Neutral Congo peace bid gains backing from monarchs and Britain
A revived movement seeks Congo neutralization to spare native populations from war in Central Africa. King Alfonso proposes terms under the 1885 treaty, with Britain delaying action over German wireless stations in Togoland and East Africa. Hawkin supports armistice talks while editors caution the plan’s feasibility amid European territorial reach.
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New York Times
London
Central Africa
Spain
United States
Alfonso
Kas
Beara~en
Congo
Great Firitain
Toxoland
West Africa
East Africa
Raasona
Central
Africa
Beisium
Great Britain
Hawkin
Manchester Guardian
Notaby
Cameroons
Marchy
Maimed British Prisoners Trek to Holland for Return
Dispatch describes 34 doctors and medical corps men among a prisoner group entering the Netherlands from Belgium. Many wounded are reportedly starving or ill, with Dutch Red Cross aid and hospitality noted. morale remains high despite harsh conditions and slow food supplies.
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Sleters
Belgium
Esschen
Red Cross
Belzans
England
Roeendale
Aeper
Holland
Royal Irish Rifles
Muensterbers Hospital
AE Rennbahin
Emman
God Save the King
Monsey Fermat
Sev
Eera
Submarines Sink Two Ships Off British Isles
The British steamer Indrani sank southwest of Tuskar Ireland after a German submarine attack. The Dumfriesshire, carrying barley from San Francisco to Queenstown, was torpedoed off the Welsh coast with all crew and a American sailor rescued. The Dumfriesshire was owned by T Law & Co of Glasgow and loaded by George W McNear & Co of San Francisco. the Indrani vessel was owned by Dunlopton Brothers of Glasgow. Tuskar Rock lies off southeast Wexford Channel.
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London
Tuskar
Ireland
Wales
San Francisco
Dumfriesshire
George Www
Students flee Russia reach America via Liberia and San Francisco
Twenty or more University of Russia students flee drafted service in Ekaterinoslav and travel 10000 miles toward freedom. Bernard Tamen 21 and Joseph Levithan arrive at Pennsylvania Station after reaching Vladivostok and Japan aboard the Mongolian. Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society assists. The pair describe wartime hardships, evasions, and their use of money to bribe officials to continue their journey.
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University of Russia
Ekaterinoslav
America
Freedom
Liberia
Pennsylvania Station
Bernard Tamen
Benjamin
Isidor Tamen
Broadway
S14
160Th Street
Joseph Levithan
Morris Levithan
St John's Place
San Francisco
Japan
Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America
Tamen
Wwe
Siberian
Smolensk
Charkey
Sol
Russia
Vladivostok
Rusta
Famen
Norwegian ship detained by British cruiser near mines
Captain S C Hjortdahl of the Kristianiafjord said his liner from Bergen was held 36 hours 300 miles east of Stornoway by a British cruiser. A lieutenant and twelve seamen boarded to inspect passengers and cargo as officers urged no wireless use in a mine zone. He protested to the Admiralty. Also noted are Russian officials visiting with families aboard as part of a government commission to purchase supplies.
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S. C. Hjortdahl
Kristiantafjord
Bergen
Stornoway
Hiortdahl
British Admiralty
A. W. Sapojnikoff
Engineers’ Institute of Ways and Means
Vladimir Oranowsky
Russian Imperial Artillery
Maxin Trester
Imperial Engineers
Kristianiafjord
Queen Victoria of Sweden Visits Berlin Amid Cheers
Queen Victoria of Sweden, returning from a visit to her mother the Grand Duchess of Baden, spends a day in Berlin. She receives a warm reception from Empress and royal family members. A thousand Berlin students hail her, and she joins in Deutschland Ueber Alles singing and a torchlight procession, expressing sympathy with Germany.
