Austrian Drive Stops Enemy Losing Ground
Allied troops repel Austrian offensives from the Asiago Plateau to the Piave River with counterattacks regaining terrain and inflicting heavy casualties. Italian positions strengthen on the Montello plateau as Austrian attempts to cross the Piave fail, while Vienna disputes gains. In France, Allied and German artillery clash as French forces regain ground and Americans repulse German penetrations in the Marne sector.
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Asiago Plateau
Piave River
Adriatic Sea
Montello
Zenson
Austrian claims on northern Italian front in new drive
Vienna reports 30 000 prisoners taken and 120 guns captured as Austro Hungarian forces push along the Brenta river. British attacks south of Asiago fail while von Wurm and Archduke Joseph secure gains in Veneto and Montello. Three days of fighting yield 73 more guns, many heavy calibre.
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Vienna
Austrian War Office
Brenta
Asiago
Venetia
Freiherr von Wurm
Fossetta
Archduke Joseph
Montello
Italian Front still in doubt as Austrian drive continues
War briefing compares Austrian Field Marshal Barevic plan on a 90 mile front with Ludendorff’s narrower attacks. It notes Italian and Allied defense holding Piave slopes, and warns of possible breakthroughs but doubts success for Barevic.
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Italy
Piave
Berlin
Montello
Barevic
Ludendorff
Picardy
Amiens
Ypres
Aisne
Montdidier-Noyon
Quiet battle fronts shift from mountains to Piave River
Rome reports that fighting on the Italian front has eased in the mountains but intensified along the Piave. The Third Army repulsed attempts near Maserada Candela and Grapha, seized prisoners, and captured key heights on the Asiago Plateau as 1550 more troops fell into Allied hands.
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Rome
Piave
War Office
Maserada
Candela
Fossalta
Capo Sile
Montello
Cassaserena
Giavera
Soauro-San Andrea
Grapha
Brenta
Frenzela
Asiago
Rozea Pizzo
Sasso
Costadonga
Austrians surprised by check on offensive in Italy
News from the eastern Swiss frontier says Austro-Hungarians are surprised and discontented by an abrupt halt to their offensive in Italy. Reports from Lugano list Brescia and Milan as aims, with the Austrian Emperor and staff due at Trent this week.
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Geneva
Associated Press
Italy
Lugano
Brescia
Milan
Trent
Russians Returnated Prisoners with Tuberculosis
Half of Russian prisoners of war returning from Germany have tuberculosis, the State Department reported from Vologda. The Russians are sent out of Germany with only scant clothing.
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Washington
Germany
State Department
Vologda
Austrian Efforts Blocked in Italian Front Defense
The Italians with French and British allies resist Austrian onslaughts and counterattack across the Brenta area mountains and plains. Mon tello plateau movements threaten Monte Grappa lines and Venice approaches. Austrians fight hard to hold gains as daily attacks intensify.
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Associated Press
Brenta River
Montello
Monte Grappa
Venice
British Downed 28 Planes on June 17
London reports June 17 air actions with 25 German planes destroyed and 3 driven down out of control. One hostile balloon shot down in flames. British aircraft bombed enemy railway stations and air bases totaling nineteen tons over two days. five British planes missing.
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London
Red Cross Officer Killed on Piave Line
Lieutenant Edward Michael McKey of the American Red Cross was killed by a shell explosion near the Piave battle line while commanding a rolling canteen. A New York native and former painter, he came to Italy last December as the first Red Cross canteen commander in the field and had previously served with the ambulance service in France earning the French War Cross.
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Italy
Associated Press
Edward Michael McKey
American Red Cross
New York
Piave
McKey
Ambulance
France
Austrians Who Crossed Piave May Be Captured
London dispatch notes that unless Austrian bridgeheads on the Piave and Montello are fortified with guns their crossing may end with their capture as prisoners. The report cites Italian headquarters through Reuters.
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Piave
London
Ottawa
Reuter
Montello
List of 102d Infantry and associated service members
A compiled roster lists eighty four Yankee prisoners and attached personnel from the 102d Infantry with names and hometowns including Captain George C. Freeland of Westville Connecticut and numerous lieutenants and corporals. Additional aviators from French and British services and other linked units are named with addresses and affiliations across Connecticut New York Massachusetts Rhode Island Vermont Maine and Philadelphia.
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George C. Freeland
Westville
Conn
102D Infantry
Edward A. Koenne
Rochester
N. Y
Bernard J. Gallagher
Waseka
Minn
William P. Jenkins
Leesburg
Elmer D. Mackey
McKeesport
Penn
Thomas Buffum
French Aviation Service
Hugh Gugan
British
Royal Flying Corps
Herman Whitmore
102D
Eugene F. Sharkey
Root Avenue
Ansonia
Walter J. Reynolds
Orchard Street
New Haven
Erving A. Dresser
Bristol
Thomas F. Barry
Olive Street
Grand Avenue
Jack Bathgate
Orange
South Norwalk
Vincenzo Jabriola
D Co
Joseph P. Leary
Warwick Vee
Middletown
William J. Lilly
Southington
Harold J. Masterson
Stamford
Claude J. Nelson
Oak Street
Arnold D. Umba
Middleton
102 Infantry
French Break Up Attacks on the Italian Front
Paris reports a June 18 assault on the Asiago front where Austro Hungarian forces massed to attack but were repelled by French defenders. French lines held with prisoners and material seized. about six hundred Austrian corpses were counted in front of a French regiment.
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Paris
Asiago
Havas
German Patrols Smashed by Yankees Near Front Lines
American forces repelled German patrols in contested territory as heat hindered movements and pushed clashes away from the front. No crossing to German lines occurred amid mounting ground action and engagements reported by line troops.
Heroism at Xivray with the American Army in France
June 18 report details a German raid on American lines at Xivray halted by machine gun and rifle fire. Prisoners admitted defeat. praise given to Lieutenants Doane and Shaw and several privates for rescuing a wounded officer and rejoining their platoon under heavy fire.
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France
Associated Press
Xivray
No Man's Land
Irvin E. Doane
Edward T. Shaw
Sullivan
Alva White
Alfred le Page
Wilmer Bradford
Emmet Sloan
Anthony Simmons
Doane
No Man’s Land
Shaw
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Marne
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Uncle Sam Ouimet & Sullivan
Washington Street
Palm Beach
RED Cross
Limburgh
Darmstadt
Harold W. Tucker
Villa Avenue
Providence
R. I
103D Field Artillery
Daniel Brandon
Putnam
John F. Cronin
Main Street
Portland
August H. Chapman
Coil- Chester
William Cardell, Cranston, R
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Green Street
Manchester
N. H
Clyde D. Charrette
South Deerfield Mass
B Co
Walter R. Clark
North Street
George C. Collver
Ernesto de Martino
Broad Street
Hartford
Enoch H. Doble
South Street
Quincy
Mass
San. del
Oliver T. Elliott
Davis Street
Boston
Maurice B. Fischmand
Lamberton Street
Alfred M. Gesner
Hadlyme
Frank Gillespie
Columbia Road
Dorchester
William R. Hier
William Hooke
Brooklyn
Herbert V. Johnson
Court Street
Lee W. Lamere
Lakeport
Lewis R. Lenhart
Somerfield
Thomas A. Lysett
Saratoga Springs
Leo A. Maher
Rowell Street
Eugene C. Mielewski
Eden Street
R. T
Alex Stefanowski
Kieff
Trussia
Frank Sutcliffe
Fairhaven
Field Artillery
Harry Swanson
Waverley
102D Field Artillery
John I. Whalen
Pearl Street
Springfield
Ellis M. Young
Everett
Giessen
George D. McHugh
Tyler Street
Louis J. Goldman
Philadelphia
Lloyd W. Litchfield
Needham
Willigen
William H. Jenkins
Landshut
Howard Francis Kane
Machias
Arthur F. Johnson
John J. Milan
East Broadway
South
Massachusetts Field Hospital
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Mars
Jupiter
Venus
Haddock
Inca
Norma
M.cod
G. de Costa
Viking
Valerie
Mary S. Santos
Vandeggen
Kingfisher
East Coast Fisheries Company
Edith Cavell
Ida Cavell
Belgium
Henley on-Thames
Mayor
Casey
O’hearn
Charles S. Lawler
William J. Casey
Herbert A. Wilson
Patrick O'Hearn
Civil Service Commission
Peters
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