German Offense Near Soissons Meets French Resistance
London June 13 reports growing optimism as German offensives are checked. French defense stalls German attempts south of the Aisne and around Compiegne. Foch's counterattacks and Allied lines hold with heavy losses for the German forces and sustained artillery action on the Marne and Oise fronts.
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London
Reuter
Ottawa
Oise
Carle Point Wood
Aisne
Compiegne
Ags
Reichstag
Foch
Villers-Cotterets
Paris
Soissons
Marne
Snval
War Office
Matz
Villers Cotterets
Laborsine
Outry
Daylight AAD Carries QUT In Night Operations
London reports a successful daylight attack carried out by Allied forces. Heavy casualties on the enemy are claimed with a trench mortar captured and two others destroyed. Night operations were conducted west of Morris and east of Dickebusch Lake. Food valued at 3 million pounds was destroyed or stored in Montreal over Cuban months.
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London
Arras
Morris
Dickebusche Lake
Montreal
Five Lose Lives In Farm House Fire
Five occupants of Richard Lyons homestead in Grey county perished in a house fire that consumed the frame residence early Saturday. Lyons his wife and their eight year old son Lawrence Miss Effie Neely a Markdale high school student and Auide McLaughlin a four year old from Owen Sound died from apparent suffocation. Neighbors found the bodies together after flames spread rapidly from a stove pipe fire near a rear shed.
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Owen Sound
Ont
Richard Lyons
Euhasta Township
Grey County
Mr. Lyons
Lawrence
Effie Neely
Markdale High School
Auide McLaughlin
Town Abolishes Gehman Nawe to Lincoln Name
Berlin Iowa residents vote to change the town’s name to Lincoln after a mayor and city council meeting. Post office officials in Washington will be notified of the name change.
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Berlin
Iowa
Slo Nore
Washington
Lincoln
Foch Expresses Confidence in French Defense
Loudoun 12 telegraphed General Pooh through Altane Agency, Comrades of the Great War pledge faith in a historic victory on sacred French soil. General Pooh reiterates confidence in continued resistance against invasion.
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Loudoun
Dane
Kenter
Altane
Pooh
France
Fook ' Ree
Edmonton Manufacturer Leader Lunches in Medicine Hat
Mr. W. J. McGrath, president of the Edmonton branch of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association, visited Medicine Hat for a noon luncheon at the Assiniboia hotel hosted by the local GMALWS branch. Attendees included W. W. McNeely, J. E. Davies, W. A Church, and many local business leaders and officials.
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W. J. McGrath
Edmonton
Canadian Manufacturers’ Association
Medicine Hat
Assinibola Hotel
GM AL Ws
Messrs
W. W. McNeely
J. EB. Davies
W. A Church
Alberta
of Mills
W. R. Martin
Martin & Phillips
A F. Andrews
Ogilvie Flour Milla
R. P. Stewart
G. W. Lott
Medicine Mat
Geo. Rutherford
L. Y. Birnie
Gas City Brick Co
J. H. Preston
Preston's Planing Mills
Geo. Preston
Lake of the Woods Milling Co
A. 2. Burns
Gas City
Gas City Planing
Brown
Lb. Tweed
Board of Trade
Col. Sisgons
Agricultural Society
A. J. N. Terr
J. A. Tabor
Tabor Candy Co
Wim J. Bray
Hedley Shaw Milling O
W. Seilley
Alberts Rolling Mills
J. Pratt
Medalla Hloneware Ce
Dominion acreage increases nine percent this year
Ottawa June 13 first preliminary crop bulletin shows 1 324 950 acres more sown to grain and hay in Canada this year than last year an increase of 9 percent Dominion bureau of statistics issued the report Hon W E Parames senior judge of the Manitoba court of appeals has officially been appointed chief justice of Manitoba
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Ottawa
Canada
Dominion
Bureau of Statistics
W. E. Paraues
Manitoba Court of Appeals
Manitoba
Fighting Parson Lambert Promoted to Chaplain Rank
Sydney Lambert, veteran fighting parson of Parkland Alberta, who lost his left leg at St Eloi, has been appointed chaplain at Whiteley military hospital with the rank of captain. He left his church in November 1917 and served with the 60th Calgary Battalion overseas. An explosive bullet shattered his leg.