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Berlin
Sayville
Today
Victoria
Sweden
Baden
Karlsruhe
Germany
German Ship Suit on Trial in Newark Court
Harland & Wolf of Ireland sues Kaiser Wilhelm I owners for 75000 in Federal Court Newark. The steamship, libeled at Hoboken, faced a German defense invoking war edicts forbidding payments to British subjects. Judge Haight heard arguments but noted no U S German treaties or jurisdiction by U S courts.
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Haight
Newark
Harland & Wolf
Ireland
Hoboken
United States
Germany
Hoover Arranges Belgian Grain Crop Exemption
London reports Herbert Hoover announces a treaty with General von Bissing to reserve wheat and rye in the Belgian occupation zone for civilians. One twelfth of the harvest will be issued monthly, with imports to maintain ration levels as Belgians face shortages. Potatoes and fodder crops are noted as sufficient for the year.
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London
Herbert C. Hoover
American Commission For Relief In
Belgium
von Bissing
Hoover
Brussels
Ritory
Uhe Commission
Germany
Ramsay Protest Urges Cotton Prohibition in War
Sir William Ramsay and fellow scientists publish in The British Review a call to bar cotton as a munition source. He claims Germany consumes up to 1,000 tons of cotton daily for gun cotton and other weapons, with vast yearly totals, and argues for capturing ships carrying munitions material at war outset. He notes cotton sources and neutral supply routes and warns that allowing such materials raises war duration.
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Sir William Ramsay
British Review
Sir William
Germany
William
America
Egypt
India
Delares
England
Holland
Baltic
Iie
Austria
Norway
Spain
New Yorker Doctor Paralyzed in Dardanelles Duty
Dr. W. J. Maloney formerly of Fordham University and now a surgeon with the Dardanelles expeditionary force lies in an Alexandria hospital with paralysis in his right leg and a gunshot wound to the right wrist. He plans to return to America. He is the son in law of architect Alexander KR. McKim of New York.
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London
W. J. Maloney
Fordham University
Alexandria
Egypt
America
Maloney
Alexander KR. McKim
New York
Czaritza Liner Arrives with Passengers and Mails
The Russian American liner Czaritza arrived from Archangel with passengers and mails after a twelve and a half day voyage. It will load supplies for the Russian Government including aero planes and armored motor trucks at Forty third Street South Brooklyn and sail for Archangel on July 3.
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Czaritza
Archangel
Forty-third Street
Brooklyn
Washington warns China and Japan on open door policy
The United States sent identical notes to China and Japan cautioning that no agreement between the two nations may impair American rights in China or threaten the open door policy. Officials call the note a legal precaution to preserve U S rights in future negotiations and potential litigation.
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PEN Rg
United States
Ehina
Japan
China
Washington
Chinese Republic
Republic of China
Conferring on Balkans Lifts German Leaders to Vienna
Berlin reports state Chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg and Foreign Minister von Jagow visited Vienna not for a shift in politics but to continue talks on Balkan questions. A Vienna dispatch says they met Emperor Francis Joseph and Austro Hungarian Foreign Minister to discuss Entente influence on the region.
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Berlin
Sayville
N. J
von Bethmann-lollweg
von Jagow
Vienna
Frankfurter Zeitung
Balkan States
Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg
Herr von Jagow
Francis Joseph
Six Americans Held On Passport Shortages Aboard St Paul
The American liner St Paul arrived in Liverpool with a crowded list. six American passengers were detained for missing proper passports and, in some cases, the required number of photographs. They notified the American Embassy, which contacted the British Home Office but no releases were granted by tonight. Passengers reported lookout for submarines near the Irish coast as the ship neared port.
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New York Times
London
St. Paul
Liverpool
Home Office
Irish
Jim Mann endorses Bill Bryan
The Staats-Zeitung reports Jim Mann a Republican leader criticising the Presidents Lusitania policy. It says Mann, a future presidential candidate from the Middle West, dares to oppose war agitators and declares that the nation has been swept along. The New Yorker Herald also praises Mann's candor on the political situation.
