Indictments Tie Irish Plot to German Espionage Ring
Nine people face federal charges for conspiring to violate the espionage act and attempting treason. Baroness Kretschman and officers including Lieutenant Commander Hermann Wessels and Willard Robinson are among the defendants. They are accused of entering the United States to aid Germany, gather military information, and enlist Irish and others in plans against Britain and the United States. Bail denied for the four in court. others await arraignment. The case includes payments and roles of each alleged conspirator and details of their alleged espionage activities.
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Maria von Kretschman
Mme
Maria K. de Victorica
Hermann Wessels
Karl Rodiger
Jeremish O'Leary
Bull
Willard 3. Robinson
Linn Fein
Albert Paul Fricke
John I. Winn
Sinn Felner
Welland Canal
Emil Kipper
Cften
Hugo Schweitzer
Rudolph Binder
Avay
Vieworices
Romger
Foreign Office
Ireland
United States Army
Berlin
Baroness Kretschman
Wessels
Willard Robinson
Albert
Judge Hand
United States
Thomas McCarthy
Dudley Field Malone
Fricke
William H, Ly
Broadway
John J. O'Leary
Robinson
Barontes Kertschman
Victorica
Rodiger
Wil-hormstrasse
Great Britain
Vietorien
Ray Yentzer
Department of Juitice
Charles de Woody
Invents Airplane For Enemy Lands In American Trap
Bruno von Bultzingsloven, inventor of a rotary lifting aeromobile called the geromobile, was lured to a Manhattan Hotel by an alleged Kaiser representative. He was arrested on seditious utterance charges after surrendering plans and a model, with $1,000 found on him and bail set at $10,000. The case reveals aFederal probe into German espionage and guerrilla warfare plans from a meeting that exposed U S security interests.
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Bruno von Bultzingsloven
Manhattan
United States
von Bultzingsloven
Department of Justice
Trinity Avenue
Bionx
East Twenty-first Street
von Bultvingsloven
Germany
America
O'Leary
Bull
Irelaras
Apeel
Bray Intelligence Service
von Bultsingsloven
Teuton Threat Fails to Free Capt Rintelen and Warns Germany
A German demand to release Captain Franz Rintelen was met with a defiant U S note from Secretary Lansing. The United States warned that acting on German reprisals would invite reciprocal action against German subjects in the United States. The dispatch details Rintelen’s history as a paymaster for anti British plots and notes Siegfried Paul London’s contested American citizenship and wartime actions.
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Tribune
Washington
Franz Rintolen
Germany
United States
State Department
Siegfried Paul London
Rintelen
Lansing
Franz Rintelen
Atlanta
Federal Prion
Labor National Peace Council
Welland Canal
Siegfried Paul Jonson
Leipsic
New York
Warsaw
London
Mary Leonhard
Billion Bushel Wheat Crop Forecast Tops Nations
The Department of Agriculture projects the second largest wheat crop in U S history at 931 million bushels for winter and spring wheat combined. If ideal growing conditions continue, harvest could reach 1 billion bushels. Oats are forecast at 1.5 billion, barley 235 million, and rye 81 million bushels.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Can't Drown or Kill Marine Says Daniels
Secretary of the Navy Daniels praised marines saying there are no better fighters in the world and that a marine cannot be drowned or killed. He called the marine the minute man of the service ready for any action and to be counted on for maximum worth.
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Daniels
the Tribune
Washington
Secretary of the Navy
Chateau Thierry
China Menaced By Teutons in East Siberia
Austro-German troops operate near the Chinese boundary in Eastern Siberia with Bolshevik forces against General Semenoff. The move may trigger Japan's intervention under a recent Far East protection pact approved by Entente allies. The near-Chinese terrain suggests Japan may act to resolve the long smoldering crisis.
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Washington
Siberia
Semenoff
China
Japan
Far East
Dissension Said To Have Broken Up Semenoff's Army
Shanghai dispatch reports General Semenoff, anti-Bolshevik Siberian leader, leaving the Transbaikalia front due to internal dissensions. He is said to disband his force and flee toward Mongolia, while Bolshevik forces pressed across the Dnon River in Transbaikalia.
