Lansing Scores Foe Methods German Treachery
The address by Secretary Lansing at Union College denounces German wartime conduct. He cites Bernstorff’s warnings and Berlin’s lack of honor, calling the German government hypocritical for breaking promises to suppress maritime slaughter and warning that U.S. action would follow.
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Union College
SCHNECTADY
N.Y
ssinniem
wen
Robert finonsing
Nere
Americ foreign office
United States
Bernhslahi
Berlin
Crushing German Tactics Fail to Break Allied Line
June 10 report from France notes German forces failed to achieve a decisive advance between Montdidier and Gisors despite heavy infantry waves. Allies held firm west and southwest of Noyon while counterattacks regained ground after early advances. German use of poison gas preceded assaults, but central sector defense remained strong.
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FRANCE
Associated I‘vess
Montdidier
Gise
Noyon
American Steamer Mauban Sunk Off Italian Coast
News from New York reports the Mauban, a 1521 ton American steamer, sunk off the coast of Italy after leaving Manila for European waters. Twenty crew members arrived aboard a freight ship, bringing details of the disaster and related losses from Genoa and an American port voyage.
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NEW YORK
Wal
Manila
City of Pensacola
Genoa
City of Wilington
Willington
byume
Favorite Thimble of Mrs Wilson Sells for $1000
New York reports Colonel Green, son of late Mrs Hetty Green, paid $1000 for Mrs Woodrow Wilsons favorite thimble. The aviation committee of the National Special Aid society announced the sale to raise funds for aviator equipment not in government issue. The president's wife had sent the thimble on the first air mail trip from Washington to be sold by the committee.
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NEW YORK
hh. Green
Hetty iGreen
Woodrow Wilson
aviation committee
National Secial Aid society
Washington
Captured Americans Led Back Into Allied Lines
London dispatch reports three American soldiers Corопрial Sidney W. Rogers and Privates Raymond Howard and Frank P. Ridgway were captured near Chateau Thierry. tangled fighting front caused captors to lose track and march the prisoners into British lines where they were imprisoned. Germans pressured them for landing and unit details. Americans refused to answer.
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LONDON
Chateau ‘Thierry
Times
France
Sidney W. Rogers
Raymond Howard
Frank P. Ridgway
Sists
Europe
Clemenceau Reports Mixed Front News From Paris Front
Paris dispatch notes Clemenceau praised the overall French stance while enemy forces gained a marginal central advance. Analysts say the attacker suffered heavy losses, with about five divisions put out of action, and French reserves remaining unused as of the latest reports.
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PARIS
dune
Premer Clemenceau
Navy to issue sailing orders for submarine raid route
New York June 1 48 after a submarine raid on Atlantic shipping the navy department will issue routing instructions for Voss operating between New London Connecticut and Barnegat New Jersey. Masters must obtain orders from the routing officer before leaving port and be ready to follow wireless directives to reach the nearest port for orders.
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NEW YORK
Atlantic seaboard
Voss
New London
Conn
Barnegat
N. d
navy department
Third naval district
navy
Long Range Shells Bombard Paris District Continues
June 10 report notes continued long range bombardment of the Paris district with shells described as long range types. No casualties or specific targets cited in readable text.
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PARIS
Late Salmon Fleet Catches Ice Stranding Off Behring Sea
Washington June 16 A merchant fleet from Seattle bound for Salmon canneries became trapped in late ice off Behring Sea. The Tacoma sank while the Roosevelt and others towed vessels to safety. Surviving crews and workers were rescued with no large loss of life expected.
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WASHINGTON
Seatue
risteel bay
Behringsen
Tacoma
department of commerce
Roosevelt
Dureau of fisheries
Tacoma land
Pour I
Darkenlaine
Uave
salmen
Prilyilott islands
Andasku
bord
Supreme court sustains apex rights in mining vein dispute
In a long running case the Supreme Court upheld the right of the West End Consolidated Mining Co to operate a vein apex on both sides of the crest beneath surface ore. The decision affects the Jim Butler Mining Co and West End stock fluctuated dramatically after initial reports.
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Butler
West End
WASHINGTON
supreme nouve
Jim Butler Tenopal Mining Compiany
Nosa
Ixy
Jim Butler
Moent Oe
supreme court
Jim Butler Mining company
Ponopak
West
nd Consolidated Mining company
Ponopah
West Ind
S. S. Downer
West nd
Jim Butter
American steamer Pinar del Rio torpedoed off Maryland coast
June 10 reports say the American steamer Pinar del Rio was torpedoed by a German submarine off the Maryland coast. Chief Mate Arkes and 15 crew members landed today at Manteo Lifesaving Station, North Carolina, about 55 miles below Norfolk. The survivors said another lifeboat with the captain and 17 men separated on Saturday night and hadn’t been seen since.
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POLK
Via
Pinar del Rio
Maryland
Arkes
Manteo
North Carolina coa
Norfolk
Bulgars and Turks May Fight in West
Amsterdam June 10 unity of military command extended from Germany and Austria to Bulgaria and Turkey. The supreme war council of the central powers will have the right to transfer troops between armies, the Deutsche Tages Zeitung reports.
