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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1915
Page
1
Reporters note German efforts to protect American nationals during raids in London as tensions rise. Washington officials seek calm as foreign assaults loom, with diplomats urging restraint and protection for U S personnel.
London telephoned warnings to Americans about impending Zeppelin raids mark a rare German gesture toward protecting U S citizens in Britain. Officials note prior Lusitania events and wary reports of embassies seeking to evacuate Americans by June 5 amid war tensions.
An official War Office statement reports a strong German fleet appearing in the middle Baltic exchanging shots with the Russian fleet near the Gulf of Riga. Reports from Vienna say Austro German troops push toward Grodek Lakes near Lemberg as Russians retreat and Przemysl forts fall.
German airships dropped bombs on the east and southeast coasts of England last night with little damage and few casualties. An official report cites six fatalities from the May 31 London raid: one man, one woman, and four children, excluding an elderly woman who died of shock. American residents report to the American Consul, General in London.
Berlin reports Clemens Delbrueck informs the Prussian diet that the food crisis may be regarded as solved and reserves may carry into the next harvest. Flour inventories show a surplus of 6,965,929 double hundredweights and potato stocks in May resemble normal levels.
Reports from Trans Caucasia describe Kurdish atrocities around Bitlis Mush and Diarbekr after Russian occupation of Van. Armenian volunteers rise to defend Christians while Armenians in Diarbekr organize armed bands. Urumiah greeted Russians. consulates at Urumiah and Van report little fighting. Russian gains affect Persian and Arab sentiment. Turkish Dardanelles focus strains arms for Caucasus.
John Jacob Astor the third year old posthumous son of the Titanic victim is said to live at about 30000 dollars yearly according to an accounting filed by his guardian Mrs Madeline Force Astor. The surrogate approved sixty thousand dollars for three years and she asserts she spent twenty three thousand six hundred thirty nine of her own money.
In Copenhagen the Danish Parliament on the anniversary of Frederick VII's 1749 charter unanimously approved a new constitution. It grants women the suffrage and ends wealthier class electoral privileges. The king signed, a women’s deputation thanked him, and a Parliament deputation thanked the government. The king hosted a reception for MPs that night.
A posse of ten U S cowboys and miners crossed into Santa Cruz Sonora and forced Colonel commanding garrison to release two American youths held since early today by three Mexican soldiers. The boys George Vaughn and Henry Chang were unharmed and returned to Washington Camp.
President Wilson and Secretary Daniels agree it would be unwise to move the Atlantic fleet through the Panama Canal in July as planned. Governor Goethals reports the status of the Gaillard Cut slides as very indefinite, delaying the projected voyage.
Luther Afton 19 of Merrick Oklahoma was sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary after robbing Miss Martha Zif 18 assistant cashier of the People's State Bank at Dodson a suburb of Kansas City Missouri. He was captured by citizens minutes after the hold up.
A man using the name William F. Smith admitted falsity and was arrested for robbing a media Pennsylvania home of Mrs. George Richards. He boasted he could open any safe in five minutes and proved it by opening two safes in under a minute at district attorney and detective headquarters.
The American Line steamer Philadelphia sailed for Liverpool on schedule today after an agreement with engineers over a 10 percent wage increase. She carried 675 passengers.
Los Angeles June 5 Police report a nationwide wire tapping swindle using a table piled with gold to lure victims. Farmers H B Bauman Baxter City Kansas and H F McCarter Curry Idaho reported losses of 1500 and 6000 respectively. Seven arrests linked to leaders Walter Harrison Omaha Harry Stanhope Philadelphia Jr Vv O'Brien Meriden Miss. others held in Denver and Philadelphia. J W Klinkerman of Los Animas Colorado claims $8000 lost.
Porter Charlton, accused of killing his wife at their villa in Como in June 1910, was ruled mentally responsible at the time of the death. Prof. Magegiotto, appointed to examine Charlton's condition, presented the opinion. Charlton’s trial is set to open early next month. Charlton has prepared an autobiography and a lengthy defense document for the court.
Athens dispatch reports Professor Hiselberg of Vienna performed an operation on King Constantine removing part of the tenth rib. The king showed relief but likely faces a long recovery for pleurisy with empyema. Early May bulletins noted pus in the pleural cavity with intermittent relapses. current signs include lower temperature and respiration.
A June 5 gathering on the Georgia State Capitol grounds in Atlanta protested commutation of Leo M. Frank's sentence. Rev. A C Hendley led a brief address to defend Georgia laws and court decisions and oppose outside interference.
Forty two persons including United States Commissioner T B Southgate and Neuces County officials were indicted by the Federal Grand Jury for conspiring to corrupt an election after an investigation into the November election that elected a member of Congress. Also named are District Judge W B Hopkins County Judge W F Timpson City Attorney Russell Savage and others.
Special Cable reports from London June 5 that German forces admit losing the sugar refinery at Souchez to French attack aided by heavy artillery. The German counterattack near Ablain failed as French forces, after initial withdrawal, regrouped with reinforcements and strong artillery support to regain the position.
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