German Agents Are Souelched In Dual Indictments
Five American citizens and two German subjects including a woman are named as conspirators in two indictments for treason and espionage. The charges cover assembling and transmitting war information, aiding German operations in Ireland, destroying docks and munitions, and financing the plots. Names include Jeremiah A. O’Leary, Madame Maria de Victorica, Carl Rodiger, Willard J. Robinson, John T. Ryan, Albert Paul Fricke, Emil Kipper, Rudolf Binder, and Hugo Schweitzer. Several pleaded not guilty. O’Leary and Ryan remained at large.
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Associated Press
New York
America
Germany
Ireland
Great Britain
Gram
Olten
Switzerland
Jeremiah A. O'Leary
Sinn
Carl Rodiger
Willard J. Robinson
Sinn Fein
John T. Ryan
Buffalo
N. Y
Albert Paul Fricke
Mt. Vernon
Palmer
Emil Kipper
New York City
Rudolf Binder
Hugo Schweitzer
Trial May Connect Irish With Germans
Washington June 7 The Department of Justice expects disclosure of evidence showing plots between German agents and Irish agitators in the United States to promote rebellion in Ireland in connection with a trial.
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Associated Press
Washington
United States
Ireland
Department of Justice
Weather Overview For Ohio Indiana And Nearby Regions
The bulletin reports fair conditions for Ohio Indiana and surrounding states with warm spells expected Sunday. It lists current temperatures highs and precipitation at multiple stations including Seattle Portland Pittsburg Cincinnati Chicago Denver Spokane and more with readings around the mid 60s to high 80s and notes cloudy periods. A June 7 1918 posting shows a 7 pm reading of 69 degrees wind NW and 12 mph with cloudy conditions and a noon reading of 74 degrees 63 percent humidity and a north wind.
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Enteent
Seattle
Jacksonville
Iain
Portland
Pittsburg
France
Chattanooga
Winniper
Chicago
Kamloops
St. Louis
Phoenix
Denver
Ineine
Spokane
Cincinnati
Navy Up to Snuff and After the Devils
Washington June 7 Senator Tillman the committee chairman read a letter from Secretary Daniels stating everything is being done. Tillman told panic stricken citizens the navy is up to snuff and will pursue the devils at sea and sink them if possible.
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Associated Press
Washington
Tillman
Daniels
Nineteen crewmen of Vinland land after submarine sinking
Ninteen members of the Vinland crew, Swedes and Norwegians, were landed at Capes May Point after the Norwegian steamship was sunk by a German submarine 65 miles off the Virginia Capes. They were taken to Wissahickon Naval Barracks Hospital Sewell’s Point and later guarded. Two dogs they rode ashore with were left behind.
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Associated Press
Cape May
N. J
Vinland
Porto Rico
Atlantic
Capes May Point
Virginia Capes
Wissahickon Naval Barracks
Sewell's Point
Cape
Cape May Point
Coast Guard
Sewell’s~ Point
Huns Oppose Turks Ideas in Black Sea Caucasus
Amsterdam report notes the Kreuz Zeitung argues Crimea and Tauriolia belong to Ukraine and warns against Turkish domination in the Black Sea. It says Germany must oppose Turkish aims in the northeast and east to avoid a postwar anti German coalition and preserve Russia ties.
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Associated Press
Amsterdam
Black Sea Littoral
Caucasus
Kreuz Zeitung
Berlin
Crimea
Turkey
Ukraine
Tauriolia
Sebastopol
Black Sea
Russia
trans-Caucasia
Germany
Persia
Japan Denies China Army Domination Claim
Tokyo officials rejected a Shanghai Gazette report that a Japan China military pact granted Tokyo control over Chinese forces finances railways mines and more. The paper alleged provisions would place Chinese expeditionary forces under Japanese command and grant broad privileges in Mongolia Manchuria and other areas. Japanese Embassy officials in Washington denied new sovereignty infringements.