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Toronto
Sydney Lambert, Gaxtor
Methodist
Parkland
Alta
St. Eloi
Whiteley Military Hospital
Lambert
60Th
Calgary
American public urged to conserve beef for Army
Washington June 12 the food administration asked the American people to limit beef intake through Sept 15 to meet needs of the army and allied nations. Households may buy at most one and a quarter pounds of clear beef per week per person, or one and a half pounds with bone. Hotels and restaurants should limit boiled beef to two meals weekly, beefsteak to one, and roast beef to one.
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Washington
France
Great Britain
Italy
Courageous French Cavalry Hold Le Plemont Defiance
In France, a small detachment of disheartened cavalry on Le Plemont height fought off repeated assaults from Sunday dawn to Monday noon. They sent hourly wireless messages declaring they were holding until a final report proclaimed they were doomed.
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France
Associated Press
le Plemont
German Civil Population Starved as Children Die in Orphanage
Paris reports from Paris based Agence Paris that German civilians face famine on the western front. Berlin’s Arbeiter Zeitung recounts six children starving to death at Zeitlort Thuringia orphanage after it was ransacked by starving inmates. Physicians described skeletal remains and widespread deprivation. An economist in Munich warns of harsher weeks ahead with potential wheat supply paralysis.
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Paris
Fine Ti
Clavas Agency
Germany
Kehode
Berlin
Arbeiter Zeitung
Zeitlort
Thuringa
Provhein
Tpayerischer Aeitaung
Miunich
Medicine Hat Officials Plan Hanna District Co operation
Mayor Brown Captain Pingle and others returned from the Hanna district reporting a successful trip. Meetings formed committees to locate teams and farmers willing to supply them, with lists to be sent to Hanna’s board of trade. An effective organization was created to support the grade MM project.
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Mayor Brown
Chas. Pingle
Wm. Cousins
Wm. Switzer
Hanna
Board of Trade
Tis
A. Halliday
Bow Valley
Medicine Hat
Canadian railway troops hold Amiens frontline in 1918 action
An official overseas summary reports the Canadian All-Way Construction Battalion joined Gen Carey’s forces at Amiens, wiring trenches and manning strongpoints. Sixteen Lewis gun teams held a front section for four days before Anzac relief, while other railway units supported rear defense line work during the April Somme offensive. Washington reports US newspaper stocks at end May totaled 26,483 net tons, about one week’s production.
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Ottawa
Amiens
Carey
Military Department
Anzac
Somma
Washington
Federal Trade Commission
Airplane Postal Record Smashed In Thunderstorm Route
In a rain swept flight Liaut Culver set an air post record from Philadelphia to New York. He departed Philadelphia at 2 30 p m and landed Belmont Park forty two minutes later while flying at 147 miles per hour. He overtook a thunderstorm near Trenton and beat the rain into Belmont Park.
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Philadelphia
New York
Liaut
Culver
Air Post
Belmont Park
Trenton
Government plans limited railway extension to Gravelbourg area
Swift Current reports a 14 mile extension of the C N R from Gravelbourg toward Swift Current has been let, but the government intends to build no more than fourteen miles until after the war. Mr I E B Argue confirms the earlier impression that market facilities near pockets of settlers justify the Gravelbourg extension.
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Swift Current
The
Sun
I. EB. Argue
C. N.R
Gravelhouse
Gravelbourg
Argue
Large strike hits Nova Scotia shipyards and mills
Three thousand workers across Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Company Eastern Car Company Albion Steel Company and shipyards walked off the job at noon today. No official statement has been issued by the men regarding their grievance.
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New Glasgow
N.S
Nova Scotia Steel. and Coal Company
Eastern Car Company
J.W. ‘Cummings and Gong
Albion*Steel Company
Nova Scotia
Steel On Coal Company
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