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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1916
Page
1
The German army occupies French lands and harvests rye wheat and vegetables under fire. Soldiers reap hay at night and store grain for army use. The emperor proposes using hedge mustard for oil with a new extraction process.
A mob of several hundred strikers and sympathizers attacked a West Plains street car in the Bronx shortly after noon. Bricks were hurled, injuries reported, and police reserves and ambulances were summoned. Yonkers Mount Vernon and New Rochelle shut down car service. no disorder in those cities. Chief Inspector Max Schmittberger said over 600 reserves were in readiness in three Bronx districts. Intermittent clashes and police use of night sticks occurred during the morning.
U S army patrols in the Big Bend district were ordered to stay vigilant after reports of a large bandit force at Sierra Blanca, 60 miles south of the border. Ranchman L F Butrice said bands at Sierra Blanca lacked subsistence and 200 bandits were said to operate south of Terlingua and could raid the border for food.
San Francisco police announce the arrest of Warren K Billings a 22 year old shoe cutter with a long criminal record as they close in on a ring of five believed responsible for the bomb explosion at last week's preparedness parade. They search for Thomas Moroney missing since the parade and report the death toll now nine with Mrs Kingsley Van Loo and Thomas H Turnbull among the injured.
Dallas July 27 Texas statewide primary totals at 11 o clock show submission leading by 2346 with 157066 votes to 154720. Paso county 3000 votes still out could change results. Senate race shows Culberson leading second place by 6752 with 109822 to 807... Brooks 74070. Various nominations listed for districts and counties with partial returns still to come. Templeton leads over Truman in one county.
ST LOUIS clear with 8 mile west wind Friday 80 to 98. CHICAGO clear Friday 82 to 88. MILWAUKEE clear southwest wind 74 to 80. KANSAS CITY clear Friday south wind 78 to 96. NEW YORK cloudy south wind 72 to 80. WASHINGTON cloudy southwest wind 70 to 84.
American officers reported a potential sighting of an English cruiser near Lynnhaven inlet. British ambassador Sir Cecil Spring-Rice said London’s fleet had orders not to enter American waters to attack the German submarine Deutschland. North Carolina and three destroyers patrolled the Virginia Capes on neutrality duties.
Norfolk reports say Navy officers refused to comment on the English cruiser sighting near Cape Henry after the Louisiana signal. Neutrality guards remained along the Capes with North Carolina and destroyers on alert as officials seek details of the cruiser’s exit.
Baltimore July 27 Captain Paul Koenig of the Deutschland planned to sail today on the return voyage to Germany but the pier scene offered no clear departure signals. Overnight developments suggested the report of continued delays, with further notes that the submersible remains berthed.
Sir Edward Morris Newfoundland premier told Havas News Agency reporters that Germans are beginning to realize the war is virtually finished. From the Somme sector he described Verdun as France’s greatest triumph and said German prisoners and officers fear Germany has lost the game. The collapse is a question of time.
Warrants for the arrest of Edward H. Hatch vice president of the Mutual Trust Company of Orange New Jersey and Thomas R. Byrnes secretary treasurer were issued in Newark after the state banking commission closed investigations. They face charges of conspiracy to defraud the bank of 306000 dollars.
A telegram to the Mexican embassy from General Carranza says General Jacinto Trevino remains in command in Chihuahua and that General Luis Herrera is still his subordinate. It denies General Calles repudiating orders and reports rail traffic in Tamaulipas Nuevo Leon and San Luis Potosi moving freely with supplies.
Lieutenant Otto Parshau, recently awarded Pour le Merite for his eighth aerial victory, has been killed in air battle according to a Reuters dispatch from Amsterdam quoting the Frankfurter Zeitung.
London officials of the British admiralty told the Associated Press there was no report of a new naval action in Scandinavian waters and nothing to confirm unofficial claims. A Stockholm paper had cited prolonged firing from the Gulf of Bothnia but gave no specifics.
