Haig’s Men Sweep Forward Mile On Three Mile Front
British troops launched a six thousand yard onslaught between Vieux Becquin and Pont Tournais driving the line to Plate Becque. About 300 prisoners and six machine guns fell to the assault as Australians added near fifty captives in a left flank effort. The attack stunned German forces east of Nieppe forest, with rapid advances and light casualties. The Germans, focused on the Flanders grippe outbreak, were caught by surprise and driven back up to 1,500 yards in several sectors.
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Senate battle over draft age extends to 31 years
The Senate debated extending the draft to include men up to 31 years old in an $13,000,000,000 army appropriation bill. Amendments on neutrality, citizenship, and compulsory training for ages 18 to 21 were rejected, with votes split along party lines.
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Germans Lose Twenty Planes In Air Battles
London reports twenty German airplanes destroyed by British aviators over the western front in air fighting. Nine enemy aircraft were driven down out of control while British losses totaled fourteen machines. Bombing behind German lines dropped twenty one tons of bombs on railway junctions and other targets.
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Rebellious Riots Ripple Through Hungarian Cities
Reports from Paris dated June 29 describe violent outbreaks in Gyor and Pecs Hungary, with about 2000 mutineers condemned to death. The unrest is linked to a broader revolutionary wave affecting Austria and Hungary, spreading across major cities. Pecs, or Funfkirchen, has ~45,000 residents. Gyor, or Raab, ~28,000.
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Pecs
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Funfkirchen
Budapest
Raab
War office bulletin says Austrian positions harassed
Vienna via London June 20 official communication says Italian fire is ineffective behind our lines in Giudicariz Argo basin and Adige valley. Italian reconnoitering attempts failed in Presena region. Col Di Rosso Monte Di Valdella and west of Asiaga held with long artillery fire. Piave front new Italian crossing attempt near Fossalta frustrated as waters run high.
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Monte di Valdella
Asiaga
Piave
Fossalta
Counter Revolt In Manchuria Begins
AMSTERDAM June 29 Professor Paul Mitukoff leader of the Russian constitutional Democrats and Alex ander J Guchkoff Octoberist leader have arrived at Harbin Manchuria and placed themselves at the head of a counter revolutionary movement according to the Vossische Zeitung quoted in a telegram from Berlin to the Dutch Press.
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Paul Mitukoff
Constitutional Democrats
Alexander J. Guchkoff
Harbin
Manchuria
Vossische Zeitung
Berlin
Pearl Button Makers Consent To Decree
DES MOINES June 26 Twenty six Pearl Button Makers consented to a decree in federal court here permanently enjoining them and their officers from fixing prices or controlling the output of pearl buttons and the raw material in the industry in the United States.
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Des Moines
Unclear text fragment from historical crime report
An unreadable OCR fragment discusses an official confirmation about a crime and political implications. The text references an assassination and assigns political versus nonpolitical context, with garbled words and names. Further readable details are not present.
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Russi Gaabanay
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B. Dyit
Bolshevik Is Waning Amid Food Crisis Rumors
Washington reports indicate rumors of the Bolsheviki government waning for weeks tied to the food crisis. Helsingfors says Swedish press claims a Moscow regime collapse and Nicholas II’s restoration are possible, with Korniloff and German troops. Berlin dispatches deny Nicholas II’s death, citing health and safety of the imperial family. Western papers question the Kiev report of a murder during a train journey, with daughters under guard and empress and crown prince fate unclear.
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Washington
State Department
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Petrograd Telegraph Bureau
Ae Cayure
Moscow
Korniloff
Kaledines
Nicholas Michaelovitch
Amsterdam
Nicholas Romanoff
Novaia Zhien
Maxim Gorky
Hamburg Fremdenblatt
Kiev
Nicholas
Ekaterinburg
Rotary Clubs Name Poole Stateside Rotary President
Kansas City June 29 John Poole of Washington D C was elected president of the International Association of Rotary Clubs on the second ballot with 273 votes. The election became unanimous on a motion by Robinson A McDowell of Louisville. Vice presidents were Albert F Adams Edward R Kelsey Wm D Lansing and Rufus L Chapin. The convention adopted a war creed pledging continued Rotary activity in government securities war industry problems and restraint of disloyalty and saboteur activity.
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Kansas City
John Poole
Washington, D. C
International Niation of Rotary Clubs
Robinson A. McDowell
Louisville
Albert F. Adams
Atlanta
Edward R. Kelsey
Toledo
Wm. D. Lansing
Providence
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Rufus L. Chapin
Chicago
International Association of Rotary Clubs
Rotary Clubs
Department of War Industries
Trains Crash in Elmhurst Kills Four, Slows City
Four people die and many are injured when a westbound Aurora Elgin and Chicago limited electric train strikes an automotive stone truck at Elmhurst Illinois. Major Robert E. Brooks and three others die. Private Harry Jauck and several Elgin residents among the injured. Dr F S Higley aid workers. the truck crew escapes serious harm. the crash halts suburban service and highlights recruiting officer Brooks' death.
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Won British Medal Found Dead in Hotel
First Lieut. Alexander McClintock U S A 28 of Lexington Kentucky who earned King George s Distinguished Conduct Medal died by suicide in a New York hotel room He had been absent from Camp Dix New Jersey for a month His heroism came during a 1916 trench bombing mission He later served in Plattsburg and earned an American commission Survived by two brothers in the U S military He had published Best O Luck detailing his war experiences
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Alexander McClintock
Lexington
England
Camp Dix
N. J
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Murray Hill Baths
King George
Plattsburg
Kentucky
Murray Hill
John McClintock
United States
Robert McClintock
France
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Good Samaritan Hospital Unit No. 40
Lieut. McClintock
Grand Duke Leads Army in Anti Bolshev Movment
Amsterdam reports Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovitch of Russia is at Omsk directing an anti Bolshevik movement. He has refused the throne and says the decision should rest with the Russian people.
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Wolff Bureau
Michael Alexandrovitch
Russia
Omsk
Asin
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British and French advance on three fronts in Europe
British troops push forward about three and a half miles east of the Nieppe forest gaining all objectives and taking hundreds of prisoners and many machine guns. Australian units seize posts west of Morris with dozens of prisoners and machines. In France, southwest of Soissons, French forces advance four and a half miles from Amblemy to Mont Gobert, seizing German positions and taking 1,060 prisoners. German communiqué notes allied attacks north of the Lys and south of the Aisne rivers.
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Berlin
Lys
Aime
French Launch Dawn Attack Near Soissons Win Local Ground
The French army in France reports a dawn operation southwest of Soissons marked by a successful local attack. Details describe early morning activity as forces pressed forward to secure ground on the front. The report notes the operation achieved its local objective with no further immediate developments.
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French drive advances in dawn attack near Villers Cotterets
French forces attacked at dawn along a 6000 yard front and fought through the day. By late afternoon they had advanced, taking prisoners as allied troops pressed toward the Fosse Bas Cutry and St Pierre Aigle. Germans were driven from part of the Villers Cotterets forest while French artillery dominated.
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Fosse-Bas-Cutry
St. Pierre Aigle
British Push On Asiago Plateau Front Despite Brisk Fighting
British forces gained ground on the Asiago plateau with ousting advances and inflicting casualties on Austro-Hungarian troops as Italian scouting parties report brisk fighting along the front from Como to south of Sasso Rosso. The Italian War Office notes moderate artillery activity and reconnaissance operations across the sector.
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