Allied cargo ships bring 18 transports to France safely
The United States announced that 18 large transports carrying thousands of officers soldiers and supplies arrived safely in French ports protected by a convoy. The ships including the Leviathan formerly the Vaterland crossed the Atlantic uneventfully amid wartime secrecy.
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Washington
War Department
America
France
Navy Department
United States
Baker
Germany
Austria
Europe
Leviathan
Vaterland
Hamburg-American Line
Finland Cannot Be Responsible for Swedish Lives Amid Finnish Revolution
Stockholm reports a Finnish delegation seeking Swedish military aid, while White Guards have pushed south, disarming Russians and seizing machine guns. The Finnish government says it cannot be responsible for Swedish subjects. rumors of a Swedish minister fleeing are denied as southern Finland falls to red guards and a general strike expands in Helsinki.
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Stockholm
Helsingfors
Sweden
Finland
Jacobstadt
Vass
Copenhagen
Kullerno Manner
Viborg
T Helsingfors
Senate
Tammerfors
Red Guards
Fed
Peck directs plant shifts to speed war production
George N. Peck, a leading industrial expert, assigns and oversees wartime factory changes. In weeks, his work shows as factories switch to producing essential components for munition assembly, boosting output and adapting plants to government needs.
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George N. Peck
Munilion
Wilson predicts 1918 will decide war outcome
President Wilson states in a letter to the Urbana Farmers Conference that the war's result will be determined this year, signaling grave stakes for 1918.
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Wilson
Washington
Farmers’ Conference
Urbana
Strikes Spread Across German Cities Amid Siege Declarations
Copenhagen reports indicate German strikes expanding with Hamburg Alterna and Wandsbeck under siege.
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Copenhagen
Hamburg
Alterna
Wandsbeck
Threat to U S Envoy Over BerkmanLinked Draft Fight
An ultimatum issued by Helsingfors sailors and workers threatens to hold U S ambassador Francis personally responsible for the life and liberty of Alexander Berkman jailed over draft law opposition. Washington and Petrograd dispatches confirm the threat amid uncertainty over possible action. Berkman, a known Russia revolutionary figure, faces immediate jail after a Supreme Court mandate.
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Petrograd
Alexander Berkman
David R. Francis
Helsingfors
United States
Berkman
Fima Goldman
Washington
Francis
Braneis
Cern
Russia
Supreme Court
Secretary Baker seeks harsher penalties for two army doctors
The war department urged stiffer punishment than dismissal for two army medical officers convicted by courts martial for mistreating sick soldiers. First Lieut. John G. Dwyer at Camp Funston and First Lieut. Charles W. Cole at Camp Beauregard face reconsidered sentences. Baker asked Senator Chamberlain for names of officers charged in letters to be investigated.
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Washington
War Department
Army
Baker
John G. Dwyer
Camp Funston
Charles W. Cole
Camp Beauregard
Chamberlain
Berlin Strikers Demand Peace and Talks With Officials
Berlin labor unrest grows with 500000 on strike and a workmen's council pressing for negotiations in the presence of workers. The call seeks rapid peace talks, abolition of siege rules, democracy, and release of political prisoners as industry slows across Prussia. An Indianapolis millers convention plans discussion on meeting government requirements for mills.
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Sanders Wekerle
Doctor Wekerle
London
Berlin
Volitiken
Copenhagen
Action Commission
Hugo Haase
Philipp Scheidemann
George Ledebour
Willian Dittinaon
Friederich Ebert
Herr Braun
Rwaerts
Socialist
Vienna
Ameterdam
Exchange
Aurich
Vorwaerts
Indianapolis
Co-operative Millers of America
Mayors Attend Funeral for Two American Red Cross Volunteers
Italian authorities report two American Red Cross volunteers William Platt and Richard Cutts Fairfield killed at Mestre by bombs during a raid. Both had arrived at a Red Cross hospital on a motorcycle and drove toward danger to aid victims, perishing as they reached the scene. Funeral rites drew officials, soldiers, and civilians, with flags and flowers on 35 coffins.
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Italy
Red Cross
Mestre
William Platt
Richard Cutts Fairfield
Pennsylvania
New York
Wynne-Bevan
Sted Cross
Platt
Fairfield
American Red Cross
Major Bowell
American Red Crass
Thwaites
B. Harvey, Carroll, Jr
Venice
Pratt
Ned Cross
Mestre Hospital
Italians Take Col del Rosso and Monte di Val Bella in Alpine Push
The war office announced Italian forces took more than 2,600 prisoners in attacks on Austrian lines on the Asia plateau. Six guns and 100 machine guns were captured, with heavy Austrian losses and renewed Italian advances on Col del Rosso and Monte di Val Bella on the mountain front.
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Rome
Jun
Asia
War Office
Col del Rosso
Monte di Val Bella
Berlin
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Herr Haase
Interior
Vorwnergs
U. S. Red Cross Corps
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