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AMSTERDAM
Girmany
Austria
Bulgaria
Turkey
Deutsche "Tages 4eltung
Berlin
supreme war council
central “powers
Austrians Rush Troops to Italian Front Amid Rail War Efforts
Austrians rush troops and heavy guns toward the Italian front as railroads operate at capacity day and night. Field Marshal Boroevic commands in the Phive river district while von Hoezendorf leads mountain fronts. deserters are pursued with heavy rewards, and Venice remains a focal point of air raids. Children fish and play near canals as the home front appears peaceful beyond the line.
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Italy
bate
Conrad von Hoetzendorf
Boroevic
Phive river
Venice
Taft Calls for New Eastern Front Against Germany
Former president William J. Taft addressed Delaware College graduates stating the Eastern front has been lost to German treachery. He urged rapid action by the United States, claiming greater money, munitions, and manpower to defeat Germany and end militarism.
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NEW YORK
Del
William J. Taft
Delaware College
Germany
United States
Allies plan to pool resources into war machine
Washington reports a 10 year plan to pool United States and cobelligerents resources into one vast economic and war machine. The scheme, in the hands of Chairman Baruch of the War Industries Board, would make the board nearly the industrial dictator of allied nations. It aims to align financial needs and eliminate duplicated manufacturing effort.
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WASHINGTON
United States
Wilson
Baruch
war, industries board
industries board
Alles
Conscience Casts Life Sentence in Prison
In San Antonio Texas on June 10 a court martial imposed sentences of imprisonment on forty five conscientious objectors who refused to wear army uniforms. Brig. Gen. J. P. O'Neill reduced the terms to twenty five years each and ordered immediate dispatch to prison.
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SAN ANTONIO
Tex
J. P. O'Neill
Japanese Freighter Aikoku Maru Floated After Collision
A Japanese steamer struck off the North Pacific coast in dense fog and sustained forward damage but was floated at high tide and towed toward a drydock, per Merchants' Exchange late message. The June 10 report notes the vessel Aikoku Maru and the incident occurred early today.
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Merchants’ exchange
North
Pacific
Victims of U-Boat Reach Safety at New York
Captain dn MacKensie and sixteen crewmen of the American steamship Pinar del Rio, missing since the vessel was sunk off Moerytang on June 8, arrived in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, aboard a Norwegian ship after being rescued from a life boat about seventy miles off New Jersey. The crew, saved after a gunfire sinking, were later landed on the North Carolina coast.
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NEW YORK
dn MacKensie
Pinar del Rio
Moerytang
Elizabeth City
N. G
New Jersey
North Carolina
N. C
Mackenzie
Maryland
Capt. Mackenzie
Senator Jones Proposes War Time Prohibition Amendment
Washington January 10 A proposal for complete prohibition during the war was presented in the senate by Senator Jones of Washington as an amendment to the emergency agricultural appropriation bill. The amendment would prohibit the sale or transportation of intoxicating beverages during the war, ban manufacture of beer and wines thirty days after passage, and bar whiskey withdrawal from storage for beverage purposes.
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WASHINGTON
Jane
senate
Jones
Witns
Randall
War correspondent Floyd Gibbons wounded in battle
Paris June 10 Floyd Gibbons Chicago war correspondent was wounded going over the top with U S troops. He is reported resting comfortably at American military hospital No 1 at Neuilly though he has lost sight in his left eye his wounds are improving his wife remains in Dijon
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PARIS
Floyd Gibbons
Chicago
United States
Neulily
Dijon
Spokane Temper Forced IWW To Keep Flag Flying
Civic agitprop in Spokane Washington during a trial of 112 IWW members reveals pressure not to fly the Stars and Stripes at the labor hall. Letters show local organizers wrestled with displays, with Sheridan advising restraint to avoid clashes and possible trouble.
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SPOKAN
CIVICAGO
spokane
Wash
ury
teir hall
James J. Ratts
Don Sherladen
T. Woy
Little Girl Falls From Train Window and Is Killed
Nine year old Alicea Hefner of Ogden Utah fell from a window of Southern Pacific No 19 near Hazen while en route to the Coast. Her mother Grace Bassett slept through the incident and did not awaken until the train passed Massey seven miles east of Hazen. The train was stopped and the child was found unconscious and died shortly after.
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Alicea Hefner
Grace Bassett
Ogden
Utah
Southern Pacific
Hazen
Alice
Massey
Hazens
Huzen
Labor leaders vow to end German military power
President Samuel Gompers, opening the American Federation of Labor convention in St Paul, says workers seek a peace only after the complete overthrow of the German war machine. He urges readiness for sacrifice and unity with Allied powers to preserve freedom, justice, and liberty worldwide, pledging support for the cause.
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ST. PAULI
Minn
Jime
United States
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Gompers
kubo
republic of the United States
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