Enemy On Piave Holds, Austrian Assault Slows on Front
AP summary reports Austrian pressure between Lake Garda and the Adriatic weakening while fighting along the Piave from Monteto to the sea continues. Since Sunday Austrians held in check on the Piave with no gains on the mountain front, losing hundreds of prisoners as Teutonic allies lose fighting spirit. Haig reports a small British raid repulsed near Bethune and Hebuterne. American forces in France launch gas from projectors, bomb railway stations, and attack toward Chateau Thierry, Belleau Wood, and Remieres woods with limited German resistance and withdrawals.
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Revolt Among Kiev Peasants Breaks Out
An intercepted Moscow wireless message reports a large peasant revolt at Kiev with artillery stores blown up and continuous fighting. The unrest is spreading to Poltava and Tchernigoy districts, with about forty thousand armed peasants taking part.
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Japan Won't Intervene in Russian Affair Says AP
TOKYO JUNE 20 Japanese officials tell the Associated Press that direct Japanese intervention in Russia is unlikely unless the United States backs the move. Britain France and Italy are said to favor intervention while Japan reserves the right to act alone if its interests are directly menaced.
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Crowds in German cities clamoring for peace
Heavily censored messages from Stockholm report peace demonstrations in Berlin Hamburg and Cologne with workmen killed and many arrested. Police and soldiers dispersed demonstrators as riots erupted in Vienna over bread ration cuts prompting calls for martial law.
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Stockholm
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Austria-Hungary
Germany
Hungary
Submarine warfare praised as unable to cope
Berlin Tageblatt naval critic Captain Perseus effectively concedes German submarines struggle amid rising Allied defenses. An American steamship reports a submarine chase two hundred miles south of Sandy Hook. British operations seal Bruges docks, trapping destroyers submarines and auxiliaries. German craft face constant bombing.
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Polish Regiment Enters War On Allied Side
Paris June 20 The first Polish regiment fights under the Polish flag and enters the trenches opposite the Germans. It received its battle flag and joins the allies as General Archinald notes this as a reply to Germany. The legion is formed from Poles in America Germany and Poland.
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Hoover to visit England as U S food administrator
Herbert A. Hoover, United States food administrator, will visit England in a few weeks and be the guest of the British nation. He urges Americans to declare support for the Allies and contribute to victory through food conservation and neighborly service.
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London
Herbert A. Hoover
United States
England
Bill Passed To Bar Sale Or Charter Of American Ships
Washington June 20. The house approved a bill prohibiting sale or charter of American vessels or sale of ship mortgages to foreigners without the United States Shipping Board consent. Aimed at preventing foreigners from acquiring American tonnage for postwar trade. Seattle fish market prices at noon: halibut 15½c, sablefish 8c, ling and red cod 4c.
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Seattle
AFL Seeks New Trial for Mooney in San Francisco
In St Paul June 20 the American Federation of Labor in annual session passed a resolution urging President Wilson to obtain a new trial for Thomas J Mooney who sits under death sentence in San Francisco for alleged involvement in the preparedness parade dynamite outrage The federation urged action and called for concrete service to America.
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Thomas J. Mooney
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San Francisco
American Aviators Start for the Italian Front
The first escadrille of American aviators trained in Italy has begun moving to the Italian front to join the action. Reports from Rome and Italian headquarters say Italian forces repel Austrian advances along the Piave and have gained air superiority.
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Washington
Italy
Western Union Agents Arrested by Government
In Washington on June 20 officers arrested several Western Union traveling agents on trains between Boston New York Philadelphia and Washington and seized sacks of messages filed for transfer. The action follows alleged violations of postal laws prohibiting non postal personnel from traffic communications over post roads. Authorities note Western Union recently locked out its union operators and may have used mail for messages.
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Western Union
Boston
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Philadelphia
Western Union Telegraph Company
Alaska railroad chief plans 1918 Anchorage Seward link
William Edes chairman of the Alaskan engineering commission said he hopes to complete the Anchorage Seward section of the government railway in 1918. He will inspect the Interior end at Fairbanks and plans inland extension as far as possible, noting no connection to Anchorage Fairbanks this year.
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Alaska Government Railway
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Edes
Fairbanks
Anchorage-Seward
Anchorage
Harding Named Acting Alaska Food Administrator
Federal Food Administrator Hoover appointed L L Harding as acting Alaska food administrator, succeeding the late R A Gunnison. Harding has served as executive secretary of the Alaska food administration.
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Hoover
L. L. Harding
Alaska
R. A. Gunnison
Harding
Alaska Food Administration
General Greene Ordered to Report at Capital
Washington dispatch reports Major General H A Greene, commander at Camp Lewis, ordered to report at the capital. Brigadier General Frederick S Folz will assume temporary command of the camp. No explanation for the orders is given. Those who are not for America are against her.
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