Russians win 100 mile line and 101 guns
Russians claim victory as Volhynian defence collapses and German forces admit retreat from Stokhod. The report notes capture of about 32,000 Teutons and highlights the setback for German lines in the region.
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Draper
London
Germany
Volhynia
Galicia
Cvartorysk
Galician
Brody
Europe
Petrozrad
Touton
Stokmaven
Brussiloff
Kovel
Wess
Ailroad
Russia
Teuton
Vladimir Volynski
Lemberg
London Sends Relief On Side of War as Bay Explodes
Reports describe two massive blasts shaking Manhattan and nearby New Jersey. Explosions near Black Tom and Eagle oil plant send dust, smoke, and flaming debris over Jersey City and Battery, with injuries and widespread damage cited.
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Brooklyn
Washington Street
Myrtle Avenue
New Jersey
Lemberg
Kovel
Riga
Black Tom
N. J
Jersey City
British Army Turned Tide says Churchill remarks 1916
The armed forces movements in Europe overwhelmed leaders and defied full understanding as Armageddon unfurled. Churchill notes generals and cabinets saw only fragments amid vast, interdependent forces, with calculations lagging behind the whirlwind of events.
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Churchill
British Admiralty
the Tribune
the Tribune Association
London
Europe
Bremen Submarine Reported Near New Orleans Mouth
Dispatches from Port Eads and Pilottown place the German submarine Bremenie off the Mississippi River mouth. Pilots say the boat may be mistaken for an A-liner like a Bombay freighter seen nearby, but officials neither confirm nor deny the vessel’s arrival.
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Orleans
Mississippi River
Port Eads
Pilottown
Bombay
Miss Shirley Maduro Found in New Haven
Shirley Maduro aged nineteen, missing since Wednesday, was found yesterday in New Haven, Connecticut. Her father Samuel L. Maduro brought her home to 309 Webster Avenue, New Rochelle. Neighbors say heat affected her and she had intended to go to New York. she has not been well after past operations.
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Shirley Maduro
Webster Avenue
New Rochelle
New Haven
Conn
Samuel L. Maduro
New York
British Fight Drives Germans From High Ground On Somme
London dispatch reports heavy fighting as Germans fall back from Delville Wood Pozieres and Longueval with massive losses. British gains widen the wedge toward Albert and Bapaume while German counterattacks peter out. Verdunfront artillery battles continue with little ground gained.
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Trinine
London
Delville Wood
Vermandovillers
Delville
High Woods
Posieres
Somme
Haig
Albert
Bapaume
Pozieres
Longueval
Porieres
Tluge
Verdun
Vermande- Villers
Tragedy on St Ann's as strike car kills Pauline Cohen
Pauline Cohen, four, was crushed under a slowly moving St Ann's Avenue streetcar after the motorman leaped to avoid danger. A mob cried lynch, but Deputy Commissioner Lord rapid-response police formed a riot squad and escorted the suspect to the Alexander Avenue station.
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St. Ann's Avenue Cary
Lord
Alexander Avenue
Pauline
Isaac
St. Mary's Park
St. Ann's Avenue
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St. Mary’ Park
Paulin
14Th Street
Parusar
Joseph Freud
Morrisania Station
James O'Neill
149 Street
Third Avenue
R Ene
Freud
O'Neill
Folice
Lawrence B. Dunham
Max Schmittberger
Fifty-fifth Street
Lawrence Callahan
Dunham
Schmittberger
Seventy-fourth Street
Gibson and Rienscheler
East Sixty-seventh Street
Manhattan Tied Up as Strikers Boast
William B. Fitzgerald of the Carmen's Union Executive Board says the union has voted to strike on the Third Avenue lines. He claims by midnight 75 percent of car crews will quit and by Sunday the entire Third Avenue system will be tied up crippling Manhattan transportation facilities.
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Carmen's Union
Third Avenue
Manhattan
Third Avenue Railway Company
Lyceum Hall
Eighty-sixth Street
The
Carmen’s Union
Fitzgerald
Interborough
Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Third Ave Strike Upends City Streets Under Guard
Third Avenue Railway workers vote to strike shutting down lines within twenty four hours. Rioters patrol Third Avenue with barricades and stone-throwing crowds clash with police as patrols and mounted units attempt to restore order.
Britain rushes Fryatt inquiry and action debate
London reports Britain weighs Ambassador Gerard’s report on Captain Fryatt’s execution. A protest to neutral powers is likely, with limited chance of retaliation. Public opinion stirs after Lusitania and Cavell cases, amid German claims on submarine warfare.
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Fryatt
Brussels
Britain
Admiralty
Tribune
Germany
Miss Cavell
Lusitania
Henry W. Thornton
Great Eastern Railroad
England
Foreign Office Today
Walter H
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