Elaborate Wardrobe Of U S Nurses Wasted
London dispatch notes Philadelphia contingents who traveled to Liverpool found their elaborate home purchases wasted as they must wear regulation street costumes with unit brassards. A large shipment of feminine apparel is returning to America. Nurses are treated as civic guests in London for a week. Red Cross workers are common on buses and trams. Seasickness once feared submarines, now memories. gossip shifts to France and base hospitals.
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U Boats Destroy Only One Italian Vessel in Week
London reports a marked drop in Mediterranean submarine activity for the week ending June 24. One Italian steamship was sunk, with total Italian port arrivals and departures around 1,110. Allies aim to seal the Adriatic by closing the Otranto Straits and disrupting Austrian bases at Pola and Flume, while Germany contemplates routes via Gibraltar or the Dardanelles amid post-Constantine Greece instability.
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Danish Ship Sunk By U Boat Outside Prohibitive Zone
Copenhagen reports the Danish 46% ton Kenner Ivigtt sunk by a German submarine outside the prohibited zone. The captain saved his ship and was bemused as a torpedo passed under, then the sub fired a gun salute sinking the vessel. Crew abandoned ship 150 miles from land with no inquiry into the vessel’s name.
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U-Boat Sinks British Vessel. Eight Sailors Dead
London report says a German submarine torpedoed and sunk a British steamer named the Addah on June 1. The 4,207 ton vessel, built 1205 at Newrasile, measured 0 feet in draft and 48 feet in beam, with three crew lost.
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Marine League Seeks 60000 to Man New Fleet
The Marine League, at a luncheon in India Harbor Belmont, urged funding and labor to arm a merchant fleet for foreign trade. Speakers including H W Ross and J W Miller called for 60000 for ships and 10000 for training, with plans to recruit from Great Lakes towns and deploy trained seamen into merchant service.
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Board Lacks Power To Curb Paper Trust
Washington reports the Federal Trade Commission lacks enforcement power to punish paper manufacturers for pricing practices. The Senate resolution notes the FTC can issue orders but cannot prosecute. DOJ may take action. Prosecutions in New York under Sherman Act loom, as firms resisted the unwritten price agreement.
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Germany Bolsters Equal Suffrage Waning Credit by Paraders
The Reichsbank report as of June 22 shows Germany's gold holdings fell 7.47 million marks, about 19.11 million dollars, amid efforts to bolster the mark in neutral markets through exports. Total gold reserves dropped to 2.4509 billion marks from 2.9598 billion the prior week as authorities balance exchange stability with export actions to support the mark.
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Teuton Bonds Ratchet Down in Holland Market
A Daily Mail dispatch from The Hague reports the German mark rising to 3.95 guilders in Dutch exchange. The Frankfurter Zeitung notes indications of a large drop in Germany’s gold stock and a weak German credit. An attempted renewal of treasury bonds, funded by Holland for farmer payments, was agreed only on onerous terms. The German Society for House Interest petitioned the Prussian Minister to reestablish quotations on the Berlin Stock Exchange, arguing wartime suspensions no longer justified.
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Captain Jamison Retires Commodore of American Line
Captain Jamison of the American Line fleet retires after reaching the service age limit. A longtime St Louis figure, he joined the line in January 1810 as a second officer on the Vennaylvans and rose to command. Travellers knew him as a popular skipper in the service.
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Constitutional Reform Movement in Germany Losing Ground
Budapest dispatch reports a huge protest demanding universal equal and secret suffrage with about twenty five thousand participants marching through main streets. Some rioting occurred as windows broke and police struggled to disperse the crowds.
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Reforms in Germany Checked by Anti Socialists Leaders
Copenhagen June 28 The Vor wierts of Berlin says there is little hope for meaningful reform in Germany from the Reichstate committee of constitutional reforms beyond a modest start. Leaders of the Non Socialist party are said to be shaping their party politics and watching the reform effort.
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Socialist push for equal franchise in Prussia parliament
Philip Seheide Krant, Socialist member of the Reichstag committee, seeks a vote on a bill to grant equal franchise for the parliaments of Prussia and other federal states. If the proposal fails as expected, Socialists say they will show little further interest in committee work.
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England finds way to make own potash
London reports that Christopher Addison, Minister of Munitions, told the House of Commons Britain will no longer depend on Germany for potash supplies. A new method of manufacture was discovered, enabling real quantities for the glass trade and agricultural needs, despite postwar aims to hold Britain to ransom.
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