French Recapture Damard as Americans Press On
British and French forces push back Germans along the Marne sector. French troops retake Logre Hospice near Locre, near Darmard and Mont Rouge, with Pershing directing American troops at Cantigny. Heavy shelling reported along the front as Allied forces advance and pressure German positions in the St Mihiel and Montdidier regions.
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Associated Press
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Loere
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Canadian Valor Victoria Cross for Wilbert Mountain
Official Gazette announces three Victoria Cross awards including Sergeant Wilbert Mountain of West York. Mountain and ten men advanced on a flank with a Lewis gun, enfilading an enemy patrol. He rallied and defended against 600 Germans for half an hour, then held a flank post for twenty seven hours and fought his way back.
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LONDON
Vin Ottaway
Wilbert Mountain
West York
Mountain
OLeary Evidence Not Given by England
Washington June 8 Attorney General Gregory announced that the indictment in New York against Jeremiah OLeary and others on treason and espionage charges was based entirely on American evidence. He said no information leading to the arrests was furnished by any foreign government and the government’s evidence has not been forwarded to any other government. The statement addressed rumors of joint British American action against the Irish agitators and suspected German agents.
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WASHINGTON
New York
Jeremiah O'Leary
reoral Gregory
Helen Gould Shepard Suffers Appendicitis in New York
Mrs. Finley J. Shepard, formerly Miss Melen Gould, is seriously ill at her Fifth Avenue home with appendicitis. Doctors report her condition is satisfactory and hope surgery can be avoided.
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NEW YORK
Finley J. Shepard
Melen Gould
Fifth Avenue
Huns Send British Prisoners to Death on Russian Front
A Royal Naval Division survivor reports 560 British prisoners tormented by German guards after alleged British sentry killings. Thirty six men were chosen to die as punishment, groups of three tied by their feet to poles and suspended in freezing nights for fourteen days, yielding forty deaths.
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LONDON
royal naval division
England
Germany
Tax Proposals Target Ohio Longworth and Revenue Bill Voice
Representative Longworth of Ohio warns that tax hikes on manufacturers will roll to consumers as hearings on a new revenue bill press for $8 billion in annual taxation. Proposals include moving picture and periodical taxes, an advertising tax, and a zone-system shift to cover postal costs, with Kitchin outlining rising distribution costs.
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Ohio
house
ways and means
A. HL
Finnery
Stamford
Conn
Albert Johnson
Washington
chenge ways and means
Kitchin
New York
Johnson
Wall Street Dull as Motors and Tobacco Lead Decline
Markets opened flat with a lackluster tone as trading concentrated on motors and tobacco shares and a few speculative issues. Turnover ran about 200000 shares with gains limited to one to four points.
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NEW YORK
Brilliant Californian ace Douglas Campbell wounded
Prof. W. W. Campbell of Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton, Cal, learning by cable from France that his son Lieut. Douglas Campbell, an American aviator and the first ace, was slightly wounded in action. The message offered little detail beyond the injury not being serious.
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GOLDENDALE
Wash
W. W. Campbell
Lick Observatory
Mount Hamilton
Cal
France
Douglaus Campbell
Campbell
Coast not proof against U-boat threat looms
Washington reports Navy plans for a fast insurance program to deter further German submarine depredations along American coasts. Future raids may occur and Atlantic waters must not be deemed submarine proof. Navy declines forecast on whether raiders remain near U S shores. patrol vigilance remains high. The Norwegian ship Vinland, 1192 tons, sunk sixty five miles off Cape Henry after the Carpathian attack, with bombs used in the assault. crew landed safely at Cape May.
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WASHINGTON
navy department
Atlantic
Owas
nowise
Vinland
Virginia capes
Cape Muay
Virginia coast
Outlook for Food in Germany Warns of Shortages
A Central News dispatch from London cites a meeting in Dresden where the German war food secretary warned that potatoes would not endure until the next harvest and that meat and fat supplies looked worse than at the year's start. He could not promise an improving outlook.
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LONDON
Central News io
Dresden
war food department
Derlin
Jle
Pershing Urges AEF to Keep Up Correspondence
The War Department released a general order from General Pershing urging American Expeditionary Forces to maintain regular letters with home. He argued constant correspondence alleviates distress and anxiety among relatives. Also reports say Imperial war cabinet and conference meetings will begin in a few days as most representatives have arrived.
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Pershing
France
America
LONDON
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imperial conference
Alaska Railroad Will Not Stop Work To Afresh
Washington June officials report a House appropriations subcommittee approved additional funds to keep about 300 workers on the Alaska railroad project. The plan rehabilitates the Alaska Northern Railway toward Fairbanks, aims to finish to the Susitna River, and extends toward the Matanuska coal ranch and Nenana coal fields to improve transport.
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house
Fairbanks
Susitna river
Matanuska
Nenana
New Teuton U Boat Accomplishes Little
A German note on submarine cruisers states two boats, sailing from Germany late 1917, reached the equator and were away four months but sank only 29 000 tons of shipping. Germany would need sixty such ships at once to match prior losses. The report adds Germany cannot sustain more than twenty of these boats, yet their cargo space allows return of scarce materials.
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PARIS
Germany
equator
European
atery
Transport Races in Darkness Near Atlantic Port
In June an Atlantic transport, under full steam with lights out, raced along the coast to elude German submarines. Crew reports wireless warnings and a shore-leave warning to reach the port swiftly. U boats pursued for twelve hours before American destroyers approached and the subs submerged.
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ATLANTIC
Skies See Battle of Planes Off Holland
A Baltic battle off the Dutch coast involved five British seaplanes and seven German seaplanes of the largest type. One German machine was seen in flames, another British craft landed safely after descent, and a British crew of two Canadians among five aboard. The fight spanned three engagements before German reinforcements and further losses.
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Terschelling
Handelsblad
Bartic
alot
Soissons District Desolated by German Offensive
Paris reports the Soissons diocese bishop, now in Paris, describing widespread German devastation during the offensive. He cites 100 churches razed and at least 100 more pillaged or demolished, with the Soissons cathedral severely damaged. He accuses Germans of war and pillage, killing women and children, and strafing refugees from the air.
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PARIS
Soissons
Soissong
Submarine Attack Foiled as Convoy Escapes Depth Charges
Rev Father Joseph Wareing of the American Red Cross aboard a convoy reports two German submarines sighted during a danger zone attack. Destroyers countered with depth charges, about fifteen blasts heard, no ships lost, convoy included many American troops and Red Cross workers. He recalls the Laconia incident and notes the smoke kept him from confirming sinkings.
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LONDON
Thu
Red Cross
Father Joseph Wareing
Father Wareing
Associated Press
Laconia
German Uboat Signaler Arrested in Atlantic City
A man identifying as Fritz Flage, believed German, was arrested in Atlantic City New Jersey and held for investigation. Detectives found Atlantic coast maps from Virginia to Massachusetts detailing Philadelphia New York Boston Baltimore Hoboken and Norfolk with industrial sites and transit routes, plus guns forts explosives drawings and what appears to be a code book in his room.
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N. J
Fritz Flage
Atlantic
Virginia
Massachusetts
Philadelphia
New York
Boston
Baltimore
Hoboken
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