French stop German attack on Aisne front
Paris reports German assault on the Aisne plateau repulsed with French forces consolidating new positions. Petrograd notes Russian evacuation at Stanislau as German Austro forces advance in Eastern Galicia and Tarnopol nears capture. British raids near Ypres yield prisoners while Russian troops face disaffection and retreat.
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Aisne
California
War Office
Petrograd
Stanislau
Sereth
Mikulica
Tarnopol
Dniester
Berlin
London
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Ypres
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Teutons
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Black Sea
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France
Petain
Californie
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Belgium
Haig
Arras
Lens
Senators Likely to Be Appointed Ahead of Bill Vote
Ottawa July 25 The Military Service Bill is expected to be taken up in the Senate tomorrow and likely passed within a week. New Senators, including several ex-MP figures such as Richard Blain J H Fisher Gerald Brabazon Claude MacDonnell and Dr Shaffner are tipped for appointment as part of possible Union Government efforts ahead of the election.
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Ottawa
Senate
House of Commons
Morning Journal Press
Richard Blain
Peel
J. H. Fisher
Brant
Gerald Brabazon
Pontiac
Claude MacDonnell
Shaffner
Souris
Libers
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Russia appoints provisional cabinet with socialists and non socialists
Petrograd July 24 Premier Kerensky completes the coalition cabinet limited to ten members five Socialists and five non socialists. Departments led by unpolitical directors. list names ministers of war, posts and telegraphs, labor, agriculture, supplies, foreign affairs, justice and state control. Prokopovitch Barshinikoff named department directors. Government HQ moved from the Marinsky palace to the Winter Palace.
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Petrograd
Kerensky
Prince Lvoff
Alexander Kerencky
War and Marine
M. Tsereteili
Posts and Telegraphs
M. Skobeleff
M. Tchernoff
M. Pieschehenoff
Aupplies
N. V. Nekrasoff
Miniatér
Portello
M. Terenchienko
I. N.efremoff
M. Efremoff
Duma
Nicholas Lvoff
Holy Synod
M. Godneff
British Expenditure Figures Spark War Vote Debate
London July 24 Mr Bonar Law introduced a vote of credit of £650000000 the nineteenth since August 1914 and the largest since the war began. The general war debate opened with Reginald McKenna arguing that the daily expenditure figures omitting interest on debt and other services under the credit need inclusion.
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London
Bonar Law
Reginald McKenna
Exchequer
Ontario aviator earns Military Cross for Zepplein shot
Flt-Lt Watkins of Toronto has been awarded the Military Cross for destroying a German Zeppelin. The pilot helped bring down the airship along the English coast, strengthening Allied air victories.
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Ontario
Watkins
Toronto
Prisoner Escapes Jailsman Re-Captured in Alberta
A prisoner named Erickson bolted during haying duty at a provincial jail in Lethbridge. He was chased by a guard on horseback and recaptured. Erickson, jailed a week after a Medicine Hat sentence of one month, awaits arraignment before Magistrate Elton on escaping custody.
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Lathbridge
Erickson
Medicine Hat
Elton
Wages Case Before Magistrate Rae Over $115 Claim
R Cariello sued C Hunt for 115 wages at the Provincial Police Court. Evidence shows Cariello left mid month and claimed wages to month end. Judge ordered payment of 85 dollars, the amount due when Cariello quit.
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Rae
R. Cariello
C. Hunt
Cariello
Archibald McLellan Editor Dies in Brookline Mass
Archibald McLellan editor in chief of the Christian Science Monitor from 1908 to 1914 died suddenly at Brookline Massachusetts. He served as editor of Christian Science periodicals and officer of the First Church of Christian Scientists.
