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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1918
Page
17
The U S Transport Lincoln was torpedoed and sunk on its voyage home. Reports indicate the casualty list will be small if confirmed, with one vessel remaining afloat for an hour before sinking.
The Greek army aided by French artillery forced Bulgarians back along a nine mile front near Seka di Legen on the Struma River. More than 1,600 prisoners, 33 officers, and substantial war materials captured. Greek troops train 400,000 for Balkan offensive. air forces bomb railways in Vardar Valley.
An official French telegram states that large French reserves will halt the German drive. Until now only limited troops have been engaged, one reason the German advance has progressed toward the Marne valley.
A disaster report details New York residents aboard the President Lincoln when it sank. Names, ages, and addresses surface for several victims and survivors, with notes on their jobs at local firms and shipboard roles. The article hints at missing crew members and ongoing inquiries.
Washington May 31 A German propaganda drive aimed at shaking Italian faith in the United States was disclosed in Telegram dispatches reporting thousands of German papers circulated in Italy claiming President Wilson’s message to Italy was meant for France and that Italian authorities altered the words Italy and Italian. Soldiers in Italian trenches reportedly ignored the leaflets and ridiculed them while officials suggested an Austrian attack was unlikely amid internal Austrian tensions.
London reports via the Daily Mail Copenhagen desk that Petrograd news says the Germans have captured and fortified several forts at Kronstadt, signaling a Russian naval base under threat.
Allied reports describe German bombers striking a Canadian hospital at 1230 AM, killing an American medical officer and injuring many as a wing collapsed in flames. Rescue crews battled fires as hospital personnel and fire brigades worked to recover the dead and missing amid ruins and alarms.
German airmen attacked behind American lines in Picardy, dropping bombs near a major hospital and harming civilians and private homes. American nurses and Red Cross workers evacuated wounded as windows shattered. raids followed by anti-aircraft fire and ongoing evacuations.
British General Staff reports German forces have advanced to the right bank of the Marne on a ten mile front near Chateau Thierry and Dormans. They have not captured Chateau Thierry, but fight heavily there and to the north, while widening the salient and threatening Rheims.
United States forces near Toul crossed no man's land in a major attack, advancing behind artillery with engineers clearing entrenchments. They penetrated the German line by over 400 yards, took two prisoners, and inflicted signs of enemy losses with minimal American casualties. Cantigny counterattacks failed as U.S. troops held and strengthened new positions.
Berlin dispatch summarizes war office statements on French front progress from Noyon to Rheims. Reports favorable advances across the Aisne and Marne regions, capturing lines and positions, with rising prisoner and loot totals and French counterattacks repulsed. Paris confirms German pressure along the Marne with limited gains and strong French defense, and Haig reports in London note no major British front developments beyond a German post neutralized near Arras.
Berlin reports that forty five divisions are in action as Ludendorff’s drive pushes toward Paris. The Marne frontline shows gains with ten mile advances south of the Aisne and a rail cut at the Marne. Paris holds firm as Allied forces delay a decisive outcome while Germany boasts vast prisoner and weapon captures.
The German advance reaches the Marne between Chateau Thiersy and Darniers, extending the front to over eighty miles toward Paris. Reports place the line from Nayon to Pommiers west of Soissons, then southeast to Thierry and along the Marne toward Dormann and Ville-en-Tardenoin, with 45 divisions involved in the push.
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