German peace envoy in London reports no progress
May 6 London dispatch says Germany's peace emissary has been in London with no progress. Dutch intermediary Jonkheer Colyn is named, presenting possible terms including Belgian restoration and Alsace Lorraine autonomy within a German federation. Foreign Secretary Balfour denied any recent peace offers or neutral mediators.
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Germany
Daily Mail
Hague
Jonkheer Colyn
Belgium
Alsace-Lorraine
Ream
Austria
Italy
Trentino
Balkan
Africa
Asia Minor
Kino Chau
China
Singland
Holland
Balfour
House of Commons
Pope Plans No New Offer On Whit Sunday
Vatican officials say no favorable moment for a further peace move by Pope Benedict has appeared and none seems likely. The pope has long sought impartiality, limits on the war’s horrors, and reconciliation among peoples, with any new action dependent on a propitious moment.
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Rome
Benedict
Vatican
Heroic French Boy Scout's Death Described by Baden-Powell
Lieutenant General Sir Robert Baden-Powell spoke at Guild Hall about brave actions by French Boy Scouts near the front. He read a letter from a dead German’s body recounting a French lad who refused to betray comrades and faced execution with a proud smile before a telegraph post.
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London
Robert Baden-Powell
Guild Hall
Baden-Powell
Anna Held Undergoes Blood Transfusion Illness
Miss Anna Held, the actress, is critically ill in a New York hotel with anaemia and underwent a blood transfusion. Ernest Lane, a motor truck driver, volunteered to donate blood to save the actress, and physicians reported an immediate improvement.
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New York
Miss Anna Held
Lace
Mer
Iarnest Lane
Miss Held
President orders Justice Dept probe of aircraft graft
President Wilson ordered a Justice Department investigation into graft in aircraft production raised by sculptor Gutzon Borglum. The inquiry will also cover Borglum’s charge of pro German influence and follows a Senate push for criminal probes.
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Department of Justice
Gutzon Borglum
Wilson
Borglum
Senate
Howard Coffin
Aircraft Board
White House
Bolshevik Demands Push Recall of Diplomats From Vladivostok
Moscow dispatch notes Bolshevik demands to recall American consul John Caldwell and to probe his alleged talks with the Peking legation. Similar pressure targets French envoy M. Noulens as Count von Mirbach arrives, while embassies hold firm for recognition of the Soviet government. The US embassy says documents show no link between Americans and Siberian counterrevolt plots.
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Moscow
Vladivostok
Ambasasdor Francis
Noulens
Tchitcherin
Count von Mirbach
Siberian
Francis
John KK. Caldwell
Viladivostok
Peking
Soviet Republic
Russia
Church merger declared valid by supreme court ruling
The 1906 Cumberland Presbyterian Church merger with the Presbyterian Church was declared valid by the Supreme Court. Federal decrees assigning control of the Missouri Valley College endowment and buildings to the Presbyterian Synod of Kansas were sustained. Separately, a collision near Casa Grande, Arizona killed John S Williams and his wife and two daughters, with a son gravely injured.
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Washington, D. C
Cumberland Presbyterian Church
The
Presbyterian Church
Supreme Court
Missouri Valley College
Cumberland
Marshall
Presbyterian Synod of Kansas
Phoenix
Ariz
John
Williams
Cochise County
Southern Pacific
Casa Grande
Weather roundup for several U S cities
The passage lists forecasts for San Antonio St Louis Chicago Kansas City New York and Washington. It notes temperatures ranging from the mid sixties to high eighties with winds from various directions and expectations of clouds rain or-clear conditions over the coming day or two.
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ST. Louis
Chicago
Kansas City
New York
Washington
Austria Crisis Deepens as German Ties Dictate Food
London via Special Cable reports The Times overviewing Austria's sharp crisis. Emperor Charles and Count von Stern to resignations stir fears over Austro Hungarian fidelity to the German alliance. Czech Slovak and southern Slav protests oppose new ministerial guarantees. Von Seidler proposes tying northern Iv to Bavaria for food, risking dismemberment of Austria in favor of Germany. Hetman Skoropadski governs Ukraine amid crisis. Clementeuceny to confer with Austro Hungarian delegates in Paris expressing sympathy for nationalities.
