Enemy Pushes Through Three Russian Defense Perimeters
Report from Petrograd notes restoration of calm, cabinet reconstruction under way, while German offensives gain ground in Galicia and along the Sereth and Zlota Lipa trenches. Prisoners taken, Russian retreat described. other fronts show heavy artillery and strategic moves across Flanders, Volhynia, and Dniester regions.
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Sereth
Zlota Lipa
Washington
Petrograd
Berlin
London
Flanders
German War Office
Winterburg
Galicia
Jacobstailt
Dyinsk
Smorgon
Stokhod
Dniester
Bank raid in St Quentin bank safes opened without consent
A French lawyer interred in Geneva reports that German forces forced the safes of all St Quentin banks to be opened and contents stolen including notes, bonds, and private account books, with directors and staff unable to stop the operation.
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Geneva
St. Quentin
8. Quentin
Germany
Incomplete OCR Note on Boveman Mat July
Fragmentary text from a newspaper item mentions Boveman Mat in July with unclear context and missing details about event or outcome.
Amendment to Military Service Act Ends Divinity Student Exemption
Ottawa reports the military service bill nearing final readings after committee passage. Debate focused on removing divinity student exemptions and press liberty. Liberals backed dropping the clause, while Laurier favored blanket clergy exemptions. Sir Robert Borden moved reconsideration to keep clergy and divinity student exemptions within future tribunal allowances.
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Ottawa
Pontes
Menora Pardee
Graham
Nesbitt
Ross
Douglas
Oliver
Buchanan
Guthrie
Martil
Quebec
Wilfrid Laurier
Great Britain
United States
Messrs
Ren
Meighen
G Newstuapien
Iaatsven Reniaet
Howe
Charles Marcil
Dantis
Washington
Robert Borden
Robert
Splendid Wheat Sample From Walsh Ranch
Rev. J. W. Morrow returns from a Walsh area ranch with a sample from a 140 acre wheat field. The grain looks exceptionally promising and could yield well if a couple more showers fill out the heads.
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J. W. Morrow
Walsh
Honors For Braveries In Bombing Party Scene
The report honors Bron and Kenneth Herbert in a bombing party from Truro, New Brunswick. It notes they displayed gallantry and suffered wounds amid actions with multiple named soldiers including C. H. Catehpole, R. Contes, G. C. qe erst, B.erie Serst, T. D. Hurley, G. Pelland, G. D- Sot.
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Bron
Kenneth Herbert Ders
Durham
Truro
N.B
C. H. Catehpole
R. Contes
G. C. Qe
B.erie Serst
T. D. Hurley
Ac ‘G. Pelland
iBry
G. D- Sot
Returned Soldier Killed by Wife's Rejected Lover
Arnprior Ontario July 20 A coroner s jury finds William Bennett of Montreal responsible for the death of Lieut Bruce M Leitch of Montreal shot on a road near Sandpoint Bennett ailing in Renfrew with a head wound may face no trial Leitch 25 returned soldier on honeymoon with his bride of a week Bennett 25 Montreal escaped a fatal outcome while Leitch died and his widow lay wounded in hospital
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Arnprior
Ont
William Bennett
Montreal
Ldeut
Bruce M. Leitch
Sandpoint
Bennett
Renfrew
Leitch
Sand Point
Notre Dame Street
Toronto
Gertrude Lilien Mand Ring
Shely
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Galician
Laanborg
Volhynia
Baltic Sea
Are
Ramadles
Euphrates
Cruikshank
Citautauqua Committee of Conquest
Saskatchewan
Chautauqua
Robert Hibbard
Chautauqua Committee
A. R. Barrett
George Barwell
J. Hison
Emil M. Axness
ST. Quentin Banks
Boveman
Mat
Washington, i
Dr. Baward
England
Rodolphe Lemieux
Sam Hughes
Gms
Olewey
LaoMstad
France
Slayer
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