has 700 cars active or under construction with several hundred more ordered.
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Paris
American Field Service
Many Normal Art Men Enlist For War Service
The senior class at the Massachusetts Normal Art School missed the 17 class day dinner at the Thorndike Hotel as several members enlisted in military or naval service. Eighty students attended the event.
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May retaliation planned for air raids across England
In the House of Commons Andrew Bonar Law announced the British government would take reprisals not only to damage the enemy but to prevent raids on England. He noted British air forces in France had raided German targets and that longer range raids would become feasible with increased air power. Government also consults with France on effective responses as public demand grows.
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England
Andrew Bonar Law
British War Council
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France
Gorky Plans Russian Reconstruction Through Science
Petrograd reports Maxim Gorky leading a broad movement for political and economic reconstruction of Russia based on universal scientific application. He forms The Free Association for Development and Dissemination of the Positive Sciences with other scholars, and says he will abandon politics to focus on cultural and scientific questions due to Russia's backwardness in science and tech.
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London
Maxim Gorky
M. Gorky
Free Association For Development
New Life
Russia
U S Aviator Made a Sergeant in France
Archibald Johnson of Pittsburg a Lafayette Flying Corps member has been made a sergeant after a bold solo fight over the Chemin des Dames on the Aisne front. His airplane was riddled by bullets as he challenged two German planes before returning to French lines. A French comrade then engaged the attackers and downed one of them.
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Archibald Johnson
Pittsburg
Lafayette Flying Corps
Chemin-des-Dames
Aisne
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U-Boat and Freighter Destroyed in Duel Off Italian Coast
British steamship Hilonian and an unidentified coal freighter were attacked off the Italian coast in May. The Hilonian crew say the U-boat surfaced to observe damage after a torpedo hit, then the freighter fired on the submarine as it went down, with coast batteries contributing to the sinking.
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