Germans Drive Back Tanks In Cantigny Assault
Allied dispatches report four German counterattacks against American forces at Cantigny near Montdidier repulsed after sharp fighting. German tanks were used but driven back. American artillery and infantry held positions with no prisoners taken. Aerial combat near Toul saw several German planes shot down by American forces.
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Associated Press
France
Cantigny
Montdidier
Cantleny
Toul
Edward Rickenbacher
Jamay A. Meissner
Brooklyn
N. Y
Rickenbacher
Meissner
German Artillery Active In Sector East Of Amiens
London reports May 31 that Rheims abandonment seems inevitable as Germans near the Marne and the Paris Chalons railway, with Allied reserves arriving but a difficult task ahead to halt the enemy advance. Ground defended to the last man with bridges blown by officers. Also gunfire in Villers-Bretonneux and Albert sectors. small clashes near Arras Ypres Robecq Festubert and the Clarence river with some prisoners taken and a few missing.
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London
Ottawa
Rheims
Marne
Paris-Chalons
Paris
Verdun
Aisne
Albert Sectors
Betwee Festubert
Clarence “Rivers
Huns Employ 4Q Divisions 40 in Reserve
German forces are battling on the Aisne with forty divisions in reserve at French headquarters. A Reuters dispatch notes possible strikes toward Amiens or Dunkirk, while fierce street fighting accompanies the capture of Soissons, reported to be in flames Wednesday evening.
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London
Aisne
Reuters
Amiens
Dunkirk
Soissons
U S Flyers Land in a Cuban Port
Havana Cuba May 31 Two United States naval airplanes arrived today at a Cuban port after flying from an American port.
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U.S
Havana
Cuba
United States Naval
Cuban
280 000 to be Called to Arms in June
Washington May 31 Official announcement reports 280000 men to be called to the colors in June. They will report June 84 but camp assignments are not yet set, so the list of allocations is withheld. Quotas depend on camp space and cantonment capacity. shipments abroad may push totals higher toward 300000 if needed.
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Associated Press
Washington, D.C
Somme
Flanders
Marne
Germany
Paris
Fere-En-Tardensols
Blackmail to Hurt British War Efforts Exposed in Trial
London hears cross examination in Noel Pemberton-Isling libel trial as Captain Harold Spencer alleges a German backed blackmail plot to deter Britain’s ambassador in Italy. He claims a list of 47,000 British workers was used to pressure Ankara through fear of exposure.
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London
Noel
Pemberton
Pemberton-Billing
Puble
TRY TO SEND MISS LUSK TO ASYLUM
Grace Lusk, convicted slayer of Mrs. Mary Newman Roberts, remains in serious condition at the county jail in Waukesha Wisconsin. Her attorneys plan one more bid to prove insanity and send her to an asylum rather than prison. If found insane and later recovered she would be transferred to the penitentiary.
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Associated Press
Waukesha
Wis
Grace Lusk
Mary Newman Roberts
American is decorated by Croix de Guerre awarded
Cable messages announce Lieutenant Edmund O. Bigelow of Boston, serving with the Red Cross in France, has been awarded the Croix de Guerre for bravery.
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Red Cross
Boston
Edmund O. Bigelow
France
Villages Wiped Out by Gas in Ukraine Reprisals
London reports Germans used gas against peasants in the Ukraine near Kloy, killing whole communities. In Moscow, rebels led by demobilized soldiers and peasants with machine guns and artillery have risen in Kirov province seeking to seize power, with Bolshevik forces called to intervene.
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London
Ukraine
Kloy
Petrograd
Daily Express
Moscow
Associated Press
Tschigerine
Kirov
Bolsheviki
Nurses Garry Out Patients Put in Caves
Far back of lines the Red Cross targets English hospitals as bombing raids continue. Wounded, nurses and doctors suffer large numbers of casualties as bombardments drive medical staff to seek shelter in caves and back lines.
British hospital bombed in France amid heavy air raids
May 31 reports from the British Army in France describe another large German air raid that set a major hospital on fire after part of the building was demolished. Several women nurses were killed, many wounded, and bodies and ruins buried crews and patients. American nurses aided, ambulances were trapped, and chaos marked the night raid as bombs fell near the hospital.
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France
Associated Press
Toul
Intest
Hnes
Pleardy
Red Cross
Natalie Scott
New Orleans
Helen Spalding
Brooklyn
Mary McCadlish
Atlanta
Misa Blanche Gilbert
Cleveland
Ethan Wells
San Francisco
400000 Tons of Shipping For Allies
More than 400000 tons of ships are released to the United States and the Allies by Sweden under a commercial agreement signed at Stockholm by representatives of the two governments and notified by the state department.
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Associated Prosa
Washington, D. C
United States
Sweden
Stockholm
Thvo
State Department
Silvis shops hit by wage strike by 1800 workers
About 1800 Rock Island railroad shop workers at Silvis walked out at noon to press for a revision of the wage award setting a 55 cent minimum per hour. They ignored appeals from Superintendent Mullinix and others, and sent demands to Washington. The walkout blocks the busy Silvis shops, tied to the nation’s rail transport during wartime.
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Moline
Jil
Rock Island Railroad
McAdoo
Mullinix
Washington
U.S. Rock Island
Ill
Rock Island Road
W. 8S
Rock Island
United States
Europe
U. 5
May 1916 British casualties total 166,802 in May
The Associated Press reports British casualties for May at 166,802. Officers killed or died of wounds totaled 1,636, enlisted men 20,518. Wounded or missing included 6,182 officers and 138,566 men. April totals were 62,475, with later lists reflecting events in Picardy and Flanders.
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Associated Press
London
Plcardy
Flanders
New Waves Force Back Left Flank On Aisne Front
Paris May 31 allied left flank on the Aisne front was forced back by violent German attacks near the Ailette River. French positions held near Soissons and along the Soissons Chateau Thierry road. In the center Germans made a slight advance north of the Marne. Thillois won back by a French counterattack near Rheims. French positions held north of Blerancourt and Epagny.
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Paris
Aisne
Ailette
Soissons
Marne
Rheims
Thillois
Blerancourt
Noyon
Epagny
Chateau Thierry
Oise
Blerancourtpagny
Chauteau Thierry
Germans withhold losses in March offensive report
In a Reichstag statement cited by Berlin VorNaerts, General Von Wrisberg said German losses were not detailed. He gave total prisoner and missing estimates to March 31 at 664,104, including 236,000 in France, 119,000 in Tongland, and 357,000 in Russia and Romania, with about 152,000 dead.
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Associated Press
New York
N. Y
Reichstag
von Wrisberg
Berlin
France
Tongland
Russia
Romania
Gas Masks For All Army Mules And Horses
The gas defense service announced that every army mule and horse in the American expeditionary forces will be equipped with a new type of gas mask. Produced at a special factory at 5,000 units per day, the masks are being sent rapidly to France.
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Washington
D.C
Gas Defense Service
France
Unsettled Weather With Thunder Showers This Weekend
Unsettled conditions across the region with likely thunder showers tonight and Saturday. Illinois forecasts flag partly cloudy skies tonight and Saturday with thunder showers in the north and central portions and cooler conditions Saturday afternoon in those areas.
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Towa
Illinois
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