Britain Seeks Large Credit to Finish War Effort
London reports Chancellor Andrew Bonar Law introduced a vote of credit for £500,000,000 in Parliament to cover expenditures through August raising total war credits to £7,342,000,000. He noted actual 69 day spending fell short of estimates, with lower outlays on army navy munitions and air forces.
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London
Great Britain
Andrew Bonar Law
House of Commons
Bonar Law
Dominions
Boner Law
Admiralty
Bonar Law assessing Austrian Drive as failure
British leader A. Bonar Law criticizes the Austrian offensive as a failure, citing limited gains and strong Allied defense. He praises British French and Italian troops, notes German strategic aims unmet, and highlights American reserve turning points, air power pride, and shifting submarine threats.
Mother Pledges Another Son as One Is Wounded
A mother in New York reveals she will have another son enlist after learning Joseph, aged twenty three, was severely wounded on the West front. She notes her seventeen year old son Charlie plans to join, while listing several local casualties and wounded from New Jersey and nearby communities with brief biographical details.
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West Front
Mary Golden
West Forty-fifth Street
Charlie
Joe
Golden
Newark
Joseph 1H. Schultz
Howard Street
Christian L. Clusman
Southighteenth Street
Schultz
Charles L. Meden
Clusman
Trenton
George Hunt
Filmore Street
Weavers Strike at Forstmann Huffmann Garment Works
About 700 to 800 weavers at Forstmann Huffmann Company in Garfield New Jersey walked out at noon today demanding a 30 percent wage increase after the company had already raised wages 14 percent on Monday. Wages currently range from 20 to 400 dollars weekly. Company officials say they cannot meet the demand.
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Forstmann & Huffmann Company
Garfield
N. J
Folmer
Ro-Callea
Ark of the
Germin Tete
Germans Fear Real Famine As Crops Fail In 1918 19
A dispatch from Washington reports French sources in Zurich noting Germans fear famine due to drought frost and fertilizer and labor shortages. Crop damage spans May and extend across South and Brandenburg with East Prussia at risk. vegetables scarce in the south while harvests decline in Moravia Bohemia Galicia and Austria except in Allent text where more rain fell.
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South Germany
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East Prussia
Moxavia
Bohemia
Galicia
Austria
Vienna Cuts Bread Ration Again Amid Ukraine Fiasco
London report says Vienna reduces weekly bread ration from 1260 to 630 grams, under cabinet delay for political reasons. The move follows January flour cuts and risks strikes, with authorities preparing for potential protests over shortages tied to Ukraine conditions.
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Vienna
Copenhagen
Exchange Telegraph Company
Councl
Ukraine
Creel Criticised For Monopoly in U S War Films
Hearing before the House Ways and Means Committee on the new war revenue bill heard Patrick Powers of Universal Film Company accuse Mr Creel of monopolizing official war photographs. Powers said bidding favored the government chief, restricting distribution, while Brady and Friend defended the system.
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Universal Film Company
House
Ways and Means
Powers
Signal Corps
France
Creel
Greel
William A. Brady
New York
National Association of Ficture
Arthur 8
Famous Players-Lasky Company
Paramount Film Company
Croel
Brady
Kitchin
Boy 14 Infiltrates Brother’s Regiment In France
London June 6 A Folkestone police court heard how a fourteen year old boy impersonated his elder brother in the April battle in France. He surrendered at his brother’s unit after a winter leave and fought sixteen days before his identity was uncovered and he was sent home. The elder brother had rejoined his regiment. The boy claimed he killed many Germans.
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Uruguay Plans No Loan to the Allies Says Report
A June report from Washington states Uruguay plans no loan to the Allies despite wartime conditions. Trade and finance in Uruguay have flourished, with a surge of gold inflows credited to favorable trade balances. The report notes gold export prohibitions by the United States and England have driven business and officials to seek value from exports rather than loans.
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Uruguay
Ued
England
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Urguey
Germans Start Offensive in Southern Russia
German troops in Southern Russia began an eastward advance on the Voronezh front on June 16, moving through the Varniska Rostov and Vetuiste regions. A new boundary line was reported to the Russian commander, while Bolshevik authorities mobilized all men born 1803 to 1897 for six months of service, with severe penalties for refusal.
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Rostov
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Joffe
Berlin
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Pskov
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Kursk
Valuiki
Novo Tcherkask
Sea of Azov
Give Us Light Air and Liberty Speech Quoted From Ballin
Amsterdam cables report Hamburg Nachrichten amplifies Albert Ballin speech at Reichstag meeting. He urges free trade and warns against state control, demanding light air and liberty for Hamburg Bremen and Germany to revive world trade. Damage by British seaplanes noted in Zeebrugge Ostend Bruges with naval air activity.