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Archibald McLellan
Christian Science
First Church of Christian Scientists
Brookline
Mass
McLellan
The
Christian Science Monitor
Incendiary Doukhobors Get Off With Very Light Sentence
Four of the five Doukhobors charged with setting fire to Peter Vereigin's house in Vereigin and handling a body were given suspended sentences by Judge Gordon in Yorkton district court. They had already served six months in jail for vagrancy and six months awaiting trial. Villagers reportedly roughed the men during the incident. The court ordered supervision to prevent future outbreaks. A naked body was later left on M. Cazakoff's doorstep as reprisal.
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Yorkton
Sask
Peter Vereigin
Vereigin
Gordon
Peter Verelgin
Schoolmaster Vickery Dies After Auto Collision
John Vickery a 65 year old Holdfast Sask. schoolmaster was struck by a car at Brandon and died minutes later. The driver was William Girling of Basswood Man.
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John Vickery
Holdfast
Sask
Brandon
William Girling
Basswood
Man
Vickery
Henderson to stand in for Tate on Russia mission
The report states that Henderson will replace Tate on a mission to Russia while Tate is absent on other duties in the War Council context.
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Ty Leader
Een Henderson
the War Council
Tate
Russia
Harvest labor meeting set in Winnipeg with officials
Winnipeg July 24 J Bruce Walker commissioner of immigration will meet Friday with representatives of Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta governments and all railways to discuss harvest labor. The session will be in the office of the general passenger agent of the Canadian Pacific railway in Winnipeg.
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Winnipeg
J. Bruce Walker
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Canadian Pacific Railway
Earthquake Shocks Recorded on Coast Seismograph
A clearly defined earthquake shock was recorded at 7.24 p.m. with the maximum wave lasting until 7.30 p.m. The tremor persisted about 20 minutes and the epicenter is estimated 1200 to 1400 miles away, likely near the Aleutian Islands or the Imperial Valley, California.
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Coast Victoria
Aletian Islands
Imperial Valley
California
Alberta Ban on Slot Machines Enforced After Supreme Court Ruling
Following a Supreme Court decision upholding a magistrate, Alberta authorities inform slot machine owners in towns they are banned. In Claresholm three Chinese men were fined 35 dollars plus costs under the ruling. City police handle urban enforcement where allowed to operate despite the law.
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Supreme Court
Alberta
Claresholm
Entente 16 Conference Opens In Paris With Allied Leaders
Paris hosts talks on Balkans with leaders from Britain France and Italy. Premier Ribot presides as Lloyd George Lafour and Robertson attend alongside Italian ministers. Russia and smaller allies participate. The United States attends as an observer with naval officials Sims and Jellicoe arriving for a separate naval conference.
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Balkans
Lloyd George
Lafour
William Robertson
Imperial Staff
Army Headquarters
England
Baron Sennino
Cadora
Italy
France
Ribot
Russia
United States
Sims
Great Britain
Jellicoe
Wounded Wear Stripes Authority Extends to Canada
London July 24 authorities permit Canadian officers soldiers military nurses and hospital probationers to wear gold braid and gold braid sleeve badges when wounded in the United Kingdom during service.
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London
United Kingdom
Patriotic Fund Subscriptions Due by July 28
Citizens who have not paid their July Patriotic Fund are asked to submit dues to the Dominion Bank by Saturday July 28.
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Patriotic Fund
Dominion Bank
German Chancellor Faces Socialist Warnings From Vorwaerts
New York dispatch reports Berlin Vorwaerts warns Dr. Michaelis of growing mass distrust toward the new imperial chancellor. The socialist organ says editors and public opinion diverge as the revolution’s aftereffects widen the gap between masses and elite, urging clear leadership to bridge it.
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New York
New York World
Berlin Vorwaerts
Explosion Kills Eighty at New Waterford Mine
Eighty workers die in Dominion Coal Company No 6 mine explosion at New Waterford. Advices from Sydney report twelve bodies recovered so far as rescue efforts continue.
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Smorgon
M. Prokopovitch
Department of Trade and Agriculture
A. A. Barishniikoff
Moscow
Department of Social
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Winter Palace
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Guchkoff
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