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London ‘Times
Seasice
San Antonio
Philadelphia Public Ledger
The
Public Ledger Co
London
Times
Austriaz
Austria
Charles
Prince Sixtus
Vzernin
Austria- Hungary
Bohemia
von Seidler
Bavaria
Saxony
Geremany
Ukraine
Skoropadski
Famine and political clash in Austria shake German ties
The Hague dispatch reports Austria faces quiet crisis as non-Socialists clash with Germans over food and political control. Tyrolese and Bohemians urge Germany for aid while Von Seidler's ministry faces opposition. Scarcity looms across Vienna with bread and meat shortages amid upcoming harvest.
Ship yards finish 12 vessels and launch 11 more in week
The Shipping Board reports 12 steel ships of 57 662 tons and 6 wooden ships of 21 600 tons completed by American yards for the week ending May 4. The New York Shipbuilding Corporation yard in Camden launched the steel collier Tuckahoe after 27 working days from keel laying on April 8.
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American Yards
Shipping Board
Wilson
Philadelphia
Tuckahoe
New York Shpibuilding Corporation
Camden
N. J
Hurley
New York Shipbuilding Company
God Speed
Woodrow Wilson
Clurk
No War Review Issued As Baker Plans Public Reports
Washington reports talk of a new publicity policy for Army actions in France. The weekly war review did not appear, signaling a shift to official daily statements focusing on American troop activities. The format and location of releases remain undecided, with no strategic battlefield details to be shared.
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Washington
LC. C
Baker
France
Department
General Pershing
Dutch Grant Demands THM Agu
Foreign Minister Loudon announced that Germany and the Dutch government reached an agreement governing transport via the Dutch Railway to Roermund. Germany will exclude airplanes arms and munitions from transport while troops remain unaffected and will limit sand and gravel through Whiteley waterways to 1 660 000 tons for civilian use only.
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THM Agu
Molland
Germany
Loudon
Roermund
Fron
Whutely
Germans Seek U S Action Over Collinsville Lynching
In Amsterdam May 6 German editors urge Berlin to press Washington after the Collinsville Illinois mob lynched Stobert P Prager a German accused of disloyalty. The Zeitung Anining warns that Germany holds American prisoners and may retaliate to stop lynching in America from becoming a fashionable sport.
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Collinsville
Stobert P. Prager
Zeitung
Berlin
Washington
Germany
America
Germans Reported to Send Gas in Letters
Reports from Paris on May 6 state Germans are credited with injecting asphyxiating gas into letters sent home by prisoners in their camps. A woman in LaSicotiere fell ill after opening a letter from a French prisoner in Germany. Another woman reportedly received a letter with poison gas from her husband, a Bavarian captive, with more cases cited.
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Paris
LaSicotiere
Germany
Bavaria
Germans Call Tanks Sturmpanzerkraftwagen in War Report
Paris May 6 The Temps war correspondent reports a document found at the front reveals the German term for tanks is sturmpanzerkraftwagen. The note reflects on language used to describe armored vehicles in the conflict.
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Paris
Front
the Temps
German Delay in Attack Boosts Allied Morale on Front
Allied forces in France report continued counter-operations aided by rain and mud. British and French gains along the front include 500 to 1000 yards of advance near Kemmel and La Bassee, while German prep work is hampered by weather and disorganization.
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Manders
Allias
Kemmel
Laeceon
Locon
Salthy-le- Sec
Mhinders
Lee
Berlin
North Sea
Ettlingen
Belgium
Koutket
Scherpenberg
Mont Rouge
Bombs Rain on HMS London in World War II Raid
War Office reports aerial attack with nine tons of bombs on Chaulnes Railway junction and Ba paume Armentieres Merville Estaires on Saturday evening. One enemy plane downed, four others disabled. Two of our aircraft missing. two others had returned by May 3. After dark, over three tons dropped on Chaulnes junction Ba p rume as our planes came back.