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Jim Mann
Bill Bryan
New Yorker Staats-Zeitung
England
Mann
Republican Party
Middle West
Wall Street
Democratic Party
New Yorker Herald
Horn Refuses Plea in Maine Dynomite Case
Werner Horn, claiming German army officer status, refused to plead to three Federal indictments charging illegal dynamite transport from New York to Maine. Pleas of not guilty entered. trial set for September as defense pursues an appeal of a habeas corpus ruling.
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Boston
Werner Horn
International Bridge
Vanceboro
New York
Maine
Anderson
Joseph F. O'Connell
Horn
Hiorn
Circuit Court of Appeals
Dernburg Fund Endorsed to Aid German Sufferers
Herman Ridder in the Staats-Zeitung endorses a proposed Dernburg Fund to aid Germany. The fund honors Dr and Mrs Bernhard Dernburg for their charitable acts and aims to express gratitude for Dernburgs moderation and to oppose efforts to curb free speech in the United States.
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Herman Ridder
Staats-Zeitung
Indorses
Dernburg
Bernhard Dernburg
Germany
Russia Buys Shell-Making Tools for War Push
Ernst Eklund a Petrograd shell maker arrived from Bergen saying Russia will stockpile shells in six weeks to renew campaigns in Galicia. He notes factories lack machinery and seeks equipment. John Roche reports Archangel’s wharves are stacked with war goods and rail lines strained, with new government lines easing congestion. U S Ambassador Marye allegedly offers no aid to exporters seeking Russian business.
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Ernst Eklund
Petrograd
Bergen
Kristianiafjord
Archangel
Volga
Russia
Galicia
Eklund
Sweden
Pat
John Roche
New York
White Sea
Mr Roche
Roche
Germany
Warsaw
Torpedo Survivor Arrives in New York After Gantock Rock Sinking
H G Williams an American able seaman who survived the torpedoing of the Norwegian schooner Gantock Rock in the English Channel on May 20 arrives in New York. He says the crew abandoned ship off the Isle of Wight and were picked up by a trawler in Southampton before Williams was sent home by the U S Consul.
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H. G. Williams
English Channel
New York
Institute of the American Seamen's Friend Society
West Street
Baltimore
Port Arthur
Texas
London
Isle of Wight
Williams
Gantock Rock
Southampton
United States
Five British Ships Load Powder for Allies at Gravesend Bay
Five steamers Lord Downshire Strathavon Strathdene Visigeth and Westergate hoisted red flags in Gravesend Bay while taking in explosive materials for Havre Hordeaux and Ste Nazaire. Bethlehem Steel ships load shells for England and Cunard Politania and Italian Paler busy with acids and provisions as horses expected. Longshoremen work around the clock to ready government stores for transport.
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New York
Brooklyn
Jersey City
Gravesend Bay
Lord Downshire
Strathavon
Strathdene
Visigeth
Westergate
Havre
Hordeaux
Ste. Nazaire
France
Bethlehem Steel Company
England
Cunard
Politania
Erie Basin
London
Paler
145Th Street
North River
Palermo
Naples
Dramatic air duel over Foel cappelle 4100 feet high
Eyewitness account from British Army headquarters describes a recon plane engaging a large German biplane at 4100 feet near Foel cappelle. After returning fire, the British aircraft sustained engine damage and fire, but landed back lines with two officers severely burned and the pilot injured after tripping on a wire stay.
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London
Foelcappelle
Pross Bureau
Tle
Huge German and Allied Biplanes Reported in War
London papers relay eyewitness accounts of a duel in the air between a British aeroplane and a German super-biplane with multiple engines. The report notes Germany and France constructing powerful aircraft, including the four engine Sikorsky-type model, while praising recent satisfactory results from such machines.
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New York Times
London
The
Daily News
Sikorsky
France
Austrian Airman’s Feat Reported From Front
The War Office bulletin says on the Italian front the enemy is inactive. A naval aviator on the 27th bombed a hostile captive balloon near Villa Vicentina and forced it to descend. On the 28th he dropped bombs on a park of artillery at San Can ciano and badly damaged four steamers at Sdobba, causing one to sink.
