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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1918
Page
7
The piece describes the call to quarters for the Camp Man with nature renewing resolve. It contrasts the Marne and the Hudson with country camps and cantonments where a tent near the city edge serves as a mobile retreat for business men bearing the nation’s burden. Abercrombie & Fitch is named as the Camp Man’s commissary in any attire.
Relieving motorists from high touring costs, an extensive display showcases fully fitted luncheon kits. Options include carvers, receptacles for whole fowls and bars, Thermos bottles, and food jars for home style meals, with prices from $4 up to $120 and more.
The catalog advertises military and civilian camp goods including officers tents sports tents and explorer tents with a wide range of camping gear from bed rolls sleeping bags and cots to camp clothing. It highlights the Cole man 5S tent and tents for the Amazon explorer and canoeist with summer family options.
Washington dispatches report naval officials now believe German submarines may continue attacks along the Atlantic shore. Two U boats active under Berlin orders are suspected as plans consider relays, fuel fuel shuttles, mother ships, or captured tankers. A blocked coast could be declared soon.
The text reads as a fragmented notice about overseas equipment and activities involving men and women. Limited readable names and context prevent full reconstruction of events or identities. Further legible material would clarify persons, places, and the incident described.
Naval officials report multiple submarine sightings off the coast and total losses of 28 475 tons. Ships like the Pinar del Rio are believed sunk by a submarine sighted five miles off Beaufort North Carolina. Wreckage and white wood debris from submerged vessels are observed. The Mauban and City of Pensacola are noted among salvaged or sunk vessels with crews and passengers affected. Submarine activity also prominent in the Mediterranean with ships abandoned and drifting toward Gibraltar.
Naval Intelligence Officers search Cape Cod coast to identify a steamship that anchored at Lewis Harbor West Yarmouth on Saturday then sailed away after a brief stay. Reports say strangers were seen in several towns and the vessel may be a mother ship for German submarines operating in steamship lanes.
Norfolk reports survivors of the Pina del Rio say a 6000 ton gray motor ship with one funnel accompanied the sinking submarine Pimar but no official confirmation follows. Navy denies any verified encounter off the New Jersey coast with an American transport firing five shots at a German submarine with unknown results.
Twenty six survivors arrive at an Atlantic port confirming the sinking of the American freighter Mauban in the Mediterranean about three weeks earlier. The steamer’s loss was reported after the survivors were brought in by rescue ships.
Anthony Amadonio a former chauffeur for General John J Pershing claimed to have served with the American forces in France. He was arraigned in the Oa Street Court Brooklyn on charges of reckless driving after an incident near Fu Street. He said disability from gas attacks affected his eyesight and was to return to service when better.
A Merchants' Association letter recounts Mur ray Hulbert urging deeper Hell Gate to allow troop ships to pass through Long Island Sound. He notes a 35 foot channel authorized in 1917 and hints at a pending 40 foot amendment possibly being blocked.
Brooklyn Sheriff Griffin announced a summer exemption for students over 18 on vacation, stating the break is essential to their physical well being and a necessary part of their curriculum, following parental and student inquiries.
Coastal patrols and naval orders keep vessels in port or reroute them. The City of Bangor remains in Rockland after being halted near White Head. A Gloucester bound afternoon boat is forced back. Gun fire heard near Cape May signals ongoing coastal tensions with U boats under surveillance.
At the sixtyninth annual American Medical Association convention in Chicago, experts discuss wartime medical rehab. Lt Col Mack outlines government plans to keep disabled soldiers in service until fully treated, while Gen Gorgas cites low army death rates and a Rockefeller Institute toxin for gas gangrene.
A fragment notes the American Army having the lowest standing among world forces and references a death rate per 1. The wording is incomplete but implies a comparative military mortality context.
Dr Esther Lovejoy former Portland Health Commissioner told a Chicago audience that Germany seeks to subjugate French women and urges American women to resume full war effort. She cites French captives and maternal instinct as tools of conquest and calls for women to abandon loafing fashion and take civil roles to free men for Allied needs.
Eight French soldiers who escaped from Camp Wisborg near Mannheim arrived in Geneva and described harsher reprisals in German camps over the past three months. British troops suffer more while French prisoners fare better, with guards intensifying after Rhine air raids to deter allied bombing. An officer said Germans expose prisoners near ammunition factories, but the escapees prefer death by their own bombs to surrender and urged continued raids.
Dr Charlea Carter Cranmer aged 74 and Miss Ada Hortense Van Giesen aged 48 obtained a marriage license in the Municipal Building and plan to wed June 27 in Brooklyn. Cranmer, a physician and surgeon born in Stratford on Avon, has practiced in New York about fifteen years. Van Giesen, a Newark born music teacher and secretary, is the daughter of Arzy Ebem Van Giesen and Hattie Whitaker Browne.
Washington June 10. The 1918 draft class may enlist in the navy and Marine Corps under a ruling by Provost Marshal General Crowder. No order or serial numbers have been assigned to registrants yet, but the contingency was waived.
Sir Joseph G Ward former Premier of New Zealand arrived in London for the Imperial Conference and praised the United States and its people. He noted thousands of soldiers appeared fit and ready and observed a shared resolve to fund and wage a determined effort until the brutal foe is defeated.
London dispatch reports a black smallpox outbreak among Krupp plant workers in Essen with four to five daily deaths. General vaccination is being enforced. Officials attribute the epidemic to underfeeding and unsanitary conditions.
Federal railroad managers will draw up lists of officers not essential to operating physical properties and dismiss them. If they are dropped, their salaries must be paid by the railway corporations, not from government operating receipts. Railroads will pay discharged presidents if retained, under a plan agreed with general managers.
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