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Associated Press
TOKIO
Japan
Shanghai Gazette
Eugene Chen
Peking Gazette
The
Gazette
Peking
Shanghai
Siberia
China
Inner Mongolia
Manchuria
Washington
Pro-German Ousted in Savannah County Reorganization
Savannah Georgia June 7 Henry E F Dreeson chairman of the County Board of Tax Equalizers was asked by the County Commissioners to resign today due to pro German sentiments in the aftermath of the war.
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Associated Press
Savannah, Ga
Henry EF. Dreeson
County Board of Tax Equalizers
Crisis in Siberia as Seminoff fronts collapse
Reports from Harbin and Washington say General Seminoff, anti Bolshevik Siberian commander, is departing the trans Baikalia front amid dissensions and may flee into Mongolia. Bolshevik forces press their advance toward Mongolian lines while Austro German troops threaten his communications.
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Associated Press
Shanghai
Seminoff
Trans- Baikaria Front
Harbin
Mon
Manchuria
Siberia
Onion River
trans-Bakalia
Washington
Japan
China
Siberian
trans-Baikaria
Mongolia
Quion River
Amur
Karmskia
Vladivostok
Pacific
Lake Baikal
Dissolution of German American Alliance Shocks Berlin
A June 7 dispatch notes the voluntary dissolution of the National German American Alliance announced in Philadelphia on April 11. German papers rail at German Americans for not backing cultural goals, with The Lokal Anzeiger critiquing emigrants as lacking the “commodity” of Kultur and exposing disillusionment with imagined loyalties.
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Associated Press
Amsterdam
National
Philadelphia
Lokal Anzeiger
Berlin
Police to Begin Crusade Against War Idlers
Toledo News reports Safety Director Christopher Wall announced a police crusade against war time idlers and non essential workers. The effort targets fortune tellers penny arcade workers gamblers amateur athletes with no other job drug addicts and pool room loungers to aid in loading ships.
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Toledo
Christopher Wall
Ground Gained by American Troops Near Chateau Thierry
United States forces push frontline about six miles with heavy fighting northwest of Chateau Thierry as 300 German prisoners are taken. Marines lead assaults. Corporal assumes command in Torey. civilians cheer as ambulances carry wounded through Paris road corridor. Germans reportedly discouraged about Paris reach.
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Lansing
United States
Germany
Foint
War Department
Red Cross
No Man's Land
Russia
Paris
Chateau
Thierry
Bouresches
Torey
Joan B. Flocken
Olney
Ilk
Paris Road
le Thiolet
Madison Girman
Evansville
Ind
Tourcy
Berlin
Physician's Order To Buy Wheat Flour Issued
Dallas June 7 Wheat flour issued today by S D Hanley local Food Administration on a physician's prescription for a patient with pernicious anemia The order covered the sale of twelve pounds of flour as relief for medical need in Texas after two months of voluntary wheat restriction
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Dallas
Tex
S. D
Hanley
Lloyd George Praises American Valor in London Dinner
Premier David Lloyd George lauded American troops for superb valor and trained skill in the war, praising their role in the Allied effort. He warned that failure would bring a dark fate for civilization and urged steadfast support as the crisis continues.
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Associated Press
London
David Lloyd George
Printers’ Society of London
Continus
Lloyd George
Definite Plan to Curtail Less Essential Industries
Fuel Administrator Garfield to receive a definite program from the Fuel Administration within a week detailing curtailment of less essential industries. P B Noyes works on restricting coal delivery 25 to 75 percent for nonwar or nonessential lines, with priorities used to enforce the plan through government needs.
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War Industries Board
The
Fuel Administration
Garfield
P. B. Noyes
Conservation
Noyes
War Insurance Board
Baruch
Council of National Defense
Council
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Ohio
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Swanson
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Gen
Golia
Hunts
von Rintelen
Kaiser
Franz Rintelen
State Department
Rintelen
Siegfried Paul London
Leipsig
Court of Common Pleas
Warsaw
Chateau Thierry
Aisne
Picardy
Carl B. Mills
Visalia
Weuilly Wood
Yanks
Yankees
J. L. Replogle
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