Germans Fall Back as Piave Front Holds in Italy
Paris dispatch reports two thirds of German submarines launched are sunk, with Navy official claiming Germans destroy twice as many as built. Italian front notes renewed Austrian offensive near Losson Fossalta repulsed, with first phase failing and second phase expected. Mountain front preparations hint at renewed attack and German aid suspected. An Italian officer earned prisoners and a forefinger loss after leading a battalion. In shell-plowed hinterlands, residents remain calm amid the fighting.
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Associated Press
Paris
Navy
Rome
Losson
Fossalta
Piave
Caporetto
Germany
Italy
Ships to celebrate Glorious 4th with new afloat
Washington reports a record July 4 launch of 89 ships totaling 439 886 dead weight tons with eight more hulls due, aiming to exceed prewar U S production and May’s peak. Among steel hulls are the William Penn and Challenger, plus three 11 800 ton sisters Independence Victorious and Defiance.
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Associated Press
Washington
United States
The
Shipping Board
William Penn
Challenger
Independence
Victorious
Defiance
Lake Pearl
Tragedy at Hammond Circus Train Wreck
Survivors of the Hagenbeck-Wallace show train wreck gathered at the Hammond grounds seeking news of friends and relatives. Firemen fought flames with little water as two companies arrived, and prisoner Charles Dollmer registered survivors from the ticket wagon.
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Hammond
Charles Dollmer
Calamity near Gary halts Hagenbeck Wallace circus deaths rise to sixty one
The Hagenbeck-Wallace circus train collision near Gary Indiana kills sixty one, with eight more bodies found and a circus troupe member dying in hospital. Dozens more are injured and identification of remains continues as authorities work through the wreckage.
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Gary
Ind
Associated Press
Hammond
Weather Forecast Central United States and Region Temperatures
The bulletin reports fair and warmer conditions for Ohio Indiana and Kentucky West Virginia with gradual temperature rises. It lists current and forecast highs across many cities including Boston Omaha New Orleans Denver Pittsburgh San Francisco Chicago Los Angeles Memphis San Diego Cincinnati with temperatures and precipitation. A June 22 1918 record for Cincinnati shows temperatures and wind at nine pm and noon with cloudy and clear conditions and historical comparisons to 1915 1916 and 1917.
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Ohio
Indiana
Kentucky
West Virginia
Boston
Omaha
New Orleans
Denver
Pittebure
San Francisco
Chicago
Los Angeles
Memphis
San Diego
Cincinnati
N.W
Germans Warn Yank Troops Are Bad Boys
An early war item notes tensions as German authorities warn American troops of misconduct. The report highlights German reactions to Allied presence and suggests potential friction between occupying forces and local civilians.
French Front Notes Abandonment and Desertions Amid Marne Action
A German deserter who surrendered to American lines near the Marne says German troops fear the American soldiers as “bad boys” and that conditions in German positions worsen. He reports many of his comrades would desert when possible. There has been machine gun and rifle fire and intermittent artillery in Belleau Wood as Americans press nests. The front near the Marne remains quiet otherwise. The Twenty-eighth German Division has been relieved by the Eighty-seventh, a second-rate unit compared to the former.
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Montello
Grappa
Budapest
Vienna
Austria-Hungary
Amsterdam
Charles
Austria
Belleau
Marne
Ludendorff Can't Stay Food Crisis
In Vienna amid strict censorship rumors spread as outbreaks among the populace continue to feed concern. Authorities struggle to state a clear course amid shortages and public fear.
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Ludendorff
Vienna
New Freight Rates Set To Go Into Effect
Advanced freight rates ordered by Director General McAdoo will take effect Tuesday with a 25 percent average rise on general class and commodity rates. Local revisions will follow via regional and district committees, the ICC, and state utilities officials.
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Washington
McAdoo
Th Railroad Administration
Regonal
Interstate Commerce Commission
State Utilities Commissioners
Railroad Administration
Mane
Mississippi
Ohio and
Potomac Rivers
Eastern Freight Traffic Committee
Liberty Street
New York
Western Freight Traffic Committee
Transportation Building
Chicago
Southern Freight Traffic Committee
Atlanta
Fireman fled after circus train wreck near Gary
Emil Krauss locomotive fireman on the troop train fled the scene after colliding with a circus train near Gary. He was arrested in Michigan City at the Lake County Coroner's request and will testify in Gary. Engineer Al Sargent departed Kalamazoo. authorities may arrest him on arrival. Krauss described going unconscious as the impact approached.
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AsSociated Press
Michigan City
Ind
Emil Krauss
Gary
Lake County
al Sargent
Sargeant
Kalamazoo
Mich
Hammond
Krauss
Prison Camp List Names Prof. Emery Among Seven Americans
The German War Ministry, via the Spanish Embassy in Berlin, released a list of seven Americans held in German prison camps, including economist Prof. Henry C. Emery, former Tariff Commission chair, captured at Aland Islands and last heard in a Lauenburg hotel. Emery is held at Tuchel camp.
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Associated Press
Washington
War Department
German War Ministry
Berlin
Henry C. Emery
United States Tariff Commission
Aland Islands
Emery
Liberty
Lauenburg
Pomerania
State Department
Germany
Villingen
John S. Abbott
Dayton Avenue
St. Paul
Minn
Lagincourt
Robert H. Jeffery
Uniontown
Abraham Straus
West Ninety-third Street
New York City
Lempire
Brandenburg
David Johnson
Marcus Hook
Philadelphia
Atlantic Sun
Irish Sea
Darmstadt
Sidney Kinch
Oxford
England
Verdun
Bayreuth
Hector E. Rolman
Minot
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Tuchel
Russians plead for US intervention in Russia
A broad coalition of Russians in London urges President Wilson to intervene in Russia, either economically or militarily. The catechism letter, signed by diplomats, party officials, and Kerensky-era figures, argues allied troops should enter Russia to counter German influence and restore a recognized Russian state.
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Associated Press
London
Russia
Wilson
Washington
Constantine Nabokoff
M. Stachovich
Spain
Ariadne Tirkova
The
Constitutional Democratic Party
James Govronsky
Kedrow
Germanius
N. N. Nordmann
Kerensky
Germany
Brest-Litovsk
New Sugar Restrictions Tighten Rationing Across Industry
Washington reports tighter sugar controls take effect July 1 under Food Administrator Hoover. Home consumption to run a three pound per capita monthly ration while many manufacturers face 50 percent of normal sugar use. Ice cream soda fountain and various confectionery operations scaled back amid shipping, submarine, and Cuban import declines.
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Hoover
Ises
Cuba
California
American Troops Exceed 900000 as War Fronts Shift
Washington reports Rome confirms Austrian setback in Italy and Gen March announces US troop movements to France have surpassed 900000, five months ahead of schedule. He notes continued German setbacks and predicts future heavy blows as troops concentrate for an anticipated new Western push.
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Washington
Rome
Italy
General March
France
War Department
Men
United States
Cambrai-St. Quentin
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