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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1918
Page
2
Report from Lorraine states batteries carried out effective reprisals and neutralization fire. spokesperson says there is nothing else of importance to report.
American forces in domestic camps are being retrained for open warfare as allied generals push toward final defeat of Germany. Division commanders were ordered to stress long marches, continuous target practice, and self-reliance for mobile combat, signaling a shift from trench tactics to flexible warfare ahead of France.
In six air combats today five miles northwest of Toul American pilots destroyed an enemy photographing biplane after a brief engagement. The aircraft crashed in woods inside the German lines, ending the hostilities.
The report notes French front consolidation and large reserves, warning that big losses are entailed by such operations. It suggests a delayed, patient approach and anticipates a renewed offensive with a surprise for enemies at the right time.
Berlin reports the front unchanged with artillery activity and local engagements. It claims earthworks and trenches near Pontoise and in the Savieres region, plus air losses totaling 46 enemy planes and four captive balloons, and 55 000 prisoners since May 27 including over 1 500 officers.
June 6 report says German attack near Locre in France repulsed though they briefly seized Locre Hospice southeast of the village. Fierce fighting left the hospice in German hands at one point before they fell back under heavy machine gun and artillery fire. Ground changed hands repeatedly in recent weeks around Mont Rouge.
British air force reports heavy long distance bombing on Metz Sablons triangle and Thionville rail facilities with five tons and Coblenz station targeted. Weather allowed extensive reconnaissance. twenty tons dropped on dumps and rail yards including Armentieres Roye Zeebrugge base. Seven enemy aircraft and three observation balloons downed. three German planes driven off.
Survivors of a ship sunk by U boat reach an Atlantic port as radio signals from the raiders are detected but unreadable. Officials debate whether one or multiple submarines are operating and if a tender vessel accompanies them for supplies and fuel.
The Evening Standard reports official May figures show 398 German planes shot down by British airmen and 100 driven down out of control, with seven observation balloons destroyed. 20 planes fell to anti aircraft fire. Four allied bomb machines are missing after night raids on stations at St Quentin Boesinghe Cambrai and Armentieres.
War Office reports French and American troops advanced about one kilometer between the Ourecq and the Marne near Veuilly-la-Poterie with 270 German prisoners taken. Allied forces also checked attacks near Champalat and retook ground near St Euphraise, while June 5 air raids and bombing targeted German depots and stations. Eastern theater saw artillery actions from Lake Doiran to Cerna with British bombers striking depots west of Doiran.
Paris reports the French War Council convened at the Elysee Palace with President Poincare presiding. The gathering aims to discuss wartime strategy and national security measures.
The War Office reports livelier artillery fire at intervals along the Brenta and Piave fronts. Elsewhere fighting activity consisted of harassing bombardment and patrol actions.
London June 6 four German generals retired on half pay according to The Berlin Kreuz Zeitung. The officers named are von Kehler von Helchow Bromers and von Wurob.
The secretary proposes funding one third of the fiscal year 1919 expenditures of 12.5 to 13 billion dollars by taxation and urges a high rate real war profits tax layered over the excess profits tax. He also calls for amendments to the excess profits tax to remove inequities and a substantial rise in the normal income tax on unearned incomes.
Secretary McAdoo proposes a 12 percent earned income tax plus an 8 percent excess profits tax, with higher rates on unearned income and heavy taxation on luxuries. He argues for taxing realized profits, not just rates, to curb war profiteering and support Liberty bond sales, while avoiding higher bond yields.
Washington June 6 Director General McAdoo was directed by a Senate resolution to inform the Senate on contemplated action to assume control of the stockyards and railroad terminals as part of the Railroad Administration. The measure, by Senator Norris Nebraska, seeks to learn what legislation may be needed and whether yard ownership ties to national control of packing industries.
Senate leaders fromIllinois and Massachusetts clash over naval readiness as Brandegee's editorial criticizes Navy warnings. Baker seeks 16 million for sixteen balloon and airplane stations along Atlantic and Gulf coasts to counter submarine and air attacks. Roosevelt says a radio warning to shipping went out over a week ago but details of information flow are unclear.
Angered residents in Ponce stone German homes after news that the Porto Rico liner Carolina was sunk by a German submarine. Officials urge calm and pledge action against anti allied speech. U S District Attorney urges support for Red Cross as a war measure. Names of dead aboard the Carolina were not released by noon.
Paris reports news of German submarine activity off the New Jersey coast was withheld until today by the censor. The Temps notes public calm, calls censorship childish and says Germany's war at sea has shifted to distant waters under Entente gains. The Navy Dept foresees defense measures across the Atlantic.
A British steamer reports exchanging shots with a submarine about forty miles off the Delaware Capes on June 4. The ship refused to stop, fired first, and the U boat replied with several shots. The captain says they believe they scored a hit.
Washington June 6 Food Administrator Hoover says prohibition should be through legislation not agency power. President Wilson's letter to Senator Sheppard opposes using grain control to ban beer and wine. He warns against coercing the executive and notes whisky stocks may rise if brewing is halted. Hoover favors full prohibition. Senate debate follows.
In letters from German civilians to front line soldiers, Cologne bombing is described with roof damage and a downed enemy plane. Reports from Euskirchen and Wesseling note alarms and social disruption on Corpus Christi. Essen escape and ongoing air activity are mentioned with somber questions about end to the trouble.
The next day the vessel hailed a steamer bound for an American port and transferred the submarine victims to her ship.
A steamer carrying survivors from the Isabel B. Wiley and the Hattie Dunn reached New York on Tuesday. The vessel had earlier reported both schooners sunk off a Cuban port, and the rescued crew members were aboard the steamer plus others from the two ships.
The Brazos, sister ship of the Carolina sunk by a German submarine last Sunday, has arrived at a Porto Rican port. The New York and Porto Rico Steamship Company reports the vessel carried 200 passengers and passed through the Uboat patrol zone. Sixteen lives were lost in the prior sinking.
Bryce argues Irish Nationalists see British authority as arbitrary while centuries of conflict sharpen Ireland’s nationalism. He says both nations must understand each other to form genuine friendship. He notes English voters support home rule and fear Sinn Féin rhetoric but seek prosperity under a home rule Parliament.
The tank steamer Herbert L. Pratt arrived in Philadelphia on June 6 after striking a mine near the Delaware Breakwater. In tow by two tugs, naval officers and sailors oversaw the salvage with few visible signs of the explosion on deck.
A Cuban port dispatch says at 5 PM Sunday nineteen people were picked up about thirty eight miles south of New York after two American schooners were sunk by gunfire from a German submarine. They were aboard a small gasoline launch.
The passage argues that Ireland should, of its own accord, join the effort against Germany to vindicate the principles of liberty and nationality on which Ireland bases its own claims. It frames Ireland's involvement as a moral alignment with shared aims of freedom.
The speaker argues the war is a fight for right and humanity, benefiting Ireland as well as Europe. He urges Parliament to enact a strong home rule scheme without delay and calls Ireland to align with Britain, America, and France against German tyranny.
Deaths include Miles C Burdsal at 1508 Race Street and Rosa Doller in her fifty sixth year. Albert Henderson Caffee services at Fernbank Avenue. Herman H Klusman obituary at 3621 Michigan Avenue. Louisa Miller funeral Saturday at 10:30 am Crematory. Henry G Meyer dies at 1545 Dixmont Avenue. Archie Peters funeral details referenced.
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