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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1916
Page
6
Berlin reports two aerial engagements at Riga Bay with German pilots gaining the advantage. A German naval plane fended off five Russian planes, downing one, while another clash left two Russians badly damaged. One German aircraft sank due to propeller damage but its crew was rescued.
The Boston Floating Hospital sailed from North End Park for its first summer trip with 20 physicians and 70 nurses aboard. The ship anchored in Dorchester Bay then Upper Harbor before returning, carrying tired mothers and babies who benefit from the healthful sea air. Prominent supporters like G Loring Briggs and Edward Pope welcomed the start of another season as public interest grows. Yesterday marked Isaac Kaffenburgh day.
A personal inspection of the entire west coast line of Mexico and Lower California was completed, placing the inspector in position to deny reports that a Japanese fleet hovered in that vicinity.
In New York on June 28 the Famous Players Film Company and the Jesse E. Lasky Feature Play Company merged to create the Famous Players Lasky Corporation with a capital of 12 500 000 dollars.
June 28 report states Admiral Winslow commander in chief of the Pacific fleet advised the Navy Department that no Japanese fleet was found off the Washington coast. He provided no further details on searches or results.
A famed Baltimore financier claims the German submarine is off the Chesapeake Bay mouth and will reach Baltimore tonight or tomorrow with cargo of dyestuffs and medicine. A tug will tow it to port for unloading while nickel and rubber valued at $600,000 await shipment on the submarine’s return voyage to Germany.
London June 28 Sir Roger Casement wavered during his treason trial and his chief counsel Sergeant Sullivan collapsed while summing up for the defense. The court adjourned to tomorrow as dramatic moments marked the session with Casement denying German funding and asserting Irish motives.
New York June 28 John Devoy editor of the Gaelic American took the stand in the trial of Captain Hans Tauscher once a German officer charged with complicity in the alleged Welland Canal bombing plot of 1914 He was asked why he had sent a tele.
Testimony describes Tauscher and others indicted over a confession by Horst von der Goltz. Devoy says Von Igel asked him to name a Buffalo attorney to identify a friend, sending a telegram to John T. Ryan and ending the matter. Devoy denies a misstatement by Von der Goltz.
Muskogee Oklahoma June 28 Mrs Ida Hadley after being acquitted of murder of Sheriff Jake Giles Beaumont Texas pleaded guilty to attempted jail breaking and was sentenced to 10 years in prison Her husband Paul Hadley is already serving life for the sheriff slaying.
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