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Newspaper
New Mexico State Record
Location
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1918
Page
3
Survivors recount a coordinated attack shipping convoy involvement with two submarines taking part. The reports describe a fifty eight ton raid with limited details, pointing to naval action and ongoing investigations into the incident and its aftermath.
Secretary Daniels lists seven schooners and four steamers sunk off the American coast. The toll from Sundays raid rose to fifty eight dead or missing, many from the Carolina and related losses. A French tanker Radialvine was saved by a destroyer sixty five miles off Maryland, while the Edward R. Baird and others were bombed. Survivors report submarine activity by U seven and U 181, with stores aboard one vessel for three months.
German forces renewed attacks along wide fronts between Soissons and Chateau Thierry and toward the Marne but were repelled by American, French, and British troops. At Veuilly wood near Chateau Thierry the Americans repelled a strong German assault, and at Jaulgonne on the Marne they helped drive the enemy back to the northern bank.
Charles Warren Fairbanks former vice president of the United States died at his Indianapolis home on June 4. Death was attributed to a chronic interstitial nephritis condition not considered serious until recently. All family members except Major Richard Fairbanks in France attended the funeral.
Washington announces hundreds of local and special rate revisions will be ordered by Director General McAdoo before June 25 when the new schedules take effect. Wounded Americans Reach Nice. The first batch of American soldiers merged with French troops arrived at Nice and were sent to the American hospital there.
Reports from Washington state the German American liner President Lincoln was torpedoed at 1240 hours Friday and sank an hour later. All passengers and returning army officers were saved. only crew members are feared lost. Maritime authorities note the ship had been taken over by the U S at war start.
In Federal Court Rose Pastor Stokes of New York, a Socialist self styled "Internationalist," was sentenced to ten years in the Missouri state penitentiary after her May 23 conviction on an espionage act indictment.
May casualties totaled 195 802 with Irish ranks cited. The losses show officers and men killed or died of wounds at 20 5 percent and wounded or missing officers and men at 6 16 percent, per May reports from London.
In Hue with the increase in passenger fares three cents and the Pullman company raises the minimum overnight rate for a sleeping berth from 1.60 to 2. Other Pullman rates remain largely unchanged as the war continues to strain transportation and economy.
A World War II era report notes ten U S ships sunk by U boats during a raid off New York Harbor. Casualties and damaged vessels appear limited to unarmed ships, with strategic implications for coastal defenses and Atlantic patrols.
Naval reports cite five German submarines along the Atlantic coast with two sunk near the Virginia capes. Admirals Fletcher and McLean note U boats off New Jersey and east of North Carolina as patrols intensify. Union lines withheld, convoys protect transport and coastwise ships. losses include several steamers and crew rescues amid ongoing anti submarine patrols.
This is the first published photograph of Earl Kitchener of Khartoum who succeeded to the title after his famous brother the British war minister was lost at sea aboard the Hampshire. Earl Kitchener is a soldier, serving in India and Africa and rising to the rank of colonel.
The nation observed Memorial Day with prayers and fasting as President Wilson led in church services. Veterans of the Civil War and current soldiers were honored though parades and public speeches were canceled. In France, graves of American war dead were solemnly decorated, and the memory of those fallen endured despite the absence of public ceremonies. Also reported: twelve fishing boats sunk by a German submarine near Belfast. naval enlistments rise in New York. the Leasowe Castle transport sunk with 101 lives lost off the Mediterranean.
Western Front dispatches report renewed German assaults between the Oise and Oureu with heavy losses for the attackers. French and American troops are said to be in the battle area near Cantigny and Soissons, with French counterattacks reclaiming towns and prisoners taken. British air raids claim German planes destroyed and several shot down. The strike includes long front lines, shifting gains, and reports of General Foch arranging reserves to blunt the German offensive.
Springfield Colo announces an eight hour day and 25 percent raise as 280000 men to be drafted in June. Five killed during violent rain storm near Campo twenty five miles south of Springfield. Planing mill and cabinet workers walkout. camps to be assigned. wage demands and closed shop cited. Bohemia sees rising riots. John W Scott named textile division chief for War Industries Board.
Tulsa Ohio Cowboys conduct a local drive to raise war savings stamps. A total of 26000 dollars worth of stamps were purchased during the campaign.
President Wilson urges Americans to buy essential goods, pledge thrift, and invest in War Savings and Thrift stamps or other government securities by June 28 National Thrift Day. He emphasizes conserving materials, increasing production, and directing labor to war needs, calling all to join the national thrift movement.
Pittsburgh report says the last remnant of the ancient Samaritan people may vanish. E K Warren of the International Sunday School association cites 162 individuals in the group, largely male, with 24 drafted by the Turkish government. No contact has been heard in 18 months as intermarriage declined.
South Hadley Mass Mount Holyoke College a leading girls college in the East plans to be self supporting for vegetables. The student body needs about 2000 bushels of potatoes and 5000 cans each of corn beans and tomatoes. The girl farmers are planting gardens to meet this demand.
Albany reports officials noting a decline in travel as Uncle Sam cracks down on tramps. The era’s “bull” penalties once meant jail and meals, but now the floating population shifts away. In lighter notes Mrs Willis and Willie exchange quips about pipes and singing, while Nell and Belle trade fashion banter about white and yellow combos.
A dense OCR list shows May buying prices per ton for hay and grain across Colorado and Nebraska, with values for upland prairie hay, timothy, alfalfa, straw, gluten, poultry, eggs, butter, and meat, plus New York cotton and Chicago grain quotes. It also notes inheritance tax collections by the state water department totaling 500000.70 to date through Nov 30, 1918.
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