Zone System for Army Purchases and Allied Measures
The article describes a new zone based procurement plan for army supplies with 13 general depots handling production awareness and open bids. It notes rapid overseas shipment readiness, especially for ordnance, rifles, and field equipment, and mentions allied measures including fur trade shifts and currency. It also reports on price controls in Canada and Switzerland, and highlights entertainment efforts for American troops in London.
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Atem
Washington
Pias
United States
Quartermaster Department
General Supply
Quartermaster General
Army Ordnance Department
Department
Froanes
France
Franece
Crowder orders fight or work for all draft age men
Edward W. Pickard reports on Crowder's new selective service rule forcing every man of draft age to choose between military service and non military work after July 1. The plan targets idlers and workers in non useful occupations, with broad scope across labor groups and professions, and aims to bolster manpower for farms shipyards and munitions as U S mobilizes for France.
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Edward W. Pickard
France
Atlantic
War Department
House of Representatives
Mr. Caldwell
House
Caldwell
Great Britain
Wilson
Crowder
Selective Service
Washington
Inbor
Gregory
Ireland
Sinn Fein
de Valera
Sinn
United States
America
Jeremiah O'Leary
Americnan
Germans Drive Marne Advance as Allied Line Breaks
German forces push south toward Paris driving a wedge into the Allied line near the Marne river south of Pere-en-Tardenois. French and British efforts slow the drive while holding the northern Marne heights and Rheims forts. The battle also spreads northwest along the Ailette and east of Rheims with varying French resistance.
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Marne
Pere-en-Tardenois
Paris
Ailette
Rheims
Soissons
German Airmen Hit Canadian Hospital in Night Raid
A German air raid fatally injures an American medical officer and dozens of patients and staff at a Canadian hospital. The 12:30 a.m. strike scorched a hospital wing, burying people under brick and wood as flames spread through the collapsed structure.
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Existe
Attacks on French Positions Repulsed on River Allette
Paris reports German attacks on French lines along the right bank of the Allette river were repulsed. German forces exceeded to the Marne with light detachments reaching the river between Charters and Jaugonne. The right flank area near Rheims remains unchanged per the war office statement.
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Paris
Allette
Marne
Charteres
Jaugonne
Rheims
War Office
Cotton exports to Italy get earlier license deadlines
Washington moved up the effective date for individual licenses on raw cotton exports to Italy by 20 days to tighten imports control. Special licenses in effect will be withdrawn June 10 instead of June 30, after which individual licenses will be required.
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Leipzig
Germany
United States Chamber of Commerce
France
Austria
Washington
Berliner Tageblatt
Saxony
Petrograd
Ukraine
McAdoo
Pullman Company
Italy
War Trade Board
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Rutgers College
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Ville sur-Ancre
Locre
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