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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1918
Page
1
Premier Lloyd George lauded American troops after a Frenchfront battle, praising their superb valor and trained skill. He stressed Allied unity, warned that a successful Prussian ideal would crush civilization, and urged Britain to stand firm as a breakwater against the threat.
Indictments returned in federal court announce treason and espionage charges against Jeremiah A. O’Leary, Joha T. Ryan, Willard Setineon, Emil Kipper, Albert Fricke, and German naval officer Hermann Weasels. Baroness von Kretschmann is named as a German agent, with fugitives believed in Mexico. The case details efforts to aid Germany, including plans to damage ships and share military information.
The German government demanded the exchange of Captain Lieutenant Franz Rintelen for Siegfried Paul London, warning of reprisals against Americans in Germany if the U S did not release Rintelen. Secretary Lansing said the United States defied the threat and would not release him, while Rintelen serves sentences in New Jersey and Atlanta for fraud and conspiracy.
A Royal Navy deserter reports to London that in a German plan during the Russian front campaign thirty six of a 500 British prisoners were executed by a group punishment. Prisoners were tied to a pole, suspended, and kept for hours over fourteen nights, with forty men dying from the treatment.
Reported naval incident describes the Norwegian steamship Vinland being attacked and sunk nine hours after the Harpathian was sunk. A suspected spy was arrested following night signals from the coast, with maps and codes found. Sea lanes remain guarded as troop movements continue with precautions to protect vessels.
A man calling himself Fritz Flage, suspected as one of several behind the coastwise night lights tied to German submarine activity, was arrested in Atlantic City and jailed for Naval Intelligence Bureau inquiry. Detectives described room finds including coast maps from Virginia to Massachusetts, city layouts for Philadelphia New York Boston Baltimore Hoboken and Norfolk, and materials on guns forts explosives and a coded book.
From the French front near Oise loop to Rheims, Allied forces report stronger local advances. German infiltration tactics give way to wide advance lines as French American and British units push forward, taking prisoners and seizing key ridges.
Allied forces led by American marines and French troops wrest control of Bouresches and Torey as they push six miles along the Marne front. Prisoners estimated at 300 with German dead reported three deep in places.
In Picardy on June 7 American and French ambulances carried wounded soldiers toward Paris as French children lined the main road to cheer. Private Charles Ginsberg, a former New York newsboy now living in Washington GA, captured a German in a shell hole and spared his photographs of his two children. An American Corporal, hidden behind German lines, crawled to rejoin his unit during today’s battle and helped secure the victory.
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