London worries over fresh reports on Russian upheaval
Dispatches from Copenhagen claim Bolshevik rule in Moscow fell to Korniloff and Kaledines with Grand Duke Nicholas proclaimed emperor. Reports note German aid and inconsistent Berlin rhetoric while rumors of Kerensky and Nicholas Romanoff’s fates swirl amid cautious London reception.
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London
Copenhagen
Moscow
Korniloff
Kaledines
Nicholas
Berlin Tages Zeitung
Kerensky
Russia
Germany
Nicholas Romanoff
Yekaterinburg
Washington Plans to Aid Russia Rehabilitation Action
The United States outlines informal aid to Russia via American business leaders rather than a diplomatic mission. A selected group of experts will advise on economic and transportation conditions, with police protection but no military force. US licenses exports to Russia and provides tonnage for shipments to Siberian ports for interior distribution.
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Associated Press
Washington
Russia
Wilson
America
Germany
United States
Siberian
Weather Summary for Ohio Kentucky Indiana and West Virginia
Weather notes forecast fair conditions in Ohio Kentucky and Indiana with warmer temperatures. West Virginia expected fair Saturday with showers in the north Sunday partly cloudy. Temperature records at Cincinnati Chicago Winnipeg Memphis and other stations show varying high marks and cloud cover.
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Ohio
Kentucky
Indiana
West Virginia
Montreal
Omaha
Atlanta
Denver
Nashville
San Francisco
Chicago
Winnipeg
Memphis
Cincinnati
Prisoners to Be Discussed Between U S and Germany
Washington reports Germany has accepted an August 5 conference in Berne with an American delegation on the exchange and treatment of prisoners of war. The talks will consider pay for officers held in each country and Germany’s pending replies to prior U S notes. No American delegation members are named yet.
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Associated Press
Washington
Germany
United States
Berne
Switzerland
State Department
Berlin
Inventor Advised to Sell to Germany Sparks Citizenship Case
Pittsburg federal officials arrested Henry S. Bubenheim, head of a truck and tie maker, on a suit to revoke his naturalization. The petition accuses him of directing a Pittsburg inventor to deliver a gas bomb to the German Consul General in Mexico and of seeking fabrication of a steel artillery truck for shipment to Germany. If citizenship is revoked he faces internment as an enemy alien.
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Ciated Press
Pittsburg
Henry S. Bubenheim
United States
E. Lowry Humes
Daniel W. Horn
Bubenheim
Mexico
Carbon Steel Company
Germany
Interne Ernest K Roscher Ordered to Fort Oglethorpe
Federal agents in Cleveland report Washington orders to intern Ernest K Roscher a former German naval lieutenant and marine architect detained since June 13 on a Presidential warrant. He allegedly threatened to return to Germany to fight for the Kaiser and disparaged the United States. He will be sent to Fort Oglethorpe Georgia for internment during the war.
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Cleveland
Washingtonn
Ernest K. Roscher
Roscher
Germany
United States
Ft. Oglethorpe
Von Kuehlmann resigns as Foreign Secretary in Paris
Zurich dispatch to The Journal reports Dr. von Kuehlmann offered his resignation as Foreign Secretary in Paris on Wednesday. It notes the Emperor is believed to accept the move and hints at a potential cabinet change.
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Paris
von Kuehlmann
Zurich
Charity fakes alleged in New York brace thefts of millions
Detectives from Assistant District Attorney Kilroe's office raided the Alien Women and Children's Relief Committee and its connections to The American Liberal. Investigators cited two sets of books showing misused funds and unaccounted money. Grand jury findings accuse many charities of defrauding the public of 2 to 3 million dollars in New York City over the past year, with fifty fifty and hundred percent schemes exposed as part of a broad crackdown.
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Associated Press
New York
Kilroe
Wwomen'” ‘and Children’s Relief Committee
American Liberal
Roberto O. Weller
Frederick Schraeder
New York City
Special County Grand Jury
Swann
Grand
Fall's draft age proposal voted down in Senate
The Senate defeated an immediate extension of draft age from 21 to 31 as proposed by Senator Fall of New Mexico. The vote clears the way for passage of the broader army appropriation bill while approving amendments on aircraft production, draft quotas based on Class 1, neutrals and citizenship, and related war measures.
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Shipping Board
Emergency Fleet Corporation
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Hitchcock
Nebraska
State Department
Hardwick
Georgia
Weeks
Massachusetts
Brandegee
Connecticut
Germany suppresses war causes memoirs in official dispatch
An official Paris dispatch from Berne reports German efforts to halt printable memoirs of Prince Lichnowsky and statements by Krupp director Muehlen. It states pamphlets on the war’s causes are bought up by German agents and that the texts disturb Berlin, with the Kaiser’s recent speech confirming the arguments.
