Allies Hold Soissons Front as Germans Advance Warfront Update
London reports fierce German pressure along a thirty mile front from Soissons to Rheims with Soissons seized and Rheims threatened. German 25,000 prisoners taken and Cantigny gains by Americans noted while Allied troops contest further east in the Toul sector and gas shells reach Bremenil.
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London
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Rheims
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Paris
Compeigne
French War Office
Aisne Canal
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Louveigne
British commander photographed in France front line
From Underwood and Underwood comes the latest image of a top British military figure leading forces on the front in France during the ongoing great struggle.
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Underwood & Underwood
France
Leasowe Castle Sunk by Submarine in the Mediterranean
The transport ship Leasowe Castle was torpedoed and sunk by an enemy submarine in the Mediterranean on May 26, with 101 missing including thirteen military officers and seventy-nine soldiers. The vessel, 9,737 tons gross, was built in 1917 and owned by Union Castle Mail Steamship Company.
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London
Leasowe Castle
British Admiralty
Mediterranean
Birkenhead
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Loyalty keynote at Indiana Republican convention
Indiana Republicans nominate a state ticket and adopt a platform for November. United States Senator Harry S. New brands President Wilson as a partisan leader and urges support for the war with criticism of corruption and inefficiency. The convention praised wartime unity while backing checks on the administration.
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Associated Press
Indianapolis
Indiana
Will H. Hays
Republican National Committee
Republican Party
United Aos
Harry S. New
James E. Watson
James P. Goodrich
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Wilson
United States
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New
White House
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Congress
Creel
Abraham Lincoln
Weather News By Region Thick Showers Across States
Ohio will see thunder showers Thursday with cooler air Friday in the extreme south. Kentucky reports Friday partly cloudy and unsettled Thursday with showers in places. Indiana notes Thursday showers and unsettled Friday. West Virginia forecasts partly cloudy conditions with showers and cooler Thursday. Regional temps list highs and lows and precipitation like 78/70 in Jacksonvi ll and 84/90 in Chattanooga with scattered rainfall amounts. Cincinnati May 29 1918 record ends at 7 pm showing clear to cloudy transitions and wind shifts.
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Threaten Strike Of R. R. Shopmen On McAdoo Scale
Washington May 29. Mechanics and shopmen of the Rock Island and other railroads threaten a strike next Monday for higher wages than McAdoo's latest order. The railroad administration urged workers to stay on the job and said a wage board would hear the machinists' petition next week and rule soon. The message went to other labor groups nationwide as the board prepares to meet Monday to consider further wage scale modifications.
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Associated Press
Washington
Rock Island
McAdoo
Railroad Administration
Board On Railroad
Wage Board
Higher wage demands from men with eight hour day
Rock Island Illinois May 28. Workers demand wage increases from 55 to 75 cents an hour for an eight hour day and time and a half overtime.
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Rock Island, Ill
Coal Producers Pledge to Prioritize Output at National Convention
In Philadelphia on May 29 the National Coal Association vowed to subordinate all else to coal production. J. H. Wheelright of Baltimore was elected president with H. N. Taylor, G. H. Bakker, and T. H. Watkins as vice presidents. J. D. A. Morrow and J. J. Vierney became general secretary and treasurer respectively. They urged increased output to support the United States Fuel Administrator and aid national war aims.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
National Coal Association
United States Fuel Administrator
J. H. Wheelright
Baltimore
H. N. Taylor
Wheelright
United States Shipping Board
United States
Great
Volunteer Army
Explosion on Munition Train Kills and Destroys near Kazan
The Associated Press reports in Moscow that an explosion and fire on a munition train at Kazan station in the Nolga region caused multiple deaths and injuries and 30 million rubles in damage. The blaze spread to nearby houses, destroying seven warehouses and 350 railway cars loaded with merchandise.
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Associated Press
Moscow
Kazan
Nolga
Detroit Mayor asks McAdoo to run street cars
Detroit Mayor Oscar B. Marx announced he would request Director General McAdoo to take over the Detroit United Railway as a war measure. He plans to delegate traction operation to the local Street Railway Commission after a fare dispute with the company and a note about recalling eight for a quarter workingmen's tickets.
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Associated Press
Detroit
Mich
Oscar B. Marx
McAdoo
Detroit United Railway
Street Railway Commission
Second Degree Murder Verdict for Miss Lusk
Grace Lusk was found guilty of second degree murder in the killing of Mary Newman Roberts in Waukesha Wisconsin. The jury sentenced her to fourteen to twenty-five years in the penitentiary. She collapsed and attacked prosecutor D S Tullar when the verdict was read, then fainted and sought help from her father and counsel.
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Associated Press
Waukesha
Wis
Grace Lusk
Mary Newman Roberts
Miss Lusk
D. S. Tullar
Tullar
Begging for Chance to Go and Fight Wood Plea in House
May 29 in Washington Representative McKenzie of Illinois urged Major General Leonard Wood be sent to France. He called the request one of the war’s most inspiring displays as the veteran stood at the White House door begging for a chance to go and fight.
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Associated Press
Washington
Leonard Wood
France
Representative McKenzie
Illinois
White House
Plot for Destruction of Navies Oil Source Tip to Officials
Washington reports new German plans to destroy the Tampico oil wells supplying American and British fleets. An attack was expected tomorrow, with authorities counting on Mexican protection as oil taxes fund much of the government.
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Associated Press
Washington
Tampicool
State Department
Arkansas Primaries Renominations Verified in Primary
Reports from Little Rock confirm U S Senator J T Rob ingson Governor C H Brough and seven Arkansas Congressmen all won renomination in Tuesday's Democratic primary.
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Little Rock
Ark
United States
J. T. Robingson
C. H. Brough
Arkansas
American Forces Repel Gas Attack In France
In the Luneville sector May 29 the enemy launched a heavy gas assault against American troops and attempted to breach the line at three points. The attack was repulsed with heavy losses as Americans wearing gas masks and using machine guns repelled the assault.
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Luneville
President appeals for thrift and essential purchases for war
President Wilson urges Americans to buy only essential goods to conserve materials and labor for the war effort. He calls for a nationwide thrift movement, pledges to invest in Liberty Bonds and War Savings, and asks all to act by June 28 National Thrift Day by joining war savings societies.
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Associated Press
Washington
Wilson
Treasury Department
Nationalistic Aims of Oppressed Races Favored by Lansing
Washington reports Secretary Lansing voiced earnest sympathy for the Czecho Slovakia and Jugo-Slav movements. He cited Rome April congress resolutions calling for own nationality and state unity and a common struggle against German domination, with another Paris session planned in June.
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Associated Press
Washington
United States
Lansing
Austria- Hungary
Rome
Congress
Austria-Hungary
Paris
Fighting Tells of Allied Retreat on Chemin des Dames Front
An Associated Press report from May 29 describes heavy German assaults on French lines with tanks light and heavy artillery and massed infantry. Allied forces fall back across rivers as German forces push toward Juvincourt Berry au Bac and the Chemin des Dames.
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Ville Aux Bois
Pontavert
Berry Au Bac
Chemin Des Dames
Endi Py Road
Chavignon
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