25 Jun 1918
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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1918
Page
1
Washington reports a national lottery to determine the order of coal for 744 865 men registered by June. The drawing, likely Thursday or Friday, will reuse last year’s bowl with capsules numbered to the district total. Last year 10 600 capsules were used, this year will be smaller.
Washington reports German submarines sunk a British transport chartered by the United States about 700 miles east of the Delaware Capes. Sixty seven crew members were aboard. no troops were present. Crew abandoned ship as it sank. naval officials note conflicting theories about the submarine’s movements and prior encounters. The Navy withheld full details under an agreement with the British Admiralty.
Maxwell McNutt, Mooney’s counsel, filed a brief with Governor William D. Stephens denying that Thomas J. Mooney was a paid agent of a sinister influence directing “those who sank the Luskanta.” The document responds to District Attorney Charles M. Fickert’s charges and Mooney’s condemned application.
Reported battle dispatches recount Italian forces under General Diaz driving the Austrians from the Piave line. The Piave region is described as largely in Italian hands with thousands of prisoners captured and vast war booty secured.
Hammond Ind June 24 The Michigan Central attorney charged engineer Alonzo Sargent was asleep at the throttle when the empty troop train collided with the Hagenbeck Wallace circus special near Gary. The claim marks the first step in a triple federal state county inquiry, with 86 deaths suspected and 24 identified. The circus plans to resume performances at Belomorrow.
The war office reports Montello and the right bank of the Plave evacuated by Austrian troops due to high water and weather conditions. The withdrawal was carried out with minimal enemy notice, while Italian gunfire targeted evacuated lines and enemy infantry attacked abandoned trenches but was repelled by long range fire.
British Prime Minister Lloyd George warned a decisive period lies ahead with potential great blows in coming days. He praised American troop arrivals to France and said Britain would act decisively, mock the enemy, and press on with allied strength against Germany. he ridiculed Hon. Mr. Hogge.
Washington reports describe a crushing Austro Italian defeat along the Piave, signaling a potential German strategic readjustment in France. Officials note retreating Austro Hungarian forces and Italian advances altering the war’s balance and pressuring German high command to redirect troops and strategy.
June 24 Paris reports in Reynos Aires indicate rising prices in stock exchange transactions and increasing use of large funds for industrial and government bonds. A revived landed property market is also noted, signaling renewed investor confidence after prior drought in liquidity.
Austrian privaters of war from oppressed nationalities under the Hapsburgs in Talign renew their request to the minister of war to fight for the Entente on the Italian front with the Cracho Slovak contingent against the common enemy. It is believed the minister will not grant the request as it would require changes in laws regarding prisoners of war.
Baltimore June 24. Managers of the ball park and promoters planned a heavyweight matchup between Jack Hornsby and Fred Fulton for July 4 but the outcome remains unsettled after a disputed meeting. Tonight the promoters hold another session to resolve details.
War bulletin describes Austrian forces retreating from the Montello plateau toward the Adriatic after heavy resistance by Italian troops. Cavalry and machine guns supported by American crews harass the retreating invaders as bridges are blown or destroyed, hindering any renewed assault on the Piave line.
Washington June 24. After a White House conference with President Wilson a delegation of senators predicted the federal suffrage constitutional amendment would pass in the senate next Thursday. They said the president was strongly supportive of the resolution.
Milwauker reports Bishop Sebastian J. Messmeer issues pastoral letter to clergy forbidding homoseienw and prohibition propaganda. He warns of a sectarian movement undermining Catholicism, urges temperance while opposing church property use for prohibition. Letter read in all parishes.
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