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Semenoff
Shanghai
Tranabaikalia Front
Harbin
Mongolia
Associated Press
Tarbin
Manchuria
Siberia
Dnon River
Transbaikalia
Japan Denies Pact Gives Her Virtual Control of China
Tokyo officials reject a Shanghai Gazette report alleging a China Japan military pact offered Japan command of Chinese forces police arsenals dockyards and mines and broader privileges in Manchuria Mongolia and beyond. The denial stresses no such arrangement exists and questions the Gazette’s sources.
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Japan
China
Associated Press
TORIO
Shanghai Gazette
Eugene Chen
Peking Gazette
Peking
Shanghai
Siberia
Inner Mongolia
Manchuria
Vinland Sunk by U Boat Off Virginia Coast
The Norwegian steamship Vinland, 1,193 tons, was bombed and sunk by a German submarine about sixty five miles off the Virginia Capes at 6 p m on June 5. The crew was rescued and landed today at Cape May New Jersey. No further details were released by the Navy Department.
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Washington
Vinland
Virginia Capes
Navy Department
Cape May
N. J
Harpethian
Virginia
Harpathian
Department
U S Transport Chased 12 Hours Up Coast By Two U Boats
A U S transport raced up the Atlantic coast for twelve hours with darkened lights and high speed to elude two German submarines. Crews on shore leave reported warning wireless alerts and urged meeting by American destroyers as the submersibles pursued.
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U.S
Atlantic
Vinland Attacked In Rough Weather Off New Jersey Coast
Nineteen Vinland crew members, mostly Swedes and Norwegians, were rescued after the Norwegian freighter Vinland was sunk by a U-boat off Cape May amid fog, showers, and squalls. The survivors, exposed and injured, were hospitalized at the Wissahickon Barracks. The ship was 1,183 tons gross, 228 feet long, built in Bergen in 1906, and was carrying sugar northbound.
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Cape May
N. J
Wissahickon
Bergen
Norway
Steamer Argonaut Sunk by U Boat Off the Scillys
Advices received at Edward F. Geer’s office state the steamship Argonaut was sunk by a German submarine off the Scilly Islands on June 6. Owned by Mr. Geer, the Argonaut originated as the Hamburg American Albingia and served the Atlus route to the West Indies. Built at Belfast in 1893 by Harland and Wolff, she measured 2050 tons with a length of 401 feet and a beam of 47 feet.
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Scillys
Edward F. Geer
State Street
Argonaut
Mr. Geer
Hamburg-Ameri
Albingia
Atlus
Harland & Wolff
St Belfast
Allied Troops Take Veuilly as Poilus Gain North of Aisne
Allied marines with French forces advance northwest of Chateau Thierry capturing four villages and pushing two miles on a ten mile front. They retake Veuilly la Poterie Souresches Vinly and Torcy, taking 300 more prisoners. French forces counter attack north of the Aisne near Le Port Fonten and Ambleny while British and French troops regain Bligny.
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Chateau
Thierry
Paris
Veuilly-la-Poterie
Souresches
Vinly
Torcy
Ludendorff
Touresches
Pershing
Veuilly
Soissons
le Port Fonten
Aisne
Ambleny
Bligny
Ypres
Lacre
Chateau Thierry
Veuilly-la- Poterie
Bouresches
American Minute Men At Chateau Thierry Inspire Britain
London reports Premier Lloyd George praised American valor and skill in the early Marne and Chateau Thierry actions. The first American action on the Marne front is described as a dramatic shift from training camps to battle, with machine gunners earning decorations and praise from French and British allies. The narrative underscores national resolve and the high stakes of the war effort.
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London
David] Lloyd George
Printers’ Society of London
Lloyd George
France
Sune
Soissons
Rheims
Marne
Chateau Thierry
America
Americans Capture 300 More Germans On Six Mile Front
In Picardy the American army reports 800 prisoners taken as two attacks push the front six miles long and shallow to about two and a half miles. German dead lie in piles, many machines guns captured, and prisoners include young guards. Private Carl B. Mills recalls the Weuilly Wood assault and the unit’s cooperation. Red Cross workers are praised for bravery.
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Picardy
Chateau Thierry
Carl B. Mills
Visalia
Cal
Weuilly Wood
Red Cross
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