Defeat of Austrian forces on Piave river reported complete
Austrian war office confirms evacuation of the Montello plateau as Italian forces press along the Piave. Rome cites impetuous Italian assaults and heavy machine gun and air support by Allied units, including American aviators, with losses estimated at tens of thousands captured or killed.
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Piave
Austrian War Office
Charles
Rome War Office
Diaz
Victor Emmanuel
Rome
Washington
Italian War Office
Switzerland
Ponder Seeks Senate President Post
Little Rock June 26 Harry L Ponder Walnut Ridge state senator elect is in the city and has announced his candidacy for president of the senate when it meets in January No other candidate has announced Joins with him in the senate two former House members Martin B Lesler Van Buren county and Sam Johnson Carroll county Also an ad note for Klenzo Dental Creme at Guthries
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Little Rock
Harry L. Ponder
Walnut Ridge
Senate
Ponder
House of Representatives
Martin B. Lesler
van Buren County
Sam Johnson
Carroll County
87th Division Moves From Camp Pike to Camp Dix
Reports from Little Rock say the entire 87th Division including all units and officers has left Camp Pike for Camp Dix and is expected to depart for France soon. Arkansas recruitment will repopulate Camp Pike with National Army volunteers as July orders dispatch about 9,000 more from Arkansas.
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Camp Dix
France
National Army
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H. W. McAllister
Ouachita College
Arkadelphia
Premier Lloyd George vows fresh blow in coming days
London June 24 Premier Lloyd George warned that the next months would be anxious and a decisive blow could come within hours or days. He said Entente Allied forces are well prepared and Austro-Hungarian retreat is under way with 2000 defenders captured at the Montello spur as Italians push forward amid strong Austrian resistance. He noted cavalry actions across the Piave may ease advance and hailed American troop arrivals in France while acknowledging Russia’s volatile governments complicate any British policy.
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London
Lloyd George
Montello
Piave
Diaz
House of Commons
Governor Grants Pardon To White County Boy
Gov Brough pardons Willard Seaton 14 after burglary grand larceny conviction at White County circuit court He was sentenced to reform school and the petition bore the circuit judge prosecuting attorney and grand jury foreman plus many White County citizens. Also a notice urges Red Cross War Fund subscriptions due July 1 with payments to treasurer C C Calhoun and no pay for collectors.
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Little Rock
Gov
Brough
Willard Seaton
White County
State Reform School
Seaton
RED Cross
Red Cross War Fund
C. C. Calhoun
H. V. Scott
German U boats sink troop ship 67 missing
Washington June 24 German submarines off this coast sunk a British transport chartered by the U S government bound for the United States. The 67 crew members are missing, no troops aboard. Four boats from the steamer were located or rescued. one crew landed at Bermuda. The vessel’s identity was not disclosed under a British agreement.
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Atlantic Ocean
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Delaware Capes
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New York
Hampton Roads
Bermuda
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