25 Jun 1918
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Newspaper
Laramie Boomerang
Location
Laramie, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1918
Page
1
General Crowder announces instructive guidance for draft boards clarifying that nonproductive work may lead to withdrawal of deferments and induction, with professional baseball left to Secretary Baker to decide. Chauffeurs with no other exempt work may face nonproductive classifications, as boards use common sense to shift men to productive roles.
Washington June 25 The lottery to determine the order of call for service of 700000 twenty one year old regulars will begin at 9 oclock Thursday morning In the senate office building About 1200 numbers will be placed in capsules in a huge bowl The drawing will require several hours and the first number will be pulled out by Provost Marshal General Crowder.
Paris notes wartime measures as civilians brace for defense with museums to be safeguarded and private collections moved. Labor unions pledge volunteers for defense, criminals may aid fortifications, while troops regroup near the Marne and Americans press toward Chateau-Thierry.
Italian forces press the Piave line with cavalry on the east bank and infantry pursuit extending twenty miles. Austrian forces retreat toward the Conegliano route while Italy captures Hill No. 1473 and positions at Monte Vallersmia and Asolve. A major Trentino drive is anticipated as counteroffensive operations begin in the mountains.
American forces report heavy artillery bombardment north of Belleau Wood as French aviator downs a German plane. Casualties total seven hundred eighty four across sides with nineteen Marines killed or missing and eight killed among Marines. Germans reel from counterattacks near Lory and Lorraine as American advances seize five machine guns and gear.
Amid sparse, garbled lines, a 1925 dated report from Amsterdam cites a Rome reaction praising German patriotism and vigor. It quotes a Reichstag leader praising Germany’s historic struggle and foretelling a victorious peace under God.
The forecast calls for fair, warmer conditions for the next 24 hours with little change in temperature. The day’s high at noon reach 79 degrees and the low 54. Observations show a max 70 and min 54, barometer 23.234 rising, humidity 34 percent, dew point 39, with no precipitation.
Washington reports a plan by Gen William Bancker to fly a large seaplane to Europe as a turning point in air warfare. The craft would use a Rolls Royce engine, require a crew of four, two pilots, a navigator, and an engineer, and complete a trans Atlantic flight via Newfoundland and the Azores in twenty hour legs at eighty five mph. If proven feasible, it could enable rapid bombing of Berlin from France, freeing shipping space.
British and French raids succeed as German front fears renewed Allied pressure on the western line. Prisoners report impending big attacks across the front while Berlin keeps troops east for Italy. German horse shortage drives raids for animals from Russia amid feed constraints and reports of increased horse meat rations. Dried oak leaves are used as a tobacco substitute.
Washington reports Gen Semenoff’s Cossacks in Siberia have been defeated by Bolshevik troops and retreat toward Chinese territory. State Department dispatch from Harbin notes fighting on the River Onon about 260 miles east of Chita with about 2000 troops. Semenoff has previously retreated to regroup and may resume activity along the Trans Siberian railroad later.
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