Great Patriotic Parade Draws 440000 To NYC Fourth of July
The city plans a massive Fourth parade starting at 8:30 AM with 110000 plus participants, hundreds of floats and bands, and military planes overhead. Organizers warn punctuality, note Hungarian Italian Irish divisions, and assign police and banners censorship.
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Committee On National Defense
George Krlyer
Waverley Place
Order of Sons of Italy
Stefano Miele
Joseph Hartigan
Division of Nationalities
Augustus N. Tack
George F. Kuna
X. B. Miller
Frank Holden
Paul W. Bartlett
William M. Kendall
A. F. Gallatin
Henry R Sedgwick
John O'Brien
Thomas Meyers
Paris Honors American Independence With Flags On Rue de Rivoli
In Paris on the eve of July Fourth, flags of the United States and France mingle on major avenues including Avenue du President Wilson. A French soldier guides a visitor to the renamed avenue, once Avenue du Trocadero, now a symbol of Franco American unity as commemorations unfold.
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Washington
Army War Progress Report Highlights 1918
Secretary Baker outlines World War I production gains in a June 28 letter to Representative Dent. increase in officers and men since April 1917, rifle and Liberty motor output, airplane gun deliveries, artillery plants, and transport carriages. The report covers morale changes and the shift to Service of Supply in France.
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Italians and Austrians clash on Piave front in floods
Rome reports Italian forces along the lower Piave struck Austrian lines amid flooded terrain and captured about 1,900 prisoners with machine guns and war materiel. In Grappa, 621 more prisoners and twenty-two machine guns were taken as Italians repelled a counterattack. American forces in France also report heavy fighting with seven enemy planes downed.
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Austria Proclaims Martial Law in Styrian Mutiny
AMSTERDAM July 3 Martial Law has been proclaimed in the Austrian Duchy of Styria to curb mutiny desertion and refusals to serve the State amid offenses. Anti Semitic outbreaks are reported in Jaroslaw and Galician towns with Jewish residents said to be victims of pogroms and looting, while authorities allegedly refused to intervene.
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Vienna
Germany Demands 12 Million Monthly Belgian War Tax
The Belgian war contribution to Germany has risen to about 60 million francs per month, roughly 12 million dollars, with Germans convoking provincial councils to determine payment methods. The levy amounts to around 12 francs per inhabitant.
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Belgium
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Les Nouvelles
Army Overruled Kuhlemann View In Peace Debate
Danish Frontier reports that amid German political debate, von Kuhlemann's peace views were rejected by Ludendorff and factions. The article notes Ludendorff’s stance that peace based on conciliation is presently impossible, undermining Kuhlemann's expressed convictions.
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Kuhlmann
Allies Gain Confidence After Piave Victory On Western Front
The piece notes Italian Piave success solidifying Allied morale and lines, while German forces face heavy casualties and slowing offensives. French and American troops bolster morale as Brest-Litovsk terms strain German reserves and overall Allied strength shifts toward a future offensive.
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British Officers Decorate Belgians Amid Dominion Day Sports
British forces press the front as a German counterattack near Bouzincourt is repelled and the front lines remain largely unchanged. The Duke of Connaught visits the sector to confer decorations on Belgian and Canadian officers during Dominion Day festivities overseen by General Currie and army staff.
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Relieve Indigestion With Horsford's Acid Phosphate
An advertisement highlights Horsford's Acid Phosphate as a pre meal aid to tone the stomach curb appetite and prevent indigestion. The claim targets readers seeking digestive relief through a tonic taken before meals.
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Americans Flatten Vaux in Twelve Hour Artillery Bombardment
Reporter Cameron Mackenzie describes how American guns reduced the town of Vaux to ruins after twelve hours of preparatory bombardment. He notes walls nicked by earlier fire but no structure left, with the Chateau-Thierry Road strewn with debris and the town center obliterated.
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