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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1918
Page
8
Paris dispatch reports Premier Seydler presented the cabinet's resignation after a meeting with Emperor Charles. The Emperor would decide on Sunday to accept. The move cites failure to handle the internal crisis, with Budapest signaling readiness to cut corn quotas to ease Austria's distress.
A Berlin telegram quoting Moscow says the Bolshevik rule is overthrown in Samara and the imperial flag now flies on many government buildings. It also notes the new Siberian government has declared a state of siege along the entire Tomek Railway.
Delayed dispatches dated June 6 report Czecho Slovak forces possibly 50 000 to 150 000 troops moving east along the Trans Siberian Railroad in Russia. Deserters from Austro Hungarian army fighting with Russians aim to reach France via Vladivostok. By June 10 they seized Samara 100 000 people, 500 miles east of Moscow, halting rail and Volga traffic and extending control toward Tomsk. Samara province 58 000 square miles with 4 000 000 people reportedly overthrown Bolshevik rule.
A Russian Educational Society gathering condemned the Bolshevik regime as a cruel parody of government. Police stopped a premature pro Bolshevik demonstration, and speakers urged Russia’s return to Allied hands while warning against individual dictatorship and continued Bolshevik agitation.
London dispatch from Moscow cites M. Brovsky, commissioner for Industry and Commerce, stating the Russo German Commission on economic relations discussed a foreign loan for Russia to meet em- gagements. Germany would gain wide exploitation rights to Russia natural riches via concessions, while the Russian government keeps control and profits share.
Washington dispatch reports Poles making 4 percent of the U S population yet accounting for 10 percent of American expeditionary force deaths in action on the French front. Chicago officials note the rising Polish share from 8 to 10 percent as they honor Polish troops in France and consider service under the Hitchcock bill in Congress.
Richard Cronin of the Mayor's Committee on National Defence told more than 500 Negroes at a Salem M E Church loyalty meeting that German plots spread stories of discrimination. He read Pershing's dispatch praising Negro soldiers and denying such reports. Ensign Blackwood spoke on Navy submarine work, while Miss Day urged women's aid in making garments for servicemen. Isabel Lowden spoke for the Red Cross. Cleveland G. Allen presided.
Russians want intervention according to Bernstein as teens cross embattled lines and come under fire. A truce was declared to allow passage through the zone.
Special Cable reports from London that well informed Russians foresee inevitable intervention in Siberia. Russians fear conflict with Americans but sympathize with them. British opinion splits on Japanese intervention as military necessity vs harm of Russia’s isolation. French observers favor intervention but seek government explanation of policy.
London dispatch reports railway workers in Bessarabia strike, halting the country and several munitions depots occupied by Romanians blown up. The Frankfurter Zeitung cites political motives for the unrest.
Major General E. D. Swinton, of the British army, described the tank's origin at a benefit for the American tanks corps. He traced the idea to a 1914 American caterpillar tractor seen in Amsterdam, noting secrecy and misdirection during its development and debunking myths about snowplows and Mesopotamia. He described covert preparations at a secret training field guarded by sentries and a Zeppelin sighting before shipments to France.
The casualty list shows fifty six names: 23 killed in action, 16 died of wounds, 2 died of disease, 11 died in airplane or other accidents, and 13 wounded severely. Official totals from Pershing include 140 killed in action and 204 wounded in action. Three officers listed: Hughes, Cope, and Goodwin, with Goodwin severely wounded. Names span multiple cities and states, with Marines among the casualties and prisoners noted.
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