New German Thrust Stalls on Paris Front
The German offensive in the Mondidier to Noyon sector pushed about twenty miles along the front and gained depth up to two and a half miles at some points. French resistance and American repulses halted the advance with heavy German losses. A Fifth Grenadier Guards division was identified by the Americans, and the entire American force in the Marne battle is expected to be decorated by France.
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Paris
Mondidier
Noyon
War Office
Marne
Fifth Grenadier Guards
Serbia ripe for allied aid plan to restore order
Washington discusses a proposed Allied intervention in Serbia as armies advance. Economic missions would accompany troops to stabilize the country. President Wilson hesitates amid State Department insistence on Russia procedures and War Department support for a single front policy.
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Washington
Serbia
Wilson
War Departments
State Department
Russia
War Department
France
Pinar Del Rio Sunk by German Submarine Off Maryland
The American steamer Pinar Del Rio was sunk seventy miles off Maryland. One lifeboat with the captain and 17 crew members is missing, another with 16 men has landed on the Virginia coast. The freighter of 2504 gross tons, built in 1805 as Saba, was bought by an American firm and placed under American register. It is believed to have operated along the coast or in the West Indian trade.
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Washington
Maryland
Virginia
South Shields
England
Utah Legislature Considers Special Session in July
Letters from legislators across Utah indicate a special session is likely in early July to discuss ratification of the national prohibition amendment and granting suffrage to soldiers in the field. The move follows widespread support among lawmakers statewide.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Huns Grab Russ Ammunition Amid Revolt Claims
John W. Cloverer, munitions maker of Nijny Novgorod, says German forces captured or were sold Husshane munitions by Trutsian soldiers during the revolution. He arrived here Sunday to report the situation.
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San PrancivOe
Mtr
Husshane
John W. Clovlaer
Nijny Novgorod
Suncay
Bolsheviki Issue Manifesto Urging War Against Country
Moscow correspondent telegraphs May 1 that Bolsheviki commissioners have issued a manifesto calling the people to war against the country. Transmission delays caused by telegraph errors reported.
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Bolsheviki
Hevolt
Londone-Heuter
Moscow
U S Warns Germany Over Retaliation Threats
The United States warned Germany that mistreatment of Americans in reprisal for the imprisonment of bomb plotter Frang Rintelen would invite swift U S retaliation. Secretary Lansing rejected a German note proposing exchange of Rintelen for Siegfrid Landon and urged Germany to avoid reprisals that would provoke U S action.
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Washington
Frang Rintelen
United States
Germany
State Department
Berlin
Rintelen
Siegfried Paul Landon
Vinland Sunk by German Submarine Off Cape May
Nineteen Vinland survivors, crew members mostly Swedes and Norwegians, were landed at Cape May by a torpedo boat destroyer on its trial voyage. They were taken to Wissahickon barracks hospital. The sinking occurred Friday morning in fog and squalls forty six miles off Cape May. Vinland carried sugar northbound.
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Cape May
Vinland
Wissahickon Barracks
Allied cabinet plan to pool war supplies approved
London reports the British government has approved a scheme for an allied cabinet to unite decisions on food and raw material needs. The plan aims to streamline supply and ensure coordinated wartime resources.
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London
Daily Mall
Salesmen to Do Their Bit for War Information
Chicago reports the Association of National Advertisers plans a nationwide corps of 200 000 traveling salesmen as news bearers to counter German trade influence and spread information.
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Chicago
The
Coutry
Association of National Advertisers
Marines Break German Lines Near Chateau Thierry In Big Push
U S Marines with French support regain critical ground northwest of Chateau Thierry and take prisoners as they press Germans with new divisions required. The assault includes hand to hand fighting and captured machine guns, with reports of fierce action near Torcy and Veullly as American troops sweep German positions.
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Paris
U. S
Chateau Thierry
No Man’s Lawd
Veullly
Torcy
Quouring the Sea for Hund-Boats
Naval report says enemy submarines operated off the U S coast on June 4 The French steamer Radioleine was saved from destruction by an American destroyer sixty five miles off Maryland coast The coast schooner Edward R Baird Jr was sunk after bombing in the same area Seven other vessels have been sunk by raiders as patrols close in to pursue the raiders The destroyer and two survivors from the Baird are still searching for the enemy off Wilmington Delaware
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Washington
Radioleine
Maryland
Edward R. Baird, Jr
Navy Department
Daniels
Baird
Wilmington
Del
Prince Lichnowsky Arrives in Switzerland After Memoran dum News
German ambassador at London when the war began has reached Zurich Switzerland amid threats of prosecution over his published memorandum which argued for Austro German responsibility in the conflict.
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Lichnowsky
Switzerland
Zurich
Prince Lichnowsky
London
Draftees Fail on Brain Test Under New Psychiatrists
Chicago reports twenty thousand drafted men rejected after brain tests by a new corps of psychiatrists. The disclosure came as two psychiatrists spoke at the American Medico-Physiological Association convention on Thursday.
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Chicago
Navy to Maintain Coastwise Convoy System Through War
The navy department will continue coastwise convoys until war’s end or until submarine danger subsides. Secretary Daniels says vigilance remains while subs operate and that all overseas ships are adequately protected. Antisubmarine gun supply rises as arming coastwise shipping is considered.
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Washington
Navy Department
Department
Atlantic
Navy
Daniels
Daniela
Give Lives for Country Washington War Casualties Report
Casualties among American expeditionary forces total 7315 as of June 9 per General Pershing and the War Department. Deaths in action and from wounds, disease, and other causes are 2027, with 4005 wounded and 342 missing, including prisoners in Germany.
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Washington
Pershing
War Department
Germany
Pershing Directs Fighting at Cantigny Victory
General Pershing personally directed the fighting of American troops at Cantigny where German forces were driven off and 2000 prisoners taken. The village was seized May 28 and subsequent German attempts to recapture it have failed.
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Washington
Pershing
Cantigny
Senate Military Committee
War Department
Seaplanes clash off Dutch coast amid night battle
Tuesday evening a dogfight occurred off the Dutch coast involving five British and seven German seaplanes of the largest type. The clash left one German aircraft in flames and one British plane forced to descend but recover landed safely.
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Hague
Handelsblad
Eclipse Draws Noted Astronomers to Green River Event
The Green River gathering on June 9 attracted famous observers such as Frost Hale Barnard Bilerman Parkhurst Anderson and others to view a remarkable solar eclipse and record its spectacle for science.
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Green River
Green Rier
Russian Soviet abolishes diplomatic titles in new practice
Swedish reports to the state department state that the Russian dyoviet republic has abolished all titles of ambassadors and ministers. Both domestic and foreign representatives are now called representative plenipotentiaries without distinction.
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Washington
State Department
Dyoviet Republic
King Bestows Honors on Sixty War Leaders in London
London report states sixty leaders in war work are made knights of the new British Empire order as part of the king's birthday honors.
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London
Order of the
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