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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1918
Page
1
Fragmentary text discusses U S hospital in Persia and Turkish actions, with references to German rumors, American forces, and Turkish government conduct. Mentions Presbyterians, Spanish forces, pirates, and possible hospital incident. overall meaning unclear due to broken OCR.
President Wilson backs a plan empowering the federal government to take over telegraph and telephone systems to avert disruptive strikes and ensure military and government communications remain uninterrupted. The House committee delayed action pending further views from Baker Daniels and Burleson, with Western Union striking looming July 8.
Viko remarks on today’s admittance in a brief note. The fragment hints at a local event or ceremony with limited readable facts and no clear names or places.
The report notes French and British advances along multiple points of the Franco-Belgian sector on the Flanders front and in the Aisne valley. British forces report gains north of Albert with prisoners and machine guns captured. French operations near Marne and Soissons improve positions and yield prisoners.
A Basle dispatch reports Count Roon's German peace program calling for immediate armistice denial until Germany receives an indemnity of at least 45 billion dollars. It proposes Britain ceding Gibraltar and its fleet, returning Egypt and Suez to Turkey, annexing Belgium and parts of France, and dividing Serbia. France and Belgium would remain occupied until fulfillment. Britain, France, and the United States would bear wartime costs.
An American lieutenant colonel and two officers faced a German plane at night in Franco. While the driver sped to escape, bullets sprayed the car and one officer was lightly wounded. The enemy aircraft eventually withdrew.
Associated Press report from Cleveland details Eugene V. Debs being arrested for alleged violations of the Espionage Act after a secret indictment. Debs pleaded not guilty to ten counts and faced a $10,000 bond with trial tentatively set for July 30. Police detained 67 at the Canton socialist gathering, many lacking proper classification cards.
American troops in the London district were entertained at the Palace theater. Vice Admiral Sims and T. J. MacNamara spoke, expressing gratitude to the British for their welcome and noting the war is strengthening understanding between the peoples.
London July 1 The British Admiralty reported a German submarine sank the hospital ship Linandovery Castle 116 miles southwest of Fastnet on June 27. The vessel was en route from Canada to Britain carrying 258 people including 80 army medical corps personnel and 14 nurses. One lifeboat with 24 survivors reached shore.
A European press summary notes German alarm at allied ambitions and the Pan-Turkic expansion trend. The report cites a Swiss source saying Germany fears Turkish moves could damage its position as Pan-German sentiment grows against expansionist policies.
Washington data notes fourteen destroyers to be launched from American yards on July. The navy plans to dedicate the fleet to Independence Day with the eagle emblem representing tonnage and national pride.
London dispatches from Shanghai via Reuters report dissolving the Bolshevik council of workmen and soldiers delegates at Vladivostok. A German backed effort to reorganize Russian prisoner exchanges and statements on a possible government overhaul surface amid chatter of czarist targets.
Five persons were killed and fourteen injured in Mannheim Germany Saturday morning as Allied bombs hit the city. Severe property damage followed as British airmen claimed success against the Budl ache airline and godna factory, with bursts observed at the plant and German aircraft driven down in air fighting.
President Wilson vetoes the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill over a provision raising government clerks' hours to eight per day. He notes wartime commitments to labor, and argues the change should not be seen as adverse to workers while the United States itself makes the adjustment.
The Associated Press reports a state of war proclaimed in Archangel, Russia. French and British troops landed on the Mourmansk coast to protect the railway supplying Russia, as Allied forces prepare to defend strategic lines and contest German advances. A Finnish command with many Germans moves toward Passvil Valley, while a British steamer and a Russian force rally near Petchenga. Rumors of a secret treaty and Poland referendum surface but are denied.
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