18 Jun 1918
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jun 18, 1918
Page
1
Tonight at 8 PM a public meeting at City Hall will discuss civic by-laws. The report also covers Italian war updates with Allied prisoners, Italian and Austrian movements along the Piave, and French prisoner releases amid ongoing battles.
A man appeared in the police court this morning facing a Group 1 offense under the liters Service Act. He was handed over to military authorities for further action.
Geneva reports a neutral diplomat says Germans feel low after their initial offensive failed. Home expectations of victory and quick peace faded as economic strain grows. Americans' ongoing troop presence is seen as decisive, and discussions on autonomy for Alsace Lorraine appeared for the first time since the war began.
The department of railways and canals investigates a report that a large consignment of steel rafts and engine parts idle in Vancouver. An official of the Canadian Railway Board in Ottawa says the lot was meant for Russia and appears to have been forgotten.
During a retreat a driver from a Canadian armored unit affixed a single red chevron and three blue ones to his car. The insignia, linked to a brewel Pnareh and Jade rhew, was found on the street after the escape, and only this car’s figure survived the bhatt. The caption notes the image as a Canadian official photo.
James Mishte trans and Germans were killed wounded or taken prisoner during the offensive between Montdidier and Noyon Cayet Andre Sewidieu who accompanied Premier Clemenceau to the front on Sunday told Vivre Putin editor of Le Paris on his return to Paris
London reports say after three days of attack the Austrian strike failed to secure objectives, with Bonar Law and Andrew Bonar Law suggesting Berlin pushed the initiative. Versailles summaries from the supreme war council credit Allied reserves and prompt French aid for stalling the breakthrough on the western front despite three months of fighting.
Wheat oats and flax prices listed with grades No 1 No 2 and seed terms. Quotations include July October and January months with figures such as 676 609 676 for oats and 112 108 107 for seed and flax No. 1 No. 2 grades. Details note milling and feed grade distinctions.
In Windsor Ontario June 15 Ivor Word led a protest supporting John Cerehuda against foreign resident enforcement. Police searched more than 400 alleged Bolsheviks mainly Russians and Austrians at headquarters to check nationality and military service status. Cerehuda faces charges for assisting violation of the Military Service Act as many suspects held Bolshevik or W.W. pro bearer tags.
City officials announce three registration booths at City Hall to assist residents leaving town. Booths will operate 9 am to 2 pm Thursday and Friday and all day Saturday. Chief Registrar Chas W Smith travels to verify staffing across the province.
Vancouver report says BLT. Rogers, president of the British Columbian Sugar Refinery Co., died suddenly after locking up last night. He had retired in his usual good health.
City aldermen clash on whether to hire private garages for auto repair work and to keep the Fire Brigade employed. Fire Committee proposals call for building workshops, wood shop, and in house repair with controlled outsourcing via requisitions and rate parity, plus limited new hires and tool purchases up to 500 dollars. A vote by Mayor Brown swung the decision in favor.
A delegation from the Board of Trade and Rotary Urib urged safe pools for children and adults. They proposed using river booms like in former years with a bathing tent and a supervising attendant. The Council referred the matter to the Parks Committee for report at the next meeting.
Miss Ida Cavell mother of Edith Cavell the nurse executed by Germans in Belgium, dies at 34 at her home Stanley-on-Thames after long illness linked to her daughter’s death.
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