Leaders plan extra session to push fiscal rule
Leading Democrats in Congress back an October extra session to address treasury strain. Senate and House leaders Kern Kitchin and Lewis push for a quick fiscal measure, while the Senate considers a cloture rule to end filibusters and set voting dates.
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Senate
Claude Kitchin
North Carolina
House
Oscar W. Underwood
Congress
James Hamilton Lewis
Treasury
Ways and Means
Germany notes to Washington threaten ship safety in war zone
German government informs the American Embassy at Berlin it warns ships against entering the naval war zone and urges clear neutral markings including night illumination. The note outlines Berlin's opening demand to align facts in the Lusitania case before broader submarine policy talks and offers compensation for wrongful attacks.
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The
Commercial Tribune
Washington
Naval War Zone
State Department
Berlin
United States
Germany
Mexico
Congress
Wilson
Thomas
Colorado
Lusitania
Gerard
Great Britain
Cushing
North Sea
Scilly Islands
the Hague
Unrelenting Battle for Przemysl Dominates Front Lines
Bucharest reports Roumania seeking talks with Bulgaria as Turkey hints at ceding Adrianople. In Galicia, Austrians and Germans push toward Przemysl while Russian troops claim a victory at Sieniawa offsetting advances at Radymno and Gousskow. Russian officers warn German left flank risk and siege aims near Lemberg.
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Nicholas
Sieniawa
San
Galicia
Radymno
Gousskow
Lemberg
Vistula
Carpathians
Przemysl
French advance reported north of Arras in Ablain capture
Paris and Berlin reports state German aviators bombed St Omer Gravelines Dunkirk and Fismes while in the Arras sector French forces repelled a German counter attack and then seized Ablain St Nazaire capturing most of the town and then all houses.
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Commercial Tribune
London
Paris
Berlin
St. Omer
Gravelines
Calais
Dunkirk
Fismes
Marne
Rheims
Arras
Ablain
St. Nazaire
General Mackensen Seeks Przemysl Recapture from Russians
General Mackensen leads efforts to retake Przemysl as Russian forces hold the city. Allied and German troops coordinate assaults with support from artillery and infantry units.
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Przemysl
Galicia
Mackensen
Annual Meeting of Ohio Assembly Likely in Cincinnati
The General Assembly reunion for this summer is favored to be held in Cincinnati after a 45 to 31 House vote. A joint resolution created a six member committee to set time and place, with Pink, Gilmore, Wickline, Federman, Kramer and Whittemore named. Both chambers adjourned sine die at 11 30 p m.
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Pink
Cincinnati
Gilmore
Eaton
Wickline
Akron
Federman
Kramer
Mansfield
Whittemore
Senator Pink
House
Senate
Italian Push Advances Toward Trent and Triest
London dispatches report two Italian advance axes toward Trent and Triest with forces moving from the south and northwest. Italian troops hold newly gained ground north of the Gulf of Triest while Austro German resistance stiffens. A Swiss wire notes Italian artillery and mounted units pressing along the Chiez River and Idro Lake fronts, with Condino in Italian hands. Fires and bombings accompany raids on Venice and Ft Nicole as Austrian statements confirm.
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Triest
Eestern
Gulf of Triest
Geneva
Condino
Idro
Chiez
Tonale
Vermiglio
Trént
Goritz
Lake Idro
Storo
Riva
Thaon di Revel
Venice
Ft. Nicole
War Office
No bodies found in forward hold of submarine F 4
Honolulu May 29 No bodies of officers and crew of the U S submarine F 4 were found in the forward hold when a diver entered it yesterday Rear Admiral B T Moore announced the diver could not enter the middle hold Exploration of the interior was halted by Navy Department orders to bring the vessel into harbor for examination to determine the cause of the sinking on March 25.
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Honolulu
U. S
B. T. Moore
Navy Department
Red Cross appeals sent to governors for starving Mexicans
Reports of hunger in Mexico flood Red Cross HQ as appeals go to state governors. Messages urge aid of food and money, with gateways through Vera Cruz Brownsville Laredo Eagle Pass and Nogales. Officials weigh risk of Carranza or Villa interference while carloads of corn and beans head south toward Monterrey.
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RED Cross
Mexico
Vera Cruz
Galveston
Brownsville
Laredo
Eagle Pass
el Paso
Tex
Nogales
Arizona
United States
American Red Cross
Washington
Carranza
Villa
Monterey
H. W. Catlin
Mexico City
Cuba
Carranza Capital
British Bomb Throwers Reach Proficiency in Trenches
In a photogravure by Matania for the Commercial Tribune The New York Herald and The London Sphere soldiers are shown throwing bombs during a German trench assault. Three bomb types are depicted a metal headed finned device a brush like projectile and an oval egg shaped bomb with a palm held fuse. The men grow more dexterous with the missiles and increasingly disrupt enemy positions.
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The
Commercial Tribune
New York Herald
London Sphere
Sazonoff says separate peace with Russia impossible
Milan May 29 Russian Foreign Minister Sazonoff tells The Secolo that Austria and Germany sought a separate peace but allies remain united. He says the war will be long and hard until a lasting peace is reached. He praises Italy leaving Germany and Austria and urges good Balkan ties while warning against Adriatic entrenchment.
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M. Sazonoff
Italy
Germany
Austria
Balkans
Dalmatian
Russia
Adriatic
Venice
Pola
Aviona
Oberanto
Baltic
Black Sea
Atlantic
Turkey
Dardanelles
New Mask to Fight Asphyxiating Gases
Senator Giacomo Ciamician of Bologna University presents a gauze mask designed to neutralize gas effects to military authorities. Invented by Signora Bordoli, Bologna women are producing large quantities for the army.
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Bologna
Italy
Giacomo Ciamician
University of Bologna
Signora Branca
North Carolina Floated After Grounding Near Alexandria
The armored cruiser North Carolina grounded in the outer harbor of Alexandria Egypt but has been floated without damage. The incident was reported from Washington on May 29.
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Washington
North Carolina
Alexandria
Egypt
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