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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1918
Page
11
Cantigny fell to American forces after a coordinated assault aided by French tanks and air support. The 7 o clock breakthrough swept through German trenches and cellars within 35 minutes, backed by gas, flame throwers, a rolling barrage, and heavy artillery.
An Ottawa advertisement features Walter J. Marriott praising Fruitatives Liver Tablets for curing liver and kidney trouble and preventing sickness. It offers 50c per box, six for 2.50, with trial size 25c, sold by dealers or Fruitatives Limited in Ogdensburg New York.
American forces on the French front report a German air raid behind the lines targeting hospitals. An ambulance crew faced gunfire as firemen fought a blaze started by bombs in a garage near a historic cathedral. One French nurse was killed and another gravely wounded while several Americans suffered flying glass injuries.
The Associated Press reports American expeditionary forces honor their dead from Flanders to the sea. Ceremonies occurred at dawn and at various times through the day as daylight found graves decorated along the front.
General Pershing's evening communique from War Department says American positions near Cantigny are firmly held after renewed enemy assaults. Fighting continues in Cantigny and Lorraine with artillery and gas shell use. three raids in Lorraine were repulsed with prisoners taken.
The Evening News lauds the capture of Cantigny by American troops. It praises their precision and character, predicting Cantigny will be repeated and that the Kaiser’s crown will eventually fall to the Allied cause. The piece extols a bold Anglo Saxon Latin alliance and foresees a future war narrative expanding to a full length novel.
An American aviator was captured after his plane was damaged during a clash with German fighters while protecting British bombers. Two German planes fell, another landed out of control, and the U S pilot was ordered to surrender and walk into enemy trenches.
Confirmation arrives that the German plane struck down in flames near St Mihiel was taken by an American flying circus led by Lieutenants Fisher of Chicago Curtis of Rochester Buford of Nashville and McLanahan of Philadelphia.
Bishop Lawrence delivered a Memorial Day sermon at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul with a crowded service. He linked prayer to spiritual and military strength, urged unity, condemned prejudice, and urged the nation to trust in God while proceeding with courage and duty.
Charles F. Kenny, 27, of Warren Street, is the Camp Devens infantryman whose body was found in the Charles River basin by metropolitan police. Identifications by card indicate he drowned accidentally last Sunday. He formerly worked as a bookkeeper with the Samuel Ward Company.
American Red Cross and Y M C A decorate graves of U S military dead scattered across Britain on Corpus Christi day. They report no grave overlooked. German long range guns resume bombardment of Paris as British vow to curb raids via Vatican request from Cardinal von Hartmann.
In Billerica on May 30 the Mitchell Military School baseball team closed a strong season with an 11th win, defeating Howe High School 9 to 6 to claim the town title.
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