Italians Drive Austrians Back In Bitter Piave Battle
Rome reports the Piave front remains fiercely contested from Montello to the sea. Italians claim 1,226 prisoners and multiple machine guns captured while denying Austrian gains north of Montebelluno. Castalunga taken. French advance on Asiago Plateau reports 102 prisoners. Cape Sile regain noted in London dispatch.
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Rome
Montello
Piave
Italian War Office
Montebelluno
Zenson
Asiago
Bertigo
Pennar
Castalunga
Vienna
San Dona di Piave
Bisagno
Coruna
London
Cape Sile
Evening Standard
Mare
Saletta
Adriatic
Colonel of Marines Wounded in France
Col. Albertus W. Catlin commanding officer of the Sixth regiment U S Marines is seriously wounded in France. An officer with more than 25 years in active service he once led the marine guard aboard the battleship Maine during its explosion in Havana harbor and has served worldwide. He has been abroad since October and previously organized the marine training camp at Quantico Virginia.
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Albertus W. Catlin
U. S. Marines
Marine Corps
France
Marine Guard
Maine
Havana Harbor
Marine Training
Quantico
Italians and Austrians clash along Piave frontline
Italian and Austrian forces battled along the Piave with air support from Allied fighters. Maj. Gen. Kronstadt reportedly died after refusing surrender to Italian arditi. An Austrian machine-gun float on the Piave was forced to surrender after an Italian plane pressured it to swim to shore.
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Heroic
Montello
von Kronstadt
Arditi
Piave
Czecho-Slav Forces Capture towns in Siberia Provisional Government Formed
Petrograd dispatch reports Czecho-Slavs seize Samuravosto and Nikolsaevsk in the Omsk government and establish a provisional bourgeois government. They claim Bolshevik defeat in Siberia and offer help to Great Russia if Bolsheviks retreat beyond the Urals.
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Omsk
Siberia
London
Samuravosto
Nikolsaevsk
Petrograd
Express
Sberia
Great Russia
Ural
Uli
American Flyers Blow Up Bridges Over Piave Front
Italian reports from headquarters say American flyers with the Italian army near the Piave destroyed two German bridges over the river. The feat earned commendations from the Italian commander.
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Piave
Austrians Fail In Piave Salient Widening
Rome reports a large Austrian effort to widen the Piave front failed. South of Piave the enemy crossed the Montebelluna Susegana railway but was repulsed. Italian forces gain ground on the lower Piave as Austrian losses mount. Dispatches note Vienna riots spreading with residents fleeing by air to Berlin.
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Piave Front
Rome
Montebelluna
Susegana
Piave
Copenhaen
Vienna
Berlin
Amsterdam
Vorwaerts
Socialist Party
Doctor Drews
Pershing Reports Heavy Losses North of Chateau Thierry
General Pershing's communiqué states heavy losses inflicted on the foe northwest of Chateau Thierry while artillery fighting continues. The report comes from Washington on June 12.
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General Pershing
Washington
Pershing
Chateau Thierry
Escapee says POWs forced to front lines by Germans
A returning prisoner reports several American captives forced by German forces to labor on the front lines. He also witnessed German soldiers burying their dead in graves stacked with twenty per grave, laid crosswise.
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Donohue
Santa Anna Torpedoed Sea Disaster Terror Grips War News
The transport Santa Anna was torpedoed and sunk during May 10 night near 10811, with about 2,150 soldiers and native workers aboard and 1,512 saved. A second report notes an American steamer sighting a submarine 200 miles south of Sandy Hook and escaping by zigzagging. A German raider appeared off New Jersey coast, while a passenger steamer escaping a submarine off South Carolina.
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Paris
Santa Anna
Malta
Havas
Atlantic
Central America
Sandy Hook
Jersey
Navy
Gulf Vort
South Carolina
Americans Press Side Of Belleau Wood Battle
News from the Marne fronts reports American troops advancing near Belleau Wood and Cantigny in heavy fighting with German forces. Reports cite penetrations of trenches and sustained losses on the German side as U S forces push forward in the Montdidier area and at Beichtprey near St Mihiel.
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Marne
Chateau ‘Bierry
Belleau Wood
Bertin
Berlin
Beichtprey
St. Mihiel
Méuse
Mosne
Murre
British Raiders Force Prisoners and Losses in Frontline Raids
British raiding parties in multiple front sectors captured 18 enemy prisoners and three machine guns after clashes near Boyelles and Strazeele Ypres region. Units engaged near Morlancourt and Albert areas suffered no hostile casualties, while artillery and rifle fire intensified elsewhere along the line.
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London
War Office
Boyelles
Arras
Lens
Givenchy
Strazeele
Ypres
Flanders
Morlancourt
Armier
T. Jery
Albert
Peace and Bread Riots Across German Cities Barking for Relief
Censored dispatches from Stockholm report peace demonstrations in Berlin Hamburg and Cologne with several workers killed and many arrested. Vienna sees strikes over bread ration cuts. police disperse protesters as martial law looms. Protests also spread to Be care s Be care s and Danish alert follows.
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Berlin
Hamburg
Cologne
Stockholm
London
Vienna
Amsterdam
Hofburg
Imperial Palace
Morning Post
Exchange
Zurich
Neustadt
Parley on Prisoners Fails. Exchange Talks Shadowed
Washington reports fail to reach an agreement with Germany on prisoner exchange. State Department telegrams indicate U S and Swiss intermediaries discussed a German proposal for limited prisoner exchanges through wartime channels. Officials caution that negotiations are fragile and progress uncertain.
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State Department
Washington
Une
Pallure
Germany
Gernhn
Switzerland
Gorey
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Peece
Major Lambert
Medical Association
Italy
Alexander Lambert
New York
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Milein
Billery Wood
U. S
Cantigny
Seicheprey
Belleany Wood
Montdidier
Austia
Viena
Hofburg Palace
Kaiser Dharies
Geneva
the Tribune
Becares
Berne
Continental Times
Gazette
Copenhagen
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