Sinking of President Lincoln details heroic survival
Navy department releases full story of the May 31 sinking of the army transport President Lincoln after torpedo hits. Of 716 men aboard 3 officers and 23 enlisted were lost. remaining crew and passengers were saved by discipline and swift abandonment of ship. Survivors include paralyzed soldiers and sick cared for by comrades.
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Washington
Lincoln
Navy Department
President Lincoln
Australians Advance on Somme Front in Latest Action
Australian troops report advancing their line astride the Somme on a 3000 yard front and taking several prisoners in renewed fighting between the lines.
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Somme
London
Desperate Lifeboat Rescue by Night
Survivors clung to lanterns amid darkness as destroyers arrived to aid. A blazing beacon and a distant white light guided rescue ships through the night. By two in the morning all survivors were aboard and the operation concluded.
Executions of three negro soldiers at Camp Dodge
Three black soldiers, convicted by court martial of assaulting a 17 year old white girl on the cantonment grounds May 24, were hanged at Camp Dodge Iowa with nearly the whole division as witnesses. Also reported is the death of speed boat pilot John Milot in Detroit. Milot had formerly raced dirt trackers and piloted Miss Detroit I in 1915 over the Detroit river course.
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Foote
Camp Dodge
Iowa
Detroit
Mich
John Milot
Detroit River
Doctor Breckenridge Bayne Held as German Prisoner
Dr Breckenridge Payne a Washington society figure is a prisoner in Germany for refusing to abandon wounded soldiers as his hospital unit retired under enemy assault He served as a field physician with the British Red Cross and reportedly continues to treat allied prisoners who are wounded and captured by the Germans
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Breckenridge Payne
Washington
Germany
Red Cross
Bayne
Yanks Win in Vosges Raid Nets Prisoners and Guns
American troops in the Vosges raided German lines at night and took prisoners. British forces on the Amiens front struck east of Hamel and captured prisoners and machine guns. The German war office reported strong American and French attacks west of Chateau Thierry, continuing into Saturday night.
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London
Vosges
French War Office
Villers- Cotterets
Aisne
Marne
Amiens
Hamel
War Office
Berlin
Chateau Thierry
Senate Committee Approves National Dry Bill
Washington July 8 The Senate committee approves the National Bone Dry Bill.
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Senate
Washington
German Flyer Falls Into Sea Off Jutland Coast
An official Copenhagen dispatch reports a German air plane from a four craft squadron lost off the western coast of Jutland. The aircraft was seen from shore to fall while the crew were aboard. Substantial details about the fate of the crew remain unavailable.
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Washington
Jutland
Copenhagen
Mitchel Falls From Plane at Gerstner Field
Maj John Purroy Mitchel former New York mayor and aviation officer in the signal corps was killed when his single seater scout plane fell from about 600 feet at Gerstner field Lake Charles at 7 30 am after roughly 30 minutes aloft. Mitchel, who had run unsuccessfully for re election last fall, had served one term as New York Citys chief executive and would have turned nine next June 19.
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Lake Charles
John Purroy Mitchel
New York
Signal Corps
Gerstner Field
Mitchel
Army
Movie Actors Exempt From Draft, Says Washington
A Washington report states that moving picture actors and other performers are exempt from the draft under orders from Provost Marshal Crowder. Draft exemptions include musicians and other skilled workers employed in production, ensuring they are not diverted from their engaged roles.
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Crovost
Muarshel Crowder
Creithon
71 Identified Dead From Sunken River Steamer Columbia
Final body count from the Columbia disaster lists 71 identified and seven unidentified dead. Among identified victims are residents from Pekin Kingston Mines Bloomington Worth and Lancaster Landing with names including Letha Black Mayme Bohlander Louise Behrends Jennie Brown James Blackburn George Gillott Al bert Grewry Cora Haschert Mildred Harbolt Mayme Holden and many others. Unidentified remains include a woman aged 22 to 25 a baby boy and five other bodies.
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Columbia
Letha Black
John Brown
Kingston Mines
Mayme Bohlander
Louise Behrends
Jennie Brown
Reka Brown
James Blackburn
William Capoot
Frank Callahan
Norman Diepenbrock
Martha Diepenbrock
Melvin Diepenbrock
Jessie Evans
Louisville, Jr
Maurice Feinberg
William Freeland
Vera Flowers
Gordon Gray
George Gillott
Francis Grewry
Jennie Grewry
Albert H. Grewry
J Gun
Henri
Italy launches 55,000-ton merchant ships this year
London reports Italy has launched 55,000 tons of merchant ships this year. Officials note 23 steamers totaling 166,000 tons are under construction, in addition to 71,000 tons of steel vessels and 16,838 tons of wooden steamers.
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London
Iitaly
Knights of Columbus Lay Corner Stone in England
The corner stone of the first Knights of Columbus clubhouse in England was laid in Westminster cathedral churchyard on Sunday. Cardinal Bourne blessed the stone during the ceremony in London on July 8.
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London
Knights of Columbus
England
Westminster Cathedral
Cardinal Bourne
YANKS FILING LINE UPDATES AND DRAFT REJECTION PROTESTS
Washington reports 251000 American troops in Europe in July and notes flag display on the front. General Merch and war council members told Senate military committee of protest over June draft rejections. Protests spread as Provost Marshall General Crowder signals renewed concern over Camp Grant draft handling.
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Europe
Merch
War Council
Senate Military Committee
W. H. Pleinow
W.h.cowder
Camp Grant
Crowder
Ehipew
Gump
Grant
U-Boat Off U S Coast Report From Bermuda Voyage
Bermuda editor Henry P. Short aboard a British liner from Bermuda reports German U boats near the Virginia capes. He says women traveled on the voyage since the Carolina sinking and describes a brief sighting of a periscope and a ship's gun firing at a submarine before it disappeared.
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Atlantic
Virginia Capes
Bermuda
Henry P. Short
Carolina
I ’ Marine
Red Cross Base Attacked by German Forces
Irregular wartime report states a Red Cross base near a hospital was attacked by German forces. Allied ambulance crews and staff from Priladeptive aid work with Hoduy and Janes to tend French wounded as the German impact caused damage and a cryo tag remained visible on a nearby balding plate.
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Hudy
Janes
Grist
Lenine Mourns Mirbach Death After Moscow Ambassadorship Kill
Dispatches describe the assassination of Count von Mirbach the German ambassador at Moscow by two unknown men. Lenine sends condolences and supports a revolutionary tribunal while pledging protection for German citizens. Reports from Basel and Copenhagen detail reactions among Russian and German officials and the tense atmosphere on the Murman coast amid Arctic war supply movements.
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M. Techiteherin
M. Karakhan
Herr Ritzler
Alexander F. Kerensky
M. Kerensky
Cabinet Quits As Whitemen Minister Resigns
The Whitemen net reports the outgoing minister resigned. The cabinet position was reportedly forced on April 2 this year amid political turmoil.
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