Russians Attack Pinsk as Second Slavs Offensive Opens
Violent fighting erupts west of Pinsk with the city in flames. Russian forces seize Sianka forest and Hill 388, penetrate Godov, and press artillery fire to clear obstacles. Pinsk lies 175 miles north of east Galicia and marks a renewed Russian advance after a period of quiet following the revolution.
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Galicia
Petrograd
Pinsk
Sianka
Godov
White Russia
Warsaw
Draft Machinery for National Army Faces Ambiguities
Washington July 7 reports say plans to begin the draft Monday are likely delayed as eight states have full organization. The scheme centers on numbered cards and a single Washington wheel to draft about 30 000 men per set, with roughly 1 200 000 called before exemptions.
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Washington, D. C
Crowder
War Department
Baker
Washington
Wilson
National Guard
National Army
Parker Named Commander of the Southern Army Department
Brigadier General James Parker is named commander of the Southern Department, succeeding Major General John J. Pershing in Europe service. A Newark, New Jersey native born 1854 and 1876 West Point graduate, Parker has strong ties to San Antonio and Fort Sam Houston and has held commands at Camp Wilson and Fort Sam Houston. He earned the Medal of Honor for gallantry at Vigan and has served in the Indian wars, Spanish American War, and Philippine insurrection.
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James Parker
John J. Pershing
America
Europe
Parker
San Antonio
Fort Sam Houston
Eleventh Cavalry
Army
Camp Wilson
Pershing
Washington
Newark
N. J
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Military Academy
San Mateo
Manacag
Vigan
P. I
Congressional Medal of Honor
Germans Ordered Out of United States as War Looms
Heinrich Schaafhausen former German embassy attaché is placed on a Norwegian ship bound for Europe. The State Department notifies all Germans connected with embassies or consulates to leave, asserting loyalty fears and spying risks. Abdul Hak Hussein Bey and the Bulgarian minister are among those allowed to stay. The government tightens the spy net as war looms.
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New York
Heinrich Schaafhausen
United States
Department of Justice
Washington, D. C
America
State Department
Count von Bernstorff
Swiss Legation
George Barthelme
Cologne
Washington
Germany
Abdul Hak Hussein Bey
Constantinople
London Bombardment by German Raiders
About 20 enemy airplanes bombarded London today. 37 persons were killed and 141 injured. The raid was opposed by anti aircraft guns and Royal Flying Corps aircraft. one enemy machine was downed and all our planes returned safely.
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London
War Office
Royal Flying Corps
The
Admiralty
Royal Naval Air Service
French Hold Chemin Des Dames After Bold German Push
French forces repelled a German assault on the Chemin Des Dames sector near Craonne. A sudden German bombardment with heavy smoke and poison gas met by curtain fire from French artillery and decisive infantry action, the crown prince’s plan thwarted.
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Chemin Des Dames
Associated Press
France
Galicia
Somme
Verdun
Champagne
Teutons
California
Craonne
West Virginia Enforces War Time Service Law
West Virginia uses the State vagrancy act to compel men ages 16 to 60 to take gainful work for wartime effort. Twelve violators received 30 day jail terms and $50 fines each, among the sternest penalties reported across the state.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
San Antonio Area Weather Tonight and Sunday
For San Antonio and vicinity, tonight and Sunday will be partly cloudy with continued high temperatures.
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San Antonio
Weather synopsis from multiple cities forecast
Forecasts by The Light for St Louis Chicago Milwaukee Kansas City New York and Washington report temperatures from 60 to 78 degrees with conditions including clear clouded showers rain and varying northeast to south winds. Highest and lowest readings listed with occasional rain chances.
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ST. Louis
Chicago
Milwaukee
Kansas City
New York
Washington
Training Bases Ready Paris United States Troops
American troops will use aviation artillery infantry and medical bases in France with the front line area approved for occupation by Major General Pershing. The location remains classified and no participation time is fixed.
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Paris
France
Pershing
Iit
Foreign troops reinforce Peking amid Chinese fighting
A dispatch reports 3000 Japanese French American and British troops reach Lang Fang near Peking to reinforce legation guards as fighting between imperialist and republican forces continues. Officials warn of possible trouble and engineers are allowed to repair the Lang Fang railway track.
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London
Tien Tsin
Peking
Legation
Lang Fang
the Times
Hsang Tun Yen
Chi Jul
Exchange Telegraph Company
Peking Mukden
German Revolt Threatens Canadian Headquarters in France
July 7 dispatch reports Fosse Five pithead near Avion vanished in a dust and fire cloud likely from artillery. Evidence of German morale collapse emerges in captured trenches and raided houses. A letter from a Bavarian front-line soldier pleads that August will bring revolution and hints at Kaiser downfall as Prussia teeters and England looms.
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France
London
Fosse Five
Avion
Prussia
Agnests
Turmoil Grows in North China as Factions Rise
Reports from Shanghai indicate increasing complexity in North China with multiple groups seeking to replace General Chang Hsun. Tuan Chi Jui leads the Eighth Army toward Peking, Feng Kwo Chang pursues head of provisional Nanking government, and Hai Chi sails to win Li Yun Hung's departure from Peking to Shanghai.
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Shanghai
China
Chang Hsun
Tuan Chi Jui
Peking
Tuan
Feng Kwo Chang
Nanking
Hai Chi
Enterocolitis Deaths Rise in Scott County Missouri
Eight more deaths linked to enterocolitis occur in the southern part of Scott county. Seven deaths reported at Sikeston and one at Crowner, part of a outbreak that has claimed over a hundred lives in Southwest Missouri.
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Benton
Scott County
Missouri
Sikeston
Crowner
Socialist party protests suppression of papers in Chicago
The national executive committee of the Socialist party met in Chicago to protest to Washington against interference with Socialist publications. They noted that one paper had been suppressed entirely and six others had issues held up by postal authorities.
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Chicago
Socialist Party
Washington
Ariane Sunk by U‑Boat in the Mediterranean
The submarine Ariane was torpedoed and sunk by a German U‑boat on June 19 in the Mediterranean. All officers and part of the crew died, nine men were saved. The prewar crew numbered 27.
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Paris
Mediterranean
Ministry of Marine
Timon Named Judge of New Crim District Court
Governor announces Walter F. Timon of Corpus Christi appointed judge of the new Crim District Court covering Kilberg Nueces Willacy and Cameron counties with commission issued today.
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Austin
Tex
Walter F. Timon
Corpus Christi
Kieberg
Neuces
Willacy
Cameron
Timon
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