Italians Seek Trieste and Lemberg Front Offensive
A Rome report says Italy has occupied more territory than Austria offered for neutrality and aims at Trento Trieste while the Isonzo front grows. Austria reinforces and air raids damage fortifications as the Dulcie sinks off Suffolk with one survivor.
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Austria
Rome
Italy
Malborgeth
Villach
Trento
Trieste
Isonzo
Galicia
Lemberg
Petrograd
Grodek
Dulcie
Suffolk
Eng
London
Gas Rights Confirmed for City Under Order in Council
The Dominion Government confirms city gas and oil rights by Order in Council dated May 21. The city gains full rights free of charge in specified townships and outside lands, with leases required for outside wells and a 20 chain neutral zone on the reservation west side.
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Hawthorne
Dr. Roche
Storms in Kansas Kill Fifteen. Property Loss Hits 250000
A Kansas City dispatch reports fifteen dead and many injured as wind, hail, and lightning hit Missouri and Kansas. Flood warnings spread along the Kansas and Missouri rivers, with 20,000 acres of wheat destroyed near Great Bend and farms damaged from Fort Scott to Hays City.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Kansas
Kansas River
Missouri River
Jefferson City
Fort Scott
J.T. Wodd
Great Bend
Hays City
Oklahoma
Santa Fe
Maryville
Blue River
Republican River
Solomon Valley
Union Pacific
Concordia
Norway
Western wheat sent from Canada to New Zealand for shortage relief
Ottawa reports that one million bushels of Canadian wheat will be moved east to Montreal for shipment to New Zealand next month. This follows a prior shipment of 300000 bushels via St John and 100000 via Vancouver. The move is arranged by the Department of Trade and Commerce and New Zealand government.
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Ottawa
Montreal
Department of Trade and Commerce
Dominion of New Zealand
New Zealand
St. John
Vancouver
London Zeppelin Raid Cited as Dramatic, Yet Discredited
Reports of grave loss of life and property from the first Zeppelin raid on London are challenged by censorship. Two upper pictures show bomb damage while a later image depicts an angry crowd attacking a German bakery after the raid.
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London
Local Man William Jaffray Reported Killed at the Front
A casualty report from Scotland cites a local man named William Jaffray of the Tenth battalion as killed in action. The article notes two Jefferys from the city and warns that spelling in the list may be unreliable.
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W. Jaffray
Tenth Battalion
Scotland
Flo
Jefferys
W. W
William Jaffray
Trading with the enemy sentences in Edinburgh court
Robert Hetherington and Henry Wilson of Whithicks and Company Glasgow iron merchants were jailed for six months and fined 10 000 dollars each for trading with the enemy. They allegedly supplied iron ore to Krupps and other German firms, directing Rotterdam shipments to Germany after the war began.
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London
Court of Justiciars
Edinburgh
Robert Hetherington
Henry Wilson
Whithicks and Company
Iron Merchants
Glasgow
Krupps
Rotterdam
Germany
Body of Archbishop Langevin Arrives in Winnipeg
Thousands of Catholics from Winnipeg St Boniface and across the province greet the Late Archbishop Langevin as his body arrives in a special car on the PLA Express. The procession escorts the bier to St Boniface cathedral where it rests in the sacristy ahead of Tuesday’s funeral. Four Knights of Columbus guard the body tonight and tomorrow. A shirtwaist dance is planned for Monday night with Leonaard’s orchestra and Dawson Bros. catering.
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Langevin
Winnipeg
PLA. Express
St. Boniface
Str. Boniface
Dominion
Knights of Columbus
Leonaard
Dawson Bros
Rancher Murder Trial Ends With Manslaughter Verdict
D F Coxson, accused of killing rancher John Zoeten in Macleod Alberta, was acquitted on the murder charge but convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to life imprisonment.
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Dr. Chailloux
Amsterdam
Brussels
Chiasso
Gradisca
Budapest
Warsaw
Manitoba
Central States
Western Wheat
Canada
Little Dominion
German Africa
Africa
Europe
Dardanelles
Flanders
Potha
South Africa
Shakespeare
Newington
A&colorman
Zeppelen Haid
Midulla
Breslau
Black Sea
Glasgow Iron Merchants
Krupp’s
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