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Prince Lichnowsky
Muehlen
Krupp Works
Germany
Paris
Berne
Switzerland
Lichnowsky
War Drives Up Production Costs, Daily Commercial Tribune Notes
In the Daily Commercial Tribune, editors warn that war conditions increase production costs and ripple through goods and services. The piece frames rising expenses as a broad economic pressure affecting industries and consumers alike.
Army Officers Promoted by Wilson In Major and Brigadier Ranks
President Wilson sent to the Senate nominations for eight Major Generals and forty-three Brigadier Generals to fill vacancies in the national army. The selections, led by General Pershing, emphasize merit over seniority with most officers serving in France. Notably, two National Guard Colonels Cornelius Vanderbilt and Douglas MacArthur are named Brigadier Generals.
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Washington
Wilson
Senate
National Army
France
General Pershing
General March
Pershing
National Guard
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Douglas MacArthur
Mason M. Patrick
Edward M. Lewis
William J. Snow
William R. Smith
Peter E. Traub
William S. Graves
James G. Harbord
Charles P. Summerall
Charles C. Walcutt, Jr
Edward R. Christian
Edwin B. Winans
William P. Jackson
Samuel D. Rockenbach
Meriwether L. Walker
Otho B. Rosenbaum
Edward L. King
Wilson B. Burtt
Harold C. Fiske
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Charles A. Hédekin
James J. Morrow
George G. Saffarans
Hanson E. Bly
Charles W. Kutz
Francis Lej. Farber
Merch B. Stewart
Albert J. Bowley
John E. Stephens
Oliver L. Spaulding, Jr
Ewing E. Booth
Richard C. Marshall
Clean Sweep by West Coast Shipyards Honors
Washington June 28 The Emergency Fleet Corporation awarded first honors to Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation Union plant San Francisco for steel ships and Grant Smith Porter Company St Johns Ore for wooden vessels. Second and third honors for steel ships went to Skinner Eddy Seattle and Moore Shipbuilding Oakland. Wooden ship honors went to Grant Smith Porter Aberdeen Wash and Allen Shipbuilding Seattle.
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Pacific
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Union
San Francisco
Grant-Smith-Porter Company
St. Johns
Ore
Skinner & Eddy © Corporation
Seattle
Wash
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Allen Shipbuilding Company
British Atlantian Sunk by German Torpedo
Private advices report the British steamship Atlantian torpedoed and sunk with no casualties. The Leyland Line 9,399 ton vessel sailed from Gulf Port on May 28. the date and voyage of the sinking remain unknown.
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Gulf
Atlantian
Europe
Leyland Line
Aviators Die In Plane Crash In Mount Clemens
Lieutenant Raymond Templeton of Pendleton Oregon and Private Edgar Sawyer of Hartford Connecticut, both of the 830th Aero Squadron, U S Army, were killed when their craft went into a tail spin and crashed about 150 feet to the ground at Mount Clemens Michigan. The machine caught fire and both bodies were badly damaged.
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Associated Press
MT. Clembpws
Mich
Raymond Templeton
Pendleton
Ore
Edgar Sawyer
Hartford, Conn
830Th Aero Squadron
Panamanian Cities Put Under U S Policing Control
Secretary Baker orders Major General Blatchford to take over policing of Panama and Colon to preserve order after Panama delays elections due to vice conditions. The move follows a 1904 treaty provision allowing U S intervention if Panama cannot maintain public order amid unrest and a boycott by American authorities.
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Washington
Baker
Blatchford
Department of Panama
Panama
Colon
State Department
Panama Canal
The
Republic
United States
British Forces Penetrate Austro Hungarian Lines on Asiago
On the Asiago Plateau British troops penetrated Austro Hungarian trenches and took prisoners. Italian fronts saw brisk fighting from reconnoitering parties, with moderate artillery activity and clashes near Monte Corno and south of Sasso Rosso as recorded by the Italian War Office.
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Rome
Asiago
Italian War Office
Monte Corno
Sasso Rosso
Australian Forces Press Toward Own Hook and Capture
Paris dispatch reports enemy planes attacking Paris with few bombs and no casualties. The alarm sounded at 11 39 p.m. and the all clear followed at 12 30 a.m. The narrative notes German morale lacking punch and Saxons and Prussians unsettled by a hurricane assault in the first stage.
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Associated Press
Paris
Plate Becque
British Advance on Nieppe Front in France Fronts
British and Australian forces reported a successful operation east of the Nieppe forest on a three and a half mile front advancing about a mile in depth. More than 300 prisoners and 22 machine guns were taken while hamlets including l Epionette Verte Rue and La Becque were captured. West of Morris Australian troops seized posts with 43 prisoners and six machine guns.
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London
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France
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