Cantigny Battle Annihilates German Division
American forces assault Cantigny reducing a 12,000 man German division to unusability for a month. Two regiments are nearly wiped out with counter attacks and heavy artillery. A carrier pigeon and a downed airplane yield intelligence aiding the French and Allied efforts. Continuous aerial activity and artillery bombardment plus rear-area pressure mark the engagement.
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France
Cantigny
Champagne
Dierman
Solassons
Montdidier
French Troops Fight Like Tigers In Battle
Berlin and London reports describe French forces in a brutal clash using grenades trench knives rifle butts and bryonels. A French body was found gripping a German officer while others lie among machine guns and hundreds of German dead. German accounts note French refusal to surrender and heroic combat described as tiger-like.
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London
Berlin
Pollue
Poiles
Mass murders blamed on Turkish advance spark protest
Washington reports a sharp protest by the Russian foreign affairs commissioner to the Berlin foreign office over mass murders in Caucasian districts. The protest accuses the German government of enabling Turkey to seize Ardaban Kars and Batum after Russian forces expelled the Turks.
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Washington
Berlin
De Palma Wins Tarkness Handicap at Sheepa Head Bay
The correction notes Ralph de Palma won the $30,000 100 mile Tarkness handicap at Sheepshead Bay speedway over Tom Milton, driving not a Packard. The American Automobile Association issued the correction Sunday after verifying the time.
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New York
Ralph de Palma
Sheepahead Bay Speedway
Tom Milton
American Automobile Association
Pledge Mooney Support Adopted by Independent Workmen
The Independent Workmen’s Circle in Springtiel Masa in convention adopted a resolution pledging moral and financial support to the movement seeking the acquittal of Thomas Mooney, who faces death in California.
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Mooney
Springtiel
Masa
Workmen's Circle
Thomas + Mooney
California
Tanning plant fire destroys Mouser plant in Noxen
A blaze early Sunday levelled the J. K. Mouser Tanning company plant near Noxen, controlled by Armour and Co. The loss is estimated at nearly 3000 dollars by the owners.
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Wilkes Barre
Pax
J. K. Mouser Tanning Company
Armour & Co
Noxen
Beets Bring High Price in Racine Area
Sugar beet buyers in Racine offer farmers $10 per ton this year with potential for higher prices. Factories push acreage expansion as growers consider boosting production for the sugar beet campaign.
Concrete Ships to Sail Seas Amid War Effort Tests
Concrete ships, including 3500 and 7500 ton hull plans, face rapid wartime testing. Washington engineers assert reinforced concrete ships are structurally sound, cost about two thirds of steel, and could reach 2.5 million tons by 1919 if begun now.
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Washington
Department of Concrete Construction
Emergency Fleet Corporation
New York Times
Bureau of Construction and Repair
Navy Department
Lloyds’ Registry
American Bureau of Shipping
Naval
Rudolph J. Wig
Government Bureau of Standards
Wig
Numsenfjord
Norway
Faith
San Francisco Shipbuilding Company
Namsenfjord
Boston
United States
San Francisco
Waith
United States backs oppressed peoples of Austria Hungary
The State Department publicly affirmed sympathy for the Czecho-Slovaks and Jugo-Slavs, signaling potential support for their national aspirations. A Rome congress resolutions urged unity among Italians, Poles, Rumanians, Czechs, and South Slavs, aiming for national self-determination and liberation from Austrian rule.
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Washington
Austria- Hungary
United States
State Department
Congress of Oppressed Tribes
Austria-Hungary
Rome
Austria
Italy
Adriatic Sea
Borah Seeks End to Profiteering in Congress
Senator Borah of Idaho demanded legislation to end profiteering. He introduced resolutions calling on government departments to prove profiteering charged by President Wilson in his revenue address to Congress.
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Washington
Senate
Borah
Idaho
Wilson
Congress
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J. Funacy
Pershing
Slames
de Palma
Crete
Steapter Faith Furst
America
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