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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1917
Page
5
A large group of American officers has gone to trench and British military schools in France for a lengthy course in modern warfare. Chaplains urged soldiers to stay disciplined, while Catholics attended services. A baseball game provided rest as press correspondents await arrival and vaccination.
July 21 dispatches report a general German assault along the Aisne front from Craonne to Vauclerc, with French forces holding positions as German casualties litter the ground. Berlin notes extreme artillery activity in Flanders and some trench gains reversed by French counterattacks. Observers in London cite raids opposite Gavrelle and north of Ypres, with artillery more active northwest of St Quentin and southwest of Lens.
One thousand one hundred sixty eight men detained at Bisbee Arizona have voted unanimously to remain in the military camp at Columbus New Mexico pending further federal action.
Washington reports Russia’s 1916 imports reached 545.853 million dollars excluding munitions. Goods entered via Archangel and Scandinavia Finland, with UK and US leading sources and Japan showing a 47385 percent rise since 1913. War related goods dominated the import list.
A German air fleet raided the English coast with portions forced homeward by anti-aircraft fire and others driven south along the coast. Bombs fell on Felixstowe and Harwich, causing eight deaths and twenty five injuries. British air patrols pursued the attackers at sea amid low visibility.
In Limerick on July 20 police suppressed the Sinn Fein Organ faction that had appeared for months and seized the plant.
A complete sanitary organization under the Illinois department of health will cooperate with federal authorities to maintain Camp Grant sanitation at Rockford. The plan follows a conference with Dr Julius Ola Cobb of Chicago and Professor Earle B Phelps of Washington representing the U S public health service.
Indianapolis July 21 The highest conscription number in the state is 6 558 assigned to Roda Saula an Austrian of Fast Chicago Saula however will not be called upon to serve in any of the armies of this country He has a wife and four children.
John Scandon aged seventy one was arrested in Urbana for distributing courtplaster and held in Champaign county jail as a suspected German plot tool. An agent of the department of justice ordered his confinement while officials analyze the plasters and papers found on him written in German.
Governor M H Holcomb acts to reprieve Mrs Gilligan prompting late legal relief from the state executive. The action halts any immediate execution of sentence pending further review or clemency considerations.
Sir Eric Campbell Geddes ascends to first lord of the British Admiralty aided by Kitchener. His rise owes much to his early work in the engineering and construction department of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad and the stern schooling of American railroading.
Petrograd July 23. Provisional government warns of fateful hour as Austro German forces crack an eight mile by ten mile gap in Galicia and Tarnopol burns. Teuton advances push Russians back to Dniester while treason and counterrevolution threaten state stability. Kerensky to field army. Kaiser moves toward Galicia. An August allied conference is planned to align foreign policy with revolution principles.
The draft is now in the hands of the states with 50,127 master sheets mailed to 4,557 local boards. Exemptions will be handled by civilian boards. federal supervision ends. Fewer exemptions than expected are anticipated with about 2.2 million potential ineligibles estimated from a 10 million drafted.
Lafayette Ind July 23 Billy Williamson a twenty year old star center and forward on the Purdue university basketball team last season was drowned in the Wabash river here Williamson with several other Purdue athletes was swimming at a bathing beach run by Theodore Paulson a Purdue swimming and wrestling coach The body has not been recovered.
London reports a British advance near Monchy le Preux with patrols favorable northwest of St. Quentin and south of Lens. The war office notes slight territorial gains as hostile artillery remains active around Lens, Armentieres, and area near Monchy le Preux.
Samuel Sanjines of New Orleans, among the first drawn numbers 258, telegraphed Secretary Baker that despite being a Spaniard not an American citizen, he offers to serve and fight for freedom and democracy thrust on the nation.
Indiana state entomologist and chief bee inspector Frank N. Wallace warns others to wear proper clothing and bee masks after a sting while inspecting bees on his brother’s Morgan county farm. He ignored shoe precautions and was stung on the ankle, his shoe spilling many wasps and causing alarm.
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