Cordova Eyes Bold Bering River Coal Development
The Bering River coal field near Cordova is ready for immediate development after a lease to St. Elias Oil Company led by Falcon Joslin and George C. Hazelet. Ground includes Carbon creek holdings with premier coal veins and plans for a Mile 39 branch railroad to Cordova for bunkering and potential smelter.
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Bering River
Cordova
St. Elias Oil Company
Falcon Joslin
George C. Hazelet
Old English Company
Carbon Creek
Mile 39
Copper River & Northwestern Railway
Bering River coal venture moves toward development
A report confirms Joslin has secured a workable lease from the interior department for 2,560 acres on the Bering River coal grounds near Carbon Creek. The Bering River Coal Company will send 20 to 30 miners from Seattle to begin prospecting this summer with possible rail links to Cordova if commercial prospects justify it.
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St. Hlias Oil Company
Bering River
Daily Times Today
George C. Hazelet
Hazelet
Joslin
Interior Department
Bering River Coal Company
English Company
Carbon Creek
Seattle
Mile
Cordova
Copper River
Norwegian Ship Sunk Off Atlantic Coast
A submarine ninety miles off the Virginia capes sinks the Norwegian sailing ships Kringsjaa and Samoa. An American warship rescues the Kringsjaa crew and another schooner saves the Samoa crew. Total submarine-related victims in the western Atlantic rise to nineteen.
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Washington
Virginia Capes
Kringsjaa
Samoa
Atlantic
Explosions Hit Kiev Munitions Works Wind Back City
June 17 dispatch reports twelve large explosions and several smaller blasts at Kiev munitions plants on June 8. Shells rained over Kyiv as the Schernetz cathedral collapsed and homes burned. Bolshevik machinations blamed against Ukraine leadership.
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Amsterdam
Kiev
Schernetz
Ukraine
Draft extension to 18 45 years urged by Senate panel
Washington June 17 Chairman Chamberlain of the senate military affairs committee backed Provost Marshal General Crowder in extending the army draft to men aged 18 to 45 as part of the 12 billion dollar army appropriation bill. Chamberlain said many over 30 are idle and should be drafted.
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Washington
Chamberlain
Senate Committee On Military Affairs
Crowder
Oh Boys More Than Match for HM Soldiers
Reuters reports that American troops are more than a match for German soldiers. The dispatch says Americans resemble British Dominion forces, are tender to comrades, and avenge slain allies with no mercy for treachery or noncombatants.
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HM Soldiers
London
German Shock Troops Repulsed by Americans
Paris report says the third great offensive has been checked since June 11 as Germans failed to overwhelm French lines near Compiègne. In France the fight around Kivray in the Toul sector saw six hundred German troops repulsed after entering the village. Berlin confirms local German attacks north of Bethune and south of the Aisne failed with heavy losses.
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Paris
War Office
Marne
Compeigne
France
Kivray
Toul
Berlin
Bethune
The
Aisne
American hero Putman downed five enemy planes
Paris June 16 Sergeant David Putman of Brookline Mass is reported to have downed five German airplanes on June 10. Three victories are officially conceded and two are under investigation. If confirmed his total will be thirteen surpassing Lieut Frank Baylies as the American ace of aces.
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Paris
David Putman
Brookline
Mass
Putnam
Frank Baylies
New Bedford
Kaiser Praises Prussian Militarism in Telegram
Amsterdam June 17 Kaiser Wilhelm in a reply to Chancellor Von Hertling’s telegram on the thirtieth anniversary of his succession, declares Prussian militarism will win for Germany and that the German people are the most capable. He boasts of shattered Allied reserves and reports eighty five thousand prisoners and over a thousand guns captured.
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Amsterdam
Kaiser Wilhelm
von Hertling
Germany
Teutons
Bolshevik Red Guards Routed Near Taganrog
General Knowezer cables that about ten thousand Bolshevik red guards, led by Czechoslovaks, were nearly wiped out by German forces to the west of Taganrog on the Sea of Azov during the Ukraine campaign.
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Knowezer
Eichorn
Ukraine
Taganrog
Sea of
Azov
German minister denies Mexican submarine bases exist
Mexico City June 17 Heinrich Von Eckhardt German minister to Mexico rejects reports of a CERNMN SU base along the coast saying Germany would not violate Mexico's neutrality by keeping bases and asserting no bases are present along the shores.
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Mexico City
Heinrich von Eckhardt
Mexico
Mexican
Germany
American Troops Occupy Alsace Sectors
American forces in France announce occupation of sectors in Alsace, first entering positions on May 21. The move marks a new phase as Allied troops secure areas across the region.
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Alsace
France
60 Divisions Attack on the Italian Front
A heavy Austrian bombardment along the entire front from the sea to Adige is followed by infantry assaults. Vienna reports ten thousand prisoners taken as battles rage across the Piave and Asiago fronts with Austrians crossing the Piave and fighting throughout the line.
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London
Adige
Washington
Rome
Vienna
Brienza
Piave
Verona
Vicenza
Venice
Asiago
Brenta
Monte Grappa
Burning Crescent Abandoned at Sea Reaches San Francisco
Captain Olson wife and crew of schooner Crescent reach San Francisco in lifeboats after fifteen days adrift at sea following a fire on May 31. They had survived on their oars and a supply of food distributed by Mrs. Olson. The Crescent was en route from Australia to the port.
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San Francisco
T. Olson
Crescent
Doned
Wrecked Admiral Evans Floated Again
Seattle June 15 The steamship Evans was floated yesterday after repairs confirming it regained buoyancy and movement following its prior wreck.
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Admiral Evans
Seattle
Evans
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