Germans Open New Drive on Picardy Line
Paris reports a dawn Sunday German offensive along a 15 to 18 mile Montdidier to Noyon front. French counter shelling and infantry resisted fiercely as battles raged with heavy artillery, while Americans and British report stiff frontline resistance and gains for Allied forces.
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Paris
Noyon
Montdidier
Amiens
Teutons
Aisne
Montdidier-Noyon
Haig
Villers Bretonneux
Albert
Flanders
Givenchy
Robecq
Reuter
Montdidier-Noyon Line
Baris
War Office
Oise
Ribecourt-Lefere-Mortemer
Bessiares
Washington
War Department
Chateau Thierry
London
Woman Examiner for Trade Commission among early hires
Miss Marion L. Davies, UW graduate, becomes one of the first women appointed examiner under the federal trade commission. She researches in the congressional library on manufacturing facts, after two years as a commission secretary and a prior career as a reporter who captured 80 prisoners. Nearby war reports describe Allied and German actions with mixed gains and losses around Chateau Thierry and Arras.
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Marion L. Davies
University of Wisconsin
Federal Trade Commission
Congressional Library
Commission
French Left Wing Slows German Drive at Heavy Cost
Paris reports repeated blows by German forces on the French left wing in the Noyon sector have been broken up. The center near Ressons Surmatz saw slight progress at frightful sacrifice as Crown Prince mobilizes 205,000 troops in this drive.
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Paris
Noyon
Ressons-Surmatz
U Boats Sink Sugar Shipments Along Atlantic Coast
Washington reports more than 24 million pounds of Cuban sugar lost this week to submarine sinkings along the Atlantic coast. Food Administrator Hoover says further sugar cuts are needed to compensate. Soft drinks may face tighter supplies.
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Washington
Cuba
Atlantic
Hoover
Bombing Raid Over Piave Territory Reported by War Office
Rome notes increased reciprocal artillery fire along the Piave and coast. An official statement says our aviators surprised aviation camps between the Piave and the Livenza and bombed the Caldonazzo railway station while in full activity, bringing ten hostile machines down.
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Rome
Piave
War Office
Livenza
Caldonazzo
Mrs Gould-Shepard III Ill With Appendicitis
Mrs Finley J Shepard formerly Miss Helen Gould is seriously ill at her Fifth Avenue home in New York with appendicitis. Doctors report the condition satisfactory and hope an operation may be avoided.
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New York
Finley J. Shepard
Helen Gould
Fifth Avenue
Paris Shelled Again as Long-Range Guns Batter Districts
Paris reports from June 10 state German long-range guns bombarded the city again with victims mentioned by Le Matin. Authorities assess casualties while residents seek safety and aid.
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Paris
The
Matin
Noble Heads Army Medical Department Personnel Division
General Robert E. Noble, chief of the personnel division, certifies and assigns the 16 000 physicians who joined the government as medical officers. He also directs hospitals west of the Atlantic and is expected to become Surgeon General if General Gorgas retires next October.
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Srig
Robert E. Noble
Army Medical Department
Atlantic
Gorgas
General Noble
Belfast Ship Attacked In Irish Port After Torpedo Strike
The Belfast steamship was torpedoed by a German submarine while maneuvering near England and reached an Irish port badly damaged. Three crew members were killed as authorities assess casualties and repairs.
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Belfast
England
Plan to Draft Doctors in Chicago for Army Service
Chicago June 10 plan to draft doctors through the Volunteer Medical Service corps aims to back U S fighting men with medical staff and keep nonparticipants identifiable by a national council of defense badge. Reports from states are encouraging though some fear doctors may desert civilian duties for military service.
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Chicago
Army
Navy
Volunteer Medical Service Corps
American Medical Association
Uncle Sam
National Council of Defense
Paris Warned of Peril by German Drive
Paris reports in Matin that socialist deputy Frederic Brunet warns a renewed German advance could threaten Paris with long range guns. He says continuous bombardment could halt industrial life and insists the government must resist despite civilian losses or munition factory disruptions.
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Paris
Matin
Paris Committee of Defense
Frederic Brunet
Melted dollars convert to rupees for Indian payments
Washington report states 62 million American silver dollars melted into bullion under the Silver bill. Most of the bullion has been shipped to India to provide rupee credit for Indian importers paying debts. The US government gains foreign exchange for this purpose.
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Washington
India
United States
Treasury
Mahogany Tender Built for President Wilson Planned Launch
A fast mahogany tender for President Wilson will be launched next week at Watervliet Boat Building Company in Troy New York. The vessel matches designs used for wealthy yachtsmen and will serve as a tender to the presidential yacht Mayflower.
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Troy
N. Y
Wilson
Watervliet Boat Building Company
Arabs raid British stations in Egypt damage railway line
An official communication reports an Arab column from Shereef Veisal's army raided the Hasa and Furafieh railway stations in Egypt on May 25. Both stations were temporarily occupied and their buildings wrecked with the permanent way seriously damaged over about 15 kilometers.
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London
Shereef Veisal
Fl Hasa
Furafieh
Egypt
Baker eclipse yields clear sun corona observations
In Baker Oregon June 10 a solar eclipse darkened the 50 mile strip as scientists from the United States naval observatory observed from the city. Birds roosted as daylight vanished then returned, and J C Hammond reported fine results though thin clouds hampered view.
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Baker
Ore
Juen
United States Naval Observatory
J. C. Hammond
Naval Observatory
Uttle
McAdoo Daughter Weds Clayton Plate at Whitemarsh
Mrs Harriet Adoo Martin daughter of Secretary William G. McAdoo married Clayton Plate in St Thomas Episcopal Church Whitemarsh Pa. The ceremony was performed by Rev John Chapman rector of St Pauls.
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Harriet Martin
Clayton Platt
St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church
Whitemarsh
Philadelphia
HarrietAdoo Martin
of the Treasury
William G. McAdoo
Clayton Plate
St. Thomas’ Protestant Episcopal Church
John Chapman
St. Paul's Church
U Boat Sighting and War Zone Shipping News
British and American naval reports detail a U S coast submarine sighting near Maryland and Virginia. The Piner del Rio was sunk with sixteen survivors. seven crew unaccounted for. British transport claims two submarines sunk by dawn action. Secretary Daniels vows to keep troop and supply routes open to Europe.
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Washington
Navy Department
Maryland
Virginia
Hne
Department
Atlantic
New York Times
Times
London
Europe
Daniels
the Times
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ilvenchy-Les-La-Bassee
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Mrs. Gould-Shepard III
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