Teutonic Force Loses Heavily In Big Attack
Paris July 21 Russians said to have retired on portion of Volhynian front. French gains south of the Somme faced counterattack. Germans driven back south of Soyecourt with heavy losses. British advance from North Bazentin to Feautéreaux Wood, later relinquished part of position. Austro-Hungarian report notes Russian retreat in Volhynia. Italian front generally quiet.
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Food Riots Suppressed Across Europe and Fronts
Report from Rotterdam via London notes Russian troops capture Gumuskhinch near Trebizond as food riots intensify in Belium and northern France. British and French offensives renew on Somme fronts with gains and prisoner captures. Russian offensives continue in Carpathians and Riga sector with heavy fighting around Kovel and Vladimir-Volynski. Military commentators discuss Germany's defense and possible withdrawals to shorten lines on the eastern front.
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Championship bout Webb versus White called off in Minneapolis
Minneapolis July 21 The championship ten round fight between Freddie Webb and Charley White at the national guard armory was canceled this afternoon due to the principals failing to agree on a referee.
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National Guard Armory
Russia to disregard Hague Conventions on Turkish hospital ships
London reports quote Russia's foreign minister telling Turkish authorities via US and Spanish ambassadors that Moscow will ignore Hague rules regarding Turkish hospital ships. The hospital ship Portugl was sunk in the Black Sea last March with many wounded aboard, 115 lives lost, initially blamed on a German submarine before Turkey accepted responsibility for misidentification of the Red Cross flag.
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Belgian plan formed to govern evacuee crisis
Havre July 21 Belgian authorities set up a commission led by Carton de Wiart to prepare measures for possible evacuation of Belgian territory and reassembly of parliament. Chiefs of departments join the panel. A second commission will draft civil and military actions.
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Carton le Wiart
Eastland Deaths Lead to Suits in Chicago
Administrators for 31 percent victims of the Eastland disaster filed 318 suits in Chicago circuit court seeking $10,000 for each relative. Defendants include the city of Chicago Western Electric and Indiana Transportation. Also notes war department assignments English aviator killed and new San Francisco Oak Kong Steamship Co franchise to build motor ships with $1,000,000 capitalization.
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Ferris Refuses To Be Candidate
Lansing July 31 Gov Woodbin Michigan central committee says he would not be a candidate for a third term. A freighter agency reports an explosion possibly from an unknown torpedo origin. A Spanish vessel seized at Manila is freed after a court acquits the crew of responsibility for seizure.
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Strike Spreads To More Plants In Milwaukee
Milwaukee July 21 The machinists strike for shorter day without pay cut spreads to two more shops as workers walk out under labor call. Affects plants of the inet company and L Bratth company with under 100 men involved.
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Allies Warn Damage Claim Possible From Submarine Case
Shipping notes say damage claims may arise from Allied protests over the German submarine Deutschland. State Department officials consider the vessel a potential warship and expect further actions after clearance papers are issued. A separate item reports Yankton political poet William Walpole dead at heart failure.
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Wilson urges rulers of Europe to aid Poland
President Wilson calls on European powers to cooperate in securing food supplies for Poland from the United States. He stresses urgent aid amid postwar hunger and population pressures, urging prompt action and unity among nations.
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Austria Seeks Details on Submarine Attack
Washington July 21 The state department received from Austria Hungary via Ambassador Penfield a request for further details about the Austrian submarine’s attack on the American tank steamer Petrolite. It is unclear if Vienna will apologize punish the commander or provide reparations for the shaft fire. In another item St Joseph Missouri July 21 the coroner’s inquest into the murder of Mrs Oscar N McDaniel adjourned to today so the jury may view the crime scene.
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Elderly Breton Reservists Help Drive on Somme Front
An official observer credits elderly Breton reservists with key roles in the Somme operation. He notes their calm bearing, adaptability, and diverse tasks from clearing barbed wire to directing artillery and infantry assaults. The French front advanced about ten miles with substantial captures and material. hundreds of guns and thousands of men acted under meticulous preparation.
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Somme
Mexican Note Urges Joint Commission Impacts Border War
Reports from Washington and El Paso discuss a Mexican note proposing a joint commission to settle border difficulties and the possibility of Villa renewing attacks. Officials note discrepancies between texts from Mexico City and the ambassador designate. Rumors of Pershing moving to reoccupy abandoned positions circulate without strong support from officers.
Holtzendorff May Be Given Command
London July 21 A dispatch from Copenhagen says Admiral von Holtzendorff retired has been appointed to a new naval administrative post seen as a step toward active command He is a close ally of Admiral von Tirpitz and his appointment is watched amid talk of renewed German submarine activity
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Copenhagen
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Admiral von Tirpitz
Germany
Germans Left Alive at Ovillers Fight Unfolds
Paris dispatch reports Ovillers fell after six hours of bombardment and desperate fighting. Picking regiments of the Third Division guarded the village’s significance on the Albert to Bapaume road. Of nearly 6,000 Germans, only 126 were taken prisoner, many driven mad or killed. British troops formed lines of tribute to the defenders as they retreated.
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Tipperary
Battleships and subs in North Sea Baltic clash report
London dispatch says heavy fighting off Jutland and in the Baltic between Landworts and Gottska nds. German submarines torpedo boats and Zeppelins seen moving NW from Jutland coast while cannonading persisted through Wednesday night. Report also notes a small German warship seen southward and suggests a Russian engagement. Ashland seeks Wisconsin Federation of Labor convention. The Moeris torpedoed off Cape, three sailors dead or missing.
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Landwort
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Ashland
Named on the First Ballot This Afternoon Prohibition Nomination
Frank Hanly of Indiana won the prohibition party nomination on the first ballot with 366 votes as New York and other delegations shift support. The convention adopted the platform without opposition, adding Chafin’s referendum plank, while Hanly forces projected a first or second ballot victory amid brief demonstrations. Separate Minnesota health order urged rapid Infantile Paralysis reporting and coordinated state action to curb outbreaks.
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Frank Hanly
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Ira D. Lan
Wisconsin acts to separate school of pharmacy
The Wisconsin meeting of July 21 decided to petition the board of regents to make the school of pharmacy a separate institution with its own faculty, severing it from the college of pharmacy.
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Ness Yente
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School of Pharmacy
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