Atlantic Flight Idea Fronted by British Plan
Washington June 21 dispatch reports Major General William Brancker outlines a transatlantic air flight plan to cross from Newfoundland to the Azores and onward to Portugal. Britain backs the project with September or October tentative timing, citing engine reliability weather forecasts and naval safety as key factors.
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Tell Hylan His Rule Smacks Of Bolshevism
The West Side Taxpayers Association rebukes Mayor Hylan for radical leanings claiming his five months in office show Bolshevik tendencies. They criticize his economic plans, municipal ownership push, and a socialist Commissioner of Markets, warning he lacks the conservative administration expected by business and property owners. The letter notes prior support for Hylan and predicts he will not be reelected.
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One Day's Life For Foes of Soviet
Moscow June 21. The commission appointed to combat counter revolution defines the execution procedure as organized terror against enemies of Soviet rule. Prisoners are shot only if the vote is unanimous and sentences follow swiftly, often within one day. Maxim Gorky's Novaia Zhizn protests inquisitions, saying suspects are coerced into confessions.
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O Leary Blames Ex Mayor For Plight In Treason Trial
Jeremiah A. O Leary, now jailed in Tombs, charges local political hostility and former Mayor John Purroy Mitchel with causing his present peril. He says legal counsel was denied due to systematic intimidation and cites a letter from Henry A. Wise declining to direct his defense. The case moves toward trial for treason against the United States.
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Austrian Food Scarce Brings Long Night Queues
The Daily Mail reports from Vienna via Arbeiter Zeitung that Austria’s weekly ration dwindles to twenty two ounces bread one pound potatoes with unusable half an ounce of bran one ounce of another mill product an ounce and a half fat six and a half ounces sugar one egg seven ounces meat plus jam and coffee substitute. Meat may be obtained only if the applicant waits all night.
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Four Germans Flee Berlin by Airplane to Denmark
Four Berlin residents escaped Thursday in two Albatross airplanes and landed safely in Denmark after coast guardships fired on their flight. One deserter carried an Iron Cross and they claimed they preferred death to returning to Berlin.
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Seydler Quits As Riots Shake Dual Empire
Dr von Seydler resigns as Austrian premier, leaving Vienna for Austrian headquarters to submit his cabinet’s resignation to Emperor Charles. Bread riots spread in Vienna districts Feveriten and Brigittenau with 150000 munition workers on strike. Protests target Germany with cries of Germany in starving us down with Germany. Police dispersed an attack on the German Embassy. arrests and injuries reported.
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Failure of Austrian Offensive Shown by German Newspapers
Washington dispatch reports that German papers on June 18 and 19 admit the Austrian offensive failed. Officials note cautious comments from Munich to Strassburg and Vossische Zeitung acknowledging no surprise for Italians, Austrian attempts to divert Italian troops, and disorganized effort against a stubborn Italian defense. The piece frames European press as discrediting the operation and highlighting strategic aims.
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Latin America to Train Allied Troops in United States
Senate Military Affairs Committee endorses an amendment allowing contingents from any Allied nation to be trained equipped and transported to the European front under U S supervision The plan targets South and Central American armies likely to total about 2 6 million with several nations already at war and Peru seizing German ships.
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Costa Rican Agent Warned Government About Summerfeld
Washington June 21 Felix A Summerfeld was arrested in New York on charges of acting for Germany and Villa A Costa Rican agent warned the State Department about Summerfeld days earlier Senor Piza hero of the Costa Rican government Tinoco protests to the U S about Montero the New York City consul Involves a diverted shipment of 7000 canes of ammunition intended for Gonzalez administration and later linked to Villa through Summerfeld
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Germans in Attack Suffer Big Losses, Pershing Reports
General Pershing reported today that enemy patrols suffered considerable losses northwest of Chateau Thierry and in the Woevre region. Artillery fighting continues in Chateau Thierry, Woevre, and Lorraine, with patrol activity described in Section A of the communiqué.
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Eight American Aviators Bomb German Railway
Paris report says eight American aviators conducted a raid Sunday night, dropping bombs on a German railway at Metz. The item notes the detail is from Le Liberté and continues on another page.
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Italians Repel Austrian Piave Offensive Near Nervesa
Italian forces repelled Austrians at two Piave River points and recaptured Nervesa threatening the Hogback position. Malans pushed near Cortellazzo as Austrians suffered heavy losses across Candela and lower Piave. American aviators destroyed a Piave bridge while Western front fighting near Chateau Thierry and Belleau Wood continued.
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Airplanes Carry Food to Austrians Trapped by Flood
Austrian airplanes were forced to airlift provisions to troops crossing the Piave River and endangered by the loss of pontoon bridges between Zenson and Musile. General Warm presses on despite Italian resistance as the Montello railroad path remains a strategic objective.
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