Warden Thomas Mott Osborne urged Judge Gorton to release F. L. Richards a former convict who forged his name to a $2000 check. Gorton, trusting Osborne’s reform program, parole Richards into Osborne’s care and Richards will return to his old role as secretary to Osborne.
President Wilson signed the rivers and harbors appropriation bill totaling about 42 million dollars. Most funds finance existing improvement projects. A Danube Steam Navigation Company service now operates daily between Passau in Bavaria and Belgrade in Serbia.
A note to London protesting the American blacklist of German name firms as an invasion of neutral rights was cabled last night. Acting Secretary Polk said the message would be released Monday and discussed England's allies push to curb wartime trading. The British view argues the list harms neutral firms and shifts business to purely American entities while preserving sovereign rights to restrict enemy trade.
Washington July 27 The United States last year averaged one vehicle for every 44 persons with 2 445 664 total registrations The Office of Public Roads reports that 90 of the 18 245 700 dollars in fees funded road building and maintenance An increase of 724 325 registrations over 1914 is noted.
Justice Darling said the five judges would sit to hear a possible application by Casement's attorneys. The court may hear a request to the Court of Criminal Appeals, though some sources doubt an appeal will be filed as the matter remains uncertain.
President Wilson summoned key Democratic naval committee leaders to urge rapid passage of the enlarged naval bill. The Senate approved a construction program for four battle cruisers and four battleships with increased enlisted personnel, while the committee planned to report to the House recommending disagreement with Senate amendments and sending the bill to conference.
In London on July 27 Laurence Ginnell Nationalist faced four suspensions in the House of Commons after refusing to withdraw. He questioned Home Secretary Herbert Samuel about Dublin’s 1916 rising and alleged government sanction for actions against Cumann na mBan nurses. Ginnell protested insolence, was named, and only Ginnell voted against the suspension motion.
Humidity reached 98 percent by 9 a.m. in New York as temperatures lingered around 74. Forecasters warned no relief was coming, marking the peak of nearly two weeks of sultry weather. July’s early humidity also surpassed all but one prior daily average. Intensified heat in the western plains continued with Chicago at 84, 98 at noon and 100 expected, threatening Kansas and Oklahoma crops amid a rainless period dating to late June.
Sensational crop damage from the Northwest and Southern Manitoba sent wheat prices higher in Chicago. Transactions showed gains of 4% or 45 8 per bushel with September delivery at 1.24 1 4, up from 1.19 5 8 yesterday. Black rust and heat blight threaten larger losses as yields shrink in quantity and quality.
The Austro Hungarian army reports withdrawal south of Leszinow twelve miles north of Brody as Russian forces press the Boldurka sector. Heavy fighting around Radziviloff six miles northeast of Brody yields insignificant Russian gains and very heavy losses for the Russians.
British troops pressed the Germans with hand to hand fighting through the night on the Somme front in France. The official statement notes active artillery and widespread use of gas and tear shells by the enemy, while other sectors reported no notable incidents in forty eight hours.
London reports a British official denial of Turkish claims that forces near the Suez Canal were dispersed. The commander in Egypt asserts British cavalry remains at Katia, Romani, and surrounding areas with superior reconnaissance and pressure on Turkish forces.
A wireless message overheard by New York port officials showed the Japanese steamship Korea asking the State Department for protection for American officers and engineers aboard. The Korea, recently sold to Toyo Kisen Kaisha, was to sail through the Panama Canal to San Francisco to be handed to a Japanese crew. The request follows reports that German submarines were near the coast escorting Bremen.
Petrograd reports Gen. Sakharoff extending a northern Brody flank from the Lutsk region after fording the Stonevka. Russian forces push within ten miles of Brody as Austrians retreat toward Lemberg. Cossacks clash with Austro German rear guards in the Carpathians. Erzincan falls in the Caucasus as Russian columns advance from multiple fronts.
Dispatch from Athens notes no imminent attack on Saloniki and no signs of rising hostilities in the Balkans. Reference is made to tensions involving General Poulos, commander of forces at Saloniki, and the Greek king.
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