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Newspaper
Paoli Republican
Location
Paoli, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1918
Page
2
Chicago Tribune dispatches report Floyd Gibbons wounded near Chateau Thierry as American operations continue. Submarine warnings prompt U S protective measures along Jersey coast and transit routes. Reports cover Allied front stabilization, manpower mobilization, and a Cologne air raid casualties.
Former vice president Charles Warren Fairbanks and ex Senator from Indiana died in Indianapolis from nephritis. All immediate family were at his bedside except Maj Richard Fairbanks in France.
The state department rejects Germany’s demand to exchange Capt. Lieut. Franz Rintelen for U S citizen London. Germany threatened reprisals. The war department asks Congress for 16 million dollars to fund balloon and seaplane bases to guard against submarines and aircraft. Senate debate erupts over navy submarine sinkings, with Senator Lewis accusing misstatements. Secretary McAdoo urges a tax bill to raise eight billion dollars, plus a high war profits tax. About 250,000 men born since June 6, 1897 have volunteered for service before draft.
Italian troops pushed into enemy trenches on the Monte Di Val Bella front capturing 50 prisoners. The Italian war office reported seizure of machine guns and a quantity of materials.
A movement aims to petition the Massachusetts Legislature to conscript women for war work. Despite appeals, many women involved in patriot activities resist such a draft, arguing it would curb morale. Supporters say women must join in to hasten victory, noting leisure activities take time away from patriotic duties.
A Belfast steamer bound from England to Ireland was torpedoed by a German submarine at night and reached an Irish port badly damaged. Three crew members were killed in the explosion, four torpedoes were fired, but three missed their marks as the vessel stayed afloat by daybreak. The crew later boarded to attempt salvage.
City employes and county officials in Owensboro Kentucky will mobilize to assist the wheat harvest. City Commissioners offer 26 municipal workers at no cost to farmers, with more staff to be sent to rural districts as available to help during the early part of the week.
Two whalers arriving in New Bedford report being halted by a German submarine off Cape Hatteras. Captain J. T. Gon salves of the schooner A. M.Nicholson pleaded his case and received permission to proceed with his ship and $80,000 worth of sperm oil cargo unharmed.
In St Olafraville Ohio a collision on the National road east of town killed Mr and Mrs William Cellers of Bellaire and one year old Lil Man Paden of Martins Ferry. Six others were injured as cars attempting to pass collided and occupants were thrown to the brick pavement. Cellers served as president of the Bellaire Brewing Co.
A Japanese freighter named Aikoku Maru struck a ledge in dense fog off the North Pacific Coast and rests precariously, with a risk of slipping into deep water at high tide, according to a message received by the local Merchants' Exchange.
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