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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1918
Page
11
Teuton writer Kuehlmann outlines a bold German strategy centered on asserting naval dominance to seize control of the Suez Canal and project influence over India. The advance article frames freedom of seas as a key justification, detailing ambitions and potential regional repercussions.
The article in the Voasische Zeitung argues that Germany must seek freedom of the seas by capturing the Suez Canal and replacing British interests in India and Africa. Ehrenberg links victory on land to naval dominance, predicts Constantinople, and outlines a plan to control the Suez Canal and extend a German empire from East Africa to the Indian Ocean.
Washington reports Germany accepted a U S invitation to send representatives to Berne Switzerland for a conference on August 5 with an American delegation on exchange and treatment of prisoners of war. The issue includes pay of officers held in each country and follow up on prior German proposals.
Will L. Finch, current treasurer, defended the Junior Naval Reserve against charges by Franklin Brooks. Finch claimed the organization is in good shape, despite some prominent members leaving, and accused Brooks of misleading creditors and advisors. He described underwriting the finances and noted Town Development Company had no commission costs. Brooks countered that boys are not being trained for sea service and criticized Finch’s six months as treasurer.
Detectives raided the Alien Women and Children's Relief offices at 25 West Broadway after a board member reported irregularities. The moving spirit Rudolph B. Toth and chairman Frederick Schroeder were absent. papers were damaged and seized along with anti war literature. Olga Reiss reported funds misused, with 5200 missing for Haven home care and 2500 carried on books as cash on hand. The seizure included a weekly paper The American Liberator and ties to Fatherland publications.
Association of New York with 690,000 salesmen considers rate cuts. Gerrit Ort, passenger traffic director, reviews proposals for a universal mileage book at 2 cents per mile totaling $5,000 miles for submission to Director General McAdoo.
Paris June 22 The libel action of Dr. von Kuehlmann German Foreign Secretary against Deutsche Zeitung Berlin over Bucharest April conduct is set for next week Witness lists include chauffeurs who rode with the secretary and a Havas veurse Zeitung report accusing him and Count Czernin of conduct that harmed their nations during Bucharest negotiations.
Washington dispatch reports American Minister Reinsch will come back to seek direct talks on the Far East crisis. The mission aims to secure U.S. financial aid and influence China’s wartime participation while ensuring any use of funds is approved by Washington and does not prompt unapproved actions in Siberia.
A fire record notes owner named Abranem Coban signed an incident form with the address 40010. The report lists the event as a residential fire with notes about the property and involved parties. The record also references civic or regional responders and a distributor or registrar, with unclear details in the damaged text.
Cleveland H. Dodge, treasurer of the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief, urged writers to back an $80,000,000 Near East relief campaign. He warned war with Turkey would empower Germany, endanger Christian communities, and devastate missionary property, as the committee expands to aid Greeks and Persians.
The article argues von Kuehlmann’s resignation reflects Germany’s arrogant mood as pan Germanists push for world empire. It contends the peace offer will come not from a defeated power but from a Germany halted short of total victory, justified by the high command amidst costly war, with Allies holding vast reserves and refusing surrender.
Paris dispatch reports German Foreign Secretary von Kuehlmann offered resignation and Vienna dispatch says the Emperor will likely accept. A Zurich source cites the Journal. Copenhagen reports Chancellor von Hertling to visit army HQ for a major conference per Vossische Zeitung.
Paris dispatches report Kuehlmann’s Reichstag speech as an appeal to Pan Germans and peace advocates, proposing Baltic annexations and a colonial empire to lure Allies into peace talks. French press says the speech replays propaganda, while signaling openness to peace proposals.
Washington report notes censorship impedes information on Austria's labor and food amenities as the Budapest strikers surpass sixty thousand and continue to grow amid growing unrest and international attention.
Berne dispatch reports Austrian papers show no Budapest strikes mention and no telegrams from Budapest. Budapest paper Penti Neplo dated June 22 quotes Deputy Lahn saying June 20 strikers in Budapest topped sixty thousand and the movement spread to provincial towns.
The Polish National Department issues a war notice appealing for American moral support for Poles in Austria. They credit Poles there with undermining Austrian and German aims, disputing Brest-Litovsk, and pressuring martial law, urging Allied sympathy to back a future independent Poland with access to the sea.
Secretary Lansing issued a statement clarifying the United States position that all branches of the Slav race should be freed from German and Austrian rule. The note responds to propaganda misinterpreting the May 29 declaration on Czecho Slovaks and Jugoslavs and reiterates U S support for independence across Slavic nations under foreign rule.
Amsterdam dispatch reports the Echo Belge says typhoid is raging among German troops in northern France. Several units are said to have nearly all personnel affected, with the disease contributing to German setbacks and affecting their capability to resume offensives.
