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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1918
Page
3
A Moscow dispatch reports anti-Soviet Deputies staging a threatening movement. Factory workers boycott Soviet delegates and a general political strike appears imminent as anti-Soviet deputies win large majorities in provincial towns during elections.
A Utah senator offered a resolution in the Senate to back Russia against German domination. The plan favors a civilian allied commission to aid Russia while a military force helps expel German power and support a republican government in Russia. The measure seeks to neutralize German propaganda and foster Russia’s economic and political freedoms with allied support in a staged intervention.
A detailed briefing on the Sunday German assault between Montdidier and Noyon. It describes artillery gas bombardment and initial gains up to three miles, with the French defensive zone holding and Verdun/Somme scale comparisons cited as the battle widens.
Germany and Russia reach a boundary agreement affecting Finland. Finland cedes Ino and Ratvola fortresses to Russia with guarantees of non fortification. Russia yields western Murman Peninsula with sea outlet to Finland. Exact borders to be set later and German influence moves toward northern Russian entrepots.
Stockholm reports Russia has placed all foreign trade under a Soviet appointed syndicate based in Petrograd. The body includes bankers and industrial leaders with aim to curb robber influence. Exchanges with Scandinavia will follow a compensation principle. Swedish exports of harvesting machinery and other goods flow to Petrograd while copper and other metals return.
Professor G V Lomonossoff head of the Russian Railway Mission in the United States appears at a Bolshevik rally in Madison Square Garden to Press for Soviet recognition. Russians in New York fear his stance betrays the homeland and threaten action by Ambassador Bakhmeteff and the State Department.
The article contrasts calls for an immediate Constituent Assembly to restore democracy in Russia with Bolshevik autocracy. It notes Russians abroad favor allied democracy and oppose Bolsheviks, while Jewish editor William Edlin urges Jews to boycott a meeting recognizing the Soviet Government.
Railways behind Austrian lines in Northern Italy are rushed day and night to move troops, guns, and munitions toward the front. Austria’s Field Marshals von Hoetzendorf and Boroevic direct operations in the Piave district as deserter deterrence and air raids in Venice are noted.
Leigh Reilly former managing editor of The Chicago Herald becomes director of the news division for the Committee on Public Information and will supervise preparation and distribution of announcements. He succeeds J W McConaughy who departs for Central America on special work for the committee.
In the House of Commons J I Macpherson said German raids on French hospitals between May 15 and June 1 killed 11 officers and 318 other ranks plus 5 nursing sisters 8 WAC members and 6 civilians. Wounded figures include 18 officers 404 other ranks 11 nursing sisters 7 WAC and 73 civilians.
Lance Corporal J Dowling of the Connaught Rangers was landed on the west coast of Ireland from a German submarine and is now a prisoner in the Tower of London. He faces court martial charges of aiding the enemy after being remanded for trial. The announcement came in Parliament via James I Macpherson.
In a Dover Delaware College commencement speech William H Taft urged a new eastern front against Germany saying the United States must whip the Germans with greater power in men money and munitions He said the nation would rid the world of militarism and noted the college trustees voted to end the study of German.
Lieutenant Edgar Lawrence of Chicago died when his aircraft crashed a thousand metres high forty miles behind the front last Wednesday. The accident's cause remains unknown.
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