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Associated Press
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Hamburg “Nachrichten
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Hamburg-American Steamship Line
Hamburg
Reichstag
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Bremen
Germany
Europe
Ias
British Shoot Down 25 German Planes and Drop Bombs
London reports that on June 17 British forces engaged enemy aircraft on the northern front, destroying 25 German planes and forcing 3 down out of control, with one hostile balloon shot down in flames. About 29 tons of bombs were dropped on railway stations, junctions, dumps and airfields during the day and night, with five British planes missing.
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Ostend
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Chasse
Leopold Basin
Frederick Battery
Canal
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Thourout
Kansas to Curb I. W. W. Raiders Amid Harvest Season
TOPEKA Kan June 18 Governor Arthur Capper issued a proclamation saying information indicated the I W W is preparing raids across Kansas during harvest. He urges prompt suppression of I W W activity and cooperation with state forces in handling the threat.
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Kan
Arthur Capper To
Kansas
Stift
Ambulances Donated to France at City Hall Meeting
The Empire State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution presented four ambulances to the Republic of France at a "Win the War" meeting in the City Wall Council Chamber. John H. Burroughs stated one ambulance was on the battlefield, another en route, and a third to follow, with General Vignal accepting on behalf of France.
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Empire State Society
Sons of the Ameran
John H. Burroughs
Society
France
V. Vignal
Newton Seeks Nomination For Attorney General
Geneseo New York June 18 State Senator Charles D Newton of Geneseo announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Attorney General. He said he would advocate renomination of Governor Whitman and allies on the state ticket. Newton, a lawyer, has served two terms in the Senate.
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Geneseo
N. Y
Charles D. Newton
Ring
Whitman
Senate
Memorial for Capt Bullock Held at East New York Clubhouse
Services for Captain Harry A. Bullock who was killed in France two weeks ago were held yesterday at the East New York clubhouse of the B R. Captain Bullock a former newspaper man, had ties with the Harriman and B R interests before his military service. Vice President C D Meneely delivered the memorial address and read a letter of eulogy written by President T. B Williams. Many old friends and associates were present.
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Harry A. Bullock
France
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Harriman
C D. Meneely
T. 8. Williams
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Czecho-Slovak Acts Halt Siberian Rail Traffic
Moscow June 6 The Czecho Slovak movement against the Bolshevik government has cut off Siberian railway traffic and halted Volga river transport. Seizure of the Volga bridge near Syzran and grain movements to Nijni Novgorod have stopped. Oil shortages hinder steamers, roads of supply choke, factories along the Volga suspend work.
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Moscow
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Volga
Nijni Novgorod
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Nini Novgorod
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Astrakhan
Volga River
Ukraine Agitators Plan to Inaugurate Another Revolution
Amsterdam dispatch reports ongoing anarchic conditions in Ukraine under the new government. Daily arrests of revolutionary Socialist agitators are noted. Activists plan a renewed revolution, with peasants subjected to coercive food seizures as propaganda intensifies. Confidence in the regime remains low.
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Amsterdam
Kiev
Berlin
Soviets Move to Expel Four Political Parties in Russia
London June 18 The Central Executive Committee of the Russian Soviets voted to expel members representing the Social Revolutionists the Right the Centre and the Mensheviks from all local councils. The message cites attacks on Soviet authority by internal and external forces and accuses ousted party members of organizing armed revolt with counter revolutionaries across Don Urals Siberia and against workers and peasants.
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Right
Centre
Mensheviks
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Don
Kaledine
Korniloff
Urals
Dutoff
Siberia
Semenov
Horvath
Kolichak
Crech ‘Ovaks
Black Band
Teuton Troops in Russian Territory Reach 300000
Moscow reports German and Austrian forces occupy parts of the former Russian Empire totaling about 200000, excluding Finland. The enemy line runs from Narva to Rostov, with naval progress near Novorossiysk as Bolshevik control grows and Turkish forces push from Batoum toward Trans-Caucasia.
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Russian Empire
Finland
Narva
Bay of
Esthenia
Petrograd
Pakov
Orsha
Kursk
Valuiki
Novo Tcherkass
Rostov-on-Don
Black Sea
Sebastopol
Novorossisk
Trans-Caucasia
Batoum
Germans and White Guards Consolidate Troop Positions in Finland and Ukraine
German and Austrian forces are spread between the Ukraine and northern districts, guarding against Bolshevik influence. In Finland, 50,000 to 100,000 Germans, aided by 50,000 White Guards, are moving east from the railway to Lake Koumto and erecting barracks as they prepare for possible action toward the Murmansk railway near Ken. They also operate north of Tornea and push a railway extension toward Potchenga Hede.
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Persia
Ukraine
Finland
Spe
Lake Koumto
Muremansk
Ken
Tornea
Gulf of Bothnia
Potchenga Hede
Swedes Eject British Union Conference Delegates
British Seamen's Union representatives, who went to Sweden to discuss an international federation, were ordered to leave Sweden immediately upon arriving in Gothenburg after a successful conference in Copenhagen.
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Ottawa
British Seamen's Union
Sweden
Gothenburg
Copenhagen
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