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Vienna
London
War Office
Villa Vicentina
San Canciano
Sdobba
Borden Heads to England for War Talks from Ottawa
Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden left Ottawa for New York to sail to England for two months. He will discuss war financing overseas divisions shell production and rail finance with the British government and plans to visit Canadian troops in France. Sir George Foster will act as premier in his absence.
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Ottawa
Ontario
Robert IL. Borden
Canada
New York
England
R. B. Bennett
Calgary
Princess Patricia’s Infantry
Robert
Hughes
France
George Foster
Trade and Commerce
Sir Robert
Canadians list wounded include Americans
Ottawa official Militia Department statement adds casualties from the Canadian contingent. Privates W Hinkle of Leon Ohio and James Dickson of Pittsburgh are named among the wounded.
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Ottawa
Ontario
Militia Department
Mm. W. Hinkle
Leon
Ohio
James Dickson
Pittsburgh
President Wilson watches foreign situation from Cornish
President Wilson spent hours considering the Meastean European and Haitian situations in Cornish New Hampshire. He spoke with Secretary Lansing and Washington officials and outlined policy toward Haiti while remaining ready to depart if needed. He rode by automobile with security, played golf, and entertained meals at Harlakeden House as plans for Independence Day remained undecided.
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N. H
Wilson
Lansing
Washington
Malti
Haiti
Dominican Republic
Mexcan
Victoriano Huerta
Mexico
Bia
Department of Justice
Tenight
State Department
Berlin
Hanover
Harlakenden House
Francis B. Sayre
Helen Woodroaw Bones
Mies
Green Mountains
Rathond
Ville
Secret Service
Margaret Wilson
Cary T. Grayson
Cornieh Hills
Winston Churchill
Maxfield Parrish
Hlomer Straudens
Persy Mackaye
Tomerra
London Times notes rise in New York exchange on London
The Times reports foreign exchange moves show New York buyers shifting American securities to London amid the new war loan issue. Insurance firms and large holders sell bonds and shares to invest in US war financing, while US securities remain firm despite lower prices elsewhere.
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New York Times
London
the Times
Fovelgn
New York
United States
Atlantic
Wall Street
London Times
New York Exchange
Typhus in Serbia Effectively Checked by Sanitary Work
Report from Saloniki describes the arrival of American Red Cross sanitary personnel to Serbia. British and American doctors and nurses tightened bathing and sanitation, halting a feared typhus epidemic and reducing cholera risk. Cleanliness aims to leave Serbia with better civilian health than ever before.
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New York Times
Saloniki
Thomas Lipton
Eriat Saloniki
Saioniki
Red Crogs Sanitary Commission
United States
Europe
Serbia
Erin
Ugland Ant America
Gorgas
Red Cross
Arts
Serbias
Berbia
Germany Hikes War Economy Controls In Death War Year
British dispatch notes Prussian Diet's last sessions approving reports on wartime economics. Central pricing authority to regulate prices for essential goods, with a central arbitration court to decide permissible profits. Prisoner of war labor cited to aid harvest, iron and steel output up but material imports restricted. Government aims for stronger postwar independence.
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New York Timms
London
War Corn Company
Hlerr Hirsch of
Easen
Pederal Council
National Resource Register Bill Aims Women Inclusion
The Times reports a national resource register bill to be introduced in the House of Commons by Walter Hume Long. It proposes including women in the register and covers the registration of national resources.
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London
House of Commons
Times
Walter Hume Long
Local Government Board
Montenegrins occupy Albanian harbor of Giovanni Medua
Wireless telegram from Scutari reports Monte Negrins have seized the Albanian harbor of Giovanni Medua and are advancing toward Alessio. The message, dated June 28 from Berlin, notes the troop movement toward Alessio.
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Giovanni Medua
Alessio
Berlin
Sayville
N. Y
Scutari
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