French Drive Gains a Mile in Arras Sector
Paris reports French forces attacked west of Antheuil on a front near Montdidier and Oise, penetrating German lines and advancing up to a mile at points. Four hundred fifty prisoners, including 14 officers, were taken. British raids east of Arras yielded few prisoners as the Allies press nibbling tactics while German drills for a new drive proceed.
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Paris
Antheuil
Montfidier
Oise
War Office
Loges
Long Pont
Retz
Montdidier
River Oise
Ferme Porte
Ferme Des Loges
Aisne
Chavigny Farm
Chateau Thierry
Champagne
Marquises
Butte Chouain
Haig
London
Arras
Somme
Front War Report Quiet For U S Troops
General Pershing's communique notes no major actions in sectors held by American forces with brief artillery exchanges in Picardy from July 4 to 5. In the Marne sector German air activity is cited as the most significant feature of the period.
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Washington
Pershing
Picardy
L’alval Wood
Fontaine Wood
Grivesnes
Marne
John MacArthur
Wilmington
Del
France
MacArthur
Yale
DuPont Powder Company
Austro-Hungarian Army Suffers Massive Desertions
An official report from Paris dated July 10 cites over 800000 Austro-Hungarian soldiers deserting since the war began. About 150000, mostly Czechs, surrendered to Russians, Serbians, Romanians and Italians. nearly 150000 Hungarians escaped via Romania between 1914 and 1916. Doctor Ugren notes non-Magyars or non-Germans desert when facing the enemy, despite disciplinary efforts.
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Paris
Temesvar
Roumania
Ugren
British planes strike Zeebrugge harbor raid outcome
London reports that four German torpedo boats and four destroyers in Zeebrugge harbor were attacked by British aircraft in ongoing Belgium raids. Six German planes were downed, and a dramatic dogfight saw three British seaplanes engage seven German planes with two German aircraft destroyed.
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Zeebrugge Harbor
London
Zeebrugge
Belgium
Admiralty
Allies Gain In Albania With Capture Of Fieri
The war office said Allied forces advance along the Adriatic coast. Italian infantry captured the town of Fieri and gained key heights with British monitor support. More than 1,300 prisoners were taken in the advance.
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Rome
Albania
War Office
Adriatic
Fieri
Worcester flyer Lieutenant Hobbs Killed in Action
Lieut Warren T Hobbs of Worcester a member of the American aviation corps was killed by German anti aircraft fire on June 26 He was twenty two years old and a noted athlete He held the worlds record for the 50 yard hurdles set at the Meadowbrook indoor track meet in March 1917 His time was 6 5 seconds.
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Worcester
Mass
Warren T. Hobbs
American Aviation Corps
Hobbs
Meadowbrook
Czechs Take Nikolsk in Yugoslav War Region Action
Vladivostok reports that Czech forces defeated Red Guards and freed six hundred prisoners at Nikolsk eighty miles northwest of Vladivostok. They captured the town along with armored trains as Bolsheviki threaten alliances with Germany if Anglo-Japanese action occurs.
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Vladivostok
Red Guards
Nikolsk
British Advance on Flanders Front Near Merris
British forces on the Flanders front carried out a successful operation near Merris northeast of Nieppe wood, advancing their line a considerable distance and taking prisoners. German bombardments targeted newly won positions in the Marne salient, while local attacks on Villers Bretonneaux were repulsed.
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Merris
Nieppe Wood
Marne
Austria rejects German generalissimo for Italian front
Rome reports Austria refuses to accept a German general to direct operations on the Italian front, as advices arrive from the scene.
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Austria
Rome
Train Collision Near Nashville Kills Dozens
A head on crash between Nashville Chattanooga and St. Louis trains west of Nashville, seven miles away, leaves about 100 dead or injured, with many victims in a single coach. Engineer and firemen died. cause unclear after orders allegedly disregarded. Lieutenant Don Long of the aviation service is seriously injured and trapped for hours.
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Don Long
Illinois
Nashville
Tenn
Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis
Here
Aviation Service of
Three Victims Named In Through Train Tragedy
A through train derailment left three men dead on the lap of a passenger and two days of coaches and sleepers remaining on the track. The deceased are Private John P Hussey Uhlian Ir Wilson B Harris naval reserves and Alexander United States marine corps.
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John P. Hussey
Uhlian
Wilson B. Harris
Naval
Alexander
United States Marine Corps
Four More Columbia Dead in Illinois River Disaster
Peoria Illinois July 10 four more bodies pulled from the Illinois river raise the Columbia steamer death toll to 84 with eight to fifteen still missing. The recovered include Harry Brown Pekin Jerry Chiollis Pekin George Schuster Kingston and Rudolph Poehel Pekin aged fourteen. Pekin residents held 22 funerals for victims as the state attorney planned an exhaustive independent inquiry into the sinking.
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Peoria
Ill
Illinois River
Columbia
Harry Brown
Pekin
Jerry Chiollis
George Schuster
Kingston
Rudolph Poehel
Tazewell
Senate panel favors resolution on wartime communications seizure
Washington reports the senate commerce committee approved by seven to eight votes a favorable report on the house resolution authorizing the president to seize telegraph, telephone, cable and radio networks during the war without additional hearings.
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Washington
Senate Commerce Committee
House
Crop forecast marks vast 1918 yields for corn and tobacco
The July crop forecast from the Agriculture Department projects a record corn harvest of 3.16 billion bushels, with smaller acreage than last year. Wheat totals are slightly down from June but remain above 1916, while rice, flax, tobacco, and potatoes show strong prospects and acreage figures for each crop.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Vienna admits Albania loss
Vienna reports continued entente pressure against Austrian lines in Albania with forces crossing the Vogusa River. French gains along the upper Devoli are noted and fighting persists in the interior southwest of Berä.
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Vienna
Albania
Vogusa
War Office
Devoli
Bera
Italy Revenue Rises by 895 Million Ure in Year End
Rome reports that Italian revenues for the year ending June 30 exceeded the prior year by 895,000,000 Ure equal to about 170,000,000 dollars, according to the finance ministry.
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Italy
Rome
Finance Ministry
Czech Forces Advance in Siberia and Russia War Fronts
Dispatches report Czecho-Slovak troops disarming Bolshevik forces at Vladivostok and advancing to Nikolayevsk and Kerensky aide arrests in Moscow. Tokyo notes Czechs clash with Red guards near Nikolayevsk, with Japan fortifying a potential Siberian front. Reports also cite German-origin dispatches of a Moscow siege and Czech gains near Syzran and Mosslim.
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Vladivostok
Nikolayevsk
Kerensky
Moscow
Russia
Vidivostok
Irkutsk
Samara
Supreme War Council
Versailles
France
England
Italy
Foch
Japan
Siberia
Wilson
Shanghai
Nikol Iversk
Amur
Paris
Count von Mirbach
Paria
M.tseretalli
Interior
M. Tehernoff
Agriculture
M. Skobeleff
Savinkoff
Tokyo
Havarovsk
Red Guards
Japanese War Office
Holyshevik
Amsterdam
Syzran
Mosslim
Berlin
Volga River
Nijni- Novgorod
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Chemin Des Dames
Soissons
Reims
U. S
Lieut
W. T. Hobbs
Massachusetts
Germany
Vention
Flanders
Flanders Front
Villers Bretonneaux
Nashville, Tenn
Bill
W. H. Workman
W. OH. Workman
Vntaget
Handley-Page Company
Imnglafid
United States War Department
Atlantic
White House
Viscount Ishii
Ishii
United States
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