American raids worry Germans says Pershing
Describes Allied actions in France with emphasis on June raids near Colmar, American troops repelling German assaults and the use of trench mortars. Notes German attempts at fraternizing, liquid fire failure, and signaling goodwill while raiding activity remains above normal in select sectors.
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Pershing
France
Verdun
U. S
Huns
Washington
Chateau Thierry
Bouresches
Triangle Farm
Marne
Colmar
Fourteen Destroyers to Launch on Independence Day
Washington reports fourteen destroyers will be launched from American yards on July 4. The ships, joined by eagle boats, will represent the navy's contribution to the Independence Day celebrations and set waterborne tonnage in the event.
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Navy
Washington
Americans Capture Vaugh Heights West of Village
Paris July 2. American troops seized Vaugh village and the rail station with heights to its west on the Main front. In the action they took more than 300 prisoners including five officers.
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Vaux Heights
Paris
Vaugh
Chatteau Thierry
Italians Take 2080 At Col Del Rosso Victory Report
Rome reports Italian forces carried Col del Rosso and defended Col di Chelo after a day of bitter fighting on the Asiago plateau. The army notes heavy enemy losses and captures, while Austrian sources admit retreat from Col del Rosso and Monte di Val Bella with artillery and posts secured by Italians.
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Rome
Asiago
Col del Rosso
Col di Chelo
Monte di Val Bella
Daone
Gludicaria
Meugna
Vienna
Austrian War Office
Forty dead as Ruff Drug building collapses in Sioux City
Sioux City July 2 Forty persons known killed and several injured when the Ruff Drug company building at Fourth and Douglass streets collapsed. Five persons still reported missing.
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Sioux City
lForty
Ruff Drug Company
Fourth
Douglass Streets
US Flyers Die in France in Aircraft Accidents
With the American Army in France three American airmen were killed in accidents. Lieut. FE. W. Maynor of Birmingham Alabama and his observer died when their aircraft, just after ascension, crashed to earth. Capt. EK. P. Nines of Niagara Falls New York was killed in a similar manner.
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France
FE. W. Maynor
Birmington
Ala
EK. P. Nines
Niagara Falls
Hospital Ship Mystery Amid Submarine Action
Canadian hospital ship HMNS Torpedo returns from Halifax with no wounded aboard while a separate report from New York notes the American steamship George L. Eaton, 2008 tons, sunk likely by a German submarine in European waters after leaving a U S port for France two weeks earlier.
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Halifax
U. S
New York
George L. Eaton
France
Llandovery Castle Sunk by German Submarine Near Fastnet
The British hospital ship Llandovery Castle, homeward from Canada with 258 aboard including 80 Canadian medical personnel and 14 nurses, was torpedoed by a German submarine 116 miles southwest of Fastnet on June 27. Only 24 survivors reached port as the rest were lost at sea. The Hague convention is noted but the attack is described as willful.
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London
Llandovery Castle
Fastnet
British Admiralty
Canada
Canadian Army Medical Corps
Glasgow
Union Castle Mail Steamship Service
Admiralty
Turkish Regular Troops Said to Burn Ta briz Hospital
Washington reports Turkish regular troops burned and looted the American hospital at Tabriz. The Spanish government confirmed the detail to the state department, which has filed a formal protest through Sweden. Further particulars are awaited from Spanish and Swedish channels.
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Washington
Tabriz
State Department
Sweden
United States
No Increase in Flour Price Amid New Wheat Figures
Chicago July 2 new wheat prices at 2.26 per bushel advance 6 cents not expected to raise flour costs. Howard R B Jackson head of the Chicago division of the United States grain corporation said 10.80 per barrel maximum under the new figures remains in line with past flour prices often reaching higher levels.
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Chicago
Howard RB
Jackson
United States Grain Corporation
Huns Gain Tiflis in Bold Move Across Caucasus
German troops occupy Tiflis the Caucasus capital as Austrian and German war prisoners organization begins in the region. A Bolshevik tribunal sentences Captain St. Chasing, former commander of the Baltic fleet, to death with execution due within 24 hours.
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Baltic
Tiflis
London
Caucasus
Moscow
St. Chasing
Reuter’s Limited
Allies Pierce German Lines North of Albert
British forces attack near Bouzincourt north of Albert and push the Germans from high ground southeast of the town. The offensive secures the new positions and surrounding high ground as reinforcement trenches. Paris reports French action on the Marne front south of Ourcq improving positions near Passy en Valois and the Aisne advances capture a German strong point near Ourry southwest of Soissons.
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France
Albert
Bouzincourt
Paris
Marne
Ourcq
Passy-en-Valois
Aisne
Ourry
Soissons
President Wins Power to Seize Telegraph and Radio Systems
Washington reports the House Interstate Commerce Committee favorably endorsed the Aswell resolution at President Wilson’s urging. Letters from Wilson Burleson Baker and Daniels urged authority to take over telegraph telephone cable and radio networks to prevent service suspension and guard military and government communications from the enemy. Action on the resolution was postponed to late today.
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Wilson
House Interstate Cominege Committee
House
Aswell
Burleson
Baker
Navy
Daniels
Sims
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