FOE BEATEN ON AISNE FRONT IN ENLARGED POSITIONS EAST OF RETZ
Allied forces report French and Australian gains on the Western Front. Australian troops penetrated German lines near Ocris, taking prisoners and machine guns. French troops captured Corey including its railway station and seized the chateau and the farm of St Paul to the south. British operations south of the Somme improved positions east of Villers-Bretonneux. German artillery and air activity increased along the Lys and Somme fronts, with ongoing shelling of Morlancourt.
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Chateau
St. Paul
Retz Forest
Haig
London
Ocris
Paris
Corey
Soissons
War Office
Corey J
Cchateau
Thhe
Retz
Somme
Villers-Bretonneux
Amiens
Flanders Battle
Lys Salient
Hazebrouck
Flanders
Locre
Lys Battle Ground
Picardy
Morlancourt
Aisne
Corcy
Longpont
Villers-Cotter
White Soldier Is Hanged At Camp MacArthur
Nat Hoffman a white soldier was hanged at Camp MacArthur after being convicted by court martial of attacking a school girl last April. The 25 year old from Pittsburgh had his sentence affirmed by Washington. He confessed he deserved his fate after the assault in a wooded spot near the camp.
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Waco
Tex
Nat Hoffman
Camp MacArthur
Washington
Hoffman
Pittsburgh
Soo
Army Medic Is Punished for Neglect That Led to Soldier’s Death
Lieut. Joseph C. Robinson of the medical reserve corps was dismissed from the army and sentenced to one year of hard labor imprisonment. The case stemmed from Wardell C. Van Tassel’s death at Camp Dix New Jersey last January after a careless diagnosis and failure to provide proper medical relief.
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Washington
Joseph C. Robinson
Medical Reserve Corps
Army
War Department
Robinson
Wardell C. van Tassel
Camp Dix
N. J
van Tassel
Bolsheviks claim major Czech forces setback in Volga region
A Moscow sourced wireless report says Bolshevik forces advanced against the Czecho-Slovak army in the Volga area with substantial gains. Czech troops retreat in Siberia while Bolshevik counter offensives push toward Stavropol Yaroslav and Rybinsk amid shelling of White guard towns. Detachments fled to Rybinsk and attempted a mutiny.
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London
Volga
Moscow
Siberia
Department of Military Operations
People's Commissariat of War
Syzran
Simbirsk
Bugulma
Ufa
Samara
Stavropol
Cisecaucasia
Yaroslav
Rybinsk
West_Siberlen
Columbia Floats To Pekin After River Wreck
Peoria Illinois July 12 the steamer Columbia wrecked in the Illinois river last Saturday with over 600 aboard rose from the river yesterday afternoon and floated near Pekin where 85 citizens died in the disaster. Coroner Clary Sheriff Wilson and 15 workers were aboard as the vessel surfaced and two more bodies were recovered. Authorities planned to inspect the wreck to learn the cause with a theory that a snag held the hull until current action released it.
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Peoria
Columbia
Tllinois
Pekin
Clary
Wilson
Tazewell County
Farmer Held on Espionage Charge in Iowa
Cedar Rapids Iowa July 12 William Stout a Belle Plaine farmer is jailed on espionage law violation charges and held on $1000 bail awaiting the federal grand jury.
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Cedar Rapids
William Stout
Belleplaine
Federal Grand Jury
French progress on Western Front captures Long-Point village
French forces report capture of the village Long Point on the Squieres river east of Villers-Cotterels. Gains also include advances north of Chavigny farm and east of Favorelles. Raids successful north of Montdidier ending near Cham pagne.
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Paris
Long-Point
Squieres River
Villers-Cotterels
Chavigny Farm
Favorelles
Montdidier-end
Cham
Mutiny in Austrian Garrison At Kragujevarz Serbia
Allied forces in Albania report a serious mutiny in the Austrian garrison at Kragujevarz Serbia. The revolt ended after brutal fighting with machine guns and artillery. many officers were killed. Cause cited as bad food.
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Serbia
Kragujevarz
Slacker Roundup At Cubs Park In Chicago
More than 2000 draft age men were detained in a secret Justice Department operation led by Hinton G. Clabaugh. The Cubs stadium raid halted entry until proof of registration was shown, with many arrested or sent to police stations for missing cards.
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Chicago
Department of Justice
Hinton G. Clabaugh
Bureau of Investigation
Cubs
Secret Service
Bois de Belleau Renamed Bois de La Brigade de Marine
Records reveal French officials renamed Bois de Belleau to Bois de La Brigade de Marine to honor American Marines for stopping the German rush on Paris during the second Marne battle. The report also details close-quarters combat actions by American soldiers in the Vosges and No Man's Land.
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Marne
Paris
Bois de Belleau
Marné
Bois de la Brigade de Marine
Illinois
France
Vosges Mountains
Cer
Sergt. Williams
Wallem
Linckneyvilles OL
Street Car Workers Likely to Get Pay Rise Nationwide
The war labor board will recommend a forty percent pay increase for street car conductors and motormen across the nation. To fund this raise many cities may raise fares to six cents, but the board emphasizes a living wage as the priority over funding methods.
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War Labor Board
Washington
Laber
French Air Losses in June Report 150 Planes Down
Paris reports from the war office state that in June the French brought down 150 enemy airplanes, badly damaged 161 and burned 81 captive balloons. Bombardments destroyed 604 tons of explosives, with 214 tons used by day and 390 at night.
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Paris
War Office
Air Instructor Killed In Plane Crash Near Scott Field
Lieut Lee C. Giddings of Duluth Minnesota an air instructor was killed and Cadet Eadward C. Dartington of Washington DC was severely injured when a plane dropped 500 feet at Scott Field near Telleville TL on July 12.
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L. C. Giddings
Duluth, Minn
Scott Field
Telleville, TL
Lieut Lee CG. Giddings
Duluth
Minn
Eadward C. Dartington
Washington, D. C
Here
Flyer Killed in Texas Hit by Plane Crash
Wichita Falls Texas July 12 Second Lieut. Harry J. Ross was killed when his plane fell at Call field. His home was in Philadelphia.
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H. J. Ross
Philadelphia
Call Field
Wichita Falls
Tex
Harry J. Ross
Italians Make Gains on Berat Ridge in Albania
Allied forces push up the Berat ridge 6,500 feet high as Austro-Hungarians fall back to the Skumi river north of Jerat. Rome reports unchecked Italian advances from Vogusa to Semeni on a 15 mile stretch with Berat near sight.
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London
Rock
Berat
Albania
Skumi
Jerat
Monastir
Durazzo
Adriatic
Serbia
Devoli
Balkan Kingdom
Asstria
Vienna
War Office
Washington
Rome
Vogusa
Semeni
Fieri
Malacastra
Tomorm Fe
Deyoll
Upholds Child Labor Laws
Washington July 12 The federal employment directors in states with weaker child labor laws were advised by the Department of Labor to observe the former federal standard. They were urged to restrict under sixteen workers in mines and quarries and under fourteen in canneries mills workshops factories or manufacturing establishments.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Department of Labor
German Occupation Arrests in Finland Reported
Hugo Haase from the Reichstag minority socialist group said 78 000 Finnish workmen were arrested since German entry and some executed. The Het Volk published his verbatim report noting criticism of German rule in Livonia and Wostonia.
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Amsterdam
Finland
Hugo Haase
Reichstag
Hetvolk
Livesnia
Wsthonia
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