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London
War Office
Chaulnes
Bapaume
Armentieres
Merville
Estaires
Baprume
Chicago Social Leader Mrs Palmer Dies of Pneumonia
Mrs Potter Palmer of Chicago and Florida social leader died in Louisville after a period of illness. She helped organize Chicago women’s clubs, chaired the Columbian Exposition board of women managers in 1893, and was named the sole woman on the 1900 National Commission for the Paris Exposition. Her death ends a prominent era in Chicago society.
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Chisagh
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Palmer
Pr Dent
Lids Paving
Europe
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Mrench
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Chicago Business Women's Club
Chicago
Ft. Ti
William Messinley
National Commission
Mrs. Palmer
Louisville
Henrytt Honora
America
Ida
Frederick Dent Uriant
United States Army
U. S. Grant
Society Helles
Par is Journal reports destruction of Carrell ambulance plant
The Paris Journal states that Dr Carrell's ambulance section at the front used to assist rockfel ler research on sterilization of wounds was destroyed by German planes. The hospital, marked with a white cross, was bombed after attempts to strike failed. Wounded had been moved to a cellar before the plant itself was destroyed.
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Antonio
Philadelphia
The
Public Ledger Co
Paris
Paris Journal
Br. Carrell
Rockfeller
Nn Germin
Imachines 3 Prasad
Carrell
Germans Bombard Paris From Long Range Guns
A historic report notes German artillery near Crespy and Paris. An army committee official describes a successful bullseye in a pivotal action. Crews and emplacements suffered destruction as aircraft signaled hits.
Letter From Airman Describes 10000 Foot Flight
A letter received by a mother from Clyde W Reading reports a flight at 8000 and 10000 feet during a training trip. Reading, recently from Champaign AL ground school, is finishing a bombing course at Ellington Field Houston Texas. He details the sensations and stages of the journey writing on a map table on his knees. Norway reports April war losses totaling 754 vessels and 14 704 tons with twenty four seamen killed or missing.
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Chicago
Muay
Clyde W. Reading
Champaign
Ellington Field
Houston
Texas
Lomber
Norway
Washington, D. C
Tone
Tventy
Foreign Office
Allied Lines Advance in Local Fights on Western Front
British forces report gains between the Somme and Ancre rivers west-southwest of Morlancourt with a successful minor operation. More progress near Levon and the Lawe River improved positions while enemy losses were heavy and over 150 prisoners, two machine guns, and two trench mortars were captured. Casualties were light.
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London
Somme
Ancre
Murlancourt
Field Marshal Haig
Loran
Lawe River
Lys Salient
Flanders
Morlancourt
von Elderable
Levon
Ehtufon
Ees
German Plans and Italian Front Tensions Amid Allied Push
Allied forces push between Lacre and Drancourt gaining about 300 yards on a 1600 yard front as British and French improve positions. German counterattacks are repulsed. 300 prisoners reported. Emperor Charles and advisers move to the front in Trentino Tyrol as Austro Italian artillery intensifies along the Piave line.
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Uberance
la Nnde
Manters
Lacre
Drancourt
Scherpenberg
Mont Rouge
Berng
Joss
Gerlin
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Lys Salient
Picardy
Hinges
Lys Salement
Somme
Vienna
Charles
Trentiny
Tyrol
Rome
Italian War Office
Italy
French Stop German Attack Near Amiens In Night Action
Paris reports a night bombardment near Anchin farm southeast of Amiens. French official statement says the enemy was repulsed completely after two raids west of Hangard and south of Noyon with prisoners taken. A French detachment penetrated German defenses near Loivre and Rheims area returning with material and prisoners.
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Paris
Anchin Farm
Amiens
Hangard
Noyon
Anehin Farm
Chammigne
Loivre
Rheims
Lorraine
Abaucourt
Allies Repulsed on Flanders Front War Office Statement
The War Office reports repulse of Anglo French attacks on the Flanders front. More than 200 prisoners were captured. The statement notes intensified artillery activity south of the Somme and describes the fighting as the strongest artillery period yet.
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Berlin
Londoni
Flanders Battlefront
War Office
Somme
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