Mount Vernon New York June 28 The Board of Education found no ground for disloyalty charges against Miss Caroline Kreykenbohm and Miss Harriet Holcke two Mount Vernon High School teachers The hearing drew about 250 attendees demanding removal of German from the curriculum and ended with the board deferring action
Amsterdam reports that Ukraine launched an air postal network with lines radiating from Kiev into the Crimea and extending to Brest-Litovsk, Odessa, Yekaterinoslav, and onward to Nicolaev, Kherson, Bucharest, Kharkov, Sebastopol, and Feodosia. The system spans about 1125 miles with trials showing a Brest-Litovsk to Sebastopol flight in 13 hours. Each aircraft carries 200 pounds, with 200 horsepower engines and two aviators.
The Federal Food Board modified the beef conservation regulation of June 18 to allow meals with beef up to four per week to help hotels, restaurants, clubs, and other large eatery stocks avoid spoilage. It permits serving prime beef as needed to use up supply by July 14, with a required proprietor statement detailing quantities and identifying marks to the board.
Plans completed for July 4 Mount Vernon tribute under the Foreign Born Committee with President Wilson invited to participate. A tomb ceremony will feature an address, songs by John McCormack, and a wreath placed by each committee member on behalf of their nationality. The event forms part of a nationwide series expected to involve about 18 million foreign born participants. The group will sail on the President’s yacht Mayflower with Wilson, the diplomatic corps, and committee representatives from thirty nationalities.
London June 28 British labor conference concludes with a resolution urging Dominion statesmen at the conference in London to press the British government to settle the Irish question by granting Ireland a large measure of home rule.
A Special Dispatch to The Tribune reports Austria-Hungary and Germany in a quarrel with European neutrals over trade. The Berlin dispatch notes tensions at a full Meichatae sitting on Wednesday amid discussions about the peace and relations with neighboring nations.
Paris dispatch reports President Poincaré and Premier Clemenceau welcomed Rev. Dr. Charles MacFarland who delivered a sympathy message from American Christians to France. They praised the Christian spirit guiding aid and noted American soldiers’ popularity in France. Captain Andre Tardieu will present MacFarland to General Foch before he goes to the front. In North Dakota, a non partisan ticket leads a primary, with Congressman Baetrich to be renamed as part of a reform slate.
Twenty four members of the troopship Dwinsk crew, torpedoed without warning by a German submarine on June 18, reached Shelburne Nova Scotia aboard a Gloucester fishing schooner. They had drifted about 600 miles with only one biscuit per day before rescue on June 26. The Dwinsk carried no soldiers aboard and the men, English and exhausted, planned to travel to Halifax for transportation home.
Internal revenue men uncovered fifteen barrels of whiskey camouflaged as rubbish in a Brooklyn café cellar at Broadview and Driggs Avenue. The unregistered liquor, valued at about 6,000, belonged to William Holland and exposed the owner to double the value fine and penalties. Albert H. Munsell, portrait painter and former Massachusetts Normal Art School instructor, died at 60 in Brookline, Mass.
Paris dispatch reports three frontier fences, one electrified, failing to stop German soldiers from deserting into Switzerland. Military authorities curb Alsace Lorraine soldiers by cancelling leaves of absence and special privileges.
The French Socialist party and the General Confederation of Labor announce a congress in Paris on July 28 to discuss international questions. Attendees include Camille Huysmans, secretary of the Socialist Internationale, and Hjalmar Branting, the Swedish Socialist leader.
Private advices report that the British steamship Atlantian carrying munitions was torpedoed and sunk with no casualties. The vessel of 9,999 tons, 1899 build, belonging to the Leyland Line, sailed from this port for Europe on May 28 with a crew of sixty five. Cablegrams offered no further details.
Washington June 28 The War Department will build five more refrigerating and ice making plants in France to freeze 30 to 40 million pounds of beef. All machinery and materials come from the United States. lumber and concrete from French forests used by American regiments. army personnel will operate plants with capacities of 10 million pounds of beef and 5,000 tons of ice.
Tony Trober of 159 West Twentieth Street was sentenced in Jefferson Market to six months in the work house for telling a convalescent adlier in the Van Buren house garden on Went Fourteenth Street, to hell with the soldiers, to hell with the country.
Correspondence from Amsterdam reports Bohemian opera singer Destinn barred from Prague stage amid anti Austro-Hungarian demonstrations. Police issued order halting appearances as she visited a castle bought near Prague and planned to sing for Austro-Hungarian troops. She faced detention after failing to fulfill Metro contracts and sought aid from Ambassador Penfield, who won a brief passport.
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