Germans Press Russian Retreat After Dniester Engagement
Offical dispatches report German and Austro German forces driving Russians from Dniester banks near Bukaszowyo and Chodorow with pursuit continuing. Hanoverian troops take 350 prisoners north of Rawa Ruska as battles widen along the front toward Lemberg and Mikolaiv.
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Bukaszowyo
Halicz
Chodorow
Rawa Ruska
Warsaw
Przanycz
Petrograd
Berlin
von Hindenburg
Bzura
Rawka
Europe
Teuton
Vienna
von Bethmann-Hollweg
von Jagow
Germany
Baron Burian
Francis Joseph
Italy
Serbia
Austria
Albania
Adriatic
Durazzo
Italy's navy to attack Rome
June 27 report says the government issued a decree restricting Adriatic shipping and major naval operations are anticipated. Potential targets include Pola the Austrian base or a heavy bombardment of Austrian lines from Monfalcone to Trieste with assaults on Mikolajow heights. General front updates note Russian retreat and continued fighting on the upper Dniester with German gains near Bukaszowice.
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Rome
Adriatic Sea
Pola
Adriatic
Monfalcone
Trieste
Gulf of Trieste
Pope May Move to Swiss Monastery
Geneva dispatch reports the Einsiedeln monastery in Schwitz canton has been repaired and modernized in anticipation of the Pope possibly moving there to reside temporarily. The plan hinges on Vatican decisions and travel arrangements from Paris.
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Geneva
Paris
Einsiedeln
Schwitz
Three Boys Injured By Blast Cap In Roxbury
Three boys were injured when they forcible inserted a spike into a dynamite cap in Shirley street Roxbury yesterday afternoon. They were all taken to City Hospital for treatment.
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Shirley Street
Roxbury
City Hospital
Dynamite caps injure three neighborhood youths
Eleven year old Martin Walen of 10 Roswell street lost a left hand’s two fingers and a thumb and three fingers were removed later. Joseph Connelly, 12, of 12 Roswell street, suffered facial and arm cuts. John Maragero, 11, of 8 Shirley street, was cut about the face and chest with possible eye injury. They were near a barn where dynamite caps were found and exploded during curiosity.
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Martin Walen
Roswell Street
Joseph Connelly
John Maragero
Shirley Street
Walen
John Powers
McDonald & Joslin
Maragelo
Martin Walens
Powers House
Connelly
City Hospital
Germans Recapture First Line at Calonne Trench Repul sed With Losses
Paris dispatch says on June 26 27 the Calonne trench fighting was very violent with flam ing liquid and fumes aiding attackers who were repulsed with heavy losses. French hold former first line and parts of the second line. East of Sonvaud ridge a 120 metre front trench was retaken except 3 metres. A German airship dropped bombs on St Die killing a woman.
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London
Meuse
Calonne Trench
French War Office
Les Eparges
Paris
War Office
Belgium
Arras
Argonne
Calonne
Grand Trench
Sonvaud
Filiey
la Haye
St. Die
Long Range Artillery Duel on Tyrol Trentino Front
An official general staff statement reports continued long range artillery duels on the Tyrol Trentino frontier. In Carniola the Freikofel rain attack was repeated and Zeillen kofel summit was captured. Isonzo progress advances slowly but steadily. The Monfalcone Canal at its mouth was destroyed to hasten flood subsidence amid enemy fire. Storms on the 25th and 26th disrupted operations in the mountains.
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Vienna
Calonne
Meuse
Paris
Lonvaud
St. Die
France
Creux d’Ablain
Angres
Arracourt
Lorraine
Douai
Arras
Tyrol-Trentino
Rome
Zeillenkofel
Monte Croce
Carniola
Isonzo
Freikofel
Monfalcone Canal
Italian War Efforts Press Gulf Coast Advance In War
Reports say Italian forces push along the gulf coast from Monfalcone while Italy denies sending warships to the Dardanelles. The German briefing notes Allied artillery near Arras and the Meuse hills, with successes including the ridge near Les Eparges and captures at Ban de Sapt. Eastern theatre confirms Dniester hills and prisoner gains amid fierce fighting.
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Cathedral of
Arras
Les Eparges
Dniester
Halicz
Berlin
London
Argonnes
Vienna-le-Chateau
Meuse
Ban-de-Sapt
Bukaszowyo
Chodorew
Marconi Begins Duty as Italian Army Aviator
Guglielmo Marconi famed for wireless telegraphy starts duties as a lieutenant in the Italian army aviation corps in Rome on June 27.
Austro-Hungarian General Staff Reports Russian Retreat
Official statement from the Austro-Hungarian general staff says after defeat south of Lemberg the Russian main army retreated eastward with strong forces. Russians driven from Mikolaiov are again in retreat along the entire front north and east as Italian forces attack Monfalcone.
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Mikolaiov
Bokbrka
Zolkiew
Rawa Ruska
Monfalcone
Vienna
London
Lemberg
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von Boehm-Ermolli
Sag Rado
Continui
Duelli D’artiglieria
ROMA
Giugno
Quartiere Generale Italiano
L’abbassamento Delle
Lungo
Il Fiume Isonzo Gl’italiani
Ebbero
Ordine di
Temporali
Giorno
Specialmente Nelle Regioni Montagnose del Teatro Della Guerra
Spike
Gulf
Dardanelles
Straits
Trentino
Victor Emanuel
Schenardi
Platania
Schenard
Hobson
Miles Service
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Boston